imagineer boy
Well-Known Member
It's a shame, I always thought the trains were so nicely themed with the luggage on top of the cars and everything. It just wasn't worth the ride though.
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Wildlife Express Train closing?
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ThemeParks4Life
Well-Known Member
A few years ago Wikipedia said Haunted Mansion would be closing in January 2011 for New Fantasyland LOL.
lego606
MagicBandit
The site is very well policed, I'm just surprised nobody added a [source?] tag to that date.
Joshua Hall
Member
Looking at Google maps, The train going away would not give any new land to Asia as to the west is the safari area and to the east is a large vacant field save for a few small buildings that Asia is also up against, the nearest train tracks to Asia are actually near Flights of wonder/yak and yeti and that is to their west. The main part of the rind encircles Conservation way an access road that you run on for almost any Disney race that goes into AK.
Bolt
Well-Known Member
I edited to have it close in 2026, were good for a while.
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
Wikipedia says so....it must be true.
MerlinTheGoat
Well-Known Member
Are they planning on doing something new with the area, or would they just close it and replace it with nothing?
I wish they'd build a train track around the perimeter of the entire park that stops at different lands like the Magic Kingdom like parks. I'd love that to happen. Would be a nice long ride, would work fine thematically, and provide a nice quick and relaxing way to get to different parts of the park.
bethymouse
Well-Known Member
I always thought the train was kinda neat the way it seats passengers. I'll be sad to see it go. If they could just do more w/ Rafikis Planet Watch, it might be a spectacular part of the park to visit! I enjoy it, but it's not my favorite.
The long term plan is to have the area currently with Planet Watch walkable from the rest of the park. With things to do and see in between. Told you it's long term.
Clamman73
Well-Known Member
OK. Now can you change the part on the Horizons Wiki page that says it closed and was dismantled.
CDavid
Well-Known Member
OK. Now can you change the part on the Horizons Wiki page that says it closed and was dismantled.
Thank You!!!!!
Editing the page will change reality too, right?
And provide more to do in a park which begs for more to do. Love this idea.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
I think there's a lot more "Disney guts" at DAK which would be hard to hide with a perimeter track.
Wouldn't bother me though. I LOVE Disney guts. At least once/trip, we take the road that goes up the right side of MK, and then make a couple of lefts and come down the opposite side. Lots of behind the scenes Disney guts on view.
Same reason I love Astro Orbitor.
Tom Morrow
Well-Known Member
I never liked the idea of the train, I guess it's kind of neat for people to see backstage, but it openly destroys the "realism" of Kilimanjaro Safaris.
Wikipedia has been shown to be about as accurate as "actual" encyclopedias. Just be leary of recent edits - they get edited out anyway if they're wrong.
MarkTwain
Well-Known Member
I'm a frequent editor of Wikipedia, and for reasons I don't understand, Disney-related pages are by far some of the most inaccurate and poorly-written pages I come across. Whenever I leave the main "Disneyland" and "Walt Disney World" pages and get into the more obscure Disney subject articles, I always groan when I see the huge task of editing and correcting ahead. Lots of made-up "predictions" like these, false conclusions made from vague announcements, and just plain wrong information all over the place. It's really perplexing and no other subjects I read about are quite like this.
I blame the CPs.
themonkeyisthesultan
Well-Known Member
The road called Conservation Way on Google Maps is the main access road into Asia (it's the only way into the backstage areas of the Yak and Yeti, Flights of Wonder and Maharajah Jungle Trek) plus it provides access to many of the animal barns for the Safari, the shops in Africa and it's the way most of the safari trucks get onto their ride path. Getting rid of the train would free up virtually no land because this road takes up most of the space inside the loop. Rafiki's is going nowhere, it's going to be an important part of the upcoming Wilderness Explorers thing and is in the midst of a slight, gradual remodel. Plus it will be the new home of at least a couple soon-to-be homeless characters. Also, the petting zoo seems to be getting more new animals than the rest of the park combined lately.