James Alucobond
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Pretty sure the railroad is not closing, at least during phase 1.
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DAK 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom
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Brer Panther
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I literally just said that Antonio's existence doesn't make Encanto fitting for Animal Kingdom. I see no reason why Disney would build an Encanto attraction that focuses on Antonio over more popular characters like Mirabel and Bruno.
I guarantee it'll just be Frozen Ever After 3.0. I'd be shocked if they didn't sing "We Don't Talk About Bruno" at any point in the attraction.
doctornick
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how exactly does DLR always find ways to just add - even having to deal with complicated space and backstage challenges - while WDW just gets rid of things that are less old?
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
- No
Is Indy going to be less rough? If not it's going to have the same issue.
It's programmed in so it could easily be made more tame or more intense if needed, depending on what each scene requires.
TrainsOfDisney
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There are exceptions - Country Bears in Florida and the Treehouse in California are recent examples. Dinosaur is technically an IP.
RSoxNo1
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Zootopia in Tree of Life is a big thing?
Disgruntled Walt
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- In the Parks
- No
Nope, plus it's a dumb thing.
splah
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Speaking to the roughness, I’m an infrequent visitor but so when I went last month i got a final ride in.
I was prepared for the worst but was pleasantly surprised. It still moved around a lot but it wasn’t as jerky as I remembered. But who knows it coulda all been in my head that it was smoother
I was prepared for the worst but was pleasantly surprised. It still moved around a lot but it wasn’t as jerky as I remembered. But who knows it coulda all been in my head that it was smoother
Earlie the Pearlie
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Correct me if I’m wrong, or confirm if I’m right, but I’m pretty sure that insiders have said somewhere on this site that this was looked into, and the animatronics were determined to be too old and too large to be worth moving. From what I remember, they would have had to be completely rebuilt. So no, not really a missed opportunity, just an unfortunate circumstance. And to answer your question, they probably recycled what they could and threw out what they could not. A sad fate for such amazing animatronics, but fickle progress doth march on.
TrainsOfDisney
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They also used obsolete technology like the lights of winter and were built over a sinkhole like Horizons.
Joking of course - I’m sure that some of the AA’s couldn’t have easily been moved and would have required lots of work - but there also would have been ways to save some of them I’m sure. Either at Epcot or DAK.
eddie104
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To be fair none of DCA’s opening day attractions survived the reimagining in the mid 2010’s.
Unfortunately some of the rides in Epcot didn’t age very well and needed to be replaced because of unpopularity.
I do wish GMR stayed and maybe Horizon’s because it looked really cool however it seemed it was built only for the time period it opened and didn’t translate well to the newer generation.
TrainsOfDisney
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Grizzly River Run, Jumpin Jellyfish, Golden Zephyr and Soarin did.
Soarin did get the new movie but I’m not sure if that counts? I’d also argue that majority of rides on the pier are pretty much the same with a little retheme - the carousel being the exception (still makes me mad!)
eddie104
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Thanks as I misspoke regarding my previous statement.
Anyways nothing stays the same forever was my original point. Sometimes the changes are for the worst or the better.
We can’t keep harping on things we can’t change. I’m looking forward to all the new rides WDI has been planning and also any updates to current ones.
doctornick
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I personally look forward to having actual park expansions so you have more than 8 or 9 rides at some of the busiest theme parks in the world. DHS has RNR offline right now and if ToT or RotR goes out in a given day... sheesh.
I don't have a problem with replacing rides per se (though I would hope that any replacements should be clearly superior to what is taken away and that's often not the case) but my bigger gripe is that they haven't improved attraction capacity anywhere near as much as they have needed to and it makes the parks a slog when remotely busy.
Specific to the topic: okay, replace Dinosaur with Indy (I wouldn't, but whatever) and adding Encanto is nice even though there was no reason to just remove PW before, but why not add the Carousel and reskin the spinner? Why not keep the Boneyard even with an Archaeology theme? Why not add both a Lion King ride and a new attraction in Pandora?
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To re-create where the dinos in MK comparable to where they are in DL... there is no room. The dinos would have to be between Frontierland and Circus.
BTW, remind me... why is an old timey train traveling through Dino times? No more odder than going thru Tomorrowland, but still... odd. Where's our thematic purists on this issue? The ones that get the vapors with TBA's fit?
I literally said you say that too much. You post it over and over again. Like you just did here ignoring my complaint of your postings' boorishness and spamminess.
They keep taking over back of house like they did for SGE and MMRR? How's the Bug's Life miniland doing?
The number of rides are comparable for all of DLR compared to all of the WDW resort. They're both adding and retheming in such a way so that they remain mostly tied with each other. Long ago, with all of its space, WDW could have pulled far ahead of DLR. But it *seems* that Disney doesn't want that to happen.
DLR's next additions will be with the Disney Forward plots. Apparently, DLR is finding it hard to do further expansion within the current boundaries. There's a limit to their spatial wizardry.
WDW's next additions will be beyond BTM, behind PotC , and in between Pandora and FotLK. That's new rides without retheming/rebuilding.
Country Bears is getting an IP overlay in the form of its new song set.
Treehouse is half and half. Part of it is still 'inspired' by the Swiss Family Robinson IP.
Identifying Dinosaur as an IP is indeed technically correct -- and being technically correct is the best kind of correct -- but its shelf life is expiring. And it was stuck with non-IP rides in its miniland.
Changing the show in the park's weenie isn't?
Or is its 'bigness' being graded on a curve colored by one's dislike for it?