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Poseidon's Fury Is Completely Gone, and Crews Are Already Grading Sand Where Its Entrance Used to Be
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Poseidon's Fury Is Completely Gone, and Crews Are Already Grading Sand Where Its Entrance Used to Be

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There is nothing left of the show building to tear down. The structure that housed Poseidon's Fury at Universal Islands of Adventure is gone, and what stood in front of it is now a flat pad of freshly graded orange sand.

"Poseidon's Fury is officially no more," WDW News Today reported on Wednesday, August 19. The walkthrough attraction had been closed since 2023, but crews only started tearing into the show building itself last month. On a park visit over the weekend, the outlet's team found the structure no longer visible above the construction walls.

Aerial view of a large kidney shaped pad of freshly graded orange sand with a yellow roller and a dozer working on it, beside a teal domed building, with rust red construction walls curving around and guests walking past

A roller and a dozer working the graded sand that now covers the former Poseidon's Fury entrance and courtyard. Photo: @bioreconstruct on X, via WDW News Today.

Aerial photos and video from photographer @bioreconstruct confirmed the building was gone. Writing on X on August 16, bioreconstruct said: "Aerial video of site preparation and demolition in Islands of Adventure. Poseidon's Fury is the latest building removed. Gift shop and current location of First Aid likely demolished soon. Trailers for a temporary First Aid location recently added."

What the aerials actually show

Fresh sand is being graded across the ground that held the attraction's entrance and courtyard. Several piles of rubble still sit on the show building's footprint. Next to that sits the other wide cleared lot that was home to The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad theater, flattened earlier this summer.

Wide aerial view showing a large grey concrete rubble field with several excavators working in it and a sorted pile of twisted structural steel, beside a large flat bare dirt lot with trailers, a white tent and heavy equipment

Excavators working the concrete rubble, with sorted structural steel alongside and the cleared Sindbad theater lot beyond. Photo: @bioreconstruct on X, via WDW News Today.

Two more pieces are expected to come down

Treasures of Poseidon, the attraction's gift shop, is expected to come down soon as well. It closed for good earlier this year, though no construction walls have gone up around it yet. The Lost Continent's first aid station is expected to come down too, with trailers already parked on site to house a temporary replacement.

A new walkway is taking shape behind the construction walls outside Mythos Restaurant, on ground that used to hold a snack kiosk and trees.

Guests walk past a long rust red construction wall decorated with gold sun and serpent medallions and two Pardon Our Dust placards, with several yellow excavator booms rising above the wall, one of them marked Kobelco

The guest view from inside the park: excavator booms over a themed construction wall in The Lost Continent. Photo: WDW News Today.

Mythos is still open, and Universal wants you to know it

New signs have gone up on the construction walls to tell guests that Mythos Restaurant is still open. That matters because Mythos is set to close permanently in 2027, with Thunder Falls Terrace in Jurassic Park converting to full service to take its place. Thunder Falls Terrace closed in July for that conversion and is due to reopen in 2027.

Still no word on what replaces it

"Universal has not announced what IP will replace The Lost Continent," WDW News Today noted. What has changed with the show building down is the shape of the question. With both the Poseidon's Fury show building and the Sindbad theater now flattened, whatever goes into this corner of Islands of Adventure will not be reusing either structure.

Poseidon's Fury ran for nearly 24 years before closing in 2023, a run that dates its opening to Islands of Adventure's first year in 1999. It outlasted the land's other show, The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad, which closed in 2018.

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Image credits: Aerial photos by @bioreconstruct on X, via WDW News Today. Ground level photo by WDW News Today.

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