Rumor Is Indiana Jones Planning an Adventure to Disney's Animal Kingdom?

Disneyhead'71

Disneyhead'71

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Magicart87 said:
The stories have always been human-centric. The faith of man. The greed of man. Gods/Aliens helping man. Man protecting X or X protecting man. Mankind at war, etc. Archelogy is the study of mankind through history. Dinosaurs are just dinosaurs they have no direct correlation or impact to mankind; definitely not in a societal way. If Indy was a paleontologist it would fit. He's not. No amount of supernatural shenanigans can make "Indy vs Dinosaurs" work without some suspension of disbelief, IMO. And for this ride in particular any effort to bring Indy into the fold will still feel shoehorned. IMO.
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Yeah, because there was no suspension of disbelief involved with a Holy Box melting peoples faces off. Or an alien space ship being hidden as an entire mountain.
 
britain

britain

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I think this is a stretch for Indiana Jones, but not much of a stretch. And honestly it’s kind of his schtick - being put in fantastical situations that he doesn’t belong in. Wasn’t there an Indy verses vampires book once?
 
Mike S

Mike S

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Magicart87 said:
Indiana Jones stories have always been anthropocentric. The faith of man. The greed of man. Gods/Aliens helping man. Man protecting X or X protecting man. Mankind at war, etc. Archaeology is the study of mankind through history. Dinosaurs are just dinosaurs they have no direct correlation or impact to mankind; definitely not in a societal way. If Indy was a paleontologist it would fit. He's not. No amount of supernatural shenanigans can make "Indy vs Dinosaurs" work without some suspension of disbelief, IMO. And for this ride in particular any effort to bring Indy into the fold will still feel shoehorned. IMO.
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Then why have they captured our collective imaginations since their discovery. There’s plenty of extinct species but Dinosaurs are always the one we gravitate towards even though we actually lived alongside Ice Age Mammals.
 
Kram Sacul

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lazyboy97o said:
The track layout of Dinosaur is very, very similar to the Indiana Jones Adventure. The big issue with a large central room would be if the structural system doesn’t have similar openness.
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It would be like cave after cave. You wouldn't have that big money shot of the big room with the skull and the bridge. Probably no fire either although they substituted other effects for the DisneySea version.

IJA is probably my favorite attraction but this is such a dumb and poorly thought out idea. Enough with the half-baked overlays no one asked for.
 
HauntedMansionFLA

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Kram Sacul said:
It would be like cave after cave. You wouldn't have that big money shot of the big room with the skull and the bridge. Probably no fire either although they substituted other effects for the DisneySea version.

IJA is probably my favorite attraction but this is such a dumb and poorly thought out idea. Enough with the half-baked overlays no one asked for.
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Doesn’t IJA have a really long and cool looking queue???
 
180º

180º

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Disneyhead'71 said:
Yeah, because there was no suspension of disbelief involved with a Holy Box melting peoples faces off. Or an alien space ship being hidden as an entire mountain.
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Your comment on its own makes sense. The Indiana Jones films are extremely farfetched.

That said, I don’t see how plausibility of the films’ content has anything to do with emotional foundations. The post you quoted makes a fair point that the IJ films are rooted in humanistic themes. I know we throw the word “theme” around a lot on a board discussing theme parks, but I use the word here in its literary sense. The themes of Indiana Jones align more closely to those of Epcot* or MK than to those of Animal Kingdom. Someone earlier pointed out that it seems like, with this decision, Disney is getting lazy and treating AK as just a big Adventureland. In other words, just because the aesthetics match up doesn’t mean the tone or message fit. These are the same reasons I say that putting GOTG in Epcot is just treating Future World as a big (1994-present) Tomorrowland.

That’s not to say it’s impossible to make Indiana Jones work in Animal Kingdom somehow. I just want to do justice to @Magicart87 ’s concern.

*Don’t get any bright ideas, Disney!
 
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peter11435

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atighe42 said:
Another reason why an overlay would be disappointing. Dinosaur doesn’t have the space to recreate the majesty of the Indy queue in DL. That is half the experience for me. One of, if not, the best queues ever made.
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Not that I would expect them to reach the level of Disneyland’s Indy queue but there is absolutely plenty of space to do so if they wanted.
 
britain

britain

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peter11435 said:
Not that I would expect them to reach the level of Disneyland’s Indy queue but there is absolutely plenty of space to do so if they wanted.
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Right - I’d expect the new queue to be more like Tokyo’s: Just as elaborate as DL’s, but without the hidden, narrow, linearness required by DL’s Adventureland tight layout.
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