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

[FettFan]

The "Possible Animal Exhibit" is the new play area, probably Mayan themed. Allegedly.

The blue buildings with the current Dinorama restrooms are restrooms and a new character greeting venue. Allegedly.

I still think not having llamas and a Kuzco meet is a huge missed opportunity.

Plus, Kronk’s spinach puffs.

 

[Castle Cake Apologist]

I don’t disagree that wait time is less useful when comparing 2 rides with very different capacity like Pan and Pirates but with Dinosaur it’s easy enough to just compare it to its operational clone at Disneyland. The Indy ride there has a very similar capacity (maybe the same?) but has much longer waits so I think it’s fair to call that ride more popular. As I said before I think that’s not just the theme/IP being more popular. There is way more foot traffic past that ride at DL vs Dinoland at AK.

I'm way late to this party, so somebody may have already pointed this out, but Disneyland sees almost twice as many daily visitors as DAK on average. I would assume that plays into wait times. If you're going to use wait times as a metric for comparing popularity, you need to account for all variables.

 

[Moth]

I will smuggle in ducks and squirrels.

It's Florida, those two and the Black and White Argentine Tegu.... Wait...

EUREKA! Disney can just grab a bunch of those guys from the Florida wilderness since they're invasive!

I'd rather a Play Area versus live animals for a hypothetical phase one, a play area being there will make life easier in the long run for any live animals housed. Also animals require a lot of paper work and approval, down to each inch of the habitat, so I wouldn't be shocked if Disney wanted to take it bit by bit.

 

[ToTBellHop]

It's Florida, those two and the Black and White Argentine Tegu.... Wait...

EUREKA! Disney can just grab a bunch of those guys from the Florida wilderness since they're invasive!

I'd rather a Play Area versus live animals for a hypothetical phase one, a play area being there will make life easier in the long run for any live animals housed. Also animals require a lot of paper work and approval, down to each inch of the habitat, so I wouldn't be shocked if Disney wanted to take it bit by bit.

Sooner or later, there will be anacondas on public display!

 

[PizzaPlanet]

The park needs more rides. I think it already has the perfect amount of animal exhibits.

 

[lentesta]

I still think not having llamas and a Kuzco meet is a huge missed opportunity.

Plus, Kronk’s spinach puffs.

100% hard agree.

 

[MrPromey]

I don't believe that Animal Kingdom needs new live animal exhibits, IMO this is not the future. As long as the park is about animals and their environment then that's fine, it can be done without live animals (erm, Dinosaur, Kali, Everest...). Remains to be seen how well Encanto and Indiana Jones can do this.

It's a darn shame the name "Islands of Adventure" is already taken. I wonder if they could put Disney in front and change the park name to "Disney's Islands of Adventure®" to better reflect the direction they're moving in... or maybe they could call it "Disney's Continents of Adventure®".

Or - and maybe this is more on-brand - they could do like they did when they decided to open a property on the east coast that was larger than the the original and just rename the park "Adventure World" where unlike that corner of the MK, they have the "blessing of size"?

 

[etc98]

I’m curious if they’ll re-theme the area outside the land’s boundaries or leave it generic looking.

(When walking into Dinoland from Discovery Island, the walkway to your left, before the Boneyard, running along the amphitheater’s edge, past the Theatre in the Wild and to the bridge to Asia)

It wasn’t included at all in the plans that were just released so my guess is they won’t change it. Probably want to be able to keep that section open so there won’t be any dead ends in the park even during construction

 

[mattpeto]

The park needs more rides. I think it already has the perfect amount of animal exhibits.

The last park expansion, Pandora also worked out nicely without animals.

Still, having an animal exhibit in Tropical Americas would have been a nice "nod" to the theme park namesake.

 

[MisterPenguin]

The "Possible Animal Exhibit" is the new play area, probably Mayan themed. Allegedly.

We can watch the young of new world monkeys play!!

Sooner or later, there will be anacondas on public display!

Can't keep them in captivity. They keep getting sprung.

 

[ToTBellHop]

We can watch the young of new world monkeys play!!




Can't keep them in captivity. They keep getting sprung.

The good news for Disney is that anacondas have no problem eating $26 cake.

 

[Incomudro]

It's Florida, those two and the Black and White Argentine Tegu.... Wait...

EUREKA! Disney can just grab a bunch of those guys from the Florida wilderness since they're invasive!

I'd rather a Play Area versus live animals for a hypothetical phase one, a play area being there will make life easier in the long run for any live animals housed. Also animals require a lot of paper work and approval, down to each inch of the habitat, so I wouldn't be shocked if Disney wanted to take it bit by bit.

Only a matter of time 'till Anaconda become native to Florida too.
Perhaps Jaguars... They can put a check on the Alligator population.

 

[Moth]

Only a matter of time 'till Anaconda become native to Florida too.
Perhaps Jaguars... They can put a check on the Alligator population.

There's been sightings of them in southern Florida! Anacondas, I mean. Jaguars are in Texas.

 

[Starship824]

I have a feeling that if there was an animal exhibit instead of a play area there would tons of complaints that there isn't a play area after they replaced the boneyard. Now, of course none of this in confirmed so it's possible there is an animal exhibit and it's possible there is no play area. But I doubt that. I personally don't see a problem with this not having animal exhibits considering Dino Land only had one and most people didn't know it was there and the rest of the land is to put it bluntly, bad.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

100% hard agree.

Animal Kingdom could get its long-awaited log flume with The Emperor's New Cruise! I've been banging that drum for a while now.

 

[MistaDee]

Something something blessing of space something Walt quote here something I want to see anacondas and Capybaras.

I think down the road I wouldn't be shocked if they added small-medium sized animal enclosures.

I still think not having llamas and a Kuzco meet is a huge missed opportunity.

Plus, Kronk’s spinach puffs.

Llamas are more Andean/high altitude than tropical but you can definitely find them within the tropics geographically - honestly anything to have Kuzco and Kronk I'm so on board with.

What else would be on the Tropical Americas wish list? I absolutely want some sloths - even if they were just mozying around in the bushes without a formal exhibit haha

If they're sticking with animals that only need a small habitat some tropical birds would be wonderful, maybe some monkeys too

You think the reason why they're not gonna do any animals is because it'd be too expensive? Or because they don't want the guys who went after SeaWorld to get on their cases?

They make an entire continent for an animal park and they don't even have animals. I'm fully convinced the Disney execs only care about the brand synergy and didn't let the imagineers add animals to the land because there's no direct ROI.

One consideration from a park management perspective would be saving Tropical Americas and Pandora as lands that can operate later into the evening.

I'm not familiar with the specifics but I think some of the animals essentially have bed times that Disney has to abide by - if they're trying to increase capacity and push AK's closing time later then that might be a deciding factor.

That said, our local natural history museum has an aquarium and a few land animals and they do museum after dark events where you can see animals well past 8pm so maybe certain species don't require the same peace and quiet

sloths on the other hand maybe do...

 

[Jayspency]

I have a feeling that if there was an animal exhibit instead of a play area there would tons of complaints that there isn't a play area after they replaced the boneyard. Now, of course none of this in confirmed so it's possible there is an animal exhibit and it's possible there is no play area. But I doubt that. I personally don't see a problem with this not having animal exhibits considering Dino Land only had one and most people didn't know it was there and the rest of the land is to put it bluntly, bad.

Dinoland didn't really need an animal exhibit because the theme of that land was around an extinct animal. The Tropical Americas has a lot of wildlife to pull from and I think its big wasted potential to not have tropical animals in the new land.

 

[eddie104]

So I’m too lazy to read all the pages.

This area is no longer suppose to include any animals ???

Maybe that idea was always on the ropes because of the cost of a new exhibit.

 

[Epcot81Fan]

Good news!

Anything will be better than this embarrassment Rohde built:

 

[Jayspency]

Good news!

Anything will be better than this embarrassment Rohde built:

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