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I think this looks 100% awesome. I’d always wished Villains was used for the Dark Kingdom 5th gate, but that won’t happen. This is the next best thing IMO I do think MK is already so packed with attractions and would’ve left out Cars for that reason, mainly. Maybe the strategy is to make it a...

I think it makes too much sense in Animation Courtyard. My slight concern is that they’re redoing the Mermaid show as we speak and its position is part of the U-shaped plaza in AC that appears to be the layout for Monstropolis (in both artworks, frankly). As someone else suggested they’d have to...

Is it? Early 1900s jokester jungle cruise skippers exist right next to centuries older pirates. Could the theme be the American Frontier — the location, not the place? I much prefer Coco, but I don’t think RSR is any further off from Big Thunder than already having Tiana on the other side

Yep agree. Coco being in Central / Southern Mexico, Encanto in Colombia, and Indy in Peru (as in IJ4?) makes Tropical Americas accurate here Didn’t Disney have an Amazon ride planned for a possible Brazil pavilion at Epcot at some point? While I’d hope that pavilion was still built (to give...

Yeah exactly. It felt like there were many other, less AK-relevant ways of calling this land. And the fact they chose Tropical Americas feels like a good thing

Totally agree. Has it been discussed that they’re calling it Tropical Americas and not Latin America? Feels like they’re emphasizing an ecological region rather than a cultural one, which I think is the right decision for this park (and I say that as a Latino). Of course we’ll want to see a...

lol chill. Obviously it’s not just mourning here

No excitement here, only mourning.

I just think it's an unwise decision to make a beautiful theme park with a section whose theme is "cheap theme park". It's too esoteric and academic Your examples exaggerate what anyone's actually proposing as far as a theme for Animal Kingdom. I can also cherry pick elements of any park to...

So if we're touristing in Harambe, we can't have ventured into a corner of the Savannah where lions are in the middle of a (familiar) succession struggle? I don't see how bold changes to the film are necessary, even if you believe tourism is the theme of the park. These animals live in Africa...

“Animal Kingdom has always been the park about all animals — real and fictional, gritty and cartoon, and of past, present, and myth” doesn’t require all that hyperbole that nobody is actually trying to say

I celebrate our personal preferences and ideas. But we can’t dismiss 1 of 4 opening day lands, or one of the only opening day attractions, to make a point that a film retelling ride with animatronic animals is a rewrite of AK’s themes. Cute animals have always been there. The rewrite would be to...

Even if you buy that excuse for what is ultimately a jarring visual misfit for the park, it doesn’t explain the lack of any meaningful theme or message or education or connection to animals from a content perspective Camp Minnie Mickey and the character meet ups weren’t gritty realism. Festival...

Yep. No animals in that one / not relevant

Honestly, I feel her. I think that show is too perfect where it is under a tree

THIS is the point our existential debate needed

I agree. I'd put MK in the same bucket as Epcot (where not to put new rides; re-skins / updates ok) and DHS in the same bucket as Animal (where new rides should go to fill out and add balance) Is Radiator Springs (the land) still on the table for DHS? Or is it just Villains?

A film retelling ride is not intended to be standalone. If the film never existed, and all we got about these lions were 5 musical scenes of animal animatronics, I'd agree with you. But the film does exist, and the scenes are meant to remind us of the 88-minute story we got about these animals...

This is fiction. Lion King is not a documentary nor does it need to be. We are seeing animals act in ways that are extensions, but not carbon copies, of how they act in the real world. We are seeing imagined explanations for real behaviors, and make-believe drama motivating real life emotions...

Yes you did — see above. You said the movie is about emotions and actions inconsistent with how animals actually operate. Which is categorically false. You are stuck on a view of the world where animals have no room to be complex compared to us truly exceptional humans. Your logic does not give...