It’s a human city where the people happen to have fur.
Worse imo
could a human man live in Little Rodentia? It's a fictional city with neighborhoods built to cater to needs and biomes of specific animals. That could be fun in a theme park.
Counterpoint. Lions dont make every animal in the area come to a rock to look at their baby.
The gazelles know who the boss is, even on Kilimanjaro Safaris.
There are parts of The Lion King that are naturalistic and others that are animal-Hamlet. The former would be appropriate for Animal Kingdom whereas the latter should not be the focus. For Zootopia, on the other hand, you really need to explore things from outside the scope of the film to begin to scratch at themes appropriate for the park. Yes, you could probably use the characters somewhat appropriately as "hosts" who talk about and comment on animals and biomes from our world through the lens of their parallel world, but it would then have basically nothing to do with the IP aside from being able to shove established characters at you completely divorced from their context and setting.
Please send me a bulleted list of 5 good posts you have made this week.
I think we're taking things too seriously. The parks exists to sell bubble wands and plushies.
You're describing Magic Kingdom.
There is no Animal Kingdom-justification for Gazelle singing that song in this show, but I'm sure she will.
The park exists to sell bubble wands and plushies great! Let’s tear out the tree of life and replace it with the Zootopia cityscape! Let’s replace expedition Everest with oakan’s sliding sleighs! Let’s fill in the rivers of America and put in a cars ri- oh wait.
One has to be willing to take off their rose tinted dangly earring. I said parks, I meant all gates.
That is the current view of management and investors, hence the chasing of whatever character can sell the most bubble wands.
I am not defending it. Obviously we all get attached to certain aspects of the parks, and we can all be a lil critical. The company makes it clear, the parks are not a museum and they're going to constantly change. To keep moving bubble wands.
When did the Disneyland Emporium open?
There is a bit of a difference between publicly shifting the focus of a park and completely ignoring the supposedly still-honored core tenets of the park. Success notwithstanding, AT LEAST with Hollywood Studios there was a stated move away from a working studio toward the idea of stepping into lands from movies. Similarly, with EPCOT, there was a redefinition of Future World as Worlds Celebration, Nature, and Discovery (again, implementation questionable). If they want to contradict very basic thematic statements from the progenitor of Animal Kingdom, they should explain how they’re evolving the theme, not just pretend like everything is the same as it’s ever been. Thankfully, the switch to Tropical Americas and the minimization of the Zootopia influence have mostly made this unnecessary.
