hpyhnt 1000
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Yeesh... between this added (permanent!!) tackiness and the dumbing down of Flights of Wonder, Animal Kingdom just took two steps backwards. Pretty lousy 20th birthday presents if you ask me.
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News PHOTOS - Construction walls up in Dinoland U.S.A. for Donald's Dino Bash
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Lets Respect
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At least they are classic Disney characters.
I just don't see how it makes Dino-Land worse. Shrug
I just don't see how it makes Dino-Land worse. Shrug
Cmdr_Crimson
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PizzaPlanet
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A Dinoland refresh can't come soon enough.
Castle Cake Apologist
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Are you sure about that?
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Man, it's dusty in here....
Ha! Well, I did say one of the worst. However, I'll defend Castle Cake to the death. I thought it was clever, served its purpose, and left when it was supposed to. The "temporary" wand and hat, on the other hand...
EDIT: I gotta say, Castle Cake looked much better in person than it ever comes across in photos. One of the bigger issues with it was that the candles kept deflating, usually from lightning strikes from what we were told at the time.
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Phineas
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Man, if there was any doubt that I was slacking off at work today, my laughing out loud just now really gave me away.I *am* good at Photoshop. That's why these couldn't have been done by me.
Fable McCloud
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I'm really glad to see Scrooge out and about, he's my fiance's favorite character and he has never gotten to see him. I hope he's allowed for meet and greets...
Cmdr_Crimson
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He sure will be...
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From the looks of the photo he will be off the beaten path across the way from the Alligator pen. This looks like what was a former Kids Discovery Station and was a DVC Kiosk at one point...
From Guide-To-Disney
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
haha. Remember when Dinosaur was re-themed from Countdown to Extinction? I guess the movie is so irrelevant now that it's hardly an IP anymore. Like Splash Mountain.
Cmdr_Crimson
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It really wasn't a Retheme just a Re-Naming..The majority of the ride was untouched..
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
Weren't a lot of the effects toned down? Or did they just break without any upkeep?
Either way, my point was the whole "constant shoehorning IPs" argument, and this was definitely an early representation of shoehorning an IP at an earlier time.
Aladar being in front of the building... His face is freaky.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Pretty much this....Yes
Well, Early 2000's CG isn't what it use to be...And they seem to have detailed that statue pretty well..
But, Yes...The Styracasauous was a better statue than The Iguanadon...
Cmdr_Crimson
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The Nephews & Ludwig would have been nice too...But, nooooooo...
GlacierGlacier
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Check out Martin's Vid for the changes in the effects - most that did break or shut down were due to safety concerns, and have been replaced with digital effects to compensate. I have also heard of a decrease in the EMV intensity.
Also, I'd love to see longer shots of the EMVs in testing, if you have them Martin. They are beautiful ride vehicles.
JSchnitz
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Would have fit better than Goofy, Pluto and Chip and Dale but of course they have to be EVERYWHERE
TJJohn12
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OK, I'm going to be on the outside looking in for this opinion - this excites me quite a bit. Not necessarily the permanent additions to the land's gateway, but the concept of Donald exploring his dinosaur heritage is a perfect fit for the edutainment style of park that DAK originally intended to be. It's actually likely to be a bit more quality stealth science content than I think Dinosaur is able to deliver. I love the evolution silhouettes above the Welcome Center also reinforcing the message, and the fact that the dinosaur he's hugging is feathered as he should be.
I will caveat this with the fact that one of my favorite memories from my Honeymoon was a M&G with Donald on the Cretaceous Trail, with him in pith helmet and safari shirt. So I have a little bias in emotionally seeing Donald as a decent fit for the area.
But seriously, in a park that's about animals and science, having a kid-friendly hat-tip to teaching some basic evolutionary science facts is exciting to me as a professional science (among other things) interpreter and educator.
I will caveat this with the fact that one of my favorite memories from my Honeymoon was a M&G with Donald on the Cretaceous Trail, with him in pith helmet and safari shirt. So I have a little bias in emotionally seeing Donald as a decent fit for the area.
But seriously, in a park that's about animals and science, having a kid-friendly hat-tip to teaching some basic evolutionary science facts is exciting to me as a professional science (among other things) interpreter and educator.