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

vagabondarts

Active Member
No big deal! Right now, I'm leaning omnimover over trackless. Though the art kinda reminds me of Figment more than something like spaceship earth. Given the model and what has been said about the ride, they might go omni over trackless to avoid needing elevators to change elevation.
If the omnimover isn’t a new iteration of the system which can slot cars out in a spur for ADA and slower loading guests, then slot back into the chain, then what’s the point?
 

UNCgolf

Well-Known Member
The crews don’t work for Disney. They work for the contractor and subcontractors which are hired on a per project basis. Even if it was the same contractors, the people who do things like finish paint aren’t the same ones doing site prep work.

This is crazy talk.

When you hire someone to paint your house, they do the plumbing and electrical work too.
 

RSoxNo1

Well-Known Member
Ultimately, when you have a park like Disney's Animal Kingdom, you will have to create more things out of whole cloth in order to tie those new attractions back to the themes of the park. Since that's a non-starter for today's Disney company, you need to pick the stories and the parts of those stories that work. For me personally, there are story treatments for Encanto and Indy that seem to work.

If Coco is a Oaxacan carousel with the Coco name attached, I'll take that too. That's a tie back to real world culture and their stylistic interpretation of animals that has already been represented in the architecture of the park.
Looks like I wasn't far off.

I love the story treatments for Indy and Encanto. The Critter Carousel is a bit of a stretch, but the art direction is 100% appropriate. This isn't Jessie's Critter Carousel, this is a carousel of Disney characters done in a way that evokes Alebrijes. They could have put this carousel in Discovery Island instead of Tropical Americas, but whatever.
 

KDM31091

Well-Known Member
Not sure about boneyard but both Dinosaur and restaurantosaurus are surviving the 1st phase of closings. I’m guessing Dinobites stand connected to Resto and Trilobites also survive.
Makes sense. Dinosaur being the biggest draw it makes sense to keep it open the longest (of course I wish it weren't closing at all, but here we are). The Restaurantasarous is a solid "standard" QS with "normal" amidst the more exotic options in AK food so again makes sense to keep it open. Trilobites is almost outside of the land anyway, so I don't see why it needs to close at all -- if anything I'd figure they just rename it, switch out the sign, and keep it as is, essentially.
 

TrainsOfDisney

Well-Known Member
Out of everything announced for WDW - Encanto and the parade are the only things I genuinely want to experience.

I do think the carousel will be nice as well - fits the mood and the theme and is a good all-ages attraction.

I don’t think Indiana Jones is a natural addition to Encanto - so I’d just plus up dinosaur and the area and make it separate if it was me.
 

tissandtully

Well-Known Member
This is my fault for making an assumption based off the concept art. I made an assumption in the moment and I was wrong. The art does look like a boat ride, but it's not. A trackless ride would make sense with how the Casita could move us around. My apologies for the incorrect reporting.
Not your fault, most of the stuff they've revealed lately has been boat rides!
 

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
That's my thought too. Second half of 2025. It won't be until the Zootopia show opens at least.

Personally I'm guessing after Zootopia opens, which is winter 2025. Gives them time to take Everest, Kali, and Pandora down for refurbishment to get them ready to carry the park roo

Just remember, DHS went down to 3 rides while other areas were being built.

TA work is supposed to start this year, 2024, which would make not closing the ride until Winter of 2025 seemingly untenable.
 

EagleScout610

What a wisecracker
Premium Member
Just remember, DHS went down to 3 rides while other areas were being built.

TA work is supposed to start this year, 2024, which would make not closing the ride until Winter of 2025 seemingly untenable.
Valid point. I was thinking of how MK took Big Thunder down for a short refurb before closing Splash, so maybe they'd do the same in AK
 

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