They are still.adding a major ride which will take time
True, I was just talking money and land development time involved with a water ride vs land based
It’s not about asia or Africa either. But know what… they are both SETTINGS that work with the park because of what they actually are focusing on.
Exactly! South America, the Amazon etc. is a natural next step in the park. Heck, they could do a whole area on the insects of the Amazon as part of a new animal trek... cheap to build/maintain, interesting to kids, and fitting.
You could - but the emv motion is very intense and part of the thrill of driving through the dark
I laughed way harder at this than I should have
And there was a Nazi monkey.
Tarantula walkthrough confirmed.
Nah, having more than the thrills doesn’t make it not a thrill ride… its just more. Not really great footing there IMO
I don't know, where are all the magic houses and people with the ability to control the weather and magically conjure up plants in the actual Tropical Americas? Heck, where are the magical artifacts? And by that logic, we should get rid of Festival of the Lion King as well, since, y'know, there aren't any talking lions in the real Africa.
Ah, yes, how stupid of me to want a land in Disney's ANIMAL Kingdom to focus on animals and not two IPs that have nothing to do with animals or conservation.
Because the novelty has worn off, not every new dark ride needs to be trackless, and most of the recent trackless dark rides Disney has built are mediocre at best and lousy at worse (the Ratatouille ride, Runaway Railway, Tokyo's letdown of a Beauty and the Beast ride).
Could we stop trotting out "it's gonna happen, shut up and stop complaining about it" as a rebuttal for criticism of Disney's tearing out attractions? I doubt anyone who was upset about Mr. Toad being shut down was told to just shut up and accept it.
But it's too EXPENSIVE to build something from the ground up! All the money spent on it MUST be used to make Bob Iger even richer instead!There's a MASSIVE expansion area between Asia and Rafiki's Planet Watch.
Look I get it. I love the Disney World of the past and the Imagineers that help make it what it is. I am not a fan of the lack of Imagination from the top Brass today and IP being shoved in everywhere possible. I hated they forced Imagineers to resign and ran off their best. I hate how we have hired interns and newbs to design the parks. I want original rides, shows and attractions. What I will say and is my point, is that this plan of Tropical Americas and the inclusion of these IPs make a little more sense to me than an entire Moana land and Zootopia. They have started with the land and then figured out where they could put in the forced IP by upper management.
Even though this is all still “Blue Sky” the fact this was moved from the Big Thunder plan to Animal Kingdom at least hints at the fact that this is closer to a green light than the MK plans and they wanted to jump on Encanto sooner. Then they tossed in Indy as an easy-ish retheme of Dinosaur and are using South America as a way to make it seem consistent with the rest of the park on a surface level but in reality the connection is as deep as a puddle.
Story, Interior queue, Artifact change, complete different ride scenery, effects, lighting and more. Basically the track and vehicle is the same and a few other similarities. I would say 80% new ride.
