Rafiki's Planet Watch Gets a Simplified Name When it Returns This Summer

When Rafiki's Planet Watch reopens this summer at Disney's Animal Kingdom, it will be renamed to Conservation Station.

What's Happening:

• An opening day experience at Disney's Animal Kingdom, Rafiki's Planet Watch has allowed guests to go behind-the-scenes of the park's veterinary efforts.
• Conservation Station has been the indoor part of the experience as a whole called Rafiki's Planet Watch, but when it returns from its current refurbishment, it will all be known as Conservation Station.
• These changes come as Bluey is set to take over Conservation Station with a brand new interactive experience: Bluey and Bingo, inviting families to immerse themselves into the series with games and encounter animals native to the Heeler sister’s home country of Australia.
• Another element of the former Rafiki's Planet Watch is the Affection Section, which will be sticking around, but with new animal species from Bluey's native home of Australia.

• One part of the experience that will not survive the transformation is The Animation Experience – but don't fret, a whole new animation experience is opening within The Magic of Disney Animation at Disney's Hollywood Studios this summer.
• We took a tour around Rafiki's Planet Watch before it closed for refurbishment on Monday, February 23.
• Conservation Station is expected to reopen in Summer 2026.

More Walt Disney World News:

• The Mandalorian and Grogu are on their way to take over the popular Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction, and as such – the attraction is ready to get a new name.
• This morning, we were invited out to Lilly Pulitzer at Disney Springs to check out their latest Disney throwback collaboration.
• The Urupocha-Chan Sakura Collection has bloomed at Disney Ever After in Disney Springs!
• An exclusive sneak preview of Pixar’s latest animated feature Hoppers is now playing inside Walt Disney Presents at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.