Patch Notes // latest change 2025.05.27
Walt Disney Studios Courtyard · Hollywood Studios · Walt Disney World
Ride · opened 1992 · Hollywood Studios · 3 changes on record
Biggest recent change: The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure debuted as a fully reimagined replacement show in the Animation Courtyard theater, adding all-new puppets and cutting-edge digital motion-capture projection imagery for King Triton, Ursula, and Ariel's sisters, and restoring the song 'Daughters of Triton,' which the prior show had omitted. (May 27, 2025)
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The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure debuted as a fully reimagined replacement show in the Animation Courtyard theater, adding all-new puppets and cutting-edge digital motion-capture projection imagery for King Triton, Ursula, and Ariel's sisters, and restoring the song 'Daughters of Triton,' which the prior show had omitted.
Voyage of The Little Mermaid gave its final performance and closed in the March 2020 park shutdown; the long-running blacklight show never reopened and was confirmed permanently retired.
Voyage of The Little Mermaid opened in the Animation Courtyard Theater, a roughly 17-minute blacklight stage show blending live actors, puppets, laser projections, and a light-rain effect; it replaced 'Here Come The Muppets.'
That's every change on the record on The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure since 1992.
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Per the documented record, The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure at Hollywood Studios opened on Jan 7, 1992.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure is dated Mar 15, 2020: Voyage of The Little Mermaid gave its final performance and closed in the March 2020 park shutdown; the long-running blacklight show never reopened and was confirmed permanently retired.
The latest documented change (documented May 27, 2025): The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure debuted as a fully reimagined replacement show in the Animation Courtyard theater, adding all-new puppets and cutting-edge digital motion-capture projection imagery for King Triton, Ursula, and Ariel's sisters, and restoring the song 'Daughters of Triton,' which the prior show had omitted.
3 documented changes, dating back to 1992 — the fan-kept ride changelog nobody else keeps.
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