Spring is always a complicated season at Disneyland Resort. The weather improves, the crowds grow, and the refurbishment calendar, which Disney tends to stack heavily in the slower winter months, starts handing off closures that bleed into peak travel weeks. Most years there is a manageable handful of attractions down at any given time. This spring, the list is running longer than usual, and the latest addition is one that families planning California visits will want to know about before they finalize their itineraries.
Toy Story Midway Mania closes April 6 at Disney California Adventure. Disney has not announced a reopening date. The closure is tied to routine maintenance — a recently filed permit points to a mounted projector replacement and electrical work — which suggests the downtime should be finite, but “finite” and “confirmed” are two different things, and right now there is no confirmed window for when the attraction comes back.
The closure lands roughly ten weeks before Toy Story 5 hits theaters on June 19, 2026. Whether that timing is coincidental or connected to the film's arrival in some way has not been addressed by Disney. What it does mean practically is that one of Disney California Adventure's most popular family attractions will be unavailable during a stretch when Toy Story is about to be more culturally relevant than it has been in years.
That is worth unpacking, and so is the broader refurbishment picture at Disneyland Resort right now.
Everything Currently Closed or Closing Soon
The refurbishment list heading into spring covers both parks and a wide range of attraction types. On the longer-term closure side, Grizzly River Run has been down since January 5 with no confirmed return. Jungle Cruise closed February 17 and remains without a reopening date. Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin and the Disneyland Monorail both went offline March 30, also without confirmed timelines.
Some closures have already resolved. Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind was down from February 27 through March 16. Golden Zephyr closed March 9 and reopened March 17. The Milk Stand has a brief scheduled closure March 23 through 27.
Looking ahead, Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters closes April 13. Silly Symphony Swings follows April 27. Neither has a confirmed reopening date.
That is a notable number of simultaneous closures, and the concentration of April start dates means guests visiting in the middle of spring will be navigating a significantly reduced attraction lineup across both parks.
The Toy Story Midway Mania Situation Specifically
Toy Story Midway Mania has been running with special 70th anniversary content since May 2025 — holographic sticker targets and updated graphics added specifically for Disneyland's anniversary celebration, which runs through August 9, 2026. After that date, the ride is expected to return to its standard version.
The April 6 closure for projector and electrical work is the kind of maintenance that tends to resolve in a few weeks rather than months, but the absence of a confirmed end date means guests cannot plan around a specific return. Families visiting in April with kids who were counting on Toy Story Midway Mania as a park day anchor need to account for the realistic possibility it is not running during their visit.
Adding Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters to the mix — closing just a week later on April 13 — means both of the resort's Toy Story franchise shooting attractions will be simultaneously unavailable for at least part of spring. That is an unusual situation and one that affects families with younger children more than most other demographic groups, since both attractions tend to be high on the must-do list for that age range.
Why Toy Story 5 Makes This More Complicated
Disney and Pixar released the first trailer for Toy Story 5 and confirmed its June 19, 2026 theatrical release. The response online was immediate and considerable. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen are back as Woody and Buzz. Greta Lee voices Lilypad, a frog-shaped smart tablet that functions as the film's antagonist and disrupts how the toys interact with Bonnie. Conan O'Brien voices a new character named Smarty Pants. Andrew Stanton, who has writing credits on all four previous Toy Story films and directed Finding Nemo and WALL-E, is taking on solo writing and directing duties.
The trailer generated exactly the kind of online energy that Pixar generates when the Toy Story franchise is firing correctly, and it brought back one unresolved question that fans have been turning over since the trailer dropped: Woody appears to be back in Bonnie's room, despite Toy Story 4 closing with him choosing to leave that life behind and live freely with Bo Peep. Whether the trailer is showing a flashback, a dream, or Pixar reconsidering that ending is something nobody outside the studio knows yet.
What is clear is that Toy Story 5 is arriving during a moment when Pixar genuinely needs this franchise to deliver. Elio struggled to reach $200 million globally. Inside Out 2 crossed $1.5 billion. The gap between those results illustrates how much the studio's commercial footing depends on its established properties, and Toy Story is the most established property Pixar has.
For Disneyland specifically, major Toy Story film releases reliably drive renewed guest interest in the franchise's park experiences. Having Toy Story Midway Mania closed during the lead-up to the film's release and potentially into the weeks surrounding its opening weekend is the kind of timing that tends to generate real frustration among guests who planned their trips around experiencing those attractions during a period of peak franchise energy.
What to Do With This Information
If a Disneyland or Disney California Adventure trip is on your calendar for April or May, the practical advice is to go in with an updated expectations list. Toy Story Midway Mania, Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin, the Disneyland Monorail, Grizzly River Run, and Jungle Cruise are all unavailable or closing soon with no confirmed return dates. That is a meaningful slice of both parks' lineups.
Check the official Disneyland website and app for current refurbishment listings as close to your travel dates as possible. Reopening dates for closures listed without confirmed timelines can shift, and what is closed in early April may or may not still be closed by late April. Third-party sites that track permit filings often surface return dates before Disney announces them officially, and they are worth monitoring if specific attractions are a priority for your group.
If Toy Story Midway Mania is a non-negotiable for your kids, particularly given the Toy Story 5 excitement that is building right now, verify its current status before you go rather than assuming the April closure will have resolved by your visit. Building a flexible park day that does not depend on any single attraction is always the safer plan, and this spring in particular that flexibility will serve you well.
Updates on reopening dates will be posted here as confirmed information becomes available.
