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New nighttime show 'Rivers of Light' confirmed to be coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom
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Sage of Time
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A show... on the angle. LOL
RayTheFirefly
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I've seen the pictures of the construction, but I'm having trouble placing that "dock/thing" in the middle of the water. Do we have its placement on an aerial anywhere?
doctornick
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Right, my guess is that the show would be facing roughly east towards both viewing areas (and away from Discovery Island). Though that is just a guess based on the construction location and concept art. I suspect the comparison to WoC would be pretty reasonable. If that's the case, you might be able to view it from Discovery Island to get an imperfect show, depending on what effects are used; if so, they wouldn't have any sort of viewing packages at Flame Tree.
Sage of Time
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Shocked they're going to leave money on the table, like that.
doctornick
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Well, obviously I could be wrong. There's not much details about the specifics of RoL.
However, even if the show is directional, it would not prevent Disney from selling packages where your meal purchase entitles you to a reserved location for the show (a la the Fantasmic! dining package, DCA also does something similar for WoC).
Sage of Time
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Indeed. We really need more info on this. This is the next big thing opening in WDW, isn't it? This time, next year?
Sage of Time
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To be honest, no we aren't. Frozen isn't even that big of a deal. They're just making Maelstrom into something terrible.
dizneycrazy09
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Do we think we'll see some more information about RoL in August? It's just crazy to me that so little information about this show exists. I feel like the insiders on the forum have barely even breathed anything about the specifics of this show. Personally, the nighttime offerings in Disney are my favorite part, so I'm really excited for RoL, especially if it looks half as good as the single piece of concept art that we have.
i would think definitely in august
Sage of Time
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Yep, same here.While I completely agree with you- there is no doubt which one will be the bigger hit, with more buzz, and more crowds. They could've changed the Norway trolls to the Frozen trolls and changed the audio, and it'd still be the longest lines in all of WDW. I say all of this with a heavy heart, of course
Me? I can't wait for the show and late nights at DAK- my fav. park. My kids will be much more interested in Frozen, but that's what a Fastpass is for.
This is going to get my family to want to stay late in DAK. I always want to, anyway. This'll help out a ton. That, in itself, is very exciting.
doctornick
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Eh. It could very well be a good ride. The placement in Norway is terrible (so maybe that is what you mean), but I don't think we can say that the ride itself will be terrible. We actually have had scant few details of what the ride will be like.
Sage of Time
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That is exactly what I mean, hahah.
Vegas Disney Fan
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Is this going to be a barge based show like Illuminations?
When they first announced this I thought it would be a fountain based show similar to WoC at DCA. I haven't been following construction and when I found this thread tonight I was expecting to see pictures showing a major portion of the lake drained and most of the plumbing for the water screens and fountains to be installed, I was surprised to see they've only drained areas for viewing area construction. With opening about a year away there is no way they can install a WoC type show so now I'm really curious what kind of show to expect.
When they first announced this I thought it would be a fountain based show similar to WoC at DCA. I haven't been following construction and when I found this thread tonight I was expecting to see pictures showing a major portion of the lake drained and most of the plumbing for the water screens and fountains to be installed, I was surprised to see they've only drained areas for viewing area construction. With opening about a year away there is no way they can install a WoC type show so now I'm really curious what kind of show to expect.
Sage of Time
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I think there will be barges, yes.
And there will be fountains on those barges. And mist screens.
Rob562
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World of Color takes place in body of water that's essentially a large concrete pool with a filtration system. The Animal Kingdom waterways, though mostly man-made, are still essentially natural, unfiltered waterways.
In terms of hardware, from what I've read and seen online it's probably better to think in terms of the shows in DisneySea's Mediterranean Harbor rather than World of Color: large barges and boats that are put away during the day. Whether they move out onto the lake as part of the show, move around, or they drive out there and just park remains to be seen.
-Rob
Sage of Time
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Highly accurate. Even their Fantasmic uses a similar system.
doctornick
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Which sounds fine to me. I'm hoping that we see them also come up with something like Mythica during the day. If they already have the infrastructure of seating along the river, that would be a nice replacement for the loss of MJJ as a daytime event.
Donald96
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https://www.yahoo.com/movies/monkey-kingdom-disneynature-116935977622.html Towards the end of the article Baribault (Key executive of Disney Nature) says footage from Disney Nature films will be used in Rivers of Light. Refreshing to know that the show will not revolve around cartoons!
RSoxNo1
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This is great to hear and makes a ton of sense.