No Cinco de Mayo return for the Three Caballeros at EPCOT'S Gran Fiesta Tour

No Cinco de Mayo return for the Three Caballeros at EPCOT'S Gran Fiesta Tour
Cardboard cutouts remain on the popular EPCOT water ride.
Gran Fiesta Tour's Three Caballeros cardboard stand-insGran Fiesta Tour's Three Caballeros cardboard stand-ins

Today may be Cinco de Mayo, but hopes for a return of the Gran Fiesta Tour's animatronic Panchito, José Carioca, and Donald Duck were quickly dashed.

A ride through this morning still shows the cardboard stand-ins that have been in place during the refurbishment of the figures.

When the figures were removed in January, Disney stated that they would return in the spring, leading to hopes that May 5 might just be the day.

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↩ replying to MansionButler84
It would be nice, if it was the long billed donald’
↩ replying to wdwmagic
Really sad to see these animatronics not returned yet. I sure hope this isn't their final solution for this. Actually worse than Universal and much worse than the original incarnation of this ride!
Im surprised they didn't do a disco yeti yet but then again this must be their equivalent at this point.
I am with others, what the heck happened to the projection screen that was the original stage set? Terrible. Things like thisnis why it has been Universal and Cedar Fair for my family with eyes on Tomto for our next Disney Parks.
↩ replying to wdwmagic
I was okay with this if it was going to be just a couple weeks. But at this point… they should have quickly installed the screen and projector again until they could fix the AAs.

I guess if they did that they may have never installed the AAs again, so at least we know they can’t keep it like this forever…
Stuff like this makes me want to pay for my tickets with a cardboard cut-out of my credit card.
↩ replying to celluloid
Tokyo?
↩ replying to Disney Analyst
Disco Yeti is laughing at you.
Ridiculous...
Grand Fiesta Tour- New No Animatronics
↩ replying to larryz
Or at least a bush with a sombrero on it.
↩ replying to TrainChasers
That kind of extravagance is only for the E-Tickets, buddy! 🤨
I'm surprised there isn't a Parks Blog post saying these cut outs are historically significant and that we should all be grateful they're "there for a limited time only!"
↩ replying to larryz
Yeah. sorry for the Typoto ;-)