Primeval Whirl Replacement??

[Danrol388]

I just don’t understand where Imagineers got the idea that Dinosaurs and traveling carnivals came together as one.....I see no relation there. Its like saying lets build a Villains land and theme it as a Circus :veryconfu just don’t get it.

Second, putting in a theme of a traveling carnival totally contradicts everything Walt visioned for his parks. He wanted something out of the ordinary. Not that. That’s just my opinion

 

[Lee]

Actually, it is not meant to be a traveling carnival, but a stationary one.
Back in the 40s and 50s roadside carnivals and gift shops like Chester and Herster's were very common out west in parts of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, etc.
Lots of dinosaur fossils were being discovered and that brought a lot of tourists to those areas. Taken in context...it fits.

 

[djmatthews]

Does anybody have Joe Rohde's number? We'll ask him what's going on!

Personnally, I don't think we should be slagging off the Imagineers - I'm sure they did they best they could with the small change from Michael Eisners latest bonus.

I hate this area - its so not Disney like. Yes its supposed to look cheap - it suceeded, but I can go in this attraction anywhere. It does not belong in a Disney Park. Uncle Walt must be turning in his grave!

 

[DarkMeasures]

I find Dino-rama to be very Disneylike. The problem is what rides they have. There is a spinning wildmouse coaster at SFGAm 60 miles from me and there are so many dumbo clones scattered across WDW. It wouldn't kill them to build another kind of Flat ride.

 

[disney_nutter]

I have no problem with the dinoramra area anytime i go to it i always see people having fun and is that not what disney is about, just because you dont think that the aera is great doesnt mean that a kid of 6 or 7 will. I love the PW, i think its fun attraction and as i have said people have fun on it so whats the problem or do you just want to have thrill after thrill round every corner leave it the way it is. its not hurting anyone

 

[Michael72688]

I have no problem with the dinoramra area anytime i go to it i always see people having fun and is that not what disney is about, just because you dont think that the aera is great doesnt mean that a kid of 6 or 7 will. I love the PW, i think its fun attraction and as i have said people have fun on it so whats the problem or do you just want to have thrill after thrill round every corner leave it the way it is. its not hurting anyone

I agree, people are always having a great time in there, but I guess most of you would rather have theme instead of fun

 

[Lauriebar]

I agree, people are always having a great time in there, but I guess most of you would rather have theme instead of fun

People have fun at a monster truck show and county fairs that doesn't mean that they belong in the Animal Kingdom. Don't get me wrong I am not saying carnivals and fairs are not FUN, I am saying that in my opinion the atmosphere of carnies barking at you is not a good thing to be at a Disney park. I believe it sets a bad precident and could very well lead to other sub-par attractions.

 

[weluvtink]

I know there are alot of adults who don't like that area, but my kids love it. I think they were planning with kids in mind. Dino-Rama may not be exciting to us grown-ups, but some would say the World Showcase is boring for kids.

 

[VillainFan]

I actually love Dino-Rama. I don't care if it fits with the rest of the park or not, it's fun.

 

[Bluewaves]

Last year when I was at AK and the Dino Land area was open for the first time I saw it. I said to myself this is pretty cool , not like it was a very expensive thing to do but the theming was great and the idea of a roadside carnival on an old parking lot was fun. I almost even stayed long enough in AK to almost buy lunch instead of in years past when all I did was go and see the animals , ride extinction , kilmanjaro, and kali and then run back to the room to get some dry clothes, so it was all good , kinda fun. People seemed to be having lots of fun and with Everest open next year or 06 or whenever it might be fun to spend the almost a whole day in AK. While I agree the games might need to go from what I saw alot of people were winning some stuff unlike six flags games where no one ever wins so it was all good, I don't like the games and would prefer another ride in the corner of the lot, a ferris wheel or carousel or something like that.

 

[Dr Albert Falls]

I agree, Dinoland is far from Disney's best work.

But it DOES somewhat make sense when looking at Animal Kingdom's history and business plan.

On opening day in 1998, AK was simply TOO ambitious of a project--- one that was too much of a departure from Disney's usual "formula" for theme parks. While it's good that Disney took the gamble to build something so unique and different (no one can deny that AK is WDW's most beautiful and heavily-themed park), it didn't quite work with guests as they had hoped.

Of course, it took Disney a year or two to realize that (understandably, they had to give their new park time to "grow" on guests).

Disney already had the Asia expansion underway, including an E-Ticket--- Kali River Rapids. Unfortunately, those alone weren't enough to turn the park around.

By 2000, it became clear AK needed something BIG. Whether Disney should have quickly dusted off it's old "Beastly Kingdom" plans (or should have had something else in the pipeline) was basically moot at this point. Anything they'd greenlight in 2000 would have taken YEARS to build. And AK needed a quick fix THEN.

That's how Dinorama fit in. It gave AK a new attraction to keep people occupied while Expedition Everest was being finalized and built. Without Dinorama, AK would not have had a new attraction for more than FIVE years.

Sure, we wish Dinorama could have been given a bigger budget and more planning, so it didn't look "cheap". But it WAS cheap--- and more important, QUICK. Something Disney could get up-and-running right away.

In hindsight, Disney should have had "AK Phase 2" on the drawing boards and ready to go BEFORE opening day. Maybe you can blame that on budget cuts. Or maybe it was simply that Disney was caught off-guard with AK's shortfalls. Or maybe it was that, until AK, all other Disney parks opened with rather minimal offerings, with the next big E-Ticket coming several years later.

Either way, Dinorama WAS and IS the band-aid that has kept AK from hemmoraging as they wait for Expedition Everest to make its mark.