Cake Bake is a third party and irrelevant to the discussion, as always. Anyway, I agree that the total time may end up being longer than their target, but it still makes sense to stagger the closure since the original Dinoland corridor will take a lot less time than the Dinorama plot, which is essentially being developed from scratch at this point. Everything else is mostly modification of existing infrastructure.
IMHO the mistake is not building the TLK ride that is being considered as the first thing. Get that extra capacity opened first or at least ASAP
AK is a park that definitely shouldn’t be reducing capacity, however, the Dinosaur area is simply not that popular right now. How much time do people actually spend there? Dinosaur the ride is usually a very short wait and the rest of the land is a play area and a spinner with some carnival games. I just don’t see AK going from a half day park to a quarter day park because of this closure. Did people spend half their time at AK in Dinoland? I think it will remain a half day park with 1 less ride to do and when this project is over will likely still be a half day park (maybe 3/4 a day if the waits for the 2 rides are long
). I was being a bit simplistic. But get a lightning lane for flight of passage. Go to early entry and you get all the fill of rides you want by 10:00am and do breakfast as well. You dont even make it to lunch time.AK is a park that definitely shouldn’t be reducing capacity, however, the Dinosaur area is simply not that popular right now. How much time do people actually spend there? Dinosaur the ride is usually a very short wait and the rest of the land is a play area and a spinner with some carnival games. I just don’t see AK going from a half day park to a quarter day park because of this closure. Did people spend half their time at AK in Dinoland? I think it will remain a half day park with 1 less ride to do and when this project is over will likely still be a half day park (maybe 3/4 a day if the waits for the 2 rides are long
I said hundreds of pages back that they should have greenlit the Lion King ride and built that first to make this project a “net zero“ total headliner rides situation during construction but that didn’t happen. The next few years will probably see a dip in AK attendance, especially after EU opens. In 2027 the park will likely be better than it is today. The bar is kinda low to exceed Dinoland which has been flawed since day 1.
I don’t disagree, but Dinoland doesn’t add much to that timeline today. So if you already have lightning lane it’s easy to add Dinosaur which won’t have a wait longer than 10 mins anyway and then if you want you could ride the spinner. Probably adds 30 mins to your day. The longest time spent could be walking to and from Dinoland. This is a bigger loss for people with young kids who use the playground. Then it could be a loss of an hour or 2 from your day or even more depending on how much you like digging in the sand.
Agreed it would be nice to work in some rock work and definitely waterfalls of some sort. It’s hard to tell from the concept art but it doesn’t seem like rock work will be as prominent as pandora or galaxy’s edge. the cars project seems to be more likely to center on rock work and probably also villains land. This looks like a distant third. Should have more rocks than Monsters at DHS
The other shows plus the walking trails also have no height requirement, but I agree with your overall point. I assume most people with kids under 40 inches spent more time in Dinoland than the average guest.
It’s a ride in a park with only 5 rides. It’s fairly busy most of the time. I don’t think this is a case of trying to make the ride “more popular”. It’s not like it’s Carousel of Progress in the Magic Kingdom or something.
No. There is a phased closure and Dinosaur is closing last.
Unfortunately, I think we are expecting Dinosaur to close by the spring. I'm from UK and visiting this November so will catch it, however I'm missing out on Test Track whose closure was announced after I'd booked!
Really? We haven’t experienced that at Animal Kingdom. We did have to park our stroller at Epcot for the Moana attraction, but it had only been officially open for a few weeks at that time. So I assumed that might only be temporary.
