Well yeah, its not going to be an instant thing. It happened in 2019, then COVID happened. Then some of the big franchises they want to use are under other parks rights for now. I think they don't want to overwhelm too much with a specific companies IP (although I feel like we've gotten a little Pixar heavy rn in WDW)
Again, from one of the two directors of Zootopia 2:
Yikes, thought this would be a 2-3 month job.
It’s pretty simple. First, do the animals look naturalistic and at least sometimes canonically behave that way too? Second, are they being used in Animal Kingdom in such a way that emphasizes their nature rather than their human-adjacent qualities?
Bugs Life, Jungle Book, Lion King, and most IP do not fit that then.
How about a new Disney queen ?The movie would have been so much better with a Predator.
Uh, yes they do. The animals in those stories both generally look like genuine animals (e.g. not excessively anthropomorphized, just cartoonishly stylized) and are shown to at least sometimes behave like animals. The only other criterion would be that, in their implementation in Animal Kingdom, their animal nature be emphasized, which is exactly what they did with the original A Bug's Life show.
You're 100% right that Robin Hood is the same "animal stand in for humans"
Robin Hood doesn’t belong in Animal Kingdom for the same reason Zootopia shouldn’t be there.
I don't think I personally mentioned or quoted anyone who mentioned Robin Hood? It also doesn't fit. I agree.
Lions don’t work with hyenas, there is no social hierarchy of a pride and that certainly does not pass down through kingship, they don’t work with hornbills, meerkats and warthogs aren’t friends and don’t wear hula clothes. They are abundantly clear that in zootopia, these are still animals. They’ve simply evolved past their previous ways and found harmony but as we can see through the main element of the movie, they can revert back to their ways. A show like this can be simple and “showing humans to be more like animals and come together” or something cheesy like that and imo still works and is a funny message. There’s plenty of ways to fit. Heck it could be a talent show where citizens of zootopia show off their unique abilities as they still all do have them.
