Rumor Is Indiana Jones Planning an Adventure to Disney's Animal Kingdom?

[FullSailDan]

I don't know that I'm really in the minority here as I've heard many people say they feel similar to what I do:

I don't enjoy Dinosaur at all, I'm a thrill ride junkie, and it's the only ride I've ever told a group to ride without me. The ride effects and "theme" currently make it not fun. Most of the ride is in the dark, being whipped around, and really loud noises go off suddenly with little connection to what you're seeing. There is a sprinkling of dinosaurs through out and the quality of their motion is poor. I much prefer the indy ride in DL.

So I'd welcome ANY sort of upgrade this may receive.

Can we also discuss the height requirement for Primeval Whirl being higher than everest? I'm the first to defend adult rides, but.. it's a mouse coaster that should be attracting kids in an area of a park designed to keep kids busy, and most of them can't ride it.... Dinoland is so messy.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

It should be over at DHS with the Stunt show, convert Star Tours into Indy Tours and add a nice water / dark ride like Pirates.

 

[Notes from Neverland]

I'm split on this. Personally, Indy in AK makes a lot of sense to me. Beyond the jungle theme which I already tie to Indy, the idea of conserving the past is a major theme with Indy. He's trying to protect the artifacts of old. That's not the exact same as conservation and animals, but it's at least along the same lines.

That being said, something original and unique would be fun too.

 

[FigmentJedi]

Well...DinoLand was built as an archeological digsite...and isn't Indy an archeologist?

Paleontology and Archaeology are different things.

 

[Kman101]

Logic doesn't matter anymore

 

[larryz]

I'm split on this. Personally, Indy in AK makes a lot of sense to me. Beyond the jungle theme which I already tie to Indy, the idea of conserving the past is a major theme with Indy. He's trying to protect the artifacts of old. That's not the exact same as conservation and animals, but it's at least along the same lines.

That being said, something original and unique would be fun too.

Totally agree. Arguing what's "suitable" for AK is like arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Bottom line, it's Disney's park, and if the Bobs and/or someone else in charge like the idea, then Indy will be coming to AK.

 

[YodaMan]

This sounds plausible. We all agree Dinoland and its inclusion of Dinorama is one of the last "weak" spots of DAK. And there's currently no real way to take out Dinorama and flesh out Dinoland using the current model of "there has to be an IP." So instead of creating a dinosaur-related franchise that could be used in the land or shoehorning in an IP that has nothing to do with dinosaurs, the whole land will get redone.

That being said, if we get an entire Indiana Jones Land right after we just got an Avatar Land (especially with a park across the way dedicated to film-based lands from acquired IP), I'll be disappointed. BUT, if they really turn Dinoland into South America by re-theming Dinosaur to Indiana Jones, giving us a new ride or animal trail in the Dinorama plot that's based on real South American animals, and finally tie Theatre in the Wild into the rest of the land and give us a new show, then I'm on board.

 

[Nickels5]

Like I said, I don't know what IP were talking about but it wouldn't surprise me.

Avatar is in a jungle. Indy goes in the jungle. DAK has jungle. That'll be enough.

Is there any scenario where the dinosaur theme stays at they just update Chester and Hester's? call me crazy but I feel like Dino's merchandise moves way better then indys. Dinosaur is a unique ride that we only have at wdw and I would hate to lose it to a clone on the west coast.

 

[seabreezept813]

We already lost one set of dinos

The animals in Indy are creepy.. lots of people fear snakes and spiders so it would be a bizarre move..

 

[hpyhnt 1000]

Good grief, when will this madness of stuffing square IP franchises into round theme park holes end? It's bad enough we just lost Universe of Energy and The Great Movie Ride to (likely) thematically and technologically inferior replacements - can't the Bobs and the rest of corporate Disney take 5 minutes and come to their senses?

I know this is all rumor and not remotely set in stone, but heavens if it doesn't feel like another punch to the gut.

 

[becca_]

I wish/hope they'd expand the Indy area at DHS before they'd just re-do an existing land at DAK... Yes I want Dinorama gone but I think they could make a more "adult" dino area & still keep Dinosaur, and then have Indy but at a different park.

 

[TiggerDad]

oooh, camels and a dog!

 

[larryz]

I know this is all rumor and not remotely set in stone, but heavens if it doesn't feel like another punch to the gut.

 

[FigmentJedi]

This sounds plausible. We all agree Dinoland and its inclusion of Dinorama is one of the last "weak" spots of DAK. And there's currently no real way to take out Dinorama and flesh out Dinoland using the current model of "there has to be an IP." So instead of creating a dinosaur-related franchise that could be used in the land or shoehorning in an IP that has nothing to do with dinosaurs, the whole land will get redone.

That being said, if we get an entire Indiana Jones Land right after we just got an Avatar Land (especially with a park across the way dedicated to film-based lands from acquired IP), I'll be disappointed. BUT, if they really turn Dinoland into South America by re-theming Dinosaur to Indiana Jones, giving us a new ride or animal trail in the Dinorama plot that's based on real South American animals, and finally tie Theatre in the Wild into the rest of the land and give us a new show, then I'm on board.

Considering Indiana Jones's pulp adventure tone and Lucasfilm's desire to have their parks stuff tell new stories instead of retreading past ground, I could definitely see this being an "Indiana Jones and the Lost World" thing more then them just doing South America. Especially if Rohde wishes to maintain the "Extinct Animals alongside Real and Imaginary ones" thing.

 

[EPICOT]

Why don't we just theme Dinoland to Figment? He's part dinosaur, I think. (Sarcasm)

 

[Haymarket2008]

Don't get me wrong, I have been dying for an expanded Indy presence at WDW, but why in the world are they not building the things most suited for DHS IN DHS. Guardians and now possibly this?? I don't get it. That park is struggling!

 

[FigmentForver96]

Don't get me wrong, I have been dying for an expanded Indy presence at WDW, but why in the world are they not building the things most suited for DHS IN DHS. Guardians and now possibly this?? I don't get it. That park is struggling!

Exactly this. Nothing they build lately makes sense in its location.

 

[FigmentJedi]

Why don't we just theme Dinoland to Figment? He's part dinosaur, I think. (Sarcasm)

That's what the Pandora retheme is gonna be. They don't even have to change the Na'vi that much if they incorporated the Sound Sprites from the comics.

 

[larryz]

Exactly this. Nothing they build lately makes sense in its location.

In Roller Coaster Tycoon, there's no restrictions on where you can put attractions, either.

 

[Spike-in-Berlin]

Well...DinoLand was built as an archeological digsite...and isn't Indy an archeologist?

Not an archeological digsite, a paleontological digsite, that's a difference, they excavate dinosaur remains not ancient relics and ruins, Indiana Jones is as misplaced there as the team from Jurassic Park in Tanis.