News Disney KiteTails coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom October 1

[Disney Analyst]

Y’all are just a bunch of curmudgeons who can’t enjoy a simple little show that will make you laugh.

Enjoy this magic while it’s still around.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Um, it’s a kite show. Not AAs that do the same thing every time. Kites end up in trees. Professional jet skiers, wearing life jackets BTW, fall out of their jet skis. Oh the horror! I think that is part of the appeal. You never know what will happen at any show.

I completely agree. It's kind of nice to see something a bit more spontaneous and unpredictable at WDW. The people on the jet skis also seem to be having fun and are part of the show.

Still #TeamKiteTails

 

[JohnD]

I completely agree. It's kind of nice to see something a bit more spontaneous and unpredictable at WDW. The people on the jet skis also seem to be having fun and are part of the show.

Still #TeamKiteTails

I had fun watching it. I saw once while having lunch at a Flame Tree pavilion on the opposite side from the stands and again when I happened to be walking by the stands in Asia. To be fair, do I think you should go out of your way to see it as you would FOTLK or the cancelled Nemo show? No. But if you’re in the area, and it has already started or about to start, take a short break and enjoy. Think of it like a MK cavalcade. You stop to watch because it’s right there.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Build a giant, flatboard bedframe in the stand and announce that it's time for them to take a nap.

Play “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”

 

[dreday3]

Play “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”

And now this must be done. So sayeth me.

 

[dreday3]

Maybe this will soothe some of you...a KiteTails Sundae!

REVIEW: If You're Already Obsessed with the WILD Kite Show in Disney World…This One's For You | the disney food blog

To celebrate the brand new daytime show at Disney's Animal Kingdom, we're trying the new KiteTails Sundae!

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[Ayla]

I don't get why they couldn't have the jet skis bring the kites in already in the air, and exit the same way. Admittedly I have no clue what the physical layout of that lagoon and the waterways it's connected to are. Maybe they had no choice?

Bridges.

 

[Tom Morrow]

How possible is it that Disney intentionally created a really stupid show for publicity? If this was their goal then it's actually a big success, right?

They’re freaking kites. How do you want them to switch out kites? Do you want them to waste time reeling them in, attach a new one, and reel it back out? I suppose you’re upset with the kite laying flat in the other dock waiting to be picked up and flown

Actually, yes. This does make the show worse. The fact that you can see all of the kites that are gonna fly before they fly means there's no surprise for first-time viewers. Seeing them land, while funny, is also pretty tacky for a show created by Disney. It would unquestionably be at least a marginally better show if the kites were flown in and flown out from backstage. I can't understand why they didn't consider this before putting this type of show in this location.

 

[rkleinlein]

Even if the kites didn’t crash and get stuck in the trees (was this not rehearsed a few times?) this pathetic “daytime activation” would still be an utter embarrassment. That this was ever green lighted defies reason.

 

[Gabe1]

Y’all are just a bunch of curmudgeons who can’t enjoy a simple little show that will make you laugh.

Enjoy this magic while it’s still around.

If nobody gets hurt yes this does make me laugh I’m surprised Disney hasn’t pulled before someone is injured

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Question - don’t these kites look like the Chinese knock-off version of Disney characters? Like the company that had them custom built should have said “no, these are actually for Disney, you can make them look like the actual characters”

 

[Castle Cake Apologist]

Maybe this will soothe some of you...a KiteTails Sundae!

REVIEW: If You're Already Obsessed with the WILD Kite Show in Disney World…This One's For You | the disney food blog

To celebrate the brand new daytime show at Disney's Animal Kingdom, we're trying the new KiteTails Sundae!

www.disneyfoodblog.com

Not even a cupcake?? #KiteFailsContinues

/s

 

[Ayla]

Not even a cupcake?? #KiteFailsContinues

/s

Not a cupcake, but there's a KT popcorn bucket!

 

[Dear Prudence]

Can I just say, I have been in the worst funk lately and nothing has given me as much serotonin as watching the Kite Tail fails compilations on YouTube.

Edit: to make for an even better experience, mute the compilations' audio and play the Witney Houston of Wing covers of "I Will Always Love You" over them. It will be the greatest moment of your week, I promise.

 

[MrPromey]

Agreed Be very cool to see neat kites flying in the World Showcase lagoon. Be even nicer if they let guests line up to fly the kites for a minute or two, with their help. If the kite show doesn't work out, I hope Disney will do this instead.

Dual line kites are not hard to learn to fly but for first-timers, there are going to be a number of nosedives that do not recover before impact.

As a guest experience being viewed by other guests in a public area, it would not be realistically manageable to allow guests to try this.

Also, with real normal kites on a real normal day, you need constant wind of an agreeable speed going in an agreeable direction. This works because the jetskis create the needed line tension to keep those kites (and line laundry) in the air in the absence of wind.

I don't see them strapping guests onto the back of jetskis so they can crash kites into word showcase lagoon - do you?

 

[MrPromey]

I got to thinking, if this show doesn't work out, they can use all the balloons and kites as a parade for AK. Just have CMs hold up the kites/balloons with sticks like they do now, and have a few dancers and characters along. The stuff looks good, just doesn't fit for a show.

There are no balloons. I'm guessing you're describing the line laundry as balloons but these are essentially like giant wind socks that require wind to stay inflated and a kite with fairly strong lift power to keep them in the sky. They don't actually float. They hang and there is no way these could be converted to balloons for a number of reasons, the least of which not being that rip-stop nylon is not airtight.

There is no way this could be managed along a parade route with slow moving floats.

 

[MrPromey]

First Rivers of Light's technical issues, then The Jungle Book: Alive With Magic being awkward and very short-lived, and now KiteTails frequently having kites of Disney Character falling and getting stuck? Is the Discovery River Lagoon cursed or something?

With being under the control of current Disney management?

I'd say yes.

 

[Dear Prudence]

Maybe this will soothe some of you...a KiteTails Sundae!

REVIEW: If You're Already Obsessed with the WILD Kite Show in Disney World…This One's For You | the disney food blog

To celebrate the brand new daytime show at Disney's Animal Kingdom, we're trying the new KiteTails Sundae!

www.disneyfoodblog.com

they are really out it for real trying to make fetch happen, aren't they?

 

[MrPromey]

I look at those huge kites and the beating they are already taking and wonder… how long did they expect to get out of a set of them? Did they have backups or are they unique?

Just dumping them on the bleachers or in the water half a dozen times a day like that can’t be good for keeping those things flight-worthy day in and day out.

Honestly, well constructed kites made from appropriately heavy quality rip-stop nylon can take quite the beating.

Snagging and dragging does damage but soft kites without rods aren't hurt much by direct impacts even though those impacts can look (and sound) really rough.

That said, kites by their very nature are ephemeral.

These suckers get torn apart in the sky just working like they're meant to, over time. The wind pulling against seams, parts of the kite flapping against itself, the effects of the sun, not just in fading the color but also slowly deteriorating the material that needs to stand up to high stress - it's all just part of what happens and in the case of Disney, they'd have to retire units because of the way they looked long before they would because they're unable to fly if they were using them daily like this.

They'd realistically have had to have had backup units ready to go, probably multilple if they had any idea what they were doing.

 

[JoeCamel]

Honestly, well constructed kites made from appropriately heavy quality rip-stop nylon can take quite the beating.

Snagging and dragging does damage but soft kites without rods aren't hurt much by direct impacts even though those impacts can look (and sound) really rough.

That said, kites by their very nature are ephemeral.

These suckers get torn apart in the sky just working like they're meant to, over time. The wind pulling against seams, parts of the kite flapping against itself, the effects of the sun, not just in fading the color but also slowly deteriorating the material that needs to stand up to high stress - it's all just part of what happens and in the case of Disney, they'd have to retire units because of the way they looked long before they would because they're unable to fly if they were using them daily like this.

They'd realistically have had to have had backup units ready to go.

You sound like you took the advice when someone told you to go fly one.