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Animals don’t feel responsibility? They don’t betray? They don’t feel guilt? Redemption? Animals don’t love? They do all of those things, and you must not have a dog. Your logic suggests animals are empty emotionless robots that operate solely on instinct. That the “point” of being an animal is...

I kind of agree, but additional rides are justifying more capacity into the parks. So the lines will continue… Not sure why Moana, Coco and potentially Villains are being added to MK

Here’s hoping some magical market research reveals a fifth park is an opportunity to go after the Universal segment with a more thrill-oriented ride lineup and not-too-much cannibalization. Villains would be perfect for that

I too hold hope Villains is reserved as the theme for a 5th park, if that ever happens. DHS needs rides, but I agree the park needs to stick with single IP-based lands to hold on to some semblance of a “live the movies” theme Magic is just way oversaturated for me. Moana and Coco and Villains...

Where do I find Pride Rock, the stampede canyon, the elephant graveyard, the watering hole of colorful stylized 90s animals, the log where Timon & Pumbaa get their grub, Rafiki's tree with his lion symbol, the night sky of past kings, the audience of animals bowing at their future king, Scar's...

I just find this argument so mind boggling. Lion King is a coming of age story of a fictional lion that is learning to roar and hunt and find his place in a lion pride. If you distill it to "coming of age" you've stripped it of...everything. Who does the stampede represent -- park goers at rope...

I do think Disney has lost sight of their parks as sources of original IP. The main funnel these days is film-to-park, and they feed the top of that funnel with new film-first IP (though even that is sparse given sequel and remake-mania). You have the occasional park-to-film (Pirates, Haunted...

I'm just hoping we get a Tokyo Frozen and not another Tiana in terms of depth and execution quality (+ budget to go with) I know the latter is a re-skin, but it's still a disservice to both its predecessor and source material Lion King is iconic source material, so perhaps we can agree that on...

The Fantasyland comparison doesn't hold. Snow White, Mr. Toad, Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, and Pinocchio were literally books and fairtyales before they were movies. Lion King was never a book and has zero storybook or fantasy quality. The argument they're forcing a Fantasyland-style ride into...

Happily. I'll make it a podcast series and throw in a few other episodes: "How to chill out and have fun on a Lion King ride", "Help -- I thought I was at a park about animals and now I'm surrounded by animatronic lions, a warthog and a meerkat", and "What is an animal, anyway?" Never claimed...

A 5 minute ride is obviously not meant to replace an 88 minute film. It adds. It's an opportunity to physically experience the emotion of key scenes while reminding us of themes already taught to us by the source material. Or inspire you to pick up the source material if you haven't yet seen it...

How about we all rewatch The Lion King. The circle of life isn’t just “touched on” in the film — it's the central theme and repeatedly reinforced. Many “circles” are explored in the film, including portrayals of predator-prey and symbiotic relationships, the description of the food chain, the...

An attraction could visually, emotionally, and even narratively cohere with Harambe but have nothing to do with animals and fail to cohere with the park as a whole. The park is not about the happenings of African and Asian villages; it only uses them as jumping boards to explore local fauna...

We cant read so deep into decisions that reflect more than just creative vision, like budget and capacity. FotLK was in a completely different land with meet and greets that were about 1000x less relevant to learning about animals than the plot of TLK. And as we know, that wasn’t the original...

~96% of the forms this attraction could conceivably take are well within the mission of the park -- even the "book report". Disney would have to go far out of its way to take The Lion King and turn it into an attraction that made you think "why is this here?". Like omitting Circle of Life, or...

First, since when is this park required to only focus on the interaction of man and animals? Why is the interaction of animals and animals not enough at a park called Animal Kingdom? Why can’t learning about animal interactions help man be better at interacting with animals? Why can’t man learn...

But Disney is all about presenting their IP as real within the fantasy of its worlds. They're their own mythology. The artistic style and media chosen to represent them -- whether classic hand-drawn animation or ultra-realistic CGI -- does not define whether the world is "real" (or could've been...