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Rumor New ride coming to Animal Kingdom. D23 announcement expected.
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Kamikaze
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Better off just ignoring these morons. They don't know how DLR works and because they didn't see '7 hour lines' then obviously the land is a failure. If Disney was REALLY worried about attendance or the land, they would have unblocked passes. But how worried can they be when they can't keep merchandise on the shelves in a 'failed' land? When you're selling about $100k (35 people per hour - which is 2.5 build sessions per hour - x the max of 14 people x 12 hours a day) of lightsabers per day, thats a lot of guests you can lose and still make the same amount of money. And thats just Savi's. To put it another way - 1 guest that builds at Savi's is basically equivalent to three guests.
Everyone who is experiencing the land at WDW is raving about it, just as they did at DLR. Its only people who have never entered the land that talk about it being a failure or disappointing.
ToTBellHop
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Animaniac93-98
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It's more important to protect his ego than be honest.
ImperfectPixie
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In regards to Rhode...in any position that involves design, there are going to be passion projects and projects that the designer themselves aren't crazy about. It's the nature of the beast.
EDIT: Those projects we aren't enamored with? We pretend that we're just as excited about them as every other project.
EDIT: Those projects we aren't enamored with? We pretend that we're just as excited about them as every other project.
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ToTBellHop
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Yes. He’s pretending Dino-Rama is amazing, which epitomizes the problem with modern WDI. “We spent a fortune researching and making fake asphalt, so therefore it’s AMAZING amiright?!??”
Monorail_Orange
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Yes, and the false asphalt thing...maybe Rhode should talk to the Highway Departments of southern states...for some reason, they keep using asphalt to build highways, and last I noticed (today, mind you - I live in SE Louisiana, virtually identical climate to WDW), neither me nor my diesel pickup (weighing about 4 tons unloaded) seem to "sink in" any of the roads or parking lots around, including WDW's asphalt lots!
rnese
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So...Joe loves the wild mouse and spinner?
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nickys
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One of my must-do items every trip is One Man’s Dream (or whatever it’s called now). That was one of those temporary projects too I believe, which is why I keep telling myself not to
easyrowrdw
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I didn't know that. How so?
RSoxNo1
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Mission: SPACE was a perfectly fine choice for Epcot, it was just poor execution.
Demarke
Have I told you lately that I 👍 you?
Yep! He probably could have saved a whole bunch of money and research time if he just asked the contractors who laid the asphalt mixture for this:
The only hard lines are power and possibly data. It was installed to be easily and quickly removable.
peter11435
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Clearly many of you have never seen what happens when something like a shipping container is left on asphalt for a prolonged period.
No Name
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Joe‘s always been a little more enthusiastic about the roadside tourist trap premise than most others, and what exists today is essentially a cheaper version of the concept with the Excavator. I’m sure he’s not lying when he says he likes Dino Rama. He just wishes it was closer to his full vision.
The thought behind the concept, as l understand it, is that it focuses on people’s fascination and imagination with dinosaurs, which allows for a deeper experience than just dinosaurs themselves. It also makes restaurants, shops, and the very presence of human civilization easier to incorporate. As well as, of course, everything Joe talks about above, barring his love for fake asphalt. I understand the positives to the concept, and I personally like it, but I‘m not sure it would’ve been incredibly well-received by most guests.
I think perhaps they should go more of a direction where Dinosaurs and other extinct animals are brought into our time and/or vice versa. Extend the Dino Institute direction and have a whole campus and research facility premise. How else would you implement a land with extinct animals? Serious question. I hope future plans for Dinoland answer this question rather than get rid of extinct animals completely, as has been tossed around as an idea.
The thought behind the concept, as l understand it, is that it focuses on people’s fascination and imagination with dinosaurs, which allows for a deeper experience than just dinosaurs themselves. It also makes restaurants, shops, and the very presence of human civilization easier to incorporate. As well as, of course, everything Joe talks about above, barring his love for fake asphalt. I understand the positives to the concept, and I personally like it, but I‘m not sure it would’ve been incredibly well-received by most guests.
I think perhaps they should go more of a direction where Dinosaurs and other extinct animals are brought into our time and/or vice versa. Extend the Dino Institute direction and have a whole campus and research facility premise. How else would you implement a land with extinct animals? Serious question. I hope future plans for Dinoland answer this question rather than get rid of extinct animals completely, as has been tossed around as an idea.
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ImperfectPixie
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Or a motorcycle parked with its kickstand directly on asphalt.
Timothy_Q
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That warning is embedded into every threadI wish the OP's original post contained a warning: This thread has no concrete answers or details on this rumor. The remainder of the thread is discussion and debate about what should/shouldn't go into AK, and then a couple random posts.
easyrowrdw
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Interesting. Thanks for the info.
KCheatle
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Sometimes, though, if you read through you'll find a nugget from a reputable source. Maybe that's what the op should put in the original post - a link to useful info posts...
