mattpeto
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News 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom
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Haymarket2008
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Casper Gutman
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The plans are genuinely exciting and I feel churlish for finding fault but… man, I don’t understand a water ride for Encanto. After going trackless crazy for a decade, NOW Disney backs off the system when it has an IP custom made for a new Mystic Manor? An IP with no significant water element? Also, the Coco carousel seems really out of place - South America and Mexico are pretty darn different in every conceivable way and Coco is, as we all know, slated for another park. Why not do something with Up or just extend the Encanto theme?
It kinda feels like management is ready to invest but Imagineering is still kinda broken. The project has some of that “outsmarting themselves” feeling that we see at Tiana’s.
It kinda feels like management is ready to invest but Imagineering is still kinda broken. The project has some of that “outsmarting themselves” feeling that we see at Tiana’s.
Notes from Neverland
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Really hoping the possibilities of there being animal exhibits/habitats come to fruition.
999th Happy Haunt
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I think it works fine under the “Tropical Americas” banner. AFAIK Africa and Asia are modeled after/inspired by many different regions of their respective continents too.
Casper Gutman
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Coco and Encanto take place on different continents.
ToTBellHop
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The Antonio playset at Walmart literally has a waterfall drop into a river.
They shared their plans with us years ago but no one was looking. Or maybe you just avoid Walmart.
They shared their plans with us years ago but no one was looking. Or maybe you just avoid Walmart.
discos
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A water ride for Encanto makes so much sense. Colombia is home to the Caño Cristales (river of 5 colors) and that would be the perfect setting for a boat ride! You could easily work the animals of the region into this ride.
999th Happy Haunt
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Both can be considered part of the Tropical Americas.
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Casper Gutman
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I really hope a majority of the ride doesn’t take place in Antonio’s room. The water ride info gave me that worry, but… they wouldn’t be that silly, right?
Casper Gutman
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Coco takes place in an arid, not tropical area, doesn’t it?
999th Happy Haunt
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4 boats: Encanto, Moana, Lion King, Pandora?
ToTBellHop
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I am struggling to picture a water ride in the world of Encanto at DAK that doesn’t quickly leave La Casa Madrigal to enter the one rainforest setting with waterfalls and animals.
Just 4 presses on the keyboard
999th Happy Haunt
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That’s actually a good question, most of the movie is in the land of the dead so my thinking might be skewed
Casper Gutman
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Yes, Columbia has rivers and Louisiana has a salt dome. But what’s interesting about the Encanto IP is the house and the way it reflects the family.
999th Happy Haunt
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Hey I’m trying here hahaJust 4 presses on the keyboard
James Alucobond
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It was always meant to be multicontinental. They would’ve just called the area South America otherwise. The IJ attraction seems to be based in the Yucatec Maya regions of Mexico, so even without Coco, there was going to be a Mexican element. That said, Coco itself takes place too far north for me to consider it all that tropical, so hopefully it’s just for art inspiration as the alebrije style casts a wider net than anything narratively to do with Coco.
doctornick
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Depending on where you go to school, some folks consider all of the Americas as a single continent. e.g. the UN geoscheme has 6 continental regions with "Americas" being one of them.