News 'Encanto' and 'Indiana Jones'-themed experiences at Animal Kingdom

Surferboy567

Surferboy567

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James Alucobond said:
That’s not terribly unreasonable. They haven’t started on the backstage offices yet. They can also conceivably work on the Primeval Whirl site and surrounding area without affecting anything currently on stage.
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I’ll agree it’s not unreasonable I just expected sooner the way they have repeatedly talked about it.

A little after D23 makes sense.
 
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DisneyHead123

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I just discovered Joe Rhode's Instagram page and he posts some great stuff about the psychology and history behind theme park design. Really enjoying all the info he has posted and it's made me really curious about the approach that will be taken with this newest addition. There's a lot there to make you think, about the psychology behind design and how it evolves over time.

It seems to me that one of the biggest changes in overall design in the internet era is a move towards not just immersion, but interactivity. The smartphone / tablet generation seems as if it really changed expectations from park guest as passive viewer, whose job is to take it all in, to interconnected participant who expects some kind of feedback loop with the surrounding environment. It seems like forays have been made into this area with things like Galaxy's Edge (and Super Nintendo World on the Universal side,) but it's kind of a new medium and people are still trying to figure it out. My guess is that Disney has to be thinking more about interactivity with these new additions (especially since they already have a traveling Encanto 'experience' for kids.) If Rohde is advising and they don't skimp on the budget (which I think they will be less inclined to do with Epic Universe opening,) I'll be really curious to see what new ideas they come up with for this land. I think they may end up doing something truly innovative (again, only because of competition from Universal, but I'll take it, lol.)
 
BrianLo

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Surferboy567 said:
Are they gonna not break ground on this till mid September?
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It may not seem like it from the current lull in active projects, but this project is really not very old. They are moving exceedingly quickly at it compared to most other project cycles I’ve followed out of modern WDI. At best it’s about 18-20 months in development. A more typical construction start point has tended to be 36 months.

Even if they ported a portion of the project over from Big Thunder, that was in no way older than 6 or so months by the time we saw it and was probably just early conceptual work. Encanto only became a phenomenon in 2022.

Even though by all accounts DAK is first, I think moving around the far more baked Moana project to Magic Kingdom actually makes the first phases of MK expansion earlier than they perhaps once were. DAK at little later.

All said, I didn’t personally think we’d see this project start this year at all, so it’s ahead of my expectations if it does.
 
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C33Mom

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BrianLo said:
It may not seem like it from the current lull in active projects, but this project is really not very old. They are moving exceedingly quickly at it compared to most other project cycles I’ve followed out of modern WDI. At best it’s about 18-20 months in development. A more typical construction start point has tended to be 36 months.

Even if they ported a portion of the project over from Big Thunder, that was in no way older than 6 or so months by the time we saw it and was probably just early conceptual work. Encanto only became a phenomenon in 2022.

Even though by all accounts DAK is first, I think moving around the far more baked Moana project to Magic Kingdom actually makes the first phases of MK expansion earlier than they perhaps once were. DAK at little later.

All said, I didn’t personally think we’d see this project start this year at all, so it’s ahead of my expectations if it does.
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So you’re saying a solid chance we get Dinosaur for August trip and a stretch chance it survives for our Thanksgiving trip? 🤔

Now I feel even better about the Dinsoaur tee I ordered for our summer trip.
 
KDM31091

KDM31091

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I don’t see it closing until new year at this point. Announcing it at D23 and then allowing some time for final rides and whatnot, then they’d be closing it right around the holidays which isn’t ideal. My guess is we get one more holiday themed Dinoland (yay!)

I don’t know why anyone is in a rush for them to start on this anyway. Given recent track record of lackluster projects, it’s hard to be excited.
 
Mr. Sullivan

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HMF said:
Never mind the fact that Encanto and Indy have nothing to do with animals.
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They very, very easily could be made to include animals, though which I think is the point. No, on their own in isolation they don't seem like a perfect fit for the park. But they've chosen properties that would be quite simple to adapt to the park. The general overall land theme of Tropical Americas introduces a lot of opportunity to include animals not represented in the park yet, and the actual attractions don't have to line up with the films their based on perfectly narrative wise. It would take very little work to incorporate an animal theme into either property and create various animal exhibits to go with them.
 
Surferboy567

Surferboy567

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Mr. Sullivan said:
They very, very easily could be made to include animals, though which I think is the point. No, on their own in isolation they don't seem like a perfect fit for the park. But they've chosen properties that would be quite simple to adapt to the park. The general overall land theme of Tropical Americas introduces a lot of opportunity to include animals not represented in the park yet, and the actual attractions don't have to line up with the films their based on perfectly narrative wise. It would take very little work to incorporate an animal theme into either property and create various animal exhibits to go with them.
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I said this around 20 ish pages ago and here’s an example of how it can easily work as you said. It’s obviously crude but an example non the less.
Surferboy567 said:
Deep in the tropical americas…Indiana Jones is in search of the jaugarian stone. This stone has supernatural properties that when interfered with brings death and destruction to the land along with its inhabitants. Indiana Jones leads a team of intrepid adventurers though the forest in search of the stone to restore the animals and forest to its rightful state.

That took me two seconds to come up with. I imagine WDI shouldn’t have a hard time.

EDIT: Oh, and in Temple of Doom he basically does this with the Sankara Stones.
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