Shanghai should've kept Tron.
They were down to 5 rides when the rebuild started.... So that is a plus, but yes! it could really use more....and it could really use a reorganization... making the flow of the park make more sense... and dear God do something with the Animation Courtyard... Get rid of Launch Bay and add in a new attraction based on Classic Disney Animation...Shanghai should've kept Tron.
HS has definitely received a lot of new stuff recently & I've, personally, been very happy with all of it. But it still needs a lot more; all of that work & they still only have 9 rides. The entire middle of the park is a hodge podge of theming & not much is going on there besides Mickey.
Probably nothing until D23 this summer. The only other way we'd hear something else is if they want to try & take some attention away from Epic Universe's official announcements.
Cool beans, except I doubt that Disney would want to spend money on a Muppets' attraction in AK, given that their latest TV series was just cancelled after one season.
The park as originally conceived was going to include a Fantasia ride that would have nothing to do with conservation or man’s relationship to the animal world.
This has to be a troll
The original intent is to relate them back to real life animals & nature. Unicorns, dragons & yetis are fake but they're still animals who act like animals. The Zootopia characters are animals that act very human; they've evolved past their primal instincts just as we have.
The Fantasia ride always seemed odd & I'm glad they didn't do that. But the dragon coaster's theme probably would've ended up similar to what we got with Everest though. I'm sure that would've been a good ride but I'm glad we ended up with Everest instead & eventually Pandora in that land's spot.
Ever heard of Smaug, the dragon in the book The Hobbit? The dude talked. Dragons talk in many stories. That's hardly natural animal behavior (unless we're talking parrots, who mimic, not talk).
There's stories where Yetis talk too. I assume they would've had the dragons & unicorns in a more typical animalistic form.
I personally would have loved the Fantasia ride. Indeed, as someone opposed to zoos, I wish the whole park would move entirely away from live animal exhibits, though I realise I'm in the minority.
I'm torn on that tbh. I feel animals of a higher intelligence shouldn't be in zoos (apes, elephants, dolphins, big cats, etc...) but I imagine animals that are typically prey are living their best lives in zoos, depending on how much space they have.
To say it is unnatural for dragons to speak because animals don't speak is the equivalent of saying it is unnatural for platypuses to lay eggs because mammals don't lay eggs.
A Fantasia Ride would work perfectly well where Launch Bay currently sits... And I think it would be amazing if well done...
