Disneyfan1981
Active Member
This is classic. You gotta love the idea that another park would buy a Disney Animatronic to center their whole theme around....
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Fake Animals on the Safari.
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This is classic. You gotta love the idea that another park would buy a Disney Animatronic to center their whole theme around....
crazydaveh
Active Member
Hey, tourists say the darndest things!
NASAMan
Member
When KS first opened, you saw the dead body of Big Red sans tusks, to open the poacher chase scene. When I mentioned it being gone on a subsiquent visit, I was told that little kids could not see the line between the 'real' animals and the 'story'.
I also heard that the lions were to get a water trough disguised in the carcass of a dead zebra, so when they were drinking it would look to guests like they were helping themselves to fresh kill. It was decided to be too graphic.
So even though the friend of the OP is completely wrong, there is some fakery in KS's past.
I also heard that the lions were to get a water trough disguised in the carcass of a dead zebra, so when they were drinking it would look to guests like they were helping themselves to fresh kill. It was decided to be too graphic.
So even though the friend of the OP is completely wrong, there is some fakery in KS's past.
cmatt
Active Member
seconded :lookaroun
*grabs bullet proof vest*
be nice if they did what edinburgh zoo do - and just give an informative talk about the animals :lookaroun like they do at busch gardens when the bridge breaks down :lol:
Lucky
Well-Known Member
Actually it seems impossible to think they're fake and NOT be highly impressed. Consider what it would cost to produce fake animals that look and act like the safari animals do. That's why only an idiot could think they're fake: what possible reason would Disney have to use fake animals that would cost far more than real ones?
gjpjtj
Well-Known Member
This amazes me..........:hammer:
Irrawaddy Erik
Well-Known Member
....evidentially today we had fake rain on the safari. :brick: I'm driving around and it starts to sprinkle and the guy behind me says that "it's fake rain to add to the story." :brick:
MM Princess
New Member
There's rain in the story? I must have missed that part.
frankd1962
Member
After seeing the preshow to Fantasmic in 2000 it could be.
Back then they had two guys dressed liked they worked at Hollywood Towers come down to the fron and entertain us with juggling and stunts like chair stacking. When they got to the part about "No Smoking", they explained it was because the theater has a low ceiling. One of them looked up into the sky and point at the stars and Moon saying they looked so real. "It's that Disney magic they're always talking about.":lol:
Back then they had two guys dressed liked they worked at Hollywood Towers come down to the fron and entertain us with juggling and stunts like chair stacking. When they got to the part about "No Smoking", they explained it was because the theater has a low ceiling. One of them looked up into the sky and point at the stars and Moon saying they looked so real. "It's that Disney magic they're always talking about.":lol:
piglet*florida
Member
OK this thread reminds me of one time while on KS there was a male elephant (VERY obviously male) on the side of the jeep. While we all pointed, took photos and laughed about it, the driver said nothing, and didn't even say anything about the elephant being there! My question is, to the KS drivers, "are you told NOT to mention animals in this situation?" And how do you not crack up??? I think that being a KS driver would be fun because you get to see different things all of the time! I bet you never get bored!
gjpjtj
Well-Known Member
I've been on both versions, the one with rain, and the one without. It depends on which road you take through the Savannah.:hammer:
Clark Griswold
Member
100% Real Wildlife!!!!!! Surely the animals in Harambe aren't fake. Wilson and Simba One wouldn't waste so much time trying to save them from poachers!!!
"Grow eyes for poachers."
"Grow eyes for poachers."
GoofyMom2
New Member
Boy, it sure would make the keepers jobs a lot easier if they were fake....... :lol:
I have heard this "fake" line of thinking with croc species in other zoos and wildlife areas........because they don't move much, I have heard many say "Oh, they are just rubber". Yeah, walk over there and see how "rubber" they are!
PS Thanks for the inside info on the ostrich eggs, always wondered if they were replicas or blown out etc.....
I have heard this "fake" line of thinking with croc species in other zoos and wildlife areas........because they don't move much, I have heard many say "Oh, they are just rubber". Yeah, walk over there and see how "rubber" they are!
PS Thanks for the inside info on the ostrich eggs, always wondered if they were replicas or blown out etc.....
Emanuel
New Member
Just wanna tell you something: all animals on KS are real. A fake baby elephant named Little Red used to be there but now there's no longer Little Red and whole focus is the real animals. The lions sits in the rock the whole time because the rock is air controlled, allowing the lions to feel very comfortable sitting in the rock. The crocs seems never move at all, but this is normal as they didn't move much except when hunting.
BoarderPhreak
Well-Known Member
Holy zombie thread, Batman! The last post was literally ELEVEN YEARS ago. 
Mainahman
Well-Known Member
Naw it would of broke by now, and there would be a strong light on it...
What's fake that I have not seen posted ( pardon if I missed it) is the sunset in the plains area to the left. When you go through there at dusk it looks like a beautiful sunset through the trees, in fact it is a series of large screens similar to drive in movies. It's a nice affect but it is a facade.
Seems to me I read a post somewhere that a child said something like "hey look that elephant has five legs"