Sage of Time
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If you look closely, those planters are made up up the Tree of Life's roots. It's VERY pretty.
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PHOTOS - Discovery Island expansion at Disney's Animal Kingdom underway
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RSoxNo1
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Did anything change from @WDWTravelers photos from 3 weeks ago?
http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/animal-kingdom-tidbits.889022/page-6#post-6439948
Sage of Time
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They're in the first "garden" in the trails, right?I have a feeling the lemurs won't be coming back.
RayTheFirefly
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Doesn't seem like it.
dreamfinder
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I have a feeling the lemurs won't be coming back.
Hadn't they been building them a new enclosure elsewhere?
drew81
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They were near the entrance to It's Tough To Be A Bug and the Russell/Dug meet and greet.
Animal Programs moved the tamarins to over near the entrance to Africa.
dreamfinder
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That's what it was. Thanks for clarifying. Hopefully they can find another chunk of space for the lemurs at some point. It's a shame when any animal leaves.
Next Big Thing
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Seeing as it was just a walkway expansion for nighttime entertainment, i'm not exactly sure what you were expecting.
Incomudro
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Yes, doesn't a walkway by it's intended purpose need to be relatively featureless?
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
And the Hub of the Magic Kingdom will be just the same. So should we have little expectations for the hub if that is the bar you are going to use for theming?
Next Big Thing
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The hub is a much larger area, much larger project and it will have a lot of trees, bushes, and flower beds. Look at the screen capture in the hub thread.
The two projects aren't even comparable. This project was simply to give room for performers and increased traffic. The area isn't even that big to start with.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
What is different, They are both walkways doubling as entertainment viewing areas, very comparable. MK is themed, Disney just opted to go cheap on this and leave it ugly, nothing more and nothing new this century. AK could have been a nicer project, landscaped nicely but that would have to be funded.
Incomudro
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They're walkways.
Put things in them, be it benches or too many plants etc. and the purpose gets defeated because traffic snarls.
Strollers bottleneck, Wall E scooter riders bottleneck...
I'd be willing to bet that WDW views tons of footage of these areas at different times of the year to gauge how an expansion should be done.
Put things in them, be it benches or too many plants etc. and the purpose gets defeated because traffic snarls.
Strollers bottleneck, Wall E scooter riders bottleneck...
I'd be willing to bet that WDW views tons of footage of these areas at different times of the year to gauge how an expansion should be done.
WDWtraveler
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New construction walls at entrance to Discovery Island. Photo update as of Saturday, Jan 10. Two entrances to Island Mercantile have been closed off, with construction walls taking up a lot of space on the left side of Discovery Island plaza. The construction walls on the right side have been expanded into the plaza. The result is a new "choke point" just as you cross the entrance bridge onto Discovery Island.
The photo below was taken from the newly opened Discovery plaza looking back towards the bridge to the park's exit. On the left is the construction wall near the Wilderness Explorer's kiosk (seen above on the right), and on the right is the construction wall in front of Island Mercantile.
The photo below was taken from the newly opened Discovery plaza looking back towards the bridge to the park's exit. On the left is the construction wall near the Wilderness Explorer's kiosk (seen above on the right), and on the right is the construction wall in front of Island Mercantile.
WDWtraveler
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Construction area closer to Tree of Life. Photo update as of Saturday, Jan 10. There are three poles visible above the construction wall that are probably part of the new entertainment venue for the Tree of Life. Two poles visible in the photo below. One additional pole on the opposite side. The structure on the right pole has Animal Kingdom designs on the sides of the box.
RayTheFirefly
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So many walls...