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Disney's Wild Kingdom 2.0
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Suchomimus
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Me looking back to the unfinished Wild Kingdom thread as 2.0 begins:
Brer Panther
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I'm intrigued.
Disney Warrior
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I bet this will be as good as the original…that I never got around to reading! (I blame laziness, other things I had to do, and other hobbies, but this might become a running gag with other people’s projects lol)
MickeyMouse10
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I enjoyed the original version and can't wait to see the sequel.
The Story of Dr. Ashley Arbor
Dr. Ashley Arbor was born in 1903 in British East Africa to British parents John and Elizabeth Arbor. The Arbors were a wealthy family of railroad tycoons who were hired to operate a major export line through the British East African countryside. Ashley was a wild child growing up, known to not conform to the expectations of a girl of her status, rather preferring to spend time outside exploring nature alongside the other local children. Her most famous incident was during the visitation of an important figure in the British East Africa company where a nine-year-old Ashley was expected to be present front-and-center alongside her father and mother. However, rather than appearing in her regal purple dress and hair done up in bows, she appeared just moments before the dignitary arrived, her hair tattered and covered in sticks and seeds with a tear in her dress caused by climbing through the boma that surrounded the railway station, later telling her parents she was out with her friend, a local boy named Bahati, and they were following a herd of springbok before she realized what time it was.
Ashley's youth spent in the African bush gave her a wide respect for the wildlife and plant life that surrounded her, from the mighty acacia and baobab trees that dotted the wide swaths of honey yellow grasses to the mighty elephants and gentle giraffes that helped to shape the habitats they lived in. Despite her fascination with nature, Ashley's parents disapproved of her escapades into the bush and at the age of thirteen, they sent her back to England where she would attend Falkner House Preparatory School until the age of eighteen. Devastated to be leaving her beloved Africa, Ashley was shipped away and slipped into a terrible depressive state as she tended to her studies. She lasted nearly two years at the school before being expelled due to slipping out after curfew to explore the grounds and being caught too many times. Ashley would go on to live with her aunt and uncle and finish her education at their homestead, though little is known about this time in Ashley's life.
During her time with her aunt and uncle, Ashley rekindled her love of nature and would go out into her aunt's rose garden and sketch the wildlife she saw, including the squirrels, hedgehogs, and butterflies that frequented the garden. After finishing her education, Ashley left England at the age of eighteen, catching a ship to British India where she would attend university at the University of Delhi. Here, she pursued a degree in biology, being among the first women admitted into the program. Despite her track record in schools, Ashley Arbor was enamored with the University as well as the surrounding area and graduated far quicker than expected, finishing the four year degree course in just under three years before taking up an apprenticeship with one of her professors studying langur monkeys in an abandoned Hindu temple. This tenure helped Ashley to further her career and also inspired her to pursue and undergraduates program, but it also inspired her to do research into different religions and cultures, helping to find her own spirituality that she could identify with.
After a year in India with her professor, Ashley returned to school, this time hopping a ship and returning to her beloved Africa where she studied at the British Institute of East Africa, pursuing a doctorate in biology and world culture. She also met and married Archibald Reynolds, a fellow biology undergraduate student from Lancaster, though she refused to take his last name, something that was seen as a slight by her family, though she explained it as her having pride in her given name and wanting her doctorate to reflect who she has always been. She was able to finish her doctorate in just five years, returning to England with her degree and giving her the official moniker of Dr. Ashley Arbor, a major source of pride for the young woman. However, just as she was returning and planning to travel back to Africa to begin her research in African mammal migration, the stock market crashed, plunging much of the world into the Great Depression. Dr. Arbor instead sought to travel to the United States to discover a world of wildlife she'd never seen and explore their famous national parks.
Dr. Arbor began studying predator and prey animals in Yellowstone National Park and quickly became a part of a massive movement to push for the reintroduction of the gray wolf after noticing the deer and elk populations were far too high and were destroying much of the ecosystem without any balance. She was a large proponent for this reintroduction for years, but as the depression went on and the threat of World War 2 looming in Europe, Dr. Arbor felt the need to return to her home to be with her family, and thus, she abandoned her post and again returned to England in 1938. She remained in England for the duration of the war, assisting the local people by organizing food drives and offering her own home as a bomb shelter during raids. She closely followed the campaign between Italy and England in East Africa and planned her return after the war.
As the war raged on, Dr. Arbor began developing theories on the organization of life, tapping into her own spirituality to attempt to find a meaning and cause of life. She began to determine that there must, somewhere, be a key connector of all life on the planet, some sort of force that keeps the circle of life in check, something that as humanity developed has been thrown out of balance. Her theories were balked at by the greater scientific community when she published her paper "The Theory of Interconnectivity Between all Life on Planet Earth," being called "mad" by her contemporaries. Still, her theory had her convinced and she sought to prove her theory.
In 1948, at the age of forty five, Dr. Ashley Arbor and her husband, Dr. Archibald Reynolds, as well as their daughter Mary-Anne and son Ezekiel, returned to Africa where Dr. Reynolds took to studying elephant biology and Dr. Arbor took to researching gorillas. As she explored, she continued to gather more evidence, as she thought, of her theory of interconnectivity, and in a trip across the Indian Ocean on holiday to Sumatra, Dr. Arbor and her husband stopped off at a remote island for their vessel to refuel. Here, the two decided to explore the rainforest where they made a massive and life-changing discovery: a massive baobab tree, far larger than any tree either had ever seen, its roots cascading across the landscape, seemingly touching everything from the other flora all the way to the ocean. Dr. Arbor believed whole-heartedly that this was the smoking gun for her theory and quickly took samples, sketches, photographs, and everything else she could, cancelling her holiday and instead spending the next year fine-tuning her idea, setting up a research camp on the island that she named "Discovery Island." She brought in students and scientists who researched the tree, soon realizing the bark was covered in the faces of animals from across the planet, animals that were not found on the island and while it was believed people had in fact carved them, no native people called the island home, meaning it had to have been travelers seeking the sacred site out.
Dr. Ashley Arbor dedicated much of the rest of her life to proving the connectivity between the aptly named "Tree of Life" and all other life on Earth. She spent years on the island, helped by those who followed her beliefs including her devoted husband, yet as her paper was finally published, titled "The Tree of Life and the interconnectivity of all life on Planet Earth," it was rapidly discredited by the scientific community and Dr. Arbor was officially stripped of any accolades from the scientific community, left to the forgotten annals of history, though she still attempted to clear her name and find proof. In 1987, at the age of eighty four, Dr. Ashley Arbor returned to England where her children lived so they could nurse her in her declining health. She spent much of her time in her room, pouring over her years of research trying to make sense of it all, yet she never published a paper again. Dr. Ashley Arbor passed away in 1989 at the age of eighty six of a fever, discredited and forgotten by the scientific community, her words never to be read again. Or so it seemed.
As her children organized their late mother's things, they discovered a journal she had been keeping, a memoir of her time living on Discovery Island. While much of the journal were her ramblings about the Tree of Life, they soon discovered that she had added much to the journal since her return to England, her reflection on her time and her hubris of pushing her belief so hard that rather than attempting to find an answer, she created one from whatever she possibly could. Her children were moved by their mother's final words and, in an effort to both clear her name and share her last discovery, they published the entire journal as a posthumous memoir, a book titled "A Life of Discovery: The Life and Times of Dr. Ashley Arbor." The book became an immediate bestseller as a passage of it became the centerpiece of many new lines of thought. The greater scientific community took this book and her final discovery and posthumously declared her a scientific hero, clearing her name and propping Dr. Ashley Arbor as the scientific genius she always was, for her final words summed up the meaning of science better than any one person could.
Discovery Island, now a settled island, became home to the Arbor University of Life Sciences as well as a heavily protected sanctuary for life, modeled after the principals Dr. Arbor had always strived for. And here, her final words etched into every student, for Dr. Ashley Arbor had finally done it; she had discovered the meaning of life.
"In my time as a researcher, I had an idea that all life was connected through a sort of force, an idea that permeated my worldview. As I discovered the Tree of Life, I foolheartedly pushed it as the answer to my queries about life, its connectivity, and its meaning. Now, however, I see that the interconnectivity of life at the roots of the Tree of Life as I once saw it is unambiguously incorrect, a soul-crushing revelation that has depleted the meaning in this latter part of my life. Yet as I ponder on my discoveries, it comes to me that this single tree is not one of miracle or magic, nor one of scientific advancement or discovery, but rather it is simply a tree. A large, beautiful, magnificent tree, one who has stood longer than any of us and one who will stand long after any of us. That is what is so important about the Tree of Life, it simply has no meaning. Meaning is what we as a conscious species prescribe to those things we encounter, hoping to make sense of them, yet I have learned the most important of lessons; in nature, nor in life, there is no inherent meaning, no inherent purpose, it merely is. Life is what we make of it, it is given to us to enjoy with no further instruction nor restriction. It is not precious and that’s what makes it so precious, it has no meaning and that’s what gives it such important meaning.”
Dr. Ashley Arbor was born in 1903 in British East Africa to British parents John and Elizabeth Arbor. The Arbors were a wealthy family of railroad tycoons who were hired to operate a major export line through the British East African countryside. Ashley was a wild child growing up, known to not conform to the expectations of a girl of her status, rather preferring to spend time outside exploring nature alongside the other local children. Her most famous incident was during the visitation of an important figure in the British East Africa company where a nine-year-old Ashley was expected to be present front-and-center alongside her father and mother. However, rather than appearing in her regal purple dress and hair done up in bows, she appeared just moments before the dignitary arrived, her hair tattered and covered in sticks and seeds with a tear in her dress caused by climbing through the boma that surrounded the railway station, later telling her parents she was out with her friend, a local boy named Bahati, and they were following a herd of springbok before she realized what time it was.
Ashley's youth spent in the African bush gave her a wide respect for the wildlife and plant life that surrounded her, from the mighty acacia and baobab trees that dotted the wide swaths of honey yellow grasses to the mighty elephants and gentle giraffes that helped to shape the habitats they lived in. Despite her fascination with nature, Ashley's parents disapproved of her escapades into the bush and at the age of thirteen, they sent her back to England where she would attend Falkner House Preparatory School until the age of eighteen. Devastated to be leaving her beloved Africa, Ashley was shipped away and slipped into a terrible depressive state as she tended to her studies. She lasted nearly two years at the school before being expelled due to slipping out after curfew to explore the grounds and being caught too many times. Ashley would go on to live with her aunt and uncle and finish her education at their homestead, though little is known about this time in Ashley's life.
During her time with her aunt and uncle, Ashley rekindled her love of nature and would go out into her aunt's rose garden and sketch the wildlife she saw, including the squirrels, hedgehogs, and butterflies that frequented the garden. After finishing her education, Ashley left England at the age of eighteen, catching a ship to British India where she would attend university at the University of Delhi. Here, she pursued a degree in biology, being among the first women admitted into the program. Despite her track record in schools, Ashley Arbor was enamored with the University as well as the surrounding area and graduated far quicker than expected, finishing the four year degree course in just under three years before taking up an apprenticeship with one of her professors studying langur monkeys in an abandoned Hindu temple. This tenure helped Ashley to further her career and also inspired her to pursue and undergraduates program, but it also inspired her to do research into different religions and cultures, helping to find her own spirituality that she could identify with.
After a year in India with her professor, Ashley returned to school, this time hopping a ship and returning to her beloved Africa where she studied at the British Institute of East Africa, pursuing a doctorate in biology and world culture. She also met and married Archibald Reynolds, a fellow biology undergraduate student from Lancaster, though she refused to take his last name, something that was seen as a slight by her family, though she explained it as her having pride in her given name and wanting her doctorate to reflect who she has always been. She was able to finish her doctorate in just five years, returning to England with her degree and giving her the official moniker of Dr. Ashley Arbor, a major source of pride for the young woman. However, just as she was returning and planning to travel back to Africa to begin her research in African mammal migration, the stock market crashed, plunging much of the world into the Great Depression. Dr. Arbor instead sought to travel to the United States to discover a world of wildlife she'd never seen and explore their famous national parks.
Dr. Arbor began studying predator and prey animals in Yellowstone National Park and quickly became a part of a massive movement to push for the reintroduction of the gray wolf after noticing the deer and elk populations were far too high and were destroying much of the ecosystem without any balance. She was a large proponent for this reintroduction for years, but as the depression went on and the threat of World War 2 looming in Europe, Dr. Arbor felt the need to return to her home to be with her family, and thus, she abandoned her post and again returned to England in 1938. She remained in England for the duration of the war, assisting the local people by organizing food drives and offering her own home as a bomb shelter during raids. She closely followed the campaign between Italy and England in East Africa and planned her return after the war.
As the war raged on, Dr. Arbor began developing theories on the organization of life, tapping into her own spirituality to attempt to find a meaning and cause of life. She began to determine that there must, somewhere, be a key connector of all life on the planet, some sort of force that keeps the circle of life in check, something that as humanity developed has been thrown out of balance. Her theories were balked at by the greater scientific community when she published her paper "The Theory of Interconnectivity Between all Life on Planet Earth," being called "mad" by her contemporaries. Still, her theory had her convinced and she sought to prove her theory.
In 1948, at the age of forty five, Dr. Ashley Arbor and her husband, Dr. Archibald Reynolds, as well as their daughter Mary-Anne and son Ezekiel, returned to Africa where Dr. Reynolds took to studying elephant biology and Dr. Arbor took to researching gorillas. As she explored, she continued to gather more evidence, as she thought, of her theory of interconnectivity, and in a trip across the Indian Ocean on holiday to Sumatra, Dr. Arbor and her husband stopped off at a remote island for their vessel to refuel. Here, the two decided to explore the rainforest where they made a massive and life-changing discovery: a massive baobab tree, far larger than any tree either had ever seen, its roots cascading across the landscape, seemingly touching everything from the other flora all the way to the ocean. Dr. Arbor believed whole-heartedly that this was the smoking gun for her theory and quickly took samples, sketches, photographs, and everything else she could, cancelling her holiday and instead spending the next year fine-tuning her idea, setting up a research camp on the island that she named "Discovery Island." She brought in students and scientists who researched the tree, soon realizing the bark was covered in the faces of animals from across the planet, animals that were not found on the island and while it was believed people had in fact carved them, no native people called the island home, meaning it had to have been travelers seeking the sacred site out.
Dr. Ashley Arbor dedicated much of the rest of her life to proving the connectivity between the aptly named "Tree of Life" and all other life on Earth. She spent years on the island, helped by those who followed her beliefs including her devoted husband, yet as her paper was finally published, titled "The Tree of Life and the interconnectivity of all life on Planet Earth," it was rapidly discredited by the scientific community and Dr. Arbor was officially stripped of any accolades from the scientific community, left to the forgotten annals of history, though she still attempted to clear her name and find proof. In 1987, at the age of eighty four, Dr. Ashley Arbor returned to England where her children lived so they could nurse her in her declining health. She spent much of her time in her room, pouring over her years of research trying to make sense of it all, yet she never published a paper again. Dr. Ashley Arbor passed away in 1989 at the age of eighty six of a fever, discredited and forgotten by the scientific community, her words never to be read again. Or so it seemed.
As her children organized their late mother's things, they discovered a journal she had been keeping, a memoir of her time living on Discovery Island. While much of the journal were her ramblings about the Tree of Life, they soon discovered that she had added much to the journal since her return to England, her reflection on her time and her hubris of pushing her belief so hard that rather than attempting to find an answer, she created one from whatever she possibly could. Her children were moved by their mother's final words and, in an effort to both clear her name and share her last discovery, they published the entire journal as a posthumous memoir, a book titled "A Life of Discovery: The Life and Times of Dr. Ashley Arbor." The book became an immediate bestseller as a passage of it became the centerpiece of many new lines of thought. The greater scientific community took this book and her final discovery and posthumously declared her a scientific hero, clearing her name and propping Dr. Ashley Arbor as the scientific genius she always was, for her final words summed up the meaning of science better than any one person could.
Discovery Island, now a settled island, became home to the Arbor University of Life Sciences as well as a heavily protected sanctuary for life, modeled after the principals Dr. Arbor had always strived for. And here, her final words etched into every student, for Dr. Ashley Arbor had finally done it; she had discovered the meaning of life.
"In my time as a researcher, I had an idea that all life was connected through a sort of force, an idea that permeated my worldview. As I discovered the Tree of Life, I foolheartedly pushed it as the answer to my queries about life, its connectivity, and its meaning. Now, however, I see that the interconnectivity of life at the roots of the Tree of Life as I once saw it is unambiguously incorrect, a soul-crushing revelation that has depleted the meaning in this latter part of my life. Yet as I ponder on my discoveries, it comes to me that this single tree is not one of miracle or magic, nor one of scientific advancement or discovery, but rather it is simply a tree. A large, beautiful, magnificent tree, one who has stood longer than any of us and one who will stand long after any of us. That is what is so important about the Tree of Life, it simply has no meaning. Meaning is what we as a conscious species prescribe to those things we encounter, hoping to make sense of them, yet I have learned the most important of lessons; in nature, nor in life, there is no inherent meaning, no inherent purpose, it merely is. Life is what we make of it, it is given to us to enjoy with no further instruction nor restriction. It is not precious and that’s what makes it so precious, it has no meaning and that’s what gives it such important meaning.”
Twilight_Roxas
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Interesting. Not sure where it’s location is, but do you somewhat plan to include Wakanda or some representation of Wakanda with Black Panther as a meet & greet?
Suchomimus
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With this, I have to ask if this park’s Africa, North America, and Asia lands are set during the time of Dr. Arbor’s travels and research. It certainly feels like though it might just be me with DisneySky on the brain.
Unfortunately, Black Panther will not be appearing in this park, but the second gate will have a slight bit of BP representation.
The park is set posthumously in the modern day, but it is greatly impacted by the story. I don’t want to give too much away but this park’s messaging will have to do with the time period I featured very specifically despite not being set during it
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HomeImagineer
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Nice Logo Design, i hope there is a whole drawn/sketch master plan of what this Wild Kingdom could look like & as well as how many acres is this Wild Kingdom.
Snow Queen 83
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Great logos, can't wait to see what else you got for us.
I remember the last version had some cool animal pics.
I remember the last version had some cool animal pics.
HomeImagineer
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Those Themed Lands Designs of the Logos look so 100% amazing, well done @PerGron hey after u did the Wild Kingdom 2.0 Project, i wish u can make another amazing disney park project like either Make Your Own Magic Kingdom Style-Park/Resort or even a DisneySEA/Islands of Adventure Style-Park/Resort.