DAK 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom

[Agent H]

I am not sure what sort of budget goes to these things, but I do think stating it outright feels contrived, especially if there will ultimately be no evidence of it within the park. Ideally, if this were still a thing but not so awkwardly framed for marketing consumption, it would just be something you could infer from the built environment. Like, have a woodworking shop or stall in the town with a half-finished carousel figure in the back.

And that’s a fair assessment but I don’t see how it would take up a significant amount of time and money.

 

[meggo819]

You get free refills at Backlot Express too. Oh, and the restaurant in Pandora and Regal Eagle. Maybe there are more. I dunno.

Connections Eatery too.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Perks were never provided because they “cared about guests”

Everything was offered because it benefited Disney.

Eh…. Yes and no. You could say that about any business - but at the heart someone has to care about guests or you just end up with a race to the bottom.

Certainly Walt himself - cared about guests. So at some point it was a fact.

 

[sedati]

IP IP IP. Always IP. Whatever, I don't really care; it's just a carousel. But even something like this had to be tied to IP—couldn't just be IP-less placemaking.

I get you. I remember way back in '83 my dad drove us cross-country in a station wagon to go to the now defunct "Walley World". Once we got there my father was so incensed at finding the park so I.P. laden that he punched a figure of Marty Moose right in his stupid moose snout.

 

[davis_unoxx]

What are we thinking for park hours once this expansion opens? New nighttime show in the works as well?

AK really is the most beautiful park at night, something is coming….

 

[Tha Realest]

What are we thinking for park hours once this expansion opens? New nighttime show in the works as well?

AK really is the most beautiful park at night, something is coming….

I dunno. More park hours means higher operational costs. It seems they’re content with closing the park at dusk. Does anyone know how long that’s been the case?

 

[FigmentFan82]

Hey

And for something that didn’t even happen and fix something nobody was asking. Sometimes it’s better to not push the issue. But in the case of this land, just having a carousel in a town park wouldn’t be something weird. Spending time and money coming up with an unnecessary justification is burning of the budget that could be used elsewhere.

Hey! Jimmy the intern did a solid job coming up with that backstory on his lunch break! He deserves all the accolades for such hard work!

 

[lazyboy97o]

Legitimate question. How much time and money could this have taken? Surely not much. I think having a backstory enriches the experience and it better. I do think
that these should be normal South American animals (maybe with Kevin thrown in there for fun)

Hey

Hey! Jimmy the intern did a solid job coming up with that backstory on his lunch break! He deserves all the accolades for such hard work!

Nothing at Disney is just “one and done” or handed off to a single person to just come up with something. There are meetings, reviews and approvals. That’s then all done again when it goes for publishing in marketing materials (just look at how much went into editing Ridley’s Instagram posts). It’s also not a one time issue, but something multiplied and compounded across projects.

 

[Ayla]

What are we thinking for park hours once this expansion opens? New nighttime show in the works as well?

AK really is the most beautiful park at night, something is coming….

We said the same thing when Pandora opened...

 

[peter11435]

We said the same thing when Pandora opened...

But when Pandora opened we did get a new night show and longer hours.

It just didn’t last because Rivers of Light was not successful

 

[larryz]

#SaveDinosaur

It didn't work when the asteroid hit, and it won't work now, either...

 

[larryz]

Elephants were also removed from the circus not all that long ago.

And that was ostensibly because they are considered intelligent creatures.

We were never served elephant meat in Disney restaurants.

And yet we can still get charred octopus at Tiffins...

Yes, that's an octopus using a split coconut shell as a mobile home...

 

[SamusAranX]

After riding IJ in DL today for the first time ever:

1. Dinosaur isn’t getting saved. I loved it but IJ is objectively better
2. I hope the best for the overlay and feel a bit better for it

 

[rle4lunch]

After riding IJ in DL today for the first time ever:

1. Dinosaur isn’t getting saved. I loved it but IJ is objectively better
2. I hope the best for the overlay and feel a bit better for it

This is the normal response after riding IJ in DL in comparison to Dino. Sure, there's always the vocal minority that'll claim otherwise, but alas, it's feigning. Dino WAS great, SHOULD'VE been plussed up, COULD'VE been given some love, but it didn't happen. It was limped along for the last decade knowing that they were going to replace it.

 

[SamusAranX]

This is the normal response after riding IJ in DL in comparison to Dino. Sure, there's always the vocal minority that'll claim otherwise, but alas, it's feigning. Dino WAS great, SHOULD'VE been plussed up, COULD'VE been given some love, but it didn't happen. It was limped along for the last decade knowing that they were going to replace it.

And I dislike that. Dinosaur is a good attraction but yes could have been great. I have so much I want to rant about WDW now in comparison to DL

 

[Disney Analyst]

And I dislike that. Dinosaur is a good attraction but yes could have been great. I have so much I want to rant about WDW now in comparison to DL

You have seen the light. Disneyland supremacy!

 

[rle4lunch]

You have seen the light. Disneyland supremacy!

You're right. The only attractions that come close to being equal between DL and MK are SM and HM. They're the best clone-non-clone effort. The rest fall short or have lacked the care and love (BTMR, which is about to be GREAT again).

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Curious since it hasn't been mentioned and it's pretty much out of the "so called vicinity" of Dino land but they count it as the part of the Dino Institute. The Theater in the Wild was used for the students and professors to show and discuss their findings in Dinoland before they decided to have theater and concert performers take it over....But, will this theater be a part of the Tropical America's since it was used by the Dino Institute or become a part of Anamdapur?

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Curious since it hasn't been mentioned and it's pretty much out of the "so called vicinity" of Dino land but they count it as the part of the Dino Institute. The Theater in the Wild was used for the students and professors to show and discuss their findings in Dinoland before they decided to have theater and concert performers take it over....But, will this theater be a part of the Tropical America's since it was used by the Dino Institute or become a part of Anamdapur?

I haven't heard anything and it is a good question - if I had to pick I'd say it is part of Tropical Americas, at least as far as section on the map - they might just drop that it is part of the Dino Institute

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I haven't heard anything and it is a good question - if I had to pick I'd say it is part of Tropical Americas, at least as far as section on the map - they might just drop that it is part of the Dino Institute

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The concept art doesn't seem to show it being part of it but, who knows what they will do..