It's not that better in WDW these days either unfortunately. I rode the WDW version in May and a noticeable amount of animatronics and effects were not working. They try to darken the not working animatronics but it's still noticeable especially in the Laughing Place scene. The Tokyo version, however, is incredible. It was so nice to see everything working as it should.
What I've heard circulated a lot is that they announced this in June 2020, and they've done a lot offsite work in the interim between now and then, aka building set pieces and animatronics. So they won't need to do a lot of onsite building of a most of this.
I hope that's the case but I'm taking rumors with a grain of salt. There is still a decent amount of work to be done with the queue, gift shops, playground and bathrooms even if they have been working on the set pieces + animatronics already. Judging from the concept art, it looks like some of the animatronics from Splash are going to be reused. Personally I'm fine with the retheme as long as it isn't mostly screen based.
Oh, you're talking about World. Sorry thought you mean Disneyland since this is on the Disneyland forum.
I was referring to both but I apologize for the confusion ^^. In World there's the playground and bathrooms but DL also has a gift shop (albeit small) that have to be rethemed.
Maybe we'll see him and Evangeline in the sky.
