The Casita hillside in Tropical Americas is finally getting its shape. New aerial photos from bioreconstruct show concrete walls going in at the base of the Encanto house at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, where tiered berms are meant to hold landscaping and make the house look like it sits high on a hill.
That is bioreconstruct’s 4K aerial video of the land, posted along with the photo set.
Walls Rise In Front Of Casita
When we last looked at the house, it was a tower of bare steel, and an earlier set of aerials showed the hillside just starting to form. The steel frame is still bare in the new photos, but the ground around it has changed. Concrete walls now stand in front of the frame, and bioreconstruct says they will contain tiered berms with landscaping, which is how the team plans to build the forced perspective of a house perched on a hill.
Aerial photo of concrete walls in development in front of Casita, the magic house, and Antonio's Fiesta de Encanto. The walls will contain tiered berms with landscaping, for forced perspective of the house high on a hill.
— bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) November 7, 2026
In the first photo, the walls are pale concrete sections, some running straight and some curving into a ring, with workers, rebar and stacks of lumber inside an orange safety fence. A second photo shows the tiered berms themselves in progress, laid out in front of the tall steel frame. Disney has said the Casita will be home to the first Encanto ride-through attraction.
Aerial overview of construction outside of Antonio's Fiesta de Encanto in Tropical Americas. Tiered berms for landscaping are in progress in front of the tall steel frame for Casita, the magical house.
— bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) November 7, 2026
Carousel Roof And Gateway Paint
Nearby, the carousel is moving on to its roof. The plywood base layer, now weathered, is being fitted with rails so the themed roof can be secured to it. From above, the roof is a wide, many-sided cone covered in gray plywood, with workers standing on it. Disney has described a giant working carousel carved by a woodcarver and filled with his favorite animals from Disney stories.
Aerial photo of construction of El Carrusel de los Animalitos in Tropical Americas. The now-weathered plywood base layer of the roof is being prepared with rails to secure the themed roof.
— bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) November 7, 2026
At the gateway to the land, the sculpted stone has its first layers of paint.
2 aerial photos of first layers of paint on the sculpted stone of the gateway to Tropical Americas.
— bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) November 7, 2026
bioreconstruct also shared a photo of the themed broken walls lining an access route into the land, and says the tree at the bottom center of that shot was the first new landscaping placed in Tropical Americas. In that shot, the rough wall pieces stand in bare dirt between a few trees, with small excavators working nearby.
Aerial photo of themed broken walls lining an access of Tropical Americas. The tree at bottom center was the first new landscaping placed in this land.
— bioreconstruct (@bioreconstruct) November 7, 2026
What Is Still Missing
Plenty. The Casita is still a steel frame, the berms are still being built, and Tropical Americas, which replaces DinoLand USA, is still behind construction walls. Disney has said the land will open in 2027 but has not announced an exact date, so for now these aerials are the best way to track it.
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