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These are for World Showcase:
The entrance of World Showcase now has the flags of Alaska, Canada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, Cambodia, The UK, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, France, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, India, Japan, the USA, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Mali, China, Sweden, Norway, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Panama flying at the entrance to show what countries are being represented surrounding a slowly rotating globe fountain made of stained glass.
Canada, now renamed to The North due to representing Alaska Native and Native American cultures along with Canadian First Nations cultures, gets The Raven Tales Potlatch, a projection/animatronic hybrid show themed to Raven Tales of the Pacific Northwest Natives of Canada, Alaska, and the United States within the Native American Plank House and a nearby Kwakwaka'wakw Longhouse holds Flight Of The Hoxhok, an interactive show based on the traditional dances of the Kwakwaka’wakw in which guests dance along wearing small half face masks that can open and close based on the long beak of the mythical Hoxhok Bird using authentic steps that are taught to them before the songs along with the bird's fall of “HAP! HAP! HAP!” which means “EAT EAT! EAT!” in the Kwakwaka’wakw language. The half face masks, made of plastic, can be kept as souvenirs. Despite the use of the Hoxhok bird, the show has little to do with the Hamatsa ceremony due to how sacred it is to the Kwakwaka’wakw people. Rather, it tells the story of a nest of Hoxhok birds with fledglings, portrayed by the guests, learning to fly and swoop on prey from their parents, portrayed by Kwakwaka’wakw dancers. It will tell the story, written by Kwakwaka’wakw tribal elders, in a culturally sensitive way while still keeping it fun and engaging for all involved. The main attraction is Canada: Far And Wide, a dark ride taking guests through Canadian History.
Millennium Village is replaced with Cambodia, themed as a jungle filled with ruins of the once great Khmer Empire which guests can explore.
UK is redesigned into The British Isles and gets four subsections: England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. England has a Mary Poppins Carousel, a dark ride taking guests on a tour of Victorian London, a replica of Stonehenge, and a castle based on Hampton Court, Scotland serves as a meet and greet for Merida along with a peaceful ride taking guests through the Highlands, Wales holds a walkthrough based on The Black Cauldron with an animatronic Red Dragon similar to Paris, and Ireland has a ride based on Irish mythology and an Irish pub.
International Gateway is replaced with New Zealand, set in the fictional town of Mahuta, New Zealand located on the Fiordlands. Guests inside of Fiordland Holiday, home to a forest exhibit and Aquarium, can see several indigenous animals of the island, like Albatross, Pitoitoi, Tui, Piwakawaka (Fantail) , Kakapo, Kiwi, Pukeko, Blue Duck, Fiordland Penguin, Takahe, Brown Teal Ducks, Weka, Yellow Crown Parakeet, Little Blue Penguin, Yellowhead, NZ Falcon, Jeweled Gecko, Black And Red Coral, Hector's Dolphin, Hooke's Sea Lion, Weta, and even a skeleton of the extinct Moa bird and Haast Eagle! Guests can also explore a Māori marae, or meeting ground. Guests can enter the Wharenui, or meeting house, which has many Māori ambassadors who explain things to guests, like the concepts of Marae, Iwi (Extended family group owning a Marae), Whānau (Family), and Māori idioms. Guests can fly authentic Māori kites, or Manu Tukutuku, sample Kūmara, or sweet potato, grown in the nearby gardens during the season of Matariki, see and hear Waiata, or Māori songs with dance, look at the Māori night sky, and see red, black, and white paper stars hanging. Guests can also view the Māori's famous ornate carvings, see the beautiful Kowhaiwhai on the Wharenui, and watch and learn some Long Poi dances. At night, a Kapa Haka dance show is held with poi, rākau, and haka dances! A restaurant is inside the meetinghouse, called Hāngi. A Hāngi is a Māori gathering with traditional foods. Guests can eat Kūmara, Kamokamo (squash), potatoes, lamb, and Puha (Sowthistle). Guests can also buy greenstone pendants in Pounamu, visit the Kowhaiwhai Gallery, view woven Tukutuku, and view a Cook Islands Tīvaevae Karakara (Piecework Quilt). Outside of the marae, guests can see sheep on green fields, volcanoes, snowy mountains, caves with twinkling lights, a marsh, and even a large waterfall! Guests can ride through these beautiful scenes on the New Zealand Cruise, a Storybook Land Canal Boat inspired ride with no guide. Guests ride Māori Waka canoes through the mountains, fields, glowworm caves, volcanic areas, marshes, and forests of New Zealand! A special emphasis is placed on the nature of New Zealand. Another attraction is at a small area of water representing Te Whanganui a Tara, or The Wellington Harbor. It is a boat based dark ride that tells the heartwarming tale of a taniwha named Ngāke, who formed the harbor. Ngāke, unlike most Taniwhas, cared about the humans who lived along his river. One day, the people were hungry due to failure to catch fish, Ngāke helped the people! He enchanted their fish hooks so that they always got fish, even when others didn’t. Ngāke would later help form the harbor in Wellington. A walkthrough attraction is a replica of the Anawheku Caves! During Matariki, the Māori new year, the section goes through a decorated overlay.
France gets a new immersive walkthrough based on the Parisian Catacombs and a dark ride taking guests on a madcap tour of 1900s Montmarte, which was a district of art home to big names such as Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso, then an unknown artist, in those days.
The Morocco Pavilion and the two empty plots near it are replaced by The Mystic East, a land based on Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, India, Morocco, and Middle Eastern, Indian, and Egyptian history/myths. Egypt is represented by a replica of the Sphinx and an exact replica of the Great Pyramid at Giza complete with having a volume of 18,069,333.33333 cubic cubits, a height of 54,208 cubits, and a base measuring 440 cubits. Within it, guests can view replicas of Egyptian artifacts such as the Rhind Papyrus, eat Egyptian meals, explore a replica Egyptian tomb, and board a Nile River Cruise to see the sights of Egypt. Iraq is represented by a replica of Hammurabi's Code, one of the world's first written law codes, in Akkadian with a sign holding English translations and a replica of Babylon where guests can try and solve cuneiform math problems. Jordan is represented by a replica of Petra holding an interactive Last Crusade themed walkthrough attraction taking guests through the story of the film as if they were a main character who followed Indy the whole way from Marshal College to Venice and rom Venice to Petra. Morocco, now absorbed into The Mystic East, stays the same except for the Restaurant Marrakesh, which becomes a dark ride themed to a Casbah haunted by spirits from Arabian and North African mythology. India is represented by a replica of the Taj Mahal with accurate measurements, a Bollywood dance show, a ride taking guests through the richest city in India, Chandigarh, 3 statues in a traditional Indian style depicting Sine, Cosine, and Tangent to honor the man who thought them up, Aryabhata, a ride through the Himalayas including Mount Everest, and a rapids ride themed to the Chenab River, complete with a replica of the Chenab Rail Bridge.
Japan gets the Mount Fuji ride, but instead of a coaster it's a dark ride based on the Yokai in Japanese mythology.
The American Adventure gets an audio quality update and a new section dealing with Native American life before the Europeans came.
Italy gets a Pompeii walkthrough leading up to a Colosseum/Pantheon themed building home to a dark ride based on Roman history.
The area between Germany and France is replaced by Switzerland, themed to an Alpine village at the foot of the Matterhorn. The Matterhorn holds a bobsled coaster based on Swiss folklore.
Germany gets the Rhine River Cruise and a replica of Neuschwanstein Castle with a walkthrough.
The African Outpost is renamed to Equatorial Africa and gains a treehouse observation deck atop a fake baobab tree, a show with audience participation featuring West African drummers, and a replica of the Mosque of Djenne in Mali holding a ride based on the Anansi Tales.
China gains an omnimover dark ride based on a classic work of Chinese Literature called The Journey To The West and a replica of the Great Wall Of China.
Norway is redesigned into Scandinavia, gets an updated Maelstrom, and gains an annual Jokkmokk Winter Market based on the one in Sweden during the holidays.
Mexico, now redesigned into Latin America, has a boat ride themed to Aztec and Mayan mythology, a Dia De Los Muertos walkthrough, a replica Panama Canal, and an Encanto walkthrough garden. The Odyssey is replaced by an area of Latin America themed to Peru. This area takes guests to an Andean village with an open air market, restaurants serving Peruvian food, and the Ancient Ruins of the Coricancha, Chullpa, Pisac, and Pirka that act as the queue for Qhapaq Ñan, a dark ride that takes guests back in time to the great Quechua empire of Tawantinsuyu, or the Inca Empire to modern people, to follow the great Inca road of Qhapaq Ñan through the four Inca suyus, or regions, Chinchaysuyu, Antisuyu, Collasuyu, and Contisuyu. Guests load vehicles painted like Inca textiles and go off to the gorges of Chinchaysuyu, crossing a rope suspension bridge, before proceeding to the rainforests of Antisuyu, where feather clad locals can be seen drinking from Kero cups, harvesting quina bark, and giving their babies red and black Wayruro seeds. The next scene is Collasuyu, home to several chullo hat wearing llama/alpaca farmers and their livestock. The final scene is Contisuyu, the coastal region where chaski messengers bearing quipus, shell gatherers, and fishermen dwell.
and into the park.
(I have edited the comment now to reflect this insane typo I had made.)
