Patch Notes // latest change 2026.05.28
Hollywood Studios · Walt Disney World
Ride · opened 2019 · Hollywood Studios · 3 changes on record
Biggest recent change: Announced to return at Disney's Hollywood Studios — reimagined as "Olaf Draws!", a drawing class led by an all-new Olaf Audio-Animatronics figure who teaches character drawing — inside the new The Magic of Disney Animation pavilion (the former Star Wars: Launch Bay space), targeting a late-summer 2026 opening. It succeeds the instructor-led drawing class relocated from Disney's Animal Kingdom. (May 28, 2026)
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Announced to return at Disney's Hollywood Studios — reimagined as "Olaf Draws!", a drawing class led by an all-new Olaf Audio-Animatronics figure who teaches character drawing — inside the new The Magic of Disney Animation pavilion (the former Star Wars: Launch Bay space), targeting a late-summer 2026 opening. It succeeds the instructor-led drawing class relocated from Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Ceased operations permanently at Disney's Animal Kingdom when Conservation Station in Rafiki's Planet Watch closed for redevelopment into Bluey's Wild World, which opened on May 26, 2026.
Opened as The Animation Experience at Conservation Station in Rafiki's Planet Watch, Disney's Animal Kingdom — a roughly 20-minute instructor-led (Disney Character Artist) drawing class debuting with a rotating Lion King character slate (Simba, Zazu, Timon, Pumbaa, and more).
That's every change on the record on Olaf Draws! since 2019.
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Per the documented record, Olaf Draws! at Hollywood Studios opened on Jul 11, 2019.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Olaf Draws! is dated Feb 23, 2026: Ceased operations permanently at Disney's Animal Kingdom when Conservation Station in Rafiki's Planet Watch closed for redevelopment into Bluey's Wild World, which opened on May 26, 2026.
The latest documented change (documented May 28, 2026): Announced to return at Disney's Hollywood Studios — reimagined as "Olaf Draws!", a drawing class led by an all-new Olaf Audio-Animatronics figure who teaches character drawing — inside the new The Magic of Disney Animation pavilion (the former Star Wars: Launch Bay space), targeting a late-summer 2026 opening. It succeeds the instructor-led drawing class relocated from Disney's Animal Kingdom.
3 documented changes, dating back to 2019 — the fan-kept ride changelog nobody else keeps.
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