doctornick
Well-Known Member
Right, so since they are tearing down PW, it begs of the question as to if something new is going in. I mean, it was sitting there closed for a while without being removed so what changed?
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News Primeval Whirl, Stitch's Great Escape and Rivers of Light permanently closed
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Right, so since they are tearing down PW, it begs of the question as to if something new is going in. I mean, it was sitting there closed for a while without being removed so what changed?
UNCgolf
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They need room for a new DVC and Disney+ kiosk.
TrippedUp
Active Member
It was literally hurting people. Guest satisfaction was low. Sometimes you do addition by subtraction. I have no basis for this but part of me still thinks they'll replace it with another off the shelf attraction and thats why they're moving so fast, with a theming company doing the demo.
Cesar R M
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nickys
Premium Member
Do we actually know the real reason for it being closed permanently?
Was it to do with needing better restraints that turned out to be too costly? Did the engineers decide it needed far more maintenance than they realised? We’re the regular maintenance costs too high? Or something else entirely?
@MansionButler84, @Magic Feather?
ImperfectPixie
Well-Known Member
I could swear I remember reading someone got injured while working on the attraction, and then more safety fences were added or something?
Figgy1
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Brer Panther
Well-Known Member
It'd be neat if at least one of those cardboard dinosaur cutouts wound up on eBay or something.
EeyoreFan#24
Well-Known Member
Finally got to the meteorite part of the storyline. Hopefully something else is in the works.
DisneyDean97
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Eh, I get why people on here want a family-friendly dark ride to replace Primeval Whirl, but I feel like Animal Kingdom needs another outdoor ride, or at least a majority outdoor ride. Other than Everest, Kali and Kilimanjaro, what other outdoor ride do they have? For being "nature park" so to speak, why have so many indoor attractions. I would love to see an outdoor coaster, personally
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
I mean, they literally have nature trails, and I'd argue the queue for It's Tough to Be a Bug is almost an attraction in and of itself.
I'll be real... I go to Disney as opposed to typical amusement parks because a majority of their stuff is inside. lol
Rescue Ranger
Well-Known Member
I still love the Dinosaur theme of the area, just not how it was implemented. If they keep it, it needs to be completely re-imagined otherwise re-theme the entire area and leave the Dinosaurs to Universal.
IIRC the company that supplied replacement parts or whatever went out of business. So maybe whatever they needed they couldn’t get?
I hated the ride so it’s no loss to me it’s gone. I also get why they need to remove it even if nothing else going there is imminent. It’s one thing to fence off an area near a resort like River Country was and do nothing with it for years. No one should be there. It’s another to do it in a theme park where there’s a lot of foot traffic walking by a structure that can fall into disrepair over time.
doctornick
Well-Known Member
Also most of the indoor rides are set up so that they take place outdoors (eg both Pandora ride, Dinosaur) so they are still presenting you the outside natural world - just in a comfortable climate controlled setting.
I’m sorry but the idea that DAK “needs” more outdoor stuff seems laughable to me.
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
That’s actually quite an interesting point.
They have one although you have to take a train to get to it. Currently.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
Two CMs have died working the ride, one in 2007 and the other in 2011. There have also been at least two riders seriously injured on copies of this ride in other parks.
ImperfectPixie
Well-Known Member
UGH. I thought I'd remembered a death, but didn't want to say that without being sure.
