Jrb1979
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It's why I haven't gone back. Those rides are what made WDW different. Now they all are about flashy with some thrill.
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DAK 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom
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mickEblu
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Forgot to add original CBJ to that last. As a Disneyland guy born in the early 80s I’ve never even seen the original show. It was always Vacation Hoedown.
GhostHost1000
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and you also have no idea what the attraction will be about or what it will or won’t cover. Regardless, forcing Encanto into a park called animal kingdom while completely removing any dinosaur themed area of that park to me is backwards theming, like forcing Tiana in Frontierland
Yellow Strap
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Now I agree!
Bring back the realistic attraction that featured time travel and smuggling a Dinosaur back to modern day in a jeep.
Enough of the fantasy stuff.
Jrb1979
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To be fair, todays fans don't care about any of that. They want their IP and flashy attractions
Yellow Strap
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James Alucobond
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The point is that there is a completely straightforward way to tackle the environment and animals of the tropical Americas using Encanto as a vehicle. They won’t have to twist themselves in knots to do it; the answer is right there.
Now, I could understand apprehension about whether or not they’ll actually do that given how they biffed it with Cosmic Rewind, but acting baffled about why Encanto is there at all is a bit disingenuous.
Also, the land is being rethemed, so a Tiana comparison is not warranted.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
I said fantasyland…like mermaid rides which might be what we get
Yellow Strap
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As long as there aren't mermaids...Which I don't know why there would be given the IPs...
Then you're cool. Got it. Thanks for hopping on board.
Jrb1979
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Why? So far none of the new attractions have appealed to me at all. Tron and Guardians may be fun but they don't compete with Velocicoaster, Hagrids, Top Thrill 2 or Steel Vengeance.
These rumored additions coming to the parks don't fit the theme of the parks. Just more extension of Magic Kingdom
Yellow Strap
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Velocicoaster, Hagrids, Top Thrill 2 or Steel Vengeance
Not flashy at all. Got it.
You just want non-flashy rollercoasters and not like the ones you've never ridden but know all about. Got it.
Just making sure I am following all the twists in this pretzel.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
Surprised how many cheerleaders there are for Encanto. Bruno would be pleased (if I’m allowed to talk about him in here).
James Alucobond
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I could not care less about Encanto. I just don’t see why it’s difficult to acknowledge that a film that takes place in the tropical Americas with characters who control regional animals and plants might be a fairly straightforward add to a tropical Americas-themed area of Animal Kingdom.
Jrb1979
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I have been on all of those coasters multiple times.
My point is going back to what I loved about Disney parks was they were all about immersive dark rides like Haunted Mansion. What I want is them to go back to that. I'm excited for the Test Track redo with World of Motion.
I think leave the thrill rides and coasters for parks that actually push the boundaries and not lower the thrills
James Alucobond
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Or let people enjoy (mechanically) simpler themed coasters too. Some people don’t care about pushing boundaries with physicality and thrills.
Jrb1979
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I have not issue with that or what the guests like. My issue is with Disney going away from what made them different.
Each park originally was unique, had immersive dark rides and didn't focus on thrill as much as they do now.
Now all the parks are an extension of MK.
Dranth
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I get not liking some of what they added but I don't think it is fair to say they are focusing on thrills.
Sure, in Epcot they added Guardians but no one is going to mistake Remy or Moana for thrilling attractions. MK got Tron, which is a thrill ride while DHS got MMRR, RotR and MFSR. AK has had nothing added recently. That is two out of the last seven attractions that could be considered thrill rides during the most recent round of updates.
Unless I am misremembering, there are none in the previous round of updates unless you want to include kids coasters.
As for what is coming, I don't think we've heard any rumors about possible thrill rides outside of updating existing ones.
Jrb1979
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It's not just thrill rides that's the issue. It's also moving the parks away from their original theme to a mish mash of IP
Dranth
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I get it, but we don't know how they are going to handle AK yet so I'll wait and see. I thought Avatar was going to be a terrible addition and they proved me wrong there so hopefully they do that again.
Marc Davis Fan
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I hope they really are considering moving some of the Dinoland materials* into the Wonders of Life building.
It seems like such an obvious thing to do, it's hard to imagine they haven't at least considered it. A paleontology pavilion would fit World Discovery, make "legacy fans" happy by being non-IP, be inexpensive to create because they already have both the materials and the unused space, keep dinosaurs represented in WDW, be a nice area for people to relax indoors (especially between doing World Discovery's thrill rides), etc.
*e.g., "Dino Sue," fossil replicas from the CTX queue and gift shop, some things from The Boneyard...
It seems like such an obvious thing to do, it's hard to imagine they haven't at least considered it. A paleontology pavilion would fit World Discovery, make "legacy fans" happy by being non-IP, be inexpensive to create because they already have both the materials and the unused space, keep dinosaurs represented in WDW, be a nice area for people to relax indoors (especially between doing World Discovery's thrill rides), etc.
*e.g., "Dino Sue," fossil replicas from the CTX queue and gift shop, some things from The Boneyard...