News Rafiki's Planet Watch is closing Oct. 21st will reopen in Summer 2019

[jt04]

Oh I can't wait to see how that post ages.

That poster is at least equal to Martin for reliability.

 

[ToTBellHop]

There are no current, serious discussions of anything more than Zootopia m&gs at WDW (and only 1 day per week at that). The varied M&Gs, however, is a test to hopefully allow rarer characters not deemed worthy of a full-time M&G to meet sporadically. Wilde and Hopps are in that category.

A different project is under consideration for DAK.

 

[Tom P.]

Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse but Animal Kingdom's message is just so in tact and the park is so beautiful right now I hope they don't dilute it with Zootopia. The park is the modern version of EPCOT Center in terms of it being true to it's original vision... I just don't want them to make the same mistakes.

I disagree. Animal Kingdom's original vision was tarred, feathered, and beaten over the head with a shovel when Pandora went in.

 

[wdwperry]

I disagree. Animal Kingdom's original vision was tarred, feathered, and beaten over the head with a shovel when Pandora went in.

Thats a bit over dramatic. It fit the need that that the park had of mythical creatures just as well as the previously designed Beastly Kingdom, but this is a discussion for another thread.

 

[Brer Oswald]

There are no current, serious discussions of anything more than Zootopia m&gs at WDW (and only 1 day per week at that). The varied M&Gs, however, is a test to hopefully allow rarer characters not deemed worthy of a full-time M&G to meet sporadically. Wilde and Hopps are in that category.

A different project is under consideration for DAK.

Off topic post, but is your profile picture your tattoo? If so, that’s sick!

 

[Rteetz]

I disagree. Animal Kingdom's original vision was tarred, feathered, and beaten over the head with a shovel when Pandora went in.

Disagree here. Pandora fits better than Camp Minnie Mickey did. The way they built Pandora keeps it true to that original vision of Animal Kingdom. Animal Kingdom was always meant to have a mythical area.

 

[999th Happy Haunt]

I disagree. Animal Kingdom's original vision was tarred, feathered, and beaten over the head with a shovel when Pandora went in.

In all honesty, Pandora kinda fits better than Beastly Kingdom would have

 

[Disney Maddux]

In all honesty, Pandora kinda fits better than Beastly Kingdom would have

 

[peter11435]

I disagree. Animal Kingdom's original vision was tarred, feathered, and beaten over the head with a shovel when Pandora went in.

Disagree

 

[Magenta Panther]

Same here...but Darkwing Duck and Roger Rabbit have absolutely no presence in WDW. I had to fly all the way to Paris this year just to meet both of them.

We don’t always get what we want.

Both Darkwing and Roger are horribly neglected. But given Disney's current reboot fever, maybe they'll get revived in some fashion.

 

[Magenta Panther]

I don't see why Zootopia wouldn't fit into DAK, given that DAK was originally supposed to include fictional beasts as well as real ones. And I don't see Zootopia as a good fit in DHS, unless you consider DHS a catch-all for random IPs, which, unfortunately, it may very well turn out to be...

 

[Rteetz]

I don't see why Zootopia wouldn't fit into DAK, given that DAK was originally supposed to include fictional beasts as well as real ones. And I don't see Zootopia as a good fit in DHS, unless you consider DHS a catch-all for random IPs, which, unfortunately, it may very well turn out to be...

Animals in Zootopia are imitating people. They drive cars, are police officers, etc. At least in films like Lion King or other films represented in AK they still act mainly like animals.

 

[mikejs78]

I don't see why Zootopia wouldn't fit into DAK, given that DAK was originally supposed to include fictional beasts as well as real ones. And I don't see Zootopia as a good fit in DHS, unless you consider DHS a catch-all for random IPs, which, unfortunately, it may very well turn out to be...

It's the fact that Zootopia takes place in a big, modern city, which is kind of the antithesis of Animal Kingdom. DHS is now about immersion into the worlds created by movies, So a Zootopia Land could very well fit.

But it doesn't really belong in a Castle Park either like Shanghai. (Then again, neither does Galaxy's Edge).

 

[Magenta Panther]

Animals in Zootopia are imitating people. They drive cars, are police officers, etc. At least in films like Lion King or other films represented in AK they still act mainly like animals.

Okay, so a talking animal has to be naked, talk only to other animals, and walk on all fours to fit into DAK?

 

[Rteetz]

Okay, so a talking animal has to be naked, talk only to other animals, and walk on all fours to fit into DAK?

I don't think you got my point so lets just agree to disagree.

 

[Magenta Panther]

I don't think you got my point so lets just agree to disagree.

Fair enough.

 

[Tick Tock]

Okay, so a talking animal has to be naked, talk only to other animals, and walk on all fours to fit into DAK?

Being naked, talking to animals, and walking on all fours gets you noted as frequent V.I.P. for F&W, or so I hear.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I don't see why Zootopia wouldn't fit into DAK, given that DAK was originally supposed to include fictional beasts as well as real ones. And I don't see Zootopia as a good fit in DHS, unless you consider DHS a catch-all for random IPs, which, unfortunately, it may very well turn out to be...

Beastly Kingdom was not any and all fictional animals. They were mythological animals which personified man's understanding of the powers of the natural world.

 

[999th Happy Haunt]

Hey I’m not saying it would’ve been worse, just Pandora blends so incredibly well with the rest of the park that it’s hard to see a mostly mideval fantasy realm fit better. But it was never built so we’ll never really know.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

I'm just waiting for them to announce a coaster...