And so immersion into worlds with animals is a valid theme that unites all the attractions at DAK. Right?
Let’s not look at the stories and themes of the lands and attractions themselves. On Everest, the Yeti doesn’t like the fact that the railroad is being built through his home, and in Kali River Rapids, illegal logging destroys animals homes, as humanity so often does in the real world. Kilimanjaro Safaris used to have the poaching storyline, but even the newest IP-based addition, Pandora, centers around an old mining company having harmed the planet before it was restored and research conducted to help foster life.
But what’s all that nonsense? It looks like the only thing these attractions have in common is that they contain animals. Nothing
about animals and about protecting and respecting them, just the mere presence of animals. That’s why I argue for Zootopia in DAK every day, because it has lots of animals, and therefore fits well!
In all seriousness, the point is that, relative to Disney’s other parks, the theme you suggest as acceptable for DHS is in fact extremely shallow.
Under the theme you suggest, Pandora would fit in DHS regardless of the content of the land itself but simply because of the medium of its source material. That’s incredibly tangential and shallow.