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News 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom
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DavidDL
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Careful, with ideas like that you might just be next in line for a promotion at Disney!
Isn't' the Eisner stone usually covered by a garbage can?
ToTBellHop
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Honestly, I’d take the pay raise. I think I’m smart enough to give Bob what he wants while secretly improving the parks…
DavidDL
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Not on any of the trips I've taken or in any of the 2024 Earth day videos of the park that I've seen. Unless it's like Mariah Carey and gets brought out a few months a year to keep up appearances? I dunno..
ToTBellHop
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I would like to submit the idea that Bob Iger is a dinosaur.
MerlinTheGoat
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Maybe one of those wussy feathered types...
Having been on both, this is wild to me. If you're comparing their merits as attractions I don't think it's close anymore, the dino battle at the end in person is pretty fantastic.
If you have a strong sense of nostalgia for OG jurassic park or even OH IoA then I can understand this preference down to sentimentality
I mean they made this move bringing the dinos from the worlds fair to Disneyland and from America Sings to Splash Mountain.
I think adding Dinosaur show scenes along the railroad would be a really awesome, creative use of resources - so it's almost guaranteed not to happen under our present Disney regime.....
drew81
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Did he play Sharptooth in Land Before Time?
DavidDL
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To be clear, I am not hoping they spare Dinoland in it's current form. Dino-Rama is obviously awful. But I do think dinosaurs should have a place in the park and their land/area be given the proper treatment/build. Dinosaur as an attraction might also have been shown more love if Disney had done the same to it and not allowed it's effects to fall into disrepair over the years (or heck, even re-themed/dumbed it down in the first place).
I think hoping that they'll "bring them back at some point in the future" is a gamble of long odds. That's never going to happen because the idea of a spectacular, improved dinosaur-themed land wouldn't come with an IP attached and we all know Disney doesn't swing that way these days. They'll point to the current Dinosaur attraction (which they allowed to fall apart) and say that won't work which leaves them with what? The Good Dinosaur?
Nah, dinosaurs are definitely going extinct from the park for good. -and anyone who thinks Disney will bring them back someday is kidding themselves.
But hey!
We don't talk about Bruunnnooooo! 
So I guess it's all good! 
I think hoping that they'll "bring them back at some point in the future" is a gamble of long odds. That's never going to happen because the idea of a spectacular, improved dinosaur-themed land wouldn't come with an IP attached and we all know Disney doesn't swing that way these days. They'll point to the current Dinosaur attraction (which they allowed to fall apart) and say that won't work which leaves them with what? The Good Dinosaur?
Nah, dinosaurs are definitely going extinct from the park for good. -and anyone who thinks Disney will bring them back someday is kidding themselves.
But hey!
We don't talk about Bruunnnooooo! So I guess it's all good! 
Brer Panther
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I don't like the "well, Dinoland sucks anyway" excuse for them removing dinosaurs from Animal Kingdom entirely. Or for replacing them with IPs that aren't about animals.
I don't like the Ratatouille ride, but if they decided to replace it with a Moana ride I'd still complain that Moana doesn't belong in the France pavilion.
I don't like the Ratatouille ride, but if they decided to replace it with a Moana ride I'd still complain that Moana doesn't belong in the France pavilion.
James Alucobond
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I mean, Ratatouille and Encanto have the same issues by your metric. Right setting, but the original narrative of the film really has nothing to do with the land/pavilion.
Brer Panther
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Sure. They COULD'VE used the attraction to teach us about France, but they didn't. They could've used the Guardians of the Galaxy ride to teach us about energy, but they didn't. Why should we assume the Encanto ride will teach us about animals or focus on them at all instead of just "WE DON'T TALK ABOUT BRUNO NO NO NO" and Mirabel being awkward?
The Ratatouille ride is weird. If it's supposed to be set after the film, why is Skinner still working at the restaurant?
The Ratatouille ride is weird. If it's supposed to be set after the film, why is Skinner still working at the restaurant?
James Alucobond
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I guess my point is I don't really get why you felt the Ratatouille > Moana comparison was warranted when Ratatouille is already an example of what you're talking about.
The Leader of the Club
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I think the era of theme parks as teachers is over. I don’t know that the experiment ever really worked. The studios parks (Disney & Uni) don’t talk about moviemaking anymore and have pivoted to “live the movies,” EPCOT is removing most of the educational elements and the ones that exist aren’t popular with average guests, DAK is the holdout only because it has the benefit of being a zoo and having staff who are knowledgeable and passionate about the animals and their environment.
jmuboy
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Maybe theater in the wild could host a Dinosaur Live show similar to those traveling shows but using Disneys new high tech AAs and puppetry. And it would keep a Dinosaur experience in the park?!
KDM31091
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Not popular? I am a person who rides Dinosaur very often as a local and can promise you there are always plenty of people riding and enjoying it. Is it the most popular ride in the park? No. But I would not say "unpopular".