lazyboy97o
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Zootopia Coming To Shanghai
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brb1006
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The only park at WDW that a Zootopia area would at least fit would be at DHS. It would look very out of place at AK.
While I don't want to start another IP debate. At least characters from Disney films such as Bambi, The Lion King, and The Jungle Book for example fit better at Animal Kingdom. While the characters from Zootopia are anthropomorphic (However Mickey and friends can get away with that) and a Zootopia land at AK would seriously stick out like a sore thumb.
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TwilightZone
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Animals that act like animals.
The only park at WDW that a Zootopia area would at least fit would be at DHS. It would look very out of place at AK. While I don't want to start another IP debate. At least characters from Disney films such as Bambi, The Lion King, and The Jungle Book for example at least fit at AK since they are actual animals.
justintheharris
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Zootopia characters aren't animals?
The only park at WDW that a Zootopia area would at least fit would be at DHS. It would look very out of place at AK. While I don't want to start another IP debate. At least characters from Disney films such as Bambi, The Lion King, and The Jungle Book for example at least fit at AK since they are actual animals.
What? Isn't the whole movie based on prejudice and stereotypes in the Animal Kingdom? Like I get you may think it's out of place but claiming Zootopia's characters aren't animals is quite out there. No, walking on two legs doesn't make them human.
wiredforflight
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Very pleased to see this news. I also do hope that it comes to WDW in Hollywood Studios, would be the best fit park wise.
TwilightZone
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Personally, the closet park that could work for zootopia besides DHS is Epcot IMO. Here's why.
It does not fit the future theme at all, but does has a message of acceptance and a setting involving multiple ecologies.
You can either go two ways with this, one is using the message of acceptance to show how mankind has changed throughout history/ show how we can work together to make a better future.
Or you can use the different ecologies as a new show for the land. To show how different animals adapt to different ecologies in a fun way.
Just my opinion though.
It does not fit the future theme at all, but does has a message of acceptance and a setting involving multiple ecologies.
You can either go two ways with this, one is using the message of acceptance to show how mankind has changed throughout history/ show how we can work together to make a better future.
Or you can use the different ecologies as a new show for the land. To show how different animals adapt to different ecologies in a fun way.
Just my opinion though.
EPCOTCenterLover
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Zootopia is a fine movie with good animation and an interesting story. But I think its a "one and done". I hope the ride is excellent. If they put it in Florida, it would only fit in DHS... maybe. Please keep it out of Animal Kingdom.
Timothy_Q
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Fixed it for youZootopia characters aren't animals?
the.dreamfinder
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After Tron was hastily put in MK, I get the feeling this land is staying put in Shanghai for a longer time frame.
Also, DHS will need to dramatically ramp up hourly capacity to accomodate GE in a way AK hasn’t needed to with Pandora. So DHS is the only park where there is a strong thematic fit, operational need and business case.
justintheharris
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You did lol But that doesn't make them humans.
Sharon&Susan
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Animal Kingdom is themed to mankind’s relationship with the animal kingdom, it is not about the relationship of the animal kingdom with itself.
What can one read into this?...
The first-ever Zootopia-themed land...
Timothy_Q
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No, it makes them a metaphor for human issues
brb1006
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That's exactly what I was trying to say.
Edit: My bad, it's a few pages back. But here's another post with an identical picture, I guess
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I only did a cursory scroll through this thread, but it looks like this was just officially announced:
Congratulations, @Zootopia Dude ! If you need any help learning Chinese, I can you give my old CHI 101/102 textbook.
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I only did a cursory scroll through this thread, but it looks like this was just officially announced:
Congratulations, @Zootopia Dude ! If you need any help learning Chinese, I can you give my old CHI 101/102 textbook.
BrianLo
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This looks great! Looks like a properly executed expansion.
Its scaling is relatively appropriate for Shanghai. If it ever did come stateside I would hope it wouldn't be a copy and paste job and they would rethink it.
Save up your money. Shanghai is worth a visit.
We can't lose context of which market we are talking about. Zootopia is the Disney companies' (NOT just Animation) second biggest release in China ever. Outside of Marvel the only real box office performance option for that market is Coco (a bit too late of a release for how long they have likely been planning this).
Now I think a Zootopia sequel probably is happening for other reasons, but if they added a Coco section to Shanghai I wouldn't immediately think that meant a sequel was 100% in the work.
I wonder/hope there is a bit of pressure to maintain some exclusivity. I'm really glad AK keeps one of its exclusive staples (Everest) and Shanghai gets one of its own. Thank god that market didn't like Star Wars... I don't want every Disney parks turning into McDonalds where all the menus have to be the same worldwide. While the WDS expansion is on paper quite massive and similar to what Tokyo Disney Sea is receiving in a single investment... it's also just somehow not enticing to visit a series of clones.
Its scaling is relatively appropriate for Shanghai. If it ever did come stateside I would hope it wouldn't be a copy and paste job and they would rethink it.
Save up your money. Shanghai is worth a visit.
We can't lose context of which market we are talking about. Zootopia is the Disney companies' (NOT just Animation) second biggest release in China ever. Outside of Marvel the only real box office performance option for that market is Coco (a bit too late of a release for how long they have likely been planning this).
Now I think a Zootopia sequel probably is happening for other reasons, but if they added a Coco section to Shanghai I wouldn't immediately think that meant a sequel was 100% in the work.
I wonder/hope there is a bit of pressure to maintain some exclusivity. I'm really glad AK keeps one of its exclusive staples (Everest) and Shanghai gets one of its own. Thank god that market didn't like Star Wars... I don't want every Disney parks turning into McDonalds where all the menus have to be the same worldwide. While the WDS expansion is on paper quite massive and similar to what Tokyo Disney Sea is receiving in a single investment... it's also just somehow not enticing to visit a series of clones.
fradz
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That's true, I would expect that, but just for the sake of it, there's another pad available.
Just talking out of my on this one, to open up the debate; but the pad where the Marvel tents are currently sitting is also available. And Zootopia being set in the future, so close to Tomorrowland; and also next to Fantasy Gardens as it is still a Disney animation story.
Now how it would fit in there, given the size of the buildings in the artist rendering, that would be pretty hard to integrate and the view from the hub would probably not be too great.
About the Everest pad... I'm concerned about how close Zootopia is going to be to Pirates..
A nice, not self-centered message. WDW gets everythinggg!
justintheharris
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Well okay yea that's a very accurate statement but now you need to justify Bambi and The Lion King making sense in the park because neither of those are about animals' relations with earth or humans. However, they still make sense because they don't need to focus on the story line of the movie.That's exactly what I was trying to say.