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Reminder that both the Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland versions of Space Mountain have been permanently rethemed to Star Wars. Reminder that nothing is sacred anymore.

Yeah I imagine if you asked Joe Rohde about it, he'd probably give you that as an answer. I always felt that there was a clear design choice on his and the Imagineering team's part to explicitly avoid doing rides that were just third person retellings (or "book reports" as we're calling them in...

A sad and funny thought: there exists a universe where The Good Dinosaur was an actual critical and commercial hit and thus a universe where we'd probably be looking at Dinoland and Dinosaur being revamped into that. I guess it'd be a way to keep dinosaurs in Animal Kingdom...I guess.

Meh. I guess, but I think I'll let Roller Coaster Philosophy say it for me: The funny thing is in that regard, I'd say Expedition Everest worked more as a successor to the concept of Beastly Kingdom, even if it's not a dedicated land. In fact a while back over on Inside Universal here, I saw...

Tune in next year where they'll announce all new plans for Dinoland's replacement that will surely happen, this time with Raya and the Last Dragon and Strange World as the headliner IPs.

It was also freaking ridiculous that they never bothered to ever scrub out the references to Beastly Kingdom even after the concept was obviously taken out back. To this day, the park's logo and ticket booth still features a dragon that has absolutely nothing to do with anything inside in the...

The sooner you come to terms with the fact that Disney literally doesn't care anymore and will just make all of their theme parks into generic IP dumping grounds no matter how unfitting for the sake of pure capitalism, the better

As I said last year:

NOT AN IP IPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

Yeah as much as I hate to say it, Joe Rohde is gone, and thus what Animal Kingdom had originally stood for is gone with him. The inmates have taken over the Aslyum and it won't be too long before AK is transformed into yet another brainless IP dump park.

Not a Disney/Pixar/Marvel/Star Wars IP so not happening

You know it's funny, I always lamented the death of Beastly Kingdom and considered it to be right up there as one of Imagineering's biggest tragedies and blunders... ...but honestly in hindsight, it turned out to be a mercy kill, as it absolutely would of been plundered and ravaged by Disney...

That's what they want you to think ;)

I've always suspected a huge reason in why Disney never bothered to fix the Yeti, was because they were just waiting for Pixar or whatever company they own now to make up some Yeti/Himalayan IP that could just overlay with it

Thread theme right now:

So with Beastly Kingdom never coming to fruition and Dinosaur/Dinoland most likely being replaced by IPs, this means the original core concept of Animal Kingdom representing real, extinct and imaginary animals is 100% dead and buried and now it's nothing more than yet another IP park. RIP

*blocks your path* https://www.insideuniversal.net/2016/05/darn-marvel-contract-what-rights-does-universal-and-disney-own/

I hate to say it, but I honestly think this cheap looking thing is probably much more interesting than whatever Disney made here:

I mean...Hondo first appeared in The Clone Wars cartoon, all the way back in 2009. That was way before Disney took over, lol

Wow, so it's actually completely shutting down. I just hope/wished they move their animal facilities somewhere else so they can bulldoze it and put something more substantial there. Animal Kingdom needs all the help it can get.