News Zootopia and Moana Blue Sky concepts for Disney's Animal Kingdom

[DCLcruiser]

To recap:

They want to replace 3 rides with 3 rides. The biggest need for Animal Kingdom is indoor family rides. So we get (drum roll please!) two outdoor rides and a rethemed thrill ride.

Monana Splash Mt should have an indoor portion, as you know...

 

[networkpro]

Both exist in the Nature neighborhood.

Why Little Mermaid in MK and DHS?

That character is only on the marquee of a closed attraction

 

[DCLcruiser]

That character is only on the marquee of a closed attraction

Closed due to COVID cost cutting. Or is it gone forever? I would not mind that.

 

[dothebrdwalk]

Another way of looking at it is would the film still make sense if the animal characters were replaced by humans? Zootopia yes, The Lion King no.

Someone has never seen Hamlet.....

 

[UNCgolf]

Closed due to COVID cost cutting. Or is it gone forever? I would not mind that.

I think they said it wasn't coming back, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

 

[SplashJacket]

Monana Splash Mt should have an indoor portion, as you know...

Closes during lightning, which is a major issue for Orlando.

 

[djkidkaz]

Did they actually say they want to replace all of dinoland with this? I feel like there would continue to be some element of dinosaurs at the park. This seems more like replacing the carnival area and building backwards.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

To recap:

They want to replace 3 rides with 3 rides. The biggest need for Animal Kingdom is indoor family rides. So we get (drum roll please!) two outdoor rides and a rethemed thrill ride.

We have no idea what the scope of any of these rumored expansions will take place.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Did they actually say they want to replace all of dinoland with this? I feel like there would continue to be some element of dinosaurs at the park. This seems more like replacing the carnival area and building backwards.

It would seem as though the combo of Moana/Zootopia land will take over all of the space that Dinoland USA sits upon, with even possible expansion outside of the current boundaries of the park

 

[UNCgolf]

Did they actually say they want to replace all of dinoland with this? I feel like there would continue to be some element of dinosaurs at the park. This seems more like replacing the carnival area and building backwards.

The Moana part would mainly replace the carnival area. The potential phase 2 is Zootopia and would replace the Dinosaur ride and all the other remaining dino stuff.

 

[No Name]

OK y’all make fair points! Sorry.

No, it’s a fair question because they’re building/planning these at the same time plus they would fit better as one area, not something that can be said for the examples people are throwing back at you.

 

[arich35]

They need to add at least 2 more rides, not just redo a couple

 

[UNCgolf]

No, it’s a fair question because they’re building/planning these at the same time plus they would fit better as one area, not something that can be said for the examples people are throwing back at you.

Yeah, if they knew they were likely building this Moana replacement at DAK, I'm not sure why they didn't do something different at EPCOT.

 

[SNS]

The Moana part would mainly replace the carnival area. The potential phase 2 is Zootopia and would replace the Dinosaur ride and all the other remaining dino stuff.

And someone pointed out before that the concept art for the Shanghai Zootopia ride seems to use the Indiana Jones/Dinosaur ride system which would seal its fate to be replaced with a clone of that.

 

[No Name]

Zootopia is a fantastic movie, in my opinion. Great story about societal issues.

It does not fit in DAK.

 

[brb1006]

Steve you misspelled "Zootopia" to "Zootpoia" in the title. Not like that's important.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

Yeah, if they knew they were likely building this Moana replacement at DAK, I'm not sure why they didn't do something different at EPCOT.

That would lead us to believe that any of this had an forethought lol

 

[mightynine]

I just hope Water’s agent is working on a new deal for his client at WDW. That’s a lot of journeys between two parks! Just think of the mileage!

 

[SplashJacket]

We have no idea what the scope of any of these rumored expansions will take place.

The scope is irrelevant. They're not addressing the needs of the park even before you realize these IPs would entirely fly in the face of Animal Kingdom's theme.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

The scope is irrelevant. They're not addressing the needs of the park even before you realize these IPs would entirely fly in the face of Animal Kingdom's theme.

My point is we don't know how many attractions positive/negative this expansion will yield. Is Moana Splash being built where the Boneyard is? Is it being built where Primeval Whirl was? Will there just be the spinner and Moana Splash? Will Zootopia have more than one attraction? We have no idea, so I think with all that being said it is too soon to say whether or not they're addressing the "needs of the park" (which to them is just more $$$ being spent by guests)