Disney Maddux
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News Rafiki's Planet Watch is closing Oct. 21st will reopen in Summer 2019
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CJR
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Just wanted to note, I can see why this is being reworked.
When we came back to this area a few weeks ago, we were looking for the old mermaid puppet show. Turns out, after searching here, it was removed around 2005. So, it's been a long while since we've been back in that area.
When we came back to this area a few weeks ago, we were looking for the old mermaid puppet show. Turns out, after searching here, it was removed around 2005. So, it's been a long while since we've been back in that area.
Here is a photo set from the last day of operation until it reopens in whatever form.
https://www.wdwmagic.com/attraction.../22oct2018-rafiki's-planet-watch-overview.htm
https://www.wdwmagic.com/attraction.../22oct2018-rafiki's-planet-watch-overview.htm
MinnieM123
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Thank you for sharing those.
GlacierGlacier
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The train station in Africa is currently being used as a Wilderness Explorers location.
Disney Maddux
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Has anyone gotten any aerial views to see what they're doing to the place?
lazyboy97o
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Permits would come before anything visible from the air.
The Empress Lilly
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See those photos I can't help but think what a museum to DAK 1.0 Rafiki is. And museum to me is a positive qualification.
Old style DAK benches, 90's colour scheme (reminiscent of the TTC), bad wordplay (Conservation Station). I'll miss it.
Disney Maddux
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Good point.
Disneyrailfan1996
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Lucky! I remember doing that as a kid! I can’t remember what loco it was, but I think it was one of the brown ones. Wish I had a better memory of it, but it was at least 15 years ago. I’d imagine they COULD do something on the WDWRR during operation, but it would likely be (at least in part) an issue of liability.
Disney Maddux
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Mickey Views just made a perfect point about this renovation. He said he believes it will stay as the Planet Watch, but with a new Zootopia section to go with it, and that it would include an exhibit about some of the species’ that live in Zootopia, and what they do in the real world, and a Judy and Nick M&G. So all of RPW stays, but a new Zootopia section with it.
That okay with you purists?
That okay with you purists?
jt04
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I'm the most vocal critics on these boards when it comes to Zootopia at DAK but this definitely works. Actually they could do a lot more with this new land than what you describe.
Disney Maddux
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True! They could probably even make it like Fantasyland and Storybook Circus, where both are technically one big land, but split into different sections.
jt04
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I'd like to see them start on the scale of Storeybook/Dinorama and see how it goes. One of the major benefits is it would allow them to remove current Dinorama. Then Dinoland could be fixed or turned into Indiana Jones land of something.
Disneyrailfan1996
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I also wonder what might be done to the wild life express. Maybe a sound system upgrade? Track work? Coach refurbishment? Station refurbishment? Should be interesting to find out. I also recall (my memory is VERY fuzzy on this) a hidden Mickey experience at RPW where a cast member would activate lights on a wall and you would look for hidden mickeys. I can’t remember how long ago that was or what exactly it was, but I’d say 12 years ago at least, yet I do recall doing something like that as a kid one time at Disney.
I wonder what’ll happen to that during the refurb (unless of course I’m thinking of someplace else). I’m trying to remember what else was there, I know there was like a little show with an animated puppet (not an AA) that talked about the ocean and something like littering. I’m curious if that may get updated to reflect current times (it’s been ages since I last saw it let alone actually visited RPW)
I wonder what’ll happen to that during the refurb (unless of course I’m thinking of someplace else). I’m trying to remember what else was there, I know there was like a little show with an animated puppet (not an AA) that talked about the ocean and something like littering. I’m curious if that may get updated to reflect current times (it’s been ages since I last saw it let alone actually visited RPW)
danlb_2000
Premium Member
It sounds like idle speculation on his part, he doesn't provide any evidence that this is happening.
Disney Maddux
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His evidence for it is of how Disney stated their will be another reason for guests to want to go to RPW, that combined with the surveys asking about Zootopia at DAK, he came with that theory.
Ever get the feeling that the Zootopia crowd is grasping at any straw to justify adding it somewhere? It won't draw. Zootopia is barely a blip on TDO's radar (if that). Cue the line from Elsa's famous song...