New nighttime show 'Rivers of Light' confirmed to be coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom

[ryguy]

I worked at Epcot when they were trying to get Test Track open. It was tough because the ride would be running so everyone wanted to know why they couldn't go on. At least with show the average guest really has no clue what is coming. And they test it at night.

 

[Slowjack]

Rocket Rods still makes me incredibly sad. Disneyland's Peoplemover was really nice- it was relaxing! Not so much RR. Now the track rots.

Do you know why High in the Sky didn't open for years? Just curious. Went on it in November and thought it was pretty cute!

On the latter, I don't recall all the details, but it was originally going to be a different ride (with a different name, Sylvester Monkey McBean's Very Unusual Driving Machines). Think of it as a Tomorrowland Speedway type of attraction, where each party has their own car and the "driver" can control how fast the cars go, but over the elevated track. Pretty neat. I've heard different stories about why it never opened--mechanical problems and reliability, some say, or safety issues, others say (because of the elevated track, evacs would have been troublesome). I know Universal and the company that built the original ride got into a legal battle over it. Eventually Universal decided to keep the basic track structure and ditch everything else.

So yeah, that may be a kind of record for delay--intended to open with the rest of the park in 1999, but actually opening in 2006!

 

[ford91exploder]

This attraction may have hit Yesterland already as on Marathon weekend I saw a couple of 'Rivers of Light' t-shirts at the GF. The shirts were gorgeous but these days when you see an attraction t-shirt...

The shirts main color was the AK brown with the floats in pastel hues with a box surrounding the picture with the box outline being the main color of the float.

 

[AnthHoggard]

Is this running now?

 

[DisneyRoy]

Is this running now?

No.

 

[Disorbust]

If I remember right the Seuss ride had issues with guests being removed in an emergency.

 

[Jeremy Geertsema]

This attraction may have hit Yesterland already as on Marathon weekend I saw a couple of 'Rivers of Light' t-shirts at the GF. The shirts were gorgeous but these days when you see an attraction t-shirt...

The shirts main color was the AK brown with the floats in pastel hues with a box surrounding the picture with the box outline being the main color of the float.

GF? Grand Floridian? Which gift shop?

 

[FigmentJedi]

This attraction may have hit Yesterland already as on Marathon weekend I saw a couple of 'Rivers of Light' t-shirts at the GF. The shirts were gorgeous but these days when you see an attraction t-shirt...

The shirts main color was the AK brown with the floats in pastel hues with a box surrounding the picture with the box outline being the main color of the float.

The only attraction shirts that are a death sentence are the ones sold online for a single week.

 

[CaliKris]

Hours at AK for February just got extended by one hour each night. Could this be a good sign for ROL?

 

[MisterPenguin]

Hours at AK for February just got extended by one hour each night. Could this be a good sign for ROL?

Nautical twilight ends around 6:45p, so, that would be the earliest to have a RoL show. If the park is closing at 8p... it would be rough to have two shows in that time period unless the second show is right at 8p.

I would presume once RoL starts, the park will be open to at least 9p.

Extending closing hours for AK is something WDW does continually on a month by month basis and has been doing for the past half year. It's really not a sign of anything except an attempt to have AK open for some part of the night for the evening festivals, rides, and ToL Awakenings.

 

[I am Timmy]

This attraction may have hit Yesterland already as on Marathon weekend I saw a couple of 'Rivers of Light' t-shirts at the GF. The shirts were gorgeous but these days when you see an attraction t-shirt...

The shirts main color was the AK brown with the floats in pastel hues with a box surrounding the picture with the box outline being the main color of the float.

Is there a picture of this shirt somewhere?

 

[ToTBellHop]

I heard nightly starting 2/12. For whatever that's worth.

 

[jrhwdw]

I heard nightly starting 2/12. For whatever that's worth.

COULD IT BE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

[Magic Feather]

I heard nightly starting 2/12. For whatever that's worth.

I heard Jan Date, that date, and a March date, so it wouldn't shock me.

 

[jrhwdw]

I heard Jan Date, that date, and a March date, so it wouldn't shock me.

What's the Jan date? We must be really close if there's talk like that. No buzz on twitter.

 

[GhostHost1000]

I heard Jan Date, that date, and a March date, so it wouldn't shock me.

That's kinda what I've heard. It's all over the place which is par for the course with this fiasco since last year

 

[Rteetz]

I heard nightly starting 2/12. For whatever that's worth.

Disney just extended hours for AK during that time...

 

[mikeh]

Disney just extended hours for AK during that time...

They extended them 30 minutes. I'm assuming hours will have to be closer to 9 or 10pm to get the capacity that RoL demands due to the amphitheater seating numbers

 

[Magic Feather]

Sunset is 6:00-6:30 during February, so two shows could be fit in with an 8:00 Close, probably one at 6:30 and one at 8:00 or 7:00 and 8:00 or 6:45 and 8 or... There are a large number of opportunities.

 

[mikeh]

Sunset is 6:00-6:30 during February, so two shows could be fit in with an 8:00 Close, probably one at 6:30 and one at 8:00 or 7:00 and 8:00 or 6:45 and 8 or... There are a large number of opportunities.

Is two shows the goal? 10k guests out of what, 25-30k daily?