ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
Well, you can't have parks full of E-Rides. That's kinda what happened with Animal Kingdom...they had shows and four expensive rides for the first four years it was open. You do need some filler attractions for no other reason than to stop people from complaining about walking distances. I mean, Animal Kingdom, while being the largest park, probably involves about as much walking as Epcot, but Epcot also has tons of attractions in a line, so while you do walk a lot to see ALL the park, it's not too bad between attractions. At Animal Kingdom, it's a lot of walking between attractions; thus they added two filler attractions to Dinoland, which may extend your Dinoland visit by one hour or so, but that's one hour you don't have to walk too much. The same could really be said for all the Theme Parks. If the Magic Kingdom only had E-Rides, imagine the walk from The Haunted Mansion to Space Mountain or the Indy Speedway (I don't know of any e-rides inbetween those two). So, you need A, B, C, and D ticket rides too. I mean, I know we wouldn't be very pleased if we had to wait a good five years between the Asia expansion and the next big expansion for Animal Kingdom if that next expansion involved another well-themed one-attraction land. But it's simply not practical to build two e-rides in the same land due to cost. However, if they include some dark rides and some Fantasyland style rides (do I hear medieval fair anyone?), they could make this land take a good three hour chunk of your day while staying at a reasonable budget. I say that's better than spending three hours in the land, of which two include waiting in line for the land's one attraction. What we want is something more like Dinoland, which, when you think about it, is a very well-rounded land now. It has a show, a restaurant, a gift shop, animal exhibits, an E-Ride, a D-Ride, TriceraTop Spin which is probably a B-Ride, and the kids' area. I think if every land in Animal Kingdom had that line-up with their own rides, Animal Kingdom would be far better-accepted...and it wouldn't be EXCEEDINGLY expensive to do, as they all already have an E-Ride. Enough jibber-jabber