News Holiday decor and entertainment to expand to all lands at Disney's Animal Kingdom in 2019

Sonconato

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About 6 months ago, we were very happy when we had heard about Animal Kingdom getting many more Christmas enhancements that included Christmas songs being performed by Burudika! Well…there goes that!!! We were really looking forward to hearing what Burudika could create! We certainly welcome what Disney is planning regarding the décor but not the fact that they are cutting Burudika. We’ll see how it goes but it looks like we’ll be going back to spending more of our Holiday Season at Sea World. My family and I are really having a hard time with this senseless decision in cutting Burudika.
 
networkpro

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ThatMouse said:
I think AK has to be careful with Christmas, because it's not so much Christmas trees and Santa in these continents, and it would look like Kwansa threw-up if you just put American decorations in there. That's why it's white or "vintage" style instead of red/blue/green.
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Not to be particularly insensitive, but Kwansaa is a made-up holiday by Ronald McKinley Everett (who changed his name to something else), who spent time in jail for felonious assault. He's an avowed separatist It is NOT a holiday in Africa.
 
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Lilofan

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The best NYE celebration ever at Disney in my opinion was when MGM Studios in 1999 when NYE was a real event. Cheap Trick at the end of NY Street with the Osborne Christmas lights. Boy band LFO at Sunset Market Ranch , Some other band and DJ in front of Great Movie Ride, a brass band at Indiana Jones theatre. I think the park closed at 3am. Great times. I think DAK had their first and only fireworks show on NYE. The guests viewed it standing in the parking lot.
 
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ThatMouse

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The tree is cool, but the animation looks like it was done on a 1990's computer. Sorry just have to call that one out on a company who does animation. They did greatly improve the Cinderella castle projections over time to the point where there is 5 million things going on at once, like watching a Transformers movie.
 
MagicHappens1971

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Maybe Bob will come out and help decorate animal kingdom for the holidays 😂
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MisterPenguin

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ThatMouse said:
The tree is cool, but the animation looks like it was done on a 1990's computer. Sorry just have to call that one out on a company who does animation. They did greatly improve the Cinderella castle projections over time to the point where there is 5 million things going on at once, like watching a Transformers movie.
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I doubt that's the finished animation.
 
ThatMouse

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dreamfinder said:
Yeah, if this is the test, I'd suspect its more to confirm blocking, positioning and such. A final render would probably be more detailed, but no one wants to waste time finalizing something that needs to be changed.
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It just looks like the previous years, which is choppy and blocky. It's not clear what is changing, making it longer or have it loop like they do on Tower of Terror. I only saw it once in person and I don't remember it looping.
 
tirian

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networkpro said:
Not to be particularly insensitive, but Kwansaa is a made-up holiday by Ronald McKinley Everett (who changed his name to something else), who spent time in jail for felonious assault. He's an avowed separatist It is NOT a holiday in Africa.
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You beat me to it.

For various reasons connected to my old job at Disney, I’m friends with many people who are from the portion of Africa represented in DAK. They grew up celebrating Christmas and had never heard of the American-made Kwanzaa.

Not that this matters; I just wanted to clarify that point.

It looks like the decorations will be great! I hope Disney improves the projections. The holiday season is my favorite time at “the World.”
 
tirian

tirian

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ThatMouse said:
The tree is cool, but the animation looks like it was done on a 1990's computer. Sorry just have to call that one out on a company who does animation. They did greatly improve the Cinderella castle projections over time to the point where there is 5 million things going on at once, like watching a Transformers movie.
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And you still can’t tell what’s happening on 60–70% of the castle. :D
 
networkpro

networkpro

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tirian said:
You beat me to it.

For various reasons connected to my old job at Disney, I’m friends with many people who are from the portion of Africa represented in DAK. They grew up celebrating Christmas and had never heard of the American-made Kwanzaa.

Not that this matters; I just wanted to clarify that point.

It looks like the decorations will be great! I hope Disney improves the projections. The holiday season is my favorite time at “the World.”
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I worked with a lady from Kenya for a few years and just listening to her discussing topics like that was very enlightening.
 
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