Kilimanjaro Safaris. Noticed the thatched roof on the KS station roof is literally washing or blowing away. Huge chunks are missing. So much so that a new "under roof" on the inside. Look up and you will see the metal sheeting they have installed (I presume to prevent leaks). Any ideas whats going on and if repairs are planned. Out on the Safari, the Animatronic truck driven by the poachers was missing but the gun fire is still there. Has this element been removed or just left broken like everything else. Little Red trunk wasn't moving. It looked like a still figure. Finally, all the real zebra were completely missing from the savanna. Weird.
The thatch roofing has been through quite a bit (hurricanes are the first thing that comes to mind) and as far as I know never been replaced. I didn't notice anything last October when I was there. Does anyone have any pictures?
The Jeep has been removed. The continuous lightning strikes in the area made that effected unreliable at best. They finally just removed it.
Little Red suffers from the same afflicition as the Jeep only much less frequently. It is possible that a recent strike had disabled the elephant.
Zebras are removed when any animal on the savannah is pregnant. Zebras have a nasty habit of trampling newborns to death because they make too much noise.
If zebras in the wild identify one of their members as being in some way weak, sick or vulnerable, they will kill it so that it doesn't attract predators.
This has apparently happened in the DAK "herd", so the animals have been given an extended time out on the Northern (non-public) Savanna.
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I believe the Kili Jeep was removed a long time ago, but the sound effects wern`t. The rails are still intact behind the bushes.
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I notices KJS roof my last trip and I got the impression it wasn't supposed to be perfect by any means and I've never questioned it since. Maybe it was supposed to be, but got damaged. Who knows? It seemed to fit with the rest of the themed town and all flowed for me at least.
Also, the zebras have been out of the safari for a while now.
It is supposed to be a full roof. I can't really comment more unless I saw a photo.
That's an effect that is all time/crowd level dependent, as far as I know. Sometimes they use it, sometimes they don't.
There are several things that could make the bridge not work that are independent of the truck you are in. If the truck before you went to fast, or E-Stopped the bridge (trucks that have wheelchairs tend to do that quite a bit) that could cause the bridge to cycle for your vehicle and only have sound effects. Or your driver could have E-Stopped the bridge as you wouldn't know, there isn't an alarm or anything. Or your driver was too close to the vehicle in front of them and didn't give the bridge time to reset. As far as I know, it's not an effect that can just be "shut off".
Will the zebras ever return to the savanna?
Depends on the reason for their removal. If it is because of a new birth once whatever was born is a little older they will return.
-KS has become so non-linear. Seriously, does the new ending feel right to anybody? The dialogue and ending effects have been removed to the point of making the attraction just rushed and confusing. Plus "Little Red
" rarely moves.
The script was actually improved in my opinion. The core story is the same, but they moved most of the plot driven dialogue to areas where there are no animals to more engage the guest.
Please see above for the reason the Jeep is no longer available. I will admit I'm not sure why they got rid of the plane, it was the most reliable thing on the safari.
As far as I can tell Little Red has not had any diminished range of motion from when I worked there. In fact, for a while there was no Little Red as his face had melted off from a lightning strike.
The story line for Kilimanjaro Safaris is pointless. Millions of people have been on that attraction, and how many of those people praise the storyline over seeing animals.
We have a substantial enough backstory. We're in the Harambe wildlife reserve going on a Safari, do we really need a half-a$$ed story with a jeep that doesn't work? I'd rather have another animal enclosure in that arera.
With what I said about the script being an improvement, I'll admit the whole story isn't the best in general. Most guest are just confused when it is time to "chase the poachers", but this has been a flaw in attraction since day 1.
It comes from the parks opening and overly serious message of conservation.
There is also nowhere to put an animal enclosure. The finale doesn't take up that much room and also butts up to the train and various backstage facilities.
