This is all speculation. You can't use your opinion as fact. Neither of us know until they announce it either way. Until then, I'll maintain a positive outlook.
You can't use your opinion that Dinoland sucks (I'm not a huge fan of Dino-Rama myself, but I'll defend Dinosaur) and that
Encanto and Indiana Jones belong in Animal Kingdom as fact either.
Tropical Americas IS an acutal bio region. IPs aside...Tropical Americas is one of the most diverse bio regions in the world and a perfect area to place in a park celebrating nature and animals. Then you quote two IPs you believe to be better suited. UP...which doesn't celebrate the cultural significance of the region and RIO...which is talking animals not originally even made by Disney.
Does
Encanto celebrate the cultural significance of the Tropical Americas? Does Indiana Jones? How many of the Indiana Jones movies even take place in the Tropical Americas? I know
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has Brazil in it.
And if they want to use
Encanto to celebrate the cultural significance of where it takes place, there are better parks to do it in. They could add a Columbia pavilion to World Showcase or go back to putting it in the Beyond Big Thunder plans.
And again, what makes you so sure that the Tropical Americas section will celebrate nature and animals?
As for the two IPs I mentioned...
Up at least takes place mainly in a jungle and focuses on exploring that environment (and is already represented in the park with the Wilderness Explorer thing) and
Rio is actually focused on animals and trying to save an endangered species. I'd say they fit the park a lot better than Indiana Jones (which ALSO was not originally made by Disney, for what it's worth) does.
The blatant negativity towards this is apparent. Which is funny because Dinoland used to be punchline
I'm sure we'd all be more positive regarding the Dinoland replacement if it had to do with dinosaurs. Just because people don't like Dino-Rama doesn't mean they want all dinosaurs removed from a park that Michael Eisner described as "kingdom of animals… real, ancient and imagined: a kingdom ruled by lions,
dinosaurs and dragons."
It’s not that Antonio is good with animals, he can literally talk to them. I can see him thus being more of an animal mouthpiece in any ride story.
Again, I see no reason to automatically believe that Antonio will be the focus of the
Encanto ride, or that the ride will focus on animals at all. Everybody was saying that they could use the Guardians of the Galaxy to teach us about energy, and they didn't.