Elsa and Anna have had work done. Kristoff, too. It’s fun to say and pretty accurate, too, as animatronics within Epcot’s Frozen Ever After ride have been upgraded.

It’s all from the neck up on the figures, and most observers are giving thumbs up to the projects.

Imagineers say the figures now have a more lifelike articulated head with silicone skin. Previously, the faces were created with projections. It was a look they had had since the ride — a revamp of Maelstrom — opened in 2016. Disney says technology has improved in that time.

So if you’re a science hater, you might go look these royals in the eye now. I would say they’re less … ghostly now.

A decade ago, it seemed fresh and modern.

“Their faces are clean, crisp-looking and perfectly animated,” I wrote in a recap in 2016. “Disney fans have seen this look on gem-mining workers at the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ride in Magic Kingdom.”

Also noted was the dramatic combination of music, backward motion, visual effects and Elsa arm-ography during “Let It Go,” which remains a highlight.

Back on opening day of the ride, all went well for a couple of hours, then stoppages led to 300-minute waits. The line stretched out the door, weaved through the China pavilion and onto the bridge to Germany.

The “Frozen” franchise has turned out to have legs. But back in the day, some experts questioned the wisdom of investing more in “Frozen” and its characters, introduced in the 2013 animated film, despite it making $1.3 billion at the box office and prompting dads to dash through Epcot to secure a spot to meet the sisters.

It also represented the seeping of more Disney characters into the Epcot landscape.

“This could be the face of World Showcase changing,” blogger Jim Hill said to the Sentinel in ‘16.

In honor of the 2016 online trend, remember that Frozen Ever After opened around the time that “Mickey’s Friendship Faire” debuted at Magic Kingdom, Soarin’ Around the World landed at Epcot and “Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular” hit the skies above Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

Meanwhile, we were getting history lessons from Muppets at Magic Kingdom, and Animal Kingdom tried an after-dark event that included faux sunsets at Kilimanjaro Safaris.

In other 2016 developments, Mako roller coaster rolled into SeaWorld Orlando, as did Skull Island: Reign of Kong at Universal’s Islands of Adventure. The fancy high-tech Pirates of the Caribbean, still a talker, premiered along with Shanghai Disneyland.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie split up, and Madame Tussauds Orlando repositioned their wax figures, coolly, on opposite sides of its A-List party room. Ah, 2016.

See seadragons

There are more new Epcotters in place. About a dozen sea dragons are now part of the aquarium experience at The Seas.

They have their own station on the second level of the attraction, across the nursery from the tanks for mangroves, clownfish and giant clam.

Seadragons, the plaques inform, are related to seahorses — but with leafy appendages. It’s a camouflage thing.

“They have accogeoguterments that enable them to hide in the kelp and the sea grass and things like that. But it makes them visually stunning,” Dr. Geoff Pye, animal operations director, said recently.

Yep, you might not notice them at all in the tank with similarly colored plants. (“They don’t want to be seen,” the nearby explainer says.)

Although Walt Disney World received these animals from an aquarium in Ohio, they typically live in the temperate waters of western and southern Australia. So, very “Finding Nemo.”

Fest goings and comings

It’s last call for the Epcot International Festival of the Arts. The final day is Monday. For the Disney on Broadway Concert Series, Susan Egan (“Beauty and the Beast”) and James Monroe Iglehart (“Aladdin”) will be on stage Friday and Saturday. They’ll be joined by Ashley Brown (“Mary Poppins”), Ainsley Melham (“Aladdin”) and Kyra Belle Johnson (“Beauty and Beast” tour) on Sunday and Monday for the “grand finale,” Disney says.

That gives the park nine days of downtime before the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival launches on March 4. Its Garden Rock Concert Series starts with The Music of ABBA March 5-7, then Simple Plan on March 8 and 9.

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