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

[Disney Analyst]

Ok, it wasn't the crappy ride experience. It was the location.
Got it.

Maybe nostalgia helps many here, but as someone who experienced Indy multiple times long before I experienced Dinosaur...

Dinosaur feels like another lesser theme park company copied an amazing ride, and did the best they could with the resources they had. It felt (to me) like a weird, alternate universe, copy cat version of a ride. Different (lesser) theming, yet eerily similar if you've ridden both.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Ok, it wasn't the crappy ride experience. It was the location.
Got it.

Dino was in really sad condition at times - but so is Indy sometimes.

if we compare them both when most effects are working it’s not as noticeable.

I, of course, still agree that Indy is a better attraction - I wish they could have kept the same physical effects - the bridge, real fire, imagine rolling backwards as a Dino lunges, etc.

 

[rle4lunch]

Location, location, location. One is nearly hidden in the back of a park, the other you can't miss when walking through Adventureland.

Doesn't stop FOP from getting 130 minute lines.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Doesn't stop FOP from getting 130 minute lines.

You think FOP is as hidden as Dinosaur.

 

[FigmentFan82]

I think in general attractions at Animal Kingdom can be a little trickier to find them at the other parks, probably intentionally done to make you really feel like you’re in the wild jungle amongst vegetation and things. I definitely have had a hard time in the past finding the entrance to dinosaur, but I don’t think that necessarily had anything to do with lower weight times as opposed to Indiana Jones.

 

[FigmentFan82]

You think FOP is as hidden as Dinosaur.

If you don’t know where to look, flight of passage is definitely not exactly easy to stumble upon

 

[rle4lunch]

You think FOP is as hidden as Dinosaur.

Nearly the same walking distance from the turnstiles. People know where they're going before they enter the park. Most ain't turning right.

 

[doctornick]

Wouldn't a substantial difference between wait times of Dinosaur and DL's IJA simple be a large difference in daily attendance between the two parks? A lot more people walk in the gates of DL daily than DAK so that's many more potential riders for IJA on a given day.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Wouldn't a substantial difference between wait times of Dinosaur and DL's IJA simple be a large difference in daily attendance between the two parks? A lot more people walk in the gates of DL daily than DAK so that's many more potential riders for IJA on a given day.

Absolutely, but Disneyland also has like 30+ rides, and DAK has... what, 6 when Dinosaur was still open?

You'd think with that kind of ride capacity, the attraction would be swarmed.

 

[JD80]

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Interesting site lines. I wonder how that will look once it's completed.

 

[Nickm2022]

anyone got ground level pics of the model at DHS

 

[Brer Panther]

Ok, it wasn't the crappy ride experience. It was the location.
Got it.

Crappy attractions get long lines all the time. Frozen Ever After gets incredibly long lines even though the ride isn't anything to write home about.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Whatever you think of Dinosaur we are going to end up with most likely a LESS INTENSE ride with the same ride path and the same ride vehicles with Indy.

 

[Fox&Hound]

It does matter inasmuch as it is a ride system and facility layout originally designed to convey the feeling of driving through the interior of walled ruins, not the feeling of driving through an open prehistoric jungle. In much the same way that Frozen Ever After makes concessions due to the Maelstrom's infrastructure, Dinosaur makes some as well as a result its structural ties to Indiana Jones. Had it been developed completely independently, I imagine they'd have done some things differently.

In that sense, regardless of the IP, I'm excited to see this attraction set in the kind of environment it was intended to navigate rather than the sometimes unconvincing forest of Dinosaur.

Yes! Just having (I hope) a ride that is not in complete darkness would be an improvement. IJ in Disneyland has scenes to look at. Dinosaur had…nothing.

 

[Fox&Hound]

Apparently tracked dark ride, nothing special about the ride system.

Having ridden the Shanghai Pirates, I remain flabbergasted it hasn't made it's way to the States yet. It's a truly amazing system and that ride was mind-blowingly good. Although I shouldn't be surprised: consider how long it took to get a trackless ride like Pooh from Japan over here.....

Still holding out hope for Villainsland.

 

[Fox&Hound]

The problem with Dinosaur for me is that it was so much in the dark and nothing to see, so the whole ride mostly lands flat. I have been fortunate enough to ride Indy in DL and thought it was way more fun than Dino ever was, because you could actually SEE things as you were moving along. I think Indy in AK will feel better than Dino was. My 2 cents.

Yes this 100%!

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

IJ in Disneyland has scenes to look at. Dinosaur had…nothing.

I’ve ridden IJ when it was in much worse shape than dinosaur during the closing week.

 

[999th Happy Haunt]

I think the darkness in Dinosaur was a feature, not a bug

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

Had CTX / DINOSAUR opened with a large expansive scene (maybe at dusk?) to introduce to you the world of Dinos before turning into darkened paths and close encounters, it would have been much more effective. And imagine the real "uh oh" factor, when you went down that pitch black area.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I’ve ridden IJ when it was in much worse shape than dinosaur during the closing week.

But look at her right now! She's stunning, gorgeous, with returned special effects.