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

James Alucobond

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Why fix those things, when there were perfectly well working areas to tinker with and replace?
There are vanishingly few things that haven't been tinkered with in recent memory for them to concern themselves with, so they're pretty much going to have to pick between focusing their efforts on the quoted items, building new, or sitting on their hands.
 

Gremlin Gus

Active Member
Also, almost every land (minilands excepted) should have at least three attractions. That two became the norm is madness.
TA has 3-4 attractions coming with it (the Encanto attraction, the Indiana Jones attraction, the carousel, and the rumored Indiana Jones themed play area), the Monsters Inc and Cars Mini-Land both have 1 major attraction and 1 smaller attraction, and Villains I think has 2 major attractions coming with it with some smaller attractions probably coming with that land as well. So two rides per new land being the norm doesn't seem to really apply for any of the new lands coming to WDW in the next 5 years
 

James Alucobond

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TA has 3-4 attractions coming with it (the Encanto attraction, the Indiana Jones attraction, the carousel, and the rumored Indiana Jones themed play area), the Monsters Inc and Cars Mini-Land both have 1 major attraction and 1 smaller attraction, and Villains I think has 2 major attractions coming with it with some smaller attractions probably coming with that land as well. So two rides per new land being the norm doesn't seem to really apply for any of the new lands coming to WDW in the next 5 years
Cars isn't really a miniland; it's just part of Frontierland. Monstropolis is, and it's the correct amount of compact for two attractions. Tropical Americas is an overlay of a three-attraction land, so it makes sense for it to follow suit. I genuinely hope Villains has more than two, but we'll see. The real issue is stuff like Galaxy's Edge, Pandora, and Avengers Campus are big examples from recent memory where the attraction density really fell short.
 

gerarar

Premium Member
Am at WDW for the week and was at AK today. Excavators were on site ripping up the existing concrete and pavement. Only was able to really stop and take a look in the afternoon near closing but active work was happening when I passed by in the morning.
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Some other photos I grabbed. It's very surreal seeing half the area walled off already. RIP Cementosaurus....not ready for Dinosaur to share the same fate next year..
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Disney Analyst

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Am at WDW for the week and was at AK today. Excavators were on site ripping up the existing concrete and pavement. Only was able to really stop and take a look in the afternoon near closing but active work was happening when I passed by in the morning.
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Some other photos I grabbed. It's very surreal seeing half the area walled off already. RIP Cementosaurus....not ready for Dinosaur to share the same fate next year..
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They should take the walls down for like two weeks, and just have the rubble and a big asteroid sitting there steaming away.
 

Nickm2022

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I honestly do believe Animal Kingdom will have achieved near-maximization of all currently developed areas with this update, Rafiki’s excluded (though it would be difficult to ever do so given current accessibility). Everything afterward should logically be pure addition, so hopefully that’s actually the direction they take.

Meanwhile, Magic Kingdom has one area that could benefit from major redevelopment (Tomorrowland) and HS has two (Animation Courtyard and Echo Lake). Sadly, EPCOT remains the most disheveled despite the last investment cycle favoring it.
I completely agree. I have a theory that if Fantastic 4 (and even Elio) do well that will give disney the reason (and the IP) to refresh MK's Tomorrowland and esp DL. Samething with Pandora, I have no doubt they'll do more with it across the world but I think they want to wait for more movies so each land of pandora across the world is different (unlike Starwars).

For Hollywood, I think they are waiting out the licensing deals for zootopia at Shanghai. I also know it's been rumored for a while disney has been trying to get the marvel rights back so maybe they are planning a bigger better avengers campus for AC.

EPCOT just needs to focus on fixing what's broken. They are doing it w test track and here's hoping SSE and Figment are next
 

TheMaxRebo

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I completely agree. I have a theory that if Fantastic 4 (and even Elio) do well that will give disney the reason (and the IP) to refresh MK's Tomorrowland and esp DL. Samething with Pandora, I have no doubt they'll do more with it across the world but I think they want to wait for more movies so each land of pandora across the world is different (unlike Starwars).

For Hollywood, I think they are waiting out the licensing deals for zootopia at Shanghai. I also know it's been rumored for a while disney has been trying to get the marvel rights back so maybe they are planning a bigger better avengers campus for AC.

EPCOT just needs to focus on fixing what's broken. They are doing it w test track and here's hoping SSE and Figment are next

Could be wrong but I don't think they can use the Fantastic Four at WDW as they have a representation at Universal
 

Nickm2022

Well-Known Member
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Yeah but there are rumors about superhero island becoming DC if Universal guys Warner so that may not be the case in a few years. Plus disney/marvel got the rights back to hulk and namor and when that happened I remember rumors about disney in convo about getting shared marvel park rights but maybe that was just a false rumor I heard 2 years ago
 

Streetway Again

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Yeah but there are rumors about superhero island becoming DC if Universal guys Warner so that may not be the case in a few years. Plus disney/marvel got the rights back to hulk and namor and when that happened I remember rumors about disney in convo about getting shared marvel park rights but maybe that was just a false rumor I heard 2 years ago
 

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Disgruntled Walt

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Spoke to my source (who no longer works for the company but has connections and sometimes shares what they hear), and they told me that there are cool animatronics planned for the Indiana Jones attraction.

Which I really needed to hear. But it's still a tough pill for me to swallow, losing Dinosaur. But at least we've got cool animatronics coming. At the expense of cool animatronics leaving.
 

andre85

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Spoke to my source (who no longer works for the company but has connections and sometimes shares what they hear), and they told me that there are cool animatronics planned for the Indiana Jones attraction.

Which I really needed to hear. But it's still a tough pill for me to swallow, losing Dinosaur. But at least we've got cool animatronics coming. At the expense of cool animatronics leaving.

That's exciting! Especially as Indiana Jones hasn't really had too many animatronics otherwise, outside of Indy himself and the Snake (not that it needed them, as the ride's great). But then again, Dinosaur had quite a few cool animatronics too. I suspect the new version won't have as many as that, but it also may not need them, just so long as they don't pull a Tiana
 

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