Teddybearre
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Reminds me when this person when on a temper tantrum about how Animal Kingdom has nothing to do with animals. The mental gymnastics some people try to get away with just to prove their point, I swear…
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Rumor Lion King Flume Ride being considered for Animal Kingdom
- Thread starter Disgruntled Walt
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ednamodedarling
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Is it rumored to be a traditional flume? and not just a frozen ever after adjacent boat ride?
lazyboy97o
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This is exactly why I said maybe we should ask why something that every Armchair Imagineer thinks up isn’t there. It’s an obvious idea that’s right there. So why has it not been done? Does that not provoke the thought that maybe it doesn’t actually align with the vision?
ConfettiCupcake
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I am as much against IP for the sake of IP as the next guy, and wish they’d remember some of their best attractions are not IP based or are based on obscure IP, but at some point I think it’s relevant to point out that this is Walt Disney World we’re talking about, Disney. There’s gonna be IP.
There has been so much shoe horned and poor fit IP over the years, especially more recent years. TLK attraction in AK strikes me as one of the best fits they’ve done in years, should it actually happen.
There has been so much shoe horned and poor fit IP over the years, especially more recent years. TLK attraction in AK strikes me as one of the best fits they’ve done in years, should it actually happen.
zipadee999
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If so, please tell me that Scar is at the top and he tries to ‘drop’ us like he did Mufasa. They better not take another awesome villain and omit him from an attraction in favor of ‘Timon and Pumba’s Prepare for the Biggest Party on the Savannah Adventure’
Personally I’m leaning towards a flume ride with a considerable drop. Navi already fills the ‘calm and relaxing’ void. Kali already fills the ‘get you soaked’ void. The only gap in their water ride lineup is a ‘big drop.’
For those worried about thematic clashing with the rest of the Africa section, I think of how Splash was at Magic Kingdom. Splash featured ‘cartoons’ in a realistic land, and rather than going all or nothing, it opted for realism on the outside, and slowly acclimated the riders into the cartoon world before fully immersing them once inside the showbuilding. I think Lion King could easily have a realistic facade to be viewed from all outside guest areas, and slowly acclimate riders into the animated world once they enter the queue.
James Alucobond
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Again, I don’t think anyone in this thread has ever said Lion King as an IP doesn’t belong in Animal Kingdom, just that execution matters and it doesn’t automatically exemplify the park’s mission just by existing in whatever form.
CoasterCowboy67
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~96% of the forms this attraction could conceivably take are well within the mission of the park -- even the "book report". Disney would have to go far out of its way to take The Lion King and turn it into an attraction that made you think "why is this here?". Like omitting Circle of Life, or omitting the animals
Encanto and Indy, on the other hand, are trickier. I estimate there's about 38% of forms that attraction could take that are within the mission of the park. Disney has to go out of its way to make it work. Not impossible, just harder. Hence the comparisons people have made why the former is even a debate compared to the latter. Personally, I don't mind a land that builds on the trend of exploring fauna from another region of the world in the vein of Asia and Africa. But the rides, in this case, can't be simple book reports else they will feel out of place
I too would love a traditional flume with drops
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James Alucobond
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Strongly disagree. Animal Kingdom originally went the route of the safari, FotLK, and the Tree of Life for a reason—to incorporate The Lion King's relevant DNA without rehashing the largely irrelevant plot (to the themes of the park).
bwr827
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Little Timmy: I love Lion King! Roar!
WDW Forum: You know those aren’t even real animals, right?
OptimusPrime
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- In the Parks
- No
One day your chilling on Discord playing Minecraft
Next day you get a DM “I know a guy who works at imagineering and he told me Epcot is becoming a parking lot”
OptimusPrime
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- In the Parks
- No
This thread has become a classic example of “going to Disney World and getting upset upon finding Disney at the World”
CoasterCowboy67
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We cant read so deep into decisions that reflect more than just creative vision, like budget and capacity. FotLK was in a completely different land with meet and greets that were about 1000x less relevant to learning about animals than the plot of TLK. And as we know, that wasn’t the original intent for that space anyway. A Lion King ride was previously planned for the park by Rhode himself, and ultimately cut for reasons we don’t know. Others have made this point
Phicinfan
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Just saying that looks like Scar to me
ednamodedarling
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Yea. It's happening. Im convinced now. What a fun easter egg!
James Alucobond
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And that’s not The Lion King ride we’re discussing. The thing people were responding to was the notion that it might be a clone of an Adventure World ride, which some posters were also hoping would be a book report despite claiming previously that they were hyper-dedicated to the themes of the park when it served their interests relative to IP they don’t like.
We all know this forum is about something that is ultimately meant to be fun and not that important in the grand scheme of things, but, uh, it’s weird that you have chosen to be here at all if you just want to dismiss all in-depth conversation as pointless and overwrought. You can go enjoy the parks without troubling yourself over others who are obviously going to assess things a bit more critically than the average parkgoer.
doctornick
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I think you are trying to say that just because they haven’t built a TLK ride “yet” that it indicates that such a ride wouldn’t fit the park? That seems like a massive leap - a ton of attractions that have been talked about and never been built would be great fits for various parks. Does Jungle Book not fit just because it was never added to DAK? Bambi?
I mean the park has hovered around a dozen attractions and a single digit ride count. That speaks much more to underinvestment than to the fit of any particular ride option.
OptimusPrime
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- In the Parks
- No
This isn’t an in-depth conversation.
This is nearly as brain-dead as the Tiana thread’s discussion on Song of the South’s race issues.
The Lion King is a film that people like. Okay. You’re following me. Good. Okay.
And it’s about nature, and the circle of life. Okay stay with me, I know it’s getting hard.
It is the film that people think of when they think of Animal Kingdom. (Look at how many dads have Hakuna Matata shirts) Okay follow me for a minute you can do it.
The film takes place in Africa, a land in Animal Kingdom. We’re almost there.
It’s not replacing anything other than a small bit of Safari land.
Therefore, Lion King would be a logical addition to the park. It is literally something that people have been asking for. But because you want to be different and look smart, you’ve opted to cry that LION KING doesn’t fit ANIMAL KINGDOM.
bwr827
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I’m here for hints at what might be coming next, and to hear how things are going, and because I’ve long exhausted my own family’s interest in talking about WDW.
You don’t want a book report ride, that’s fine.
I want a fun new Lion King ride. I want investment in the parks and increased capacity.
Gate-keeping a potential fun new ride based on a very fitting IP because of some overly academic rationale about the true spirit of its intended theme park… feels like too much.