Rumor Lion King Flume Ride being considered for Animal Kingdom

[RSoxNo1]

I don't know why anyone would want to put more carnival type rides at Animal Kingdom after we're finally getting rid of the carnival section.

It needs more attractions, but stuff like that just doesn't fit the park.

Agreed. Anything B-ticket or below at AK either needs to be disguised well or believably built into the fabric of the village area. I don’t think there’s much that you could thoughtfully integrate into Harambe from the standard stable of A/B attractions. The kakamora spinner would have worked with the Moana proposal mostly because of the IP, which established kakamora technology as looking a certain way that could conceivably be seamlessly overlaid on such an attraction. Pandora might actually be the easiest place to add a lower tier attraction because you could theme it with the Earth settlers’ technology, but there are also way more interesting things they could do with the IP.

I think the Carousel coming to Tropical Americas would absolutely be more at home in Discovery Island, but I really don't think it's going to be aesthetically out of place in Tropical Americas.

While I strongly disliked the concept, the Chris Beatty Moana spinner did look pretty cool. Of course it probably would have been the world's first $200 million spinner.

In general, I'm in the camp that the B/C ticket experiences in the park should focus on live animals. I understand that everyone wants rides, but the two main animal walk throughs are far more engaging than any flat ride.

 

[phillip9698]

There is this website called Park Lore that specializes in theme park content. They have a series where this one guy makes improved versions of Disney parks. He recently made an improved Animal Kingdom and it involved A Bug's Land, but it uses the building layout from Ariel's Grotto at Disney Seas. Just thought it was interesting to mention.

Thanks for mentioning that site. Never heard of it but seems interesting.

 

[dennis-in-ct]

The problem with basing it on the old ticket system is: the tickets were never geared to how good or bad a ride was, but how popular the attraction was. Its one of the reasons HoP and CBJ swapped D and E tickets early on, The tiers were an incentive to ride smaller, less flashier attractions (like Main Street Vehicles and the Cinema) rather than to provide a quality classification.

Here are the A, B, Cs of the ticketing system (Dec 1970) for some historical perspective in case anyone is interested.