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New atmosphere entertainment being tested at DinoLand U.S.A.
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MickeyPeace
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Sounds interesting and much better than dancing with a huge insect by the side of a truck while a dj screams over loud Top 40 music.
FigmentJedi
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Johnny Hess
Member
I hope it's something like this!
englanddg
One Little Spark...
You know...Disney used to have something even better than that. A fully animetronic freestanding (with cart) dinosaur that did walk around meet and greets.
His name was Lucky, and last I heard he was shipped to Tokyo and is currently mothballed.
I'd love to see them bring Lucky back.
habuma
Well-Known Member
This is cool and very effective for a low-tech option. Honestly, I'd rather see Lucky return than to see something like this...but this isn't bad. The only thing that ruined it for me is seeing the legs of the operator. All illusion lost. Cover those up and I'd be in favor of this kind of thing.
EPCOTCenterLover
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My bet is its a test for something that will end up in Shanghai!
asianway
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It was Hong Kong but now he is at WDI in Glendale
englanddg
One Little Spark...
Ah, thanks. Couldn't recall. Still wish they'd bring him back.
Bairstow
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Sounds fun,
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Up until now Dinoland maintained a cohesive themed reality that held that Dinosaurs are extinct. There was an institute, a dig site, and a roadside tourist trap, and in all of them dinosaurs were dead and gone, but still captured the imagination and attention of the people that lived there. The only way to see "live" dinosaurs in Dinoland is to use the time rovers to travel outside of this time/place to their time. This may not have been the most crowd-friendly approach to the material, but it also wasn't the easiest, from a design perspective, and I'm a little saddened to see their willingness to stray from it.
Mind you, I'm not saying they shouldn't, I'm just saying they haven't, for what I assume were strongly-held thematic principles when conceptualizing the land.
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Up until now Dinoland maintained a cohesive themed reality that held that Dinosaurs are extinct. There was an institute, a dig site, and a roadside tourist trap, and in all of them dinosaurs were dead and gone, but still captured the imagination and attention of the people that lived there. The only way to see "live" dinosaurs in Dinoland is to use the time rovers to travel outside of this time/place to their time. This may not have been the most crowd-friendly approach to the material, but it also wasn't the easiest, from a design perspective, and I'm a little saddened to see their willingness to stray from it.
Mind you, I'm not saying they shouldn't, I'm just saying they haven't, for what I assume were strongly-held thematic principles when conceptualizing the land.
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englanddg
One Little Spark...
Bairstow
Well-Known Member
I'm just imaginging Joe Rohde sitting down with his team for the dinosaur land at Animal Kingdom.
"Okay guys, rule #1: no dinosaurs."
backinaction
Well-Known Member
true but dont you bring a dino back from the past at the end of the ride? these could be the dino's that roam animal kingdom!Sounds fun,
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Up until now Dinoland maintained a cohesive themed reality that held that Dinosaurs are extinct. There was an institute, a dig site, and a roadside tourist trap, and in all of them dinosaurs were dead and gone, but still captured the imagination and attention of the people that lived there. The only way to see "live" dinosaurs in Dinoland is to use the time rovers to travel outside of this time/place to their time. This may not have been the most crowd-friendly approach to the material, but it also wasn't the easiest, from a design perspective, and I'm a little saddened to see their willingness to stray from it.
Mind you, I'm not saying they shouldn't, I'm just saying they haven't, for what I assume were strongly-held thematic principles when conceptualizing the land.
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Cmdr_Crimson
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Whatever comes out will be better than the walk around dinosaur characters they had in 2004 - thank goodness they got rid of those atrocities.
here's the male:
and the female:
Sorry, can't give photo credit - taken from bing images
Yeaahhh..Hate to mention this....But, on Bwana Blog there rumored to be coming back..http://bwanablog.blogspot.com/2014/03/new-meet-and-greet-coming-to-dinoland.html