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Would Disney ever revive cancelled projects?
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lazyboy97o
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All projects get revised and changed. Had Beastly Kingdom continued it would not have remained the same as its last iteration.
lazyboy97o
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The landscaping and shade would be nice, but not the attractions (although the big new attraction was deemed impractical).
dreamfinder
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They totally could, but would they is a different question. It would depend on why it was cancelled in the first place. Was it approved and then funding needed to be shifted? In that case sure, money gets freed up, and they may move ahead. But if we were say talking about making over an existing boat ride with the latest popular movie in the princess franchise. And that was cancelled for whatever reason. Well, 5 years from now that princess franchise may not be popular. So they may redo it with the current hot trend. Or decide to replace an old model audioanimatronic with the latest version. Or replace a film projector with HD. So while its possible, there are plenty of things that would probably be changed and updated. They would want it to match current corporate/theme park strategy, even if that strategy is to run them into the ground.
WondersOfLife
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Disney technically did do this for the Country Bears...
Country Bear Jamboree was originally for a ski resort which was, and then revived for Magic Kingdom.
Country Bear Jamboree was originally for a ski resort which was, and then revived for Magic Kingdom.
Magenta Panther
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lazyboy97o
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Mineral King was not dead by the time work on the Magic Kingdom started, so the Country Bear Jamboree was more just built at the Magic Kingdom first.
Fix It Felix Senior
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Wish they would build The Great Muppet Movie Ride 
WondersOfLife
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Source?
HappilyEverAfter71
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From what I've read Beastly Kingdom was cancelled due to budget issues. And then much of the original ideas for it can now be seen in IoA. But at this point, I believe Avatarland is being built in the space it would've gone in
lazyboy97o
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Just look up the history of Mineral King. Disney kept working on the project into the 1970s. Yesterland has a rather good history of the project.
http://www.yesterland.com/mineralking.html
Bairstow
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To what extent was Merlinwood at Islands of Adventure the new (old?) Beastlie Kingdomme?
Cmdr_Crimson
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To what extent was Merlinwood at Islands of Adventure the new (old?) Beastlie Kingdomme?
Dragon Tower that was to be in Beastly Kingdomme was to be the E-Ticket for the section..
But, After Eisner Fired many imagineers...They decided to go to that other park across the way to make...Dueling Dragons...
But, I would have liked to have seen the Excavator Coaster for Dinoland..
Bairstow
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Does the timeline there match up?
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
Dragon Tower that was to be in Beastly Kingdomme was to be the E-Ticket for the section..
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I wonder if they kept those two giant statues or destroyed them.. They are very impressive!
Cmdr_Crimson
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AK Opened April 22nd, 1998
IoA Opened May 28th,1999
Which is about a year and thirty seven days apart from each other if that's what your reffering to.
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Cmdr_Crimson
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Oriolesmagic
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The really impressive part of Dueling Dragons was the queue. One of my favorite queues I've been through. I was disappointed to see some of the best parts of it replaced for the new "Dragon Challenge".
On another note, it's always interesting to see how poorly "Dragon Challenge" is doing in the new area. What once used to be the biggest draw for the back of the park now rarely has a line over 10 minutes, for some reason. Is there a chance they scrap the ride in favor of a huge expansion to Harry Potter?