Test Track at Epcot is officially reopening July 22, 2025, but was open to annual passholders a few days ago for testing. In addition to the name change of the gift store to Test Track Gear Shop there is a new 8-die machine that has replaced the old pressed penny machine at this location. Several designs are similar but all of the new eight designs no longer have the Test Track logo on them.

Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa in Ko Olina, Hawaii now has an 8-die penny machine. One thing that is unique with these penny designs are that they are what is referred to as mule designs because the have a backstamp on the reverse of the coin with the resort name and logo. These new coins are pictured below with the last image being what the backstamp looks like from one of the coins.

In preparation for the closing of PizzeRizzo and Muppet Vision 3D the two machines at PizzeRizzo have been moved. There were three machines at this restaurant but the machine on the second floor was removed a few months ago. The remaining two machines with one located inside on the first floor and the other one outside have been relocated outside a nearby building facade on Grand Avenue. The new location for these two machines is the Grand Lofts at 728 Grand Avenue. We will change the location for these two machines in our database as 728 Grand Avenue.

The Hollywood Studios 35th Anniversary designs have been replaced with the Monsters, Inc. designs that were previously located in the Hollywood Junction 4-die machine.

Early this year one of the designs in the 8-die Tiana's Bayou General machine at Magic Kingdom was changed. We didn't notice this change until recently. The design that had 2024 on the front of the ride log flume vehicle was replaced with the design that is pictured below.

One of the 3-die penny machines outside Discovery Trading Company at Animal Kingdom has been removed and replaced with a medallion machine. The designs that were in the penny machine that was removed had Jungle Grub Timon, Animal Kingdom logo and Asha with Valentino and Star. These three designs will be marked as being retired.

The old dies in the 4-die Jungle Cruise machine at Magic Kingdom have been replaced with new dies. Below are the designs that can now be pressed and obtained from this machine.

The two 3-die machines located inside Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn & Cafe at Magic Kingdom have been removed and replaced with an 8-die machine.

As of January 7, 2025, all of the known 2025 pressed pennies at the Magic Kingdom are on-stage except for the one at Tony's Town Square Restaurant machine that is currently off-stage.

The one 4-die Main Street Railroad machine that has had dated designs in the past does not have any designs with the year 2025. There are four new generic designs that have Cinderella, Pinocchio holding Jiminy Cricket in his hand, Belle holding a rose in jar and Mike and Sully from Monster's Inc.

Both of the 8-die machines at the Emporium that have had dated designs in the past have designs with 2025 this year. Pictures of both machine headers are below showing what the new designs are in these two machines.

All of the 2024 dated coins have been removed and replaced with either old dies or new coins. There seems to be a problem with some of the new 2025 dies in the 3-die machines because we have had reports of the machines being out of order. We also have heard that the 3-die machines at Oscar's at Hollywood Studios and World Traveler at Epcot have been removed and are currently off-stage.

Last year there were ten 3-die machines that had coin designs with 2024 on them. What we know so far is that there will be two 2025 coins at Animal Kingdom with one being at Discovery Trading Company and the other one at the Dawa Bar. Chester & Hester's Dinosaur Treasures has an unknown older design and will not get a 2025 coin since Dinoland is supposed to close January 13. Hollywood Studios will eventually have only one 2025 pressed penny whenever the machine is brought back. We already reported on Pop Century Resort and Pin Traders at Disney Springs that they will not have 2025 pressed pennies. Of the remaining five 3-die machines, there are four at Epcot. So far, we know that three of them will have 2025 coins but we have not gotten a report yet about The Fjording machine at Norway World Showcase. We also have not gotten a report on the one 3-die machine at Tony's Restaurant at Magic Kingdom. So, unless there are other 3-die machines that get a 2025 design it looks like there will only be six to eight 2025 designs to get from the 3-die machines at Walt Disney World.

There were two 8-die machines and one 4-die machine that had 2024 coins in them last year and they were all at Magic Kingdom. Both of the two 8-die machines at the Emporium have 2025 designs. We have not received a report yet on what the Main Street Railroad 4-die machine has.