DuckTalesWooHoo1987
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I've always thought those ridiculous games that you can play at County Fairs are just an enormous eyesore. Dinoland is definitely lacking.
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Does "Dinoland" need some work?
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Dino needs a little work to make it amazing, small little changes that can make it shine.
First, start by dismantling TriceraTop Spin, Fossil Fun Games, oh hell, that whole area needs to be demolished and recycled, not repurposed but melted down and turned into raw materials. As a matter of fact, demo the whole area with the exception of Dinosaur, Restaurantosaurus and the animal viewing area. Disney can do much better, at the least make it an adventure area where you walk a trail and animatronic dinosaurs are around every corner, something anything other than what is there.
By the way, if they do create a new ride in the new Dinoland USA, make the ride car do a 360 degree rotation like Primeval Whirl does. We do that attraction every time we visit, but only because I love the rotation. The rest of the ride, eh, but the rotation, yes I love it.
Dinosaur is good, could be much better, but worth doing a few times if waits aren't long.
First, start by dismantling TriceraTop Spin, Fossil Fun Games, oh hell, that whole area needs to be demolished and recycled, not repurposed but melted down and turned into raw materials. As a matter of fact, demo the whole area with the exception of Dinosaur, Restaurantosaurus and the animal viewing area. Disney can do much better, at the least make it an adventure area where you walk a trail and animatronic dinosaurs are around every corner, something anything other than what is there.
By the way, if they do create a new ride in the new Dinoland USA, make the ride car do a 360 degree rotation like Primeval Whirl does. We do that attraction every time we visit, but only because I love the rotation. The rest of the ride, eh, but the rotation, yes I love it.
Dinosaur is good, could be much better, but worth doing a few times if waits aren't long.
Bairstow
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I'm sure they both were. That doesn't mean they weren't intended to promote each other. There are simply too many similarities to be explained by coincidence.
Cmdr_Crimson
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They missed such a good opportunity to have Jim Henson's Dinosaurs doing M&G's in Dinoland where Goofy does his.....
KINGLOUIS1993
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Keep Dinosaur!
Butttttttt just remove the tacky carnival area and build a new better attraction(s) which is either a coaster and/or boat ride and just make it a bit more of a professional area instead of a good, enjoyable ride and then some roadside carnival. I would also enhance the walk through area which has some examples of Dino's but make them a bit better, have more of them and have them animatronic.
I love dinosaurs and think that it is a key part of the AK park as it represents animals of the past, kids also love dinosaurs so removing them from the park would be a shame in my opinion.
Butttttttt just remove the tacky carnival area and build a new better attraction(s) which is either a coaster and/or boat ride and just make it a bit more of a professional area instead of a good, enjoyable ride and then some roadside carnival. I would also enhance the walk through area which has some examples of Dino's but make them a bit better, have more of them and have them animatronic.
I love dinosaurs and think that it is a key part of the AK park as it represents animals of the past, kids also love dinosaurs so removing them from the park would be a shame in my opinion.
Mickey5150
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I love Dinoland but that's because I know the whole backstory which makes me appreciate the tacky roadside carnival. However, not knowing that story does make parts of that land tacky in a bad way. I'd get rid of the carnival games and retheme primeval whirl. If they really wanted to spend some money I'd take out primeval and replace it with a family friendly dark ride. Keep the spinner, kids love them and this one isn't blocking the walkway.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Or continue the idea that it was part of a huge archaeological dig. And had a coaster called The Excavator as it was all planned out and ready to go until Eisner changed it to what we have now.
Captain Barbossa
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See I like Dino-Rama because I actually know and understand the backstory (most people don't).
Fox&Hound
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Keep Dinosaur and the kids play area and scrap the rest. Why not educational attractions about dinosaurs? I always thought a volcano lounge like they have at Disney Springs would look cool over there? Imagine a bunch of volcanoes in the distance and some AA dinosaurs on some of the paths. I truly blame “The Good Dinosaur” for being such an awful movie- if it were better this area would have seen improvements already, IMHO.
Bairstow
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For better or worse, dinosaurs don't actually exist in Dinoland- they've long been extinct.
The approach the imagineers took with the land is that it's about how people find, study, and celebrate dinosaurs rather than a recreation of what the time of the dinosaurs would have looked like.
Mickey5150
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And even though I've been thru Dinoland more times than I can remember I still find new things each time that just make me appreciate it even more.
Cmdr_Crimson
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One thing I really like about it tho is the Bulletin boards scattered through Dinoland...There's one close to the Boneyard Kids area
Plus a few within Restaurant-o-saurus that delve deeper into the Dino Institute and it's funding for the Time Rover. If you look around you might be able to find the original map of Dinoland prior to Chester and Hester where they had the Fossil prep area and Dinosaur Jubilee where Dino-Rama stands...
From Parkeology
Plus a few within Restaurant-o-saurus that delve deeper into the Dino Institute and it's funding for the Time Rover. If you look around you might be able to find the original map of Dinoland prior to Chester and Hester where they had the Fossil prep area and Dinosaur Jubilee where Dino-Rama stands...
From Parkeology
TheDuke
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One thing I really like about it tho is the Bulletin boards scattered through Dinoland...There's one close to the Boneyard Kids area
Plus a few within Restaurant-o-saurus that delve deeper into the Dino Institute and it's funding for the Time Rover. If you look around you might be able to find the original map of Dinoland prior to Chester and Hester where they had the Fossil prep area and Dinosaur Jubilee where Dino-Rama stands...
From Parkeology
I guess I never got that Chester and Hester's was supposed to be a tourist trap specifically connected to the Dino Institute. Like, there are high profile digs in whatever area Dinoland is set in so locals started dinosaur themed tourist traps to capitalize on the attention. I thought it was just a general parody of tourist traps. That makes it a little better, but I still wish the whole thing was just themed like an archaeological site.
FigmentJedi
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As I keep saying whenever the discourse comes along, Dino-Rama isn't even a good parody of dinosaur tourist traps. Roadside Dinosaur parks are basically nature trails scattered with concrete dinosaurs of varying degrees of sculpting quality and paleontological accuracy that give them a certain "low budget Jungle Cruise" charm.
And in a park as obsessed with authenticity as DAK, Dino-Rama feels very out of whack because they spent more time figuring out how to make realistic fake asphalt then they did thinking about how to translate roadside dinosaur attractions into a Disney attraction. Not to mention the inconsistent art direction between the quirky comic-strip plywood dinosaurs and the sculpted dinosaurs that look like they came out of an unproduced prehistory Silly Symphony
FigmentJedi
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Dinosaur's development goes back as far as 1988 when it was to be a stop motion/live-action film by Phil Tippett and Paul Verhoeven and basically be an expanded version of Tippett's short film "Prehistoric Beast". When Jurassic Park derailed that original idea, WDFA picked it up around '93-'94. Early drafts had more traditional choices of a ceratopsid (I want to say it was either Styracosaurus or Pachyrhinosaurus) and Tyrannosaurus as hero and villain, before going with an Iguanodon lead. Tyrannosaurus stayed in the picture long enough that he's in the animatics for the opening scene on the DVD's bonus features, but when WDFA learned about the recently discovered Carnotaurus, they decided to switch predator villains and then Imagineering ended up following their lead.
Let's not confuse Dinoland - the lush area that includes Dinosaur, Dig, Restaurantosaurus - with Chester & Hester's Dinorama, added later on the cheap in an attempt to fix some issues. They are not the same. One is tacky and awful, the other is at least in keeping with the rest of the park.
Bairstow
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That timeline makes sense.
There's just no way all the species line up without memos being exchanged between the teams.