News Kali River Rapids refurbishment planned for early 2020

[twilight mitsuk]

Common refurb time as it's always closed when I get out there....But, since I'm also going to Universal at least Bilge Rat Barges will be open...

And infimity falls at seaworld

 

[Tom Morrow]

Kali closes every year around this time and its always just standard maintenance stuff, if any effects are fixed or other cosmetic changes are done, then that will be surprising.

 

[twilight mitsuk]

It’s time for Kali river refurbishment season

 

[voodoo321]

2 weeks worth of work and 8 more that they don't have to run and staff it.

 

[ObscurityPoint]

We heard this about 20K Leagues Under the Sea once...

Jungle Book river ride on the way...

 

[jt04]

Jungle Book river ride on the way...

Every time it closes I am hopeful of a reimagined KRR. I have a hunch Joe likes the current message and might object. Maybe the next CEO can convince Imagineering. Of course what exists now is better than a Zootopia overlay.

 

[ObscurityPoint]

Every time it closes I am hopeful of a reimagined KRR. I have a hunch Joe likes the current message and might object. Maybe the next CEO can convince Imagineering. Of course what exists now is better than a Zootopia overlay.

I always jump to Jungle Book just because the themeing would be too perfect-especially if they tried to go with the live action version. It’s an unused classic disney property about Asian animals- it only makes too much sense to add a few bear and tiger animatronics to the empty spaces throughout the KRR sets.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

I always jump to Jungle Book just because the themeing would be too perfect-especially if they tried to go with the live action version. It’s an unused classic disney property about Asian animals- it only makes too much sense to add a few bear and tiger animatronics to the empty spaces throughout the KRR sets.

Problem with a ride like that. You can't appreaciate the scenes you pass compared to Splash Mountain...Like Bilge Rat Barges there are so many details you miss since your boat constantly turns or you get drenched and not see the scene in the ride develop.

 

[MaximumEd]

Every time it closes I am hopeful of a reimagined KRR. I have a hunch Joe likes the current message and might object. Maybe the next CEO can convince Imagineering.

I’m not sure that’s how the chain of command functions.

 

[ObscurityPoint]

Problem with a ride like that. You can't appreaciate the scenes you pass compared to Splash Mountain...Like Bilge Rat Barges there are so many details you miss since your boat constantly turns or you get drenched and not see the scene in the ride develop.

Exactly, that’s the same problem that occurs with the Jurassic Park ride in (I think Shanghai (one of the parks in Asia)) and the river rafts ride in Shanghai Disney. Even though it just has that one giant alligator, the rest of the ride is pretty empty and barren like Kali.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Word is they're going to install fun.

 

[MotherOfBirds]

Problem with a ride like that. You can't appreaciate the scenes you pass compared to Splash Mountain...Like Bilge Rat Barges there are so many details you miss since your boat constantly turns or you get drenched and not see the scene in the ride develop.

The solution would be to just add more general theming and scenery rather than the showcase of AK's landscaping department. More ruins and man-made features that double as a guest-moistening apparatus. Perhaps the whole post drop section could be changed to a desolate, deforested area to contrast the lush beginning in keeping with the environmental message. A rapids ride isn't the proper vehicle, literally and figuratively, for a highly themed, detailed experience with something to say, but at least it could be more consistent.