No Animal Kingdom

danlb_2000

Premium Member
Original Poster
Here is an interesting idea for discussion based on something I brought up in another thread. Let's say that Disney decided not to build Animal Kingdom and instead put those same attractions into other parks. For the purposes of discussion let's exclude the safari and animal walkthroughs. How would you have gone about integrating the AK attractions into the other three parks?
 

Tom

Beta Return
Interesting topic.

I'm a work, but I wanted to at least toss in some quick ideas.

* Dinosaur: Epcot - Future World. Probably replace Energy with it

* Tough to be a Bug: DHS - Pixar Place.

* Everest: For the time being, I'm torn on this one. I'd say MK - Adventureland, but the MK is full up on mountains. My second thought is Epcot......I guess in China, or on an empty plot.

* Dinoland Junk: It belongs nowhere else.....except in a dumpster.

* Kali: Re-theme it and put it back behind Frontierland in the MK

Everything else I can think of is animal related, like the shows, wildlife train, and the two you said not to use.
 

danlb_2000

Premium Member
Original Poster
I like Animal Kingdom! My DH enjoys seeing the animals and walking the trails and I truly think its a beautiful park. I don't like this idea of no AK even though all the rides would be else where!

This thread isn't for discussing whether it's a good idea or not, it about imagining how things could have been if it hadn't been built.
 

danlb_2000

Premium Member
Original Poster
Interesting topic.

I'm a work, but I wanted to at least toss in some quick ideas.

* Dinosaur: Epcot - Future World. Probably replace Energy with it

* Tough to be a Bug: DHS - Pixar Place.

* Everest: For the time being, I'm torn on this one. I'd say MK - Adventureland, but the MK is full up on mountains. My second thought is Epcot......I guess in China, or on an empty plot.

* Dinoland Junk: It belongs nowhere else.....except in a dumpster.

* Kali: Re-theme it and put it back behind Frontierland in the MK

Everything else I can think of is animal related, like the shows, wildlife train, and the two you said not to use.

I like these ideas. As much I don't like the idea of "toonify" Epcot, I wouldn't object to a proper Africa area in World Showcase with Fotlk.
 

evnted

Well-Known Member
Interesting topic.

I'm a work, but I wanted to at least toss in some quick ideas.

* Dinosaur: Epcot - Future World. Probably replace Energy with it

* Tough to be a Bug: DHS - Pixar Place.

* Everest: For the time being, I'm torn on this one. I'd say MK - Adventureland, but the MK is full up on mountains. My second thought is Epcot......I guess in China, or on an empty plot.

* Dinoland Junk: It belongs nowhere else.....except in a dumpster.

* Kali: Re-theme it and put it back behind Frontierland in the MK

Everything else I can think of is animal related, like the shows, wildlife train, and the two you said not to use.
yea basically agree here. only thing is i believe technically everest is in Nepal so not sure if imagineers would greenlight it for China (even tho it's so close anyway). next best guess would be adventureland as you said. DHS wouldnt make sense and plopping it on an empty plot in WS doesnt mesh well with the other country-based pavilions. only thing i could see them doing in Adventureland would be taking out the Swiss Family Treehouse, rerouting Jungle Cruise, and putting in a scaled down version of the ride. but even with that you're not talking a whole lot of room
 

Wikkler

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yea basically agree here. only thing is i believe technically everest is in Nepal so not sure if imagineers would greenlight it for China (even tho it's so close anyway). next best guess would be adventureland as you said. DHS wouldnt make sense and plopping it on an empty plot in WS doesnt mesh well with the other country-based pavilions. only thing i could see them doing in Adventureland would be taking out the Swiss Family Treehouse, rerouting Jungle Cruise, and putting in a scaled down version of the ride. but even with that you're not talking a whole lot of room
Everest is on the border of Nepal and Tibet.
 

Tom

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I like these ideas. As much I don't like the idea of "toonify" Epcot, I wouldn't object to a proper Africa area in World Showcase with Fotlk.

Completely forgot about FotLK. We don't visit AK much (haven't been during our last 2 trips), so I was going from dusty memory.

But I agree, it could go in WS, or perhaps Adventureland. The thing is.....Africa is a continent, which is probably why it hasn't ever been turned into a WS pavilion.
 

evnted

Well-Known Member
Completely forgot about FotLK. We don't visit AK much (haven't been during our last 2 trips), so I was going from dusty memory.
put it in DHS...even more shows! lol. and going back i know the nepal/tibet thing is an extreme technicality it's just 1) i don't know how specific the imagineers are with the countries and more importantly 2) it's just interesting discussing where else it could go.
also, maybe scale down the dino theme on the boneyard and throw it in frontierland? not exactly sure where it could realistically go, but it seems as though it could fit on Tom Sawyer's Island for the kids to run around in. not really conducive to Mark Twain but doesnt Disneyland's island have some sort of pirate theme linked to it? just an idea
 

NiarrNDisney

Well-Known Member
I would have:

DINOSAUR - Will be representing it's namesake (the Movie Dinosaur) In the Hollywood Studios

The Boneyard - Is going to be used as a back drop and play area for the Dinosaur attraction in the Hollywood Studios kinda like it is now just in a new location

Chester & Hester's DinoRama - Will be stripped of all its Dino themed ridiculousness (sans TriceraTop Spin) and rethemed to Mickey and his friends in an all new ToonTown in DHS somewhere behind the Animation Couryard where the Fab Five (Complete with all of their old homes) roam and rule during a County Fair!
- Primeval Whirl - Changes to a Donald Duck themed attraction maybe adding in Chip & Dale since they used to give him so much grief and maybe his mischievous nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie!
- Midway Games - will be rethemed to what everyone expects to see at a County Fair just with the Fab Five overlay
- (BTW) Great Goofini - You're moving to DHS as well and going back to your roots as the Barnstormer at Wiseacre Farms since the little ones will need a roller coaster to vie for since they can't ride Donald's Hurl Spin (Primeval Whirl).

Expedition Everest - Magic Kingdom could always use a new mountain and where better than to place it in Adventureland since there are already Asian themed areas in the Jungle Cruise. (Yes Aladdin you and your Carpets are getting the boot to make room for attractions with a little more substance than spinning around in the air)

Festival of the Lion King - would make a great addition to the Hollywood Studios, though I'm not certain as to where I would place it? Maybe in place of the Voyage of the Little Mermaid

Finding Nemo the Musical - would go into an expanded World Premier Theater as the live Broadway show for the proposed PIXAR Place

It's Tough to be a Bug - Is replacing Honey I Shrunk the Kids Movie Set Adventure though rethemed to Bug's Life maybe adding some of the small rides found in DCA.

Kali River Rapids - Another Asia attraction moving but this time to DHS as a new Indiana Jones themed ride next to his exsisting stunt show.

TriceraTop Spin - Will be relocated to PIXAR Place where guests ride on an oversized toy left out by Andy just without the green triceratops
 
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ctxak98

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Okay this is fun!

Everest- adventure land!!! No other place for that.

Dinosaur- actually with the technogy aspect of time travel I think with a little retheming it could work in tomorrowland!

Kali- Adventureland

Nemo- Hollywood studios

Lion king- Hollywood studios
 

DinoInstitute

Well-Known Member
Love this idea! I'll give it a go


ITTBAB: Either DHS Pixar Place, or the maybe in the land pavilion where COL is

FOTLK: Probably in DHS where Mermaid currently is, however I feel it is the atmosphere of the land and where you are that adds to the show, and DHS isn't that place. So maybe instead Adventureland, or I kind of like the idea of it being in an African pavilion in Epcot

Nemo: First choice would be Pixar Place in DHS, but also the Epcot Nemo pavilion would work.

Dinosaur: Either Tomorrowland or an Epcot pavilion, as it has to do with time travel. I would say Epcot, in the mechanical sciences section in the WoL pavilion, and it would also give UoE a reason to take away the useless Dino diarama

Primeval Whirl, Triceratops Spin: This is probably the trickiest one. It really doesn't fit perfectly thematically except, like others said, in Lake Buena Vista County Landfill. So, maybe it could have been apart of toon town if it was still there (take a hint;)) or maybe, while it would be a stretch, a city or town as apart of DHS

Everest: Another kind of tricky one, perhaps Adventureland or the right WS pavilion

Kali: Adventureland, not really another place for it, except if, again, in the appropriate World Showcase area

Pandora?: I decided to include this for fun, although it probably never would have come otherwise. But I think it could make a good Epcot pavilion, or even just a part of a space pavilion showing a travel through the galaxies!:p


But I agree, it could go in WS, or perhaps Adventureland. The thing is.....Africa is a continent, which is probably why it hasn't ever been turned into a WS pavilion.
Although, it is the World Showcase, not just necessarily the Country Showcase, so if DAK's continents were never there it could have happened. They would need a least another continent though, or we would end up with a lot of angry Africans that Disney just stereotyped them all together
 

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