DAK “Zootopia” is being created for the Tree of Life theater

[Nobody nobody]

Everyone is distracted by the fate of Muppet Vision, for reasons I cannot understand.

Because Muppet*Vision 3D is art.

 

[James Alucobond]

I was just making the comparison with something that was so highly touted by the company, just to fail in less than 2 years…

Zootopia seems to be one of the most minimally touted of all the recent additions, perhaps edged out in silence only by whatever is going on at the Canada pavilion.

 

[Professortango1]

Because Muppet*Vision 3D is art.

As I've said, its great for its time and I have strong appreciation for it. But....it is dated. And Waldo is terrible. It ranks in the middle of Disney 3-D attractions. Its better than Captain EO and PhilharMagic, but falls short of HISTA and ITTBAB.

 

[mickEblu]

I really don't see why they'd bother changing it, posters, signage, and animatronics aside. The scale of everything was always consistent with the exterior of the Tree of Life anyway.

That’s what I thought about a lot of Splash Mountain. They didn’t even keep the riverboat for a scene that takes place on the river banks of New Orleans.

 

[James Alucobond]

That’s what I thought about a lot of Splash Mountain. They didn’t even keep the riverboat for a scene that takes place on the river banks of New Orleans.

The vast majority of the queue rockwork, buildings, infrastructure, etc. was retained even in TBA, which was obviously a more significant overhaul. We're not talking about show scenes here.

 

[mickEblu]

The vast majority of the queue rockwork, buildings, infrastructure, etc. was retained even in TBA, which was obviously a more significant overhaul. We're not talking about show scenes here.

They covered it all with fake plants though. Didn’t you say that you didn’t see why they’d retheme the interior of the tree? I’m saying we have an example where even though they didn’t have to change/ retheme the setting or change show pieces they did so anyway.

 

[James Alucobond]

They covered it all with fake plants though. Didn’t you say that you didn’t see why they’d retheme the interior of the tree? I’m saying we have an example where even though they didn’t have to change/ retheme the setting or change show pieces they did so anyway.

I was talking about the structural elements of the queue in that response, but for the facade, they were shifting it to a different region entirely, from the foothills of Georgia to the Louisiana bayou. Here, the facade (the Tree of Life) is staying the same, and the attraction remains a theater situated beneath its roots. They may make some changes, but the point is that there's no exterior alteration that necessitates a re-framing of the interior, nor is it currently incongruent with the new subject matter.