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Rumor Lion King Flume Ride being considered for Animal Kingdom
- Thread starter Disgruntled Walt
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Sadly, I am too old to get this reference. Just seeing a turd in an aqua leisure shirt.
More so if it had a new storyline. Shame it would replace an existing attraction though.
CoasterCowboy67
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I celebrate our personal preferences and ideas. But we can’t dismiss 1 of 4 opening day lands, or one of the only opening day attractions, to make a point that a film retelling ride with animatronic animals is a rewrite of AK’s themes. Cute animals have always been there. The rewrite would be to impose new rules about film retellings and gritty realism that have never been there.
And even less so today when we have a Finding Nemo show that also has cartoon animals (in a film retelling), cartoon insects putting on a variety show, and even more character meet and greets
We also can’t argue absence is proof. The park didn’t open with roller coasters, so would we say Everest was a rewrite? The park didn’t open with an IP land so is Avatar a rewrite? A film retelling ride is no different from these in that it shares some characteristics with the park, and deviates in others.
DisneyHead123
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Ok, sure.
Animal Kingdom has always been the cute, IP based, fantasy themed park.
I welcome a kawaii overlay, in keeping with the original theme of the park. I hope they have some really good popcorn buckets.
lazyboy97o
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This is ignoring so much context.
CoasterCowboy67
Well-Known Member
“Animal Kingdom has always been the park about all animals — real and fictional, gritty and cartoon, and of past, present, and myth” doesn’t require all that hyperbole that nobody is actually trying to say
EPCOTCenterLover
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Animal Kingdom is the last Disney park that feels coherent in theme. I hope it remains committed to that in the future, but I doubt it.
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cjkeating
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I don't often see mentioned on here that the basis to Africa, Asia, Pandora and Dinoland is all tourism. You are visiting these lands on the premise that you are a tourist on holiday.
Africa - safari excursion
Asia - water rafting excursion, mountain/yeti train excursion
Pandora - boat tour, banshee flight
Dinoland - dinosaur safari, roadside carnival
Within these lands the supporting attractions/restaurants are set up to support the tourist economic activity of tourism in each land. FOTLK is a performance in a venue in Harambe, Maharaja Jungle Trek is exploring historic ruins, Chester and Hesters is profiteering off the Dino Institute.
Therefore for a Lion King boat ride to 'fit' it seems like a push to apply the above principles unless they doing a very bold story treatment for the ride which is where I think a lot of people are trying to express their concerns around it's fit in the park. To be fair they went completely left field for Tianna's so it could be possible.
CMM was a last minute cheap and temporary fix as Beastly Kingdom was cut none of the parks values applied to that land. The same applied to FOTLK however as I said above its story treatment in Harambe works well.
John park hopper
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Lion King flume ride sounds good if they can build to so it doesn't breakdown
CoasterCowboy67
Well-Known Member
So if we're touristing in Harambe, we can't have ventured into a corner of the Savannah where lions are in the middle of a (familiar) succession struggle? I don't see how bold changes to the film are necessary, even if you believe tourism is the theme of the park. These animals live in Africa, we're on vacay in Africa, we see them while on a boat...
Feels like people are desperate to find ways to define Animal Kingdom in a way that boxes out a Lion King retelling. But none of these definitions work without cherry picking parts of the park to define a pattern of convenience, or cherry picking elements of the film to ignore
I get Camp Minnie Mickey wasn't the original vision. Anyone would have preferred Beastly Kingdom. But Camp Minnie Mickey is what we got, and countless other additions to the park have combined the kawaii with the gritty, the fictional with the real, into the park it is today.
We can't hold on to what could've been or else we'll never be happy with what we have or get
Mireille
Premium Member
Wimmy-wam-wam-wozzle!
Bob's "A non-descript coaster themed to India or whatever" comment about Everest is all one needs to know about how anyone in Burbank sees AK, and really, all the parks these days. Everything to them needs to be a movie IP smorgasbord now (and preferably movies of assets bought or produced under Bob). Just step up to the trough, pigs, and enjoy your slop.
OptimusPrime
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- In the Parks
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lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
I’m not sure I’d characterize the tourism angle as a principle of the park. It’s a framing devise. It’s the park’s equivalent of “recruits” but one that doesn’t require hollow on-the-nose statements as we are in facts tourists.
Theaters are interesting as in themed entertainment they are often treated as a sort of play within a play. Their content is often considered to be detached for their surrounding. Big theater shows really became a thing with studio parks and their content does not remain the purview of the park designers.
His middle name is “damn man”
lazyboy97o
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Preferably does not mean exclusively.
Did you miss the word "preferably"?
Bob also loves to milk 2 or 3 of the hit movies of his predecessor, along with Toy Story.
DisneyHead123
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Apologies if I was a bit short. Theme parks have lots and lots of elements. If your criteria is “this appeared somewhere in the park at one point in time”, the theme could literally be anything and becomes a meaningless construct. I could go on and on about how Magic Kingdom has always contained lots of food and merch and so really we should turn the place into Disney Springs. Or a coaster park. Or a Renaissance Fair. Whatever. Lots of stuff has appeared in that park.
Without a deeper meaning for the word “theme” - all I can do is shrug and say “Ok, sure, that’s your opinion.” If I say Magic Kingdom was always themed to Disney Springs because shops, all you can do is shrug and say yeah, sure, that’s one opinion. At that point there’s little reason to even have a conversation and it would probably make more sense for Disney to poll their customers and see what the most popular theme for AK is, then go from there.