Disneyland’s East Esplanade ticket booths are physically coming down. Two more of the four booths on the east side of the plaza between the parks were demolished on Tuesday, and our own footage from Wednesday morning shows the removal continued overnight, with an excavator working the cleared footprints behind construction walls while guests filed past on the way to the gates.
The demolition follows a paper trail that had been building all summer. Disney’s four permits to demolish the east booths went to ready-to-issue on August 18, the same week enabling work began in the esplanade, and the resort’s digital park map was updated on August 29 with the booth structures removed and trees drawn in their place. That map change landed the same week video showed the Team Disney Anaheim East building completely demolished, two visible markers of the Eastern Gateway project moving from paperwork into the physical world.
What Is Left On The East Side
From the elevated view, the booth pads are down to bare concrete and rubble, with the construction walls hemming in the stroller and wheelchair rental area beside them. The walk-up ticket function has already moved. Physical sales shifted to the Lost and Found booth ahead of the demolition, and the overwhelming majority of guests now buy through the Disneyland app or online before they reach the plaza, which is why the booths could go before their replacement exists.
The TDA East demolition is the larger piece of the same project. The roughly 70,000 square foot administrative building between the resort’s eastern lots has been fully cleared, with parking structure construction continuing on the site. Disney filed that demolition permit back in February, and the pace since August is tracking with the timeline Disneyland laid out at D23.
The Map Quietly Changed Four Things
The ticket booths were the headline, but the August 29 map update touched at least four locations across the resort. In Avengers Campus, a small building appears in the trees between Red’s Community Garden and the path toward the Ancient Sanctum, matching the new restrooms that opened with the reopened Cars Land walkway. At Paradise Gardens, the small hexagonal gazebo structure next to Paradise Garden Grill under the Incredicoaster has been removed, replaced by open grass. And in the Downtown Disney District, the Jamba Juice label has disappeared from the marketplace roof between Sephora and PANDORA, leaving that storefront blank.
Map removals are not official announcements, and Disney has said nothing about the gazebo or the juice stand. But Disneyland’s digital map has a track record as an early-warning system, since the resort tends to scrub structures shortly before or after they physically change. In the booths’ case, the map beat the excavator by three days. The official map is live for anyone who wants to compare.
The Esplanade Is Next
The booth removal is the piece with the clearest story attached. The Eastern Gateway reshapes how guests arrive at the resort, anchored by a roughly 6,000-space parking structure and a pedestrian bridge over Harbor Boulevard, and the redesigned esplanade comes with it. Clearing the eastern booths lines up with the enabling work that began in the plaza between the two parks in mid-August, days after Disneyland confirmed the schedule during D23 weekend.
For guests, the practical takeaway is that the arrival experience is now officially a construction zone in slow motion. Ticket operations have consolidated while the work proceeds, the eastern edge of the property keeps changing shape, and the map will probably keep confessing to changes before Disney announces them. For anyone who spent years walking past those booths without noticing them, the bare concrete where they stood is the whole story.
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