Walt Disney Imagineering Adds More Trailers at STOL Port for Magic Kingdom Expansion

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Walt Disney Imagineering Trailer Compound at STOL Port Site

Posted: Tuesday February 18, 2025 7:07am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Walt Disney Imagineering has filed a Notice of Commencement this week for "temporary construction trailers for site and facility improvement" at the former STOL Port site near Magic Kingdom. The permit lists an expiration date of March 31, 2027.

Walt Disney Imagineering Trailer Compound at STOL Port Site

STOL Port, once an airstrip for short takeoff and landing aircraft, has long served as a staging area for Imagineering's major Walt Disney World projects. The site has been expanded over the years, including during the development of New Fantasyland and TRON Lightcycle Run. The latest expansion is in preparation for two large-scale additions coming to Magic Kingdom—Cars Land and Villains Land, which were announced as part of Disney's future expansion plans.

Wide view of the new Frontierland, with two Cars-themed attractions replacing Tom Sawyer Island

The STOL Port expansion is part of a broader increase in Imagineering's on-site presence at Walt Disney World. In addition to these new trailers, Disney has recently repurposed the former Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser facility as project office space for the development of a Monsters Inc. Land at Disney's Hollywood Studios. At Disney's Animal Kingdom, Imagineering has also added new trailer space to support the Tropical Americas expansion, which will replace Dinoland U.S.A.

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Agent H38 minutes ago

To me it doesn’t really seem like something he was super passionate about I don’t consider every obsession he had a pet project

Agent H47 minutes ago

I do consider it one as the remains of those plans it was just done cheaper than originally planned

MisterPenguin1 hour ago

Here are variegated leaves. This should clear up all confusion...

EagleScout6101 hour ago

They could announce the castle is leaving tommorow and it'd suddenly be "Well where's Cinderella's attraction? The last movie about her tanked, there's other castles around the world". It's madness

Disgruntled Walt1 hour ago

Disney's America?

lazyboy97o1 hour ago

You think Walt Disney Studios Park was a pet project? Only in that it was the sad remnants of a much bigger vision that included Disney-MGM Studios Europe, Tokyo Disney-MGM Studios and the Disney-MGM Studios Backlot. We can just skip to the big one, Shanghai Disneyland.

Agent H2 hours ago

In order captain eo star tours mgm studios and tower of terror muppet vision 3d euro Disneyland extraterrestrial alien encounter Indiana Jones adventure Disney California adventure and Walt Disney studios Paris only thing that got cut that I would consider pet projects of his is muppet studios

TheMaxRebo2 hours ago

I just think they wanted to build out "beyond Big Thunder" and they determined that significant work would realistically be needed to the river to enable sufficient crowd flow. Not that it all has to go but while they are doing to work might as well add more rides and capacity there vs the space that didn't get a ton of usage for the area it took up, etc - so added benefit of even more capacity / worth the trade off - especially compared to reduced version that would have been left Then they have Cars which is a very popular IP and not really represented at WDW and thought kill 2 birds with one stone and use that as the IP for the area and use National Parks as the theme to fit better Not what I would have done but can also understand the thinking and hope the end product is great - but do think the margin of error is high

Ayla2 hours ago

Well, you couldn’t figure out how to look up the definition of variegated, so…yeah.

Agent H2 hours ago

No offense but that doesn’t mean I can’t know these things i spent most of my childhood watching yesterworld entertainment on YouTube I know a lot of Disney history I just know what he’s talking about

Agent H2 hours ago

I didn’t know we were getting a Care Bears land!

tpoly882 hours ago

Sorry forgot to add no movies in adventure and frontier lands.

Ayla2 hours ago

Eisner was gone before he was born.

tpoly882 hours ago

I feel like they are trying to shoehorn cars land in. Like the villains land and would like to make sure that has the space it needs. Outside of Swiss family tree house and TSI there were no rides associated with movies or cartoons. Obviously they made all the movies later. Care land to me doesn’t belong in MK. Even if they kept TSI and ROA. Like them to keep the Pixar stuff together. They probably don’t have the space but care belongs in HS. Just my thoughts.