Well guys, I was on the French website again... The site is actually amazing, with Everest construction updates from all over the internet, all of the concept models, etc. So I looked up Beastly Kingdom on it, and MY GOD!! They have what looks like concept art!! I wanted to read the article, so I electronically traslated it, and the text below is an attempted translation from French... it's actually pretty hilarious... just read the first two paragraphs, and you'll see why. Below all of this text is a link to the webpage with the concept art. Have you seen this before? Is this not real concept art?
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Animal Kingdom__; a park a lot of secrets, stuffed with compromise, of fallen dreams, of broken ambitions... A true American series of first choice. After the years of shy and fruitless attempts, Expedition Everest appears at last as future face of proue of the park. A year after his announcement know us sum all few thing on this attraction, this that we know on the other hand histories of the passed, forgotten projects… For at the start, not at all n’était question of yeti and d’Himalaya, at the start…
__At the start we April 22 1998 and c’est l’euphorie to Walt Disney World, in this day blessed where Animal spring Kingdom is inaugurated in big pump, Imagineering already grates teeth in backstage and Joe Rohde, the artistic director of the park knows pertinemment that his rejeton will not drain the crowds and l’argent that do to dream tonton Eisner, all the concerned artists to GlendaleFor habit d’avoir the narrow ideas realized that the fourth park to theme of Disney World cruelly lacked the some necessary e-tickets to some to do a true destination in be.
This that explains why criticize them were ambivalent lorsqu’elles visited for the first time this «__Improved Adventureland__» closely of 200 hectares. Visually sublimates (it is necessary to like the jungle and the luxurious greenery otherwise pass your way), this «__park new type to theme__» has nevertheless l’allure dune crowns on which one would have forgotten to put the jewels of the recreation and shivers, for except Countdown to Extinction –a substitute of wrinkle to the Indiana Jones Adventure- the amateurs of strong sensations gray facts expression.
__And nevertheless… Walt Disney Imagineering had all prévu…si all had walked as on roulettes, Animal Kingdom n’aurait doubtless had not an at the beginning of d’existence so shy.
All this takes us to a forgotten project as we like them, something that, when one l’évoque, gives rise to inevitably the sighs and the nostalgic regrets. Throw a little a œit on the logo of the park, look at well, there is a dragon right in the middle__; and where find you of the dragons in the park__? Nulle leaves. This a drunk imagineer or traumatized by the films of Bruce It (or Chuck Norris, this that would be less honorable) that left free runs to its fantasize__?
Not at all. To l’origine, it was beautiful and well question of dragons, of licornes, of krakens and other mythological animals that all populated a day or l’autre our imaginary one, a land their eut been consecrated, an encloses particularly magic in this dedicated park to the Animal Reign…
Beastly Kingdom.
With the calm cruise lulled by the classical rhythms proposed qu’eut Fantasia Gardens, Beastly Kingdom is crammed precisely of all this that is lacking to the park since the first day, magic attractions, shivers, references in marble and the all allotted one in a setting all good gone out of our dreams. A régal for everyone, kid émerveillé that n’en returns not yet (but that heavily will insist with the parents to return here quickly does – this that n’est can be not the case aujourd’hui to Animal Kingdom__!) to l’adolescent, Adventurous of the Strong Sensations Lost by excellence that will treat itself again and again of his small visit in this castle some ruin.
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As I read lay in another item to this subject, you have more luck aujourd’hui to cross a licorne than to see a day Beastly Kingdom such qu’il was foreseen, ah ah…
It is necessary to know that l’histoire d’Animal Kingdom fût tormented, from beginning to end. At the start therefore our magic land was beautiful and well foreseen for the phase 1, nevertheless the problems survinrent at the time of the planning of the work-site, when one noted qu’il would be necessary to inject 800 millions of dollars for this park without Beastly Kingdom, ambitions were reviewed downwards and Eisner must to do a choice between the dragons and the dinosaurs…
Not need to do to last the suspense, all those that already threw a œit on a plan of the park know well that the dinosaurs occupy aujourd’hui a choice place to Animal Kingdom. Which has therefore been the decisive factor that did to win the sleeve to our dear sauriens__?
And well This was «__Dinosaur__» the long measurement in synthesis picture that took out on our screens there already is some years. It is necessary to specify qu’à l’époque, Eisner had invested in this project close to 30 millions of dollars (while some estimate qu’il would have been necessary some to inject close to 150 million so d’achever this film in good and must forms and therefore some to do a success), in financial voucher qu’il is it eut the brilliant placement idea all the trumps of his quotation profit from Dinosaur, thus, s’imaginant that theVisitors would rush to the cinema to see this boss d’œuvre of 3D, it ordonna to floor Imagineering on directly inspired attractions of the film. After all Disney always did the things of this manner, White Snow, Pinocchio, Peter Section or indirectly The War of the Etoiles and Indiana Jones. That being, the one that will want to compare Pinocchio to Dinosaur… ah ah...
Beforehand one had the good taste and wisdom d’attendre to see if the long measurement was a success BEFORE d’en to pull an attraction. And when one noted that Dinosaur was more or less a bide in terms of takings….
Thus naquit of this tactical phenomenal Dinoland USA, a small land of which the neuralgic cœur is situated in the buildings of Countdown to Extinction, a type wrinkle similar EMV to Indiana Jones Adventure, the prestige of the name in less. We are far auspicious and enchanting lines of Beastly Kingdom.
Here's the webpage!
