Disney World's Animal Kingdom Is BROKEN: Problems Bigger than Disco Yeti Can't Be Solved by Zootopia
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- Disney World's Animal Kingdom Is BROKEN: Problems Bigger than Disco Yeti Can't Be Solved by Zootopia!
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Starring Vash Sky and @CultureCasino
Disney's Animal Kingdom is one of the least attended parks at Walt Disney World Resort. That's a huge problem for a place that has Pandora. So how can it rejuvenate attendance in the face of an upcoming Epic Universe? And how can it do with with as little investment as possible? Today we're starting our Fixing Disney World series of videos where we'll explain what Imagineering SHOULD be doing!
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I do like Pro's ideas of Australia and Antarctica lands. Keeping a general ANIMAL theme is a great idea. I would put an actual roller coaster in Pandora, I would 'renew' and update Dinosaur ride, and yes as Vash says, modernize the cars but also update the actual cue show (so old) and also add a few screens on the ride itself to modernize the special affects. I would burn down Dino land and put a fun dino themed roller coaster there with top notch theming as well.
In 100% agreement with EVERYONE on some type of moving vehicle ride to waste time (15-20 minutes) like the people mover, however I have a feeling it would be nightmare to plan through Animal Kingdom, as there is far too much foliage in the way. As Vash said, they maybe need to concentrate on transportation beyond buses and connect the Hotels to the park properly. A hybrid train like Culture mentioned is a great idea, shaded overall with solar panels (that likely power nothing if Disney track record is taken into account) with a walk way underneath it in shade as well? It could be off ground a ways to allow paths and roads still (if planned well this could be cheaper).
I like this type of show! Bring a tiny bit of positivity back to a Desperate Disney.
No loud rides, this is supposed to be animal themed. I don’t want to see it turn into Sea World.
I strongly disagree on updating the show in the dinosaur ride. All the new que shows are incredibly lame with bad acting. You can easily tell the people on screen are reading off a script. That’s my only issue with the Pandora ride. The current show in Dinosaur feels very authentic and I don’t trust modern Disney to have the skill to capture that authenticity in a remake.
I do however agree that dinoland itself needs a big makeover. And seeing updated animatronics in Dinosaur would be super cool.
Adding the Skyliner would greatly benefit this park and the areas around it. It’s the only disconnected park. Connecting it would elevate the experience at Disney.
Honestly, the Skyliner is fun to ride on a non-park day especially if you are spending a vacation day poolside and/or resort hopping.
@@piperian3962 But they already have expedition Everest, not far at all from the Kilimanjaro Safaris experience? A rollercoaster far off in the corners won't affect anymore then the train or Everest I think...
@@talyn6486 I do enjoy the pre-show for Dinosaur, BUT objectively it's really long in the teeth. I don't object to bringing back the original actors and re-doing it as it was, but in modern CG and in 16:9 and 4K on bigger tv screens. I wouldn't change the ride itself either, just update it a bit. ADD, not take away.
They aren't going to do Any of this because they do not give a damn about their guests.
Broken rides, dirty parks, fewer perks, all for higher prices. Oh gee i wonder why people are not going.
Wow I thought you were talking about the park closest to me Dizzyland in Animal Slime California, but everything you just said applies to Dizzy land in Animal Slim CA and haven't visited iin over 30+ years 👎🏻
San Diego wild animal park has something called “Roar and Snore” where people pay a premium to come in and sleep in tents overlooking the elephant and lion roaming lands. You enter a special reserved area at around six pm (open certain months of the year)- and are escorted back by your campground manager who has your pre-assigned reservation and how many people in your party. They feed you dinner, in a pavilion including camping style smores around a fire, have some after dinner light entertainment, and then its lights out at a certain time and you go to sleep. You’re awoken in the early hours by lions and elephants roaring in their natural habitat enclosure. They feed you breakfast, you pack up, and go. It’s a pretty neat experience and great photo opps even though the animals are still far from
Your campsite. They provide the tents, cots, bathrooms, pre-arranged meals etc. and you just bring your sleeping bag and a change of clothes. Disney could easily do something similar at a pretty low cost. Everyone on RUclips would fight each other for the reservation slots and bragging rights just to say they had done the overnight experience.
I’ve always had a problem with this parks lack of rides…but it’s called ANIMAL Kingdom…and they haven’t added any animal attractions since it opened. Just having animals from Africa and Asia is a mistake. Why wasn’t Australia or South America or Antarctica ever considered?
The park should have another walkthrough or two…5-6 smaller dark rides, a log flume, and another major coaster E ticket. 26 years old and it’s still a half day park.
I think Disney is forgetting the analogy of filling a bucket (the one where you fill it with rocks, then pebbles, then sand). They can fill the parks with the big-ticket items, but in order to truely fill them with a wonderful guest experience they need to fill it with great little-ticket attractions and small things that fill out the experience. I feel like they've forgotten about that in the movies as well. While I haven't been to the parks in about 15 years, from what I've heard about them think they definitely need to have more distractions happening because a line-of-sight can only immerse guests so much.
This is some of the best advice/thought/planning that has exposed itself to WDI and Disney in decades....and you guys are giving it away. THAT is the main problem--worse than spending real money smartly, Disney HATES free "Not Invented Here" ideas. HATES them. Stupid, but...there we are. One other major thing this does (and when I say this I include CC's people mover concept--brilliant!) is obviate the "another gate" issues--increased capacity, increased transport, increased hot-weather creature comforts and all w/o the "start from scratch" infrastructure of a whole new park. That SHOULD mean that ANY of this can be done FASTER than the usual snail's pace of Disney construction even when NOT replicating established stuff. And, again, that's why the Igerverse will never buy any of this or what I'm sure will be great ideas for the other parks coming up. Nelson Peltz, call your Pro-office! :)
Remeber when animal kingdom was just a park about animals.
Just got a home phone call from Disney regarding the proxy vote. The HOME!!! Desperate. A real person asked for a vote on favor of Bob Iger's board selection. They asked for feedback. Stunning.
Maybe it's just me, but if Disney was ambitous enough, they'd revamp their dinosaur section by actually making it a competitor to Universal's Jurassic Park by making accurate dinosaurs and have a T. rex that's actually badass instead of being weak.
Yeah, like have someone like either David Krentz, Ricardo Delgado, or William Stout design the T.rex. Or imaybe have the artist Arvalis from DeviantArt design it.
I'm on day 13,000+ of not having paid to enter a Disney property. I've gone for free a few times over the years, but they'll never get my money for admission. Very proud of that!
It's been nearly 11,000 days for me
That was one of the good things about the covid days. They had some areas to take off your mask and relax in shade with charging stations.
Right now the only downtime location in any park like it is the launch bay. Having a rest spot to cool down and rehydrate or recharge the phone is a very big deal
Disney does not want to add any new animal exhibits to DAK. I believe they underestimated the massive expense in obtaining and maintaining the animals. Without live animal exhibits, adding new lands based on different areas of the world (eg the Americas) would be completely pointless and would just turn DAK into another Epcot.
As for Dinoland, I have a way to retheme the land while still making it about Dinosaurs. The storyline can be changed to have it based around the historic Bone Wars and incorporate S.E.A. (Society of Explorers and Adventurers) into the mix by giving the land more of a late 1800s theme. The Dinosaur ride would still incorporate the time machines but redesigned to fit a steampunk theme (think HG Well's The Time Machine). The plot where Hester and Chester was is enough room to put a roller coaster that sends you through a fossil site. This would give the land a more original and unique flair than just being a standard land based on dinosaurs.
Disney fired/let go/pushed out everyone on the imagineering team who gave a darn, and they're blowing their any budgets that could go to fixing the parks on smear campaigns against Trian.
Gotta spend all that money on the commies.
Here at the Southern California Disney parks, California adventure badly needs to be fixed too. They were on the right track about 10 years ago with the addition of buena vista street and cars land. But it seems like after that the good additions stopped. Instead of fixing the other problem areas of the park iger has decided to just cheaply re theme them. Pixar pier and San fransokoyo adding nothing new and was just a cheap visual re theme.
Avengers campus was a new land but was done very cheap, not to mention web slingers is one of the worst rides in the park possibly worse than superstar limo. And it’s been 5+ years yet they keep dangling that avengers e ticket ride like a carrot in front of our noses, but they haven’t even started construction on it yet. Basically California adventure is just “meh” aside from the grand Californian hotel/area, buena vista street, and cars land. The rest of the park badly needs fixing and it’s still barely a half day park.
They are probably going to do that avatar addition as cheaply as possible too, most likely it’ll be a re theme of the grizzly peak area. So most likely dca will never be fixed and will always remain as one of the worst Disney parks aside from Disneyland Paris
Connect Animal Kingdom to Animal Kingdom lodge via train or boat. This should have been done years ago!!!! Add nighttime show in existing theater. Re-theme Dinosaur to Indy. (One of the best rides at Disneyland.) Add new giant land to the east to bring in several rides, thus creating a full day park that AK is not currently fulfilling. Bring back ride sponsors to help underwrite the costs.
No, they should not re-theme Dinosaur to Indiana Jones. That has nothing to do with animals.
Great ideas. My suggestion for Animal Kingdom would be to get rid of Rafiki's animal watch (or whatever it's called) and replace that with literally ANYTHING more interesting. I usually go to Disney World about every 5 years and I always skip this area because there's really nothing to it. It's a bit of a waste of time to be honest.
As a viewer, I've thoroughly enjoyed your content, finding your humor and informative style particularly engaging. I do have one suggestion for improvement, though: I believe that adding visual aids like bullet points or highlighting specific areas on Google Maps during the discussion would improve the clarity of the video and make it more engaging for viewers.
Now, onto the main points about AK:
I support expanding on Pandora, especially with a themed ride for the upcoming movie and the idea of a Banshee hatchery with a giant animatronic Banshee. There's definitely something that can be done there, especially with the shoulder toys Disney already sells. Converting the Rainforest Cafe to fit the theme would be brilliant, creating a dining experience surrounded by glowing creatures. Having the forest breathe life would be a strong selling point that I see influencers eating up.
Regarding Dino Land, I agree with updating the system and cars, but I am against having a cue show. I would prefer not to stand through cycled campy exposition; it would be wiser and more cost-effective to make the cue interactive and allow guests to piece together what's going on. Aside from adding more rides, I thought about having a dinosaur show in a shaded area, with walking dinosaurs captivating the passing crowd.
Speaking of shaded areas, Antarctica Land would be HUGE for Disney! A place to chill, literally. It's interesting that Everest and Antarctica are on opposite sides of the park. I also agree with the transportation bit, but I'm not entirely sold on the mode of transportation just yet.
My last statement is regarding Australia. I love the idea! It's a smart move considering the available space. However, Disney needs to be very careful with using Bluey as an attraction/experience/segment. Considering the (generalized) political views of Bluey's fanbase, it's crucial for Disney not to disappoint guests or risk losing influencer support. I am confident Disney would not be able to take that kind of hit on their reputation. On the other hand, if they pulled it off, the amount of praise and backing received would be large.
I hope they don't de-animal Animal Kingdom like they are de-future worlding Epcot Center. So, I am all in on the Arctic indoor building. Before we remove anything.. so counting everything there now.. we need 3 more rides/attractions and 3-5 more dark ride/exhibits in the park now. Pandora Coaster or any coaster and the others need to be indoors. I know they cheaped out on Navi River and made as much of it outdoor as possible.. but that needs to stop IMO.. lol. Also at the very minimum connect Animal Kingdom Lodge to Animal Kingdom.. maybe make that some pseudo Giraffe or something people mover ride to the Lodge. but there needs to be a connection so you can have that parking lot act as a bus hub at the very minimum..ideally a Skyliner station to connect you the rest of the world.
Confirmed I do like Pro's ideas of Australia and Antarctica lands. Keeping a general ANIMAL theme is a great idea. I would put an actual roller coaster in Pandora, I would 'renew' and update Dinosaur Ride, and yes as Vash says, modernize the cars but also update the actual cue show (so old) and also add a few screens on the ride itself to modernize the special effects. I would burn down Dino Land and put a fun dino-themed roller coaster there with top-notch theming as well. In 100% agreement with EVERYONE on some type of moving vehicle ride to waste time (15-20 minutes) like the people mover, however, I have a feeling it would be a nightmare to plan through Animal Kingdom, as there is far too much foliage in the way. As Vash said, they may need to concentrate on transportation beyond buses and connect the Hotels to the park properly. A hybrid train like Culture mentioned is a great idea, shaded overall with solar panels (that likely power nothing if Disney's track record is taken into account) with a walkway underneath it in the shade as well? It could be off-ground ways to allow paths and roads still (if planned well this could be cheaper). I like this type of show! Bring a tiny bit of positivity back to a Desperate Disney. I'm on day 13,000+ of not having paid to enter a Disney property. I've gone for free a few times over the years, but they'll never get my money for admission. Very proud of that! Remember when Animal Kingdom Heart was just a park about animals. Disney fired/let go/pushed out everyone on the imagining team who gave a darn, and they're blowing them any budgets that could go to fixing the parks on smear campaigns against Trian. I went to WDW three years ago, and my favorite part of the whole experience was Disney Springs, which is basically just an outdoor Mall of America. Wanna know how I'd fix Animal Kingdom? Build the Beastly Kingdom as they promised back in the 90s! Real animals, extinct animals, and fantasy animals were going to be the original theme of the park, but they abandoned it! They have the money, they can build it now!! I wanna see some dragons and unicorns!! Everything doesn't have to be an E-Ticket. But indoor and cave attractions are good. Why not a slow-moving boat ride like Small World or Pirates. Even on a hot day in Anaheim, these are a good place to hide from the heat. An Amazon boat ride that is an upgrade to the Jungle Cruise could be interesting. Some dark rides? Disney is definitely missing the opportunity to lean into the night events in the park. To see and experience these different environments at night could be a whole different experience. Some of my fondest memories of being at the park are experiencing the silence and stillness in the evening hours. It would be interesting if Disney could make this an evening destination. Arrive before sundown, perhaps have dinner in a tree house in the Amazon, and cap off the evening with a show. I am conflicted with whether the Beastly The Kingdom heart is a land or an overly with all of the continents represented. Lots of potential with this park, it is just disappointing that 3 attractions (Everest and the two avatar rides) are all that have happened. Here at the Southern California Disney parks, California adventure badly needs to be fixed too. They were on the right track about 10 years ago with the addition of Buena Vista Street and Cars Land. But it seems like after that the good additions stopped. Instead of fixing the other problem areas of the park, Geiger has decided to just cheaply re-theme them. Pixar Pier and San Fransokoyo added nothing new and was just a cheap visual re-theme. Avengers campus was a new land but was done very cheap, not to mention Web Slingers is one of the worst rides in the park possibly worse than Superstar Limo. And it’s been 5+ years yet they keep dangling that Avengers e-ticket ride like a carrot in front of our noses, but they haven’t even started construction on it yet. Basically, California Adventure is just “meh” aside from the grand Californian hotel/area, Buena Vista Street, and cars land. The rest of the park badly needs fixing and it’s still barely a half-day park. They are probably going to do that avatar addition as cheaply as possible too, most likely it’ll be a re-theme of the grizzly peak area. So most likely DCA will never be fixed and will always remain one of the worst Disney parks aside from Disneyland Paris That was one of the good things about the COVID days. They had some areas to take off your mask and relax in the shade with charging stations. Right now the only downtime location in any park like it is the launch bay. Having a rest spot to cool down and rehydrate or recharge the phone is a very big deal Personally, I’m not crazy about Avatar… however, it’s a very immersive land and it’s super popular so the coaster/rainforest cafe integrations would be wise. I am, however, a huge fan of Dinosaur and I hope the land can be kept and renewed so that awesome ride won’t go extinct. I love Indiana Jones but… this is Animal Kingdom. @Casino YES!!! Your people mover would allow another way to enjoy and advocate for Disney’s animal conservation program. But then as a runner and a runDisney runner, your people mover walkway is brilliant. I love these ideas and these kind of videos. Great job Animal Kingdom was my favorite of the WDW parks when I went a few years ago. I could have spent all day just chilling in the Africa and Asia areas. Every time I hear they want to add more cheap IP or replace Countdown to Extinction with Indiana Jones it just makes me sad. Let’s do ALL these ideas. 😅 I LOVE them all! The Australian Outback sounds AWESOME!!! I love the Antarctic with Penguins. We must have a nighttime show back. We loved staying in AK late at night. Pandora Fire Nation ride is a must too. AK is skip park for us or AM park only. We don’t stay long but we used to. It’s a skip park when you have limited time in Disney and/or only a one-park pass or a one-day pass. Why would you waste a park day on AK in these scenarios when you get more time in other parks to maximize your spending? It’s a lesser park because of this, IMO. Anyways, they do need more ride capacity, especially in Pandora because Flights of Passage is such an awesome ride but the line is so long it’s not worth it unless you rope drop it. All great suggestions. I hope Disney listens. Just got a home phone call from Disney regarding the proxy vote. The HOME!!! Desperate. A real person asked for a vote in favor of Bob Iger's board selection. They asked for feedback. Stunning. The afternoon parade was great..😢Best bang for your buck fix the yeti. The only Disney theme park in the world that seems worth paying a visit to right now would be DisneySea in Tokyo. As for that park's neighboring DL, although that's mainly a knockoff of its counterparts in Anaheim, Orlando, Paris, etc, it's at least apparently well-maintained & reflects the "esprit de corps" of Walt E Disney----or the Oriental Land Co. 8 hours ago I love all the ideas you came up with! Right now all the fans on RUclips seem to have better ideas on how to fix the parks than Disney itself.. the execs at Disney are not fans of their own product and it’s shown. You all could easily take their jobs and the park would do tremendously better. I hope you're listening to Disney! Make Disney great again! I hope they don't de-animal Animal Kingdom like they are de-future worlding Epcot Center. So, I am all in on the Arctic indoor building. Before we remove anything.. so counting everything there now.. we need 3 more rides/attractions and 3-to 5 more dark rides/exhibits in the park now. Pandora Coaster or any coaster and the others need to be indoors. I know they cheaped out on Navi River and made as much of it outdoors as possible. but that needs to stop IMO.. lol. Also at the very minimum connect Animal Kingdom Lodge to Animal Kingdom.. maybe make that some pseudo-Giraffe or something people mover ride to the Lodge. but there needs to be a connection so you can have that parking lot act as a bus hub at the very minimum..ideally a Skyliner station to connect you to the rest of the world. I'm looking forward to this. During the cough, I passed the time by writing out how I'd fix WDW. I'm interested to see if I came up with anything that you three have, since I'm not a park goer I just enjoy watching videos on them and reading about them. I like 'planning' things so playing 'fix the parks' amused me. Edit: I do not understand all the parking lots... just making them two-story would make a lot more space... I'd do temporary two-story lots (those can go up in weeks) on half of a lot of the lots, and then put in multi-story garages. I'd also link all the parks and hotels I can with the skyline and Culture / Pro mention using the parking lots as I type. Edit 2: Really great ideas! -- Re Dinoland. If paying for Bluey anyway, why not see if can do a Bluey Learn about dinosaurs short then the kids go explore etc. in Dinoland. Concerning the Avatar coaster concept, why not have to go out and over the water area behind the Pandora location?
I love the better transportation! The beastly kingdom would still be great. Add rides, don’t replace them. Sometimes we need rides that aren’t e-ticket attractions. There needs to be some short lines to offset those long lines. We love rides, but kids need something that won’t take an hour wait.
Animal Kingdom was my favorite of the WDW parks when I went a few years ago. I could have spent all day just chilling in the Africa and Asia areas. Every time I hear they want to add more cheap IP or replacing Countdown to Extinction with Indiana Jones it just makes me sad.
I was in Shanghai Disneyland two weeks ago and I need to say that the Zootopia is impressive. Can't agree with Culture Casino, specially when he has not been to that area. (If he has been to Zootopia I really want to know why he thinks the place is not impressive, as he puts it). I just want to add that I do think that Zootopia shouldn’t be built in AK.
A lot of great ideas ... but why stop at Australia and Antarctica, why not include South America and Polynesia too. These don't need to happen immediately but as a map that may be filled in over a few decades. Definitely improve Dinoland not not replace it. Provide a loop that goes from SE from Dinoland and up behind Asia or what Pro called Land of Bluey. Everest would be the visual anchor of this side of the park.
Everything doesn't have to be an E Ticket. But indoor and cave attractions are good. Why not a slow moving boat ride like small world or pirates. Even on a hot day in Anaheim these are a good place to hide from the heat. An Amazon boat ride that is an upgrade to the Jungle Cruise could be interesting. Some dark rides?
Disney is definitely missing the opportunity to lean into the night events in the park. To see and experience these different environments at night could be a whole different experience. Some of my fondest memories of being at the park is experiencing the silence and stillness in the evening hours. It would be interesting if Disney could make this an evening destination. Arrive before sundown, perhaps have dinner in a tree house in the Amazon and cap of the evening with a show.
I am conflicted with whether Beastly Kingdom is a land or an overly with all of the continents represented.
Lots of potential with this park, it is just disappointing that 3 attractions (Everest and the two avatar rides) is all that has happened.
I have always said thoroughly redoing and revitalizing all of Dinoland except the actual ride is the best choice for that area, both because it should theoretically cost less money than tearing down and completely rebuilding everything dinosaur themed. Dinosaurs when done right are far more timeless than any specific IPs.
I would LOVE a world of color here in Florida. Animal would be perfect for it as well
Love the idea about the nighttime drone show. I also think the monorail/skyline system and the Bluey/Australia ideas are very clever and would make the mouse Buku amounts of money.
Personally, I’m not crazy about Avatar… however, it’s a very immersive land and it’s super popular so the coaster/rainforest cafe integrations would be wise.
I am, however, a huge fan of Dinosaur and I hope the land can be kept and renewed so that awesome ride won’t go extinct. I love Indiana Jones but… this is Animal Kingdom.
Also, as a Floridian… Antartica would be a nice change-up both in terms of theme and AC.
When we went back in October 2022, we went to Animal Kingdom got a lightning lane for the Safari in the morning and it broke down right before we got on. Then we stood in line for 45 minutes at a quick service to try to get food. We literally left the park after 2 1/2 hours because it was impossible to walk anywhere without bumping into people because of the narrow pathways, we chose to just go back to our Airbnb and bite the bullet and basically throw away that money for those park tickets for that day because it wasn’t worth the headache. That is so poorly designed it’s mind-boggling.
Wanna know how I'd fix Animal Kingdom? Build Beastly Kingdom as they promised back in the 90s! Real animals, extinct animals, and fantasy animals were going to be the original theme of the park, but they abandoned it! They have the money, they can build it now!! I wanna see some dragons and unicorns!!
Ditto
Top 10 Improvements to Dino Land at Animal Kingdom according to me
10. Add a dinosaur/extinct animal theme carousel
9. Add a reptile house - Considering Dinosaurs are reptiles
8. Add a bird house - Considering Birds are living Dinosaurs
7. Add Med-Size Fossil Museum where you learn about earths history and check out fossil displays
6. Add a ride base on the movie "Ice Age" Considering Disney now owns the rights to the films when brought out FOX
5. Add a giant Ichthyosaur fountain with ammonites as smaller fountains
4. replace Restaurantosaurus with ANOTHER T-Rex Café
3. Add a fossil gift shop where you buy fossils from shark teeth trilobites to Dinosaur teeth to replicas of fossil skulls
2. Add a Earl Sinclair and Baby Sinclair met n greet - You might want bring a box of asprens with you incase Baby Sinclair starts beating you over the head with a frying pan shouting "Not the momma! Not the momma!"
1. Replace Dino Rama with a botanical garden complete with Ginkgos, Cycads, Magnolias, Wollemias, Sciadopitys and Horsetails with statues of dinosaurs (such as Stegosaurus, Deinocheirus, Sinosauropteryx, Yutyrannus, Ouranosaurus, Microraptor, Microceratus, Yi Qi, Aracheopteryx, and Nasutoceratops) and other ancient animals. (Such as Lystrosaurus, Dimetrodon, American Mastodon, Tapejara, Meganeura, Arthropleura, Thylacoleo, Sivatherium, Megatherium, and Titanoboa.) just like the Crystal Palace Park
Add a educational dinosaur ride with accurate Dinosaurs since disney owns national geographic with dinosaur animatronics
How about this…
BRING BACK BEASTLY KINGDOM!
Great ideas. I kind of like the idea of a refurbished DinoLand but I would say that, since Uni owns the rights to the Jurassic Park IP, unless Disney goes really big and really expensive on Dinosaurs, they lose the comparison game. It may be enough to have good quality along with everything else but Uni's JP stuff is really good.
I really, really like this positive video about Disney. It will be great to see this new series! I hope the powers that be at Disney implement some of these ideas. Animal Kingdom is much too hot and humid, and I struggle with that in that park.
@Casino YES!!! Your people mover would allow another way to enjoy and advocate for Disney’s animal conservation program.
But then as a runner and a runDisney runner your people mover walk way is brilliant.
Animal kingdom is a beautiful park. However it is miserable most of the season because there isn’t any shade at all. It is also huge and a pain to get from one side to another. Some sort of ride that goes around the outside of the park would also be a good idea.
I like Australia but, make two lines. One African safari trains and Outback. You don’t even need new engines or cars just a repaint.
The only place a guest should feel nickel and dimed is Ferengi land.
247th rule of acquisition 😂
Quark would approve
I love these ideas and these kind of videos. Great job
Yessss an amazing world of color with animal themes with drones would be incredible!
Those were all great ideas - better than anything Disney has come up with - that would actually improve and enhance the park! I love AK and wish they would heed your advice.
I went to WDW three years ago, and my favorite part of the whole experience was Disney Springs, which is basically just an outdoor Mall of America.
pro and gang should be working for the parks. Oh wait they have ideas that would help... scratch that !!!
I love all the ideas you came up with! Right now all the fans on RUclips seem to have better ideas on how to fix the parks than Disney itself.. the execs at Disney are not fans of their own product and it’s shown. You all could easily take take their jobs and the park would do tremendously better. I hope your listening Disney! Make Disney great again!
I agree with most of the suggestions. We stopped going to Disney the last few years but the last time we were at AK, we were done by lunch time. Unless they cut the price in half, it’s definitely not worth it with so little to do
I would like to see more lands themed around prehistoric life before and after the dinosaurs, maybe even one prehistoric sea life with a ride featuring a megalodon. And if they want to do an IP based ride, they could do an Ice Age ride. Or a ride that takes you to Prehistoric Australia, imagine all the crazy prehistoric creatures that you could make animatronics out of. Or maybe a land based around Cryptids like Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, and Chupacabra. They already have the yeti, so it makes sense to add more cryptids. And a land based around cryptids would be the perfect place for a Gravity Falls Ride.
Great chat. Expedition Everest isn’t themed on all sides. I know this because you can see the back of it from the Animal Kingdom parking lot.
Believe it or not, Sesame Place in PA will have Bluey characters available for meet and greets during the spring this year. They will also have PJ Masks characters. It's similar to what they do during Halloween time where they actually license out the Square Pumpkin character from Disney (I forget his name). They also do the same with the Rank & Bass Rudolph and Bumble as meet and greets during Christmas.
A great show and this new topic of how to improve Disney is a great idea. I hope this show continues I look forward to more.
Let’s do ALL these ideas. 😅 I LOVE them all! The Australian Outback sounds AWESOME!!! I love the Antarctic with Penguins. We must have a nighttime show back. We loved staying in AK late at night. Pandora Fire Nation ride is a must too. AK is skip park for us or AM park only. We don’t stay long but we used to. It’s a skip park when you have limited time in Disney and/or only a one park pass or a one day pass. Why would you waste a park day on AK in these scenarios when you get more time in other parks to maximize your spend? It’s a lesser park because of this, IMO. Anyways, they do need more ride capacity especially in Pandora because Flights of Passage is such an awesome ride but the line is so long it’s not worth it unless you rope drop it. All great suggestions. I hope Disney listens.
What about a Godzilla World in the Animal Kingdom, with rides and a destroyed Tokyo walk through?
I'm looking forward to this. During the cough, I passed time by writing out how I'd fix WDW.
I'm interested to see if I came up with anything that you three have, since I'm not a park goer I just enjoy watching videos on them and reading about them. I like 'planning' things so playing 'fix the parks' amused me.
Edit: I do not understand all the parking lots... just making them two storey would make a lot more space... I'd do temporary two storey lots (those can go up in weeks) on half of a lot of the lots, and then put in multi storey garages. I'd also link all the parks and hotels I can with the skyliner and Culture / Pro mention using the parking lots as I type.
Edit 2: Really great ideas! -- Re Dinoland. If paying for Bluey anyway, why not see if can do a Bluey learns about dinosaurs short then the kids go explore etc. in Dinoland.
Build world class aquarium in Pandora. Attach restaurant and rest center. Have slow moving people mover in aquarium
We went to Disney Orlando in 2022. Animal Kingdom was easily the best of the Disney parks (Universal beat all Disney parks though), Animal kingdom had lots of nice shade, and the crowds weren't as bad as the other Disney parks.
The afternoon parade was great..😢
As far as rides go I would add a roller coaster like big bear mountain at dollywood that things is long and low to the ground and with all lsms its a pretty quiet ride that both kids and families enjoy. Add to that a screaming swing like the one just added to Busch Gardens Tampa, a mack water coaster like the one at seaworld only bigger, and few quality flat rides and you've solved capacity for the park with rides that will all be popular in the heat of the summer.
After visiting Yellowstone a couple of years ago, I wish they would do a peoplemover through the American animal experience with bison, moose, and maybe even a bear or two.
MGM was always my favorite, unfortunately I will never have a favorite park again. I guess typhoon lagoon is my favorite Disney park
Another way they could solve the nighttime problem is getting a few animals that are nocturnal.
The people mover is my favorite ride besides the Carousal of Progress
Lion King Elephant graveyard attraction between pandora and lion king show
Maybe the main title of this series should be "Fixing Disney" or "Saving Disney" so that all episodes start with the same part.
Remove the carnival from Dinoland but keep dinoland, maybe another dark ride there but dinosaur needs to stay it needs lots of maintenance it’s been neglected or watered down in a few scenes. Two: Antarctic is a nice concept likely make it a huge building as a Epcot building the area would have a chill even before entering the building like turn on the snow machine once it is getting to be sundown. Three: Australia can be a safari I see it only that way to work best… 4th: I don’t mind disco yeti but I’d like to see him move, it’s amazing when you see him reaching down to grab you, mention too about completing the backside of the mountain it’s not the best view when you’re at summit plummet at blizzard beach.
They should get rid of the idea of building a Zootopia show in the Tree of Life and build a better attraction for Zootopia. And while they’re at it, finally give Lion King (1994) a land or an attraction. I would also recommend instead of Encanto in tropical Americas, replace it with Paradise Falls from Up. But what about, replacing Dinoland USA with Beastly Kingdom?
"Solar panels! Yay!"
Disney needs to learn to create solar panels with Disney characters depicted on them. Or anything that's big, flat, and dark greyish -- monoliths from _Atlantis_ maybe?
Seriously, making solar panels _not_ look like solar panels could revolutionize uptake of panels. Disney's design teams could be instrumental in that.
The problem I had with Rivers of Light was that it basically created this pagan ceremony, and took itself way too seriously. The technologies and visuals that were possible present great possibilities. But in the end the show/ceremony did not connect with the audience and therefore did not entertain.
I would like to see a renovation of Tomorrowland. Base the look on the movie, as well as the 70's version of the park.
I want to see the animatronics brining people their food through the rafters. they scrapped it for pizza rizzo and then passed on it for remy. let’s change the rats to little dinosaurs or something from pandora and get a highly themed restaurant in animal kingdom.
Jungle Book/Tarzan replacement for Dinoland. Live animals from the Jungle book movie, Tarzan show returns into theatre and Dinosaur into Junglebook dark ride. Add a Tarzan jungle swing ride and retheme Triceratop Spin to Jungle book.
Y'all have great ideas 😏😲👍🏻😃♥️. Disney just need to do something 🤔 Thanks for sharing your ideas 👍🏻😃♥️
I like your ideas, especially the extra transit and new Avatar coaster and the new lands. I thought they should make Dinoland should be flipped to a Wall-E themed land. This may seem odd but if you think about it the film really talks about the way humans destroy Earth with overconsumption and being lazy and end up leaving the planet cause if this. This is perfect way to do some edutainment and talk about these themes while you see some robots from the film wandering around the area like Wall-E himself.
All were good ideas to me. As a run Disney person would love a way to make that part of the run more interesting
This is a very interesting idea for a series.
I am not familar enough with the parks to be able to top what you guys have suggested...the idea that got me the most excited was vash's retheme bantha idea and in particular the version of that which was a dinosaur...i cant think of any young boy or girl into dinos that would not concider giving up a limb to experince riding a dinosaur and as you say good volume, great magic and helps control the flow of guests.
All the other ideas were still great as well and of peltz has some agents listenting here check the comments these will be great blue prints for reinvigorating the parks
Great ideas!! It would be nice to see what ideas Vash, Culture, and you have with a bigger budget. Maybe an idea for another video? 👍🏼 would you change anything or add more?
I think that the huge area behind everest should become beastly kingdom full of the mythical creatures since the yeti is a beast already and could fit right in with the park
I think Dino land needs a natural history museum. That would gobble up lots of people for an air conditioned walk through.
No matter how entitled Disney feel they are committing reputational s*icide through their actions and offering platitudes when faced with constructive criticism.
Love these videos, dedicate a whole episode to galaxys edge please
Just build a walking path from Animal Kingdom Lodge to the Animal Kingdom theme park that would be huge
I Like Going To Animal Kingdom At Disneyworld
Definitely think they should start incorporating more of the FOX IP into AK and HS (keep out of MK & EPCOT), ice age would be a great add, also rio.
I think a good ominmover ride they could do would be a “planet earth” themed one. Some kind of combination of spaceship earth & living with the land incorporating both animatronic and living plants & animals - maybe even the augmented reality of nemo and friends. Add in the hot/cold and scents of test track and soarin’. In the end you’re not going to have something too unique but a combination of existing and proven technologies on a high capacity “break” ride out of the elements.
Walt Disney used to consult children/ teens for what was interesting to them when he was developing ideas. Who knew the digital social boards would become a quasi imagineering/research deptartment. This s actually brillaint. If i had a MM/BB/TT company I would hire huge amounts of research to comb through these platforms looking for better ideas. Viva 3rd Mind - Vox Populi.
Concerning the Avatar coaster concept, why not have go out and over the water area behind the Pandora location?
The real reason Beastly Kingdom wasn't ever eventually built is because Eisner was ousted and Iger wasn''t imaginative enough for the idea.
The idea was planned when Eisner was still there and was supposed to be one of the initial lands to open with DAK. It got cancelled due to financial cuts caused by the failure of Euro Disneyland.
When the Dino area lost the spinning coaster the park began its downward slide. Replace it or fix it! Ridiculous. The raft ride is mediocre, add something to it, make it more exciting. Our kids loved Animal kingdom from 2010ish up until Dino land closed spinner coaster.
I would increase mileage of the train. It is underutilized in the current location. It is the only train that I know of that is directly in the park. All of the other train and their stations are on the outskirts of the park while the animal kingdom train is directly in the park. Moveing the train to the outside allows for more travel time in between the two stations while at the same time adding more stations for pandora and any other station that gets created for other attractions. The space that the train currently has right now would then be available for an Australia 🇦🇺 and Antarctic area with out having to shorten the train trip. Also, moveing the train could reuse most of the tracks and can connect the resort to the park.
Bush Gardens tampa's Train is also, only in the park
The people mover would be great! It is the greatest ride to take a break, catch some fresh air, and people-watch. One that went around the safari ride would be amazing.
Those of us over 70 need places to rest while the kids and grandkids are on the rides.
🙄 Take apart the yeti, and REBUILD Everest. Enough with the expansion - maintain and fix the problems, stop adding to the budget and ticket prices.
Disneyland Anaheim. Stop too with the expansion! Scrap and start over with California Adventure. It's exactly EVERYTHING opposite of what Walt Disney openly said he DID NOT want- a Coney Island with carnival rides. Jumpin’ Jellyfish. King Arthur Carrousel. Another carrousel -Jessie’s Critter Carousel. Golden Zephyr...and another rotating ride inside out emotional whirlwind. Silly Symphony *Swings* and Goofy’s Sky School ARE ALL CHEAP carnival rides and double up!
Spider man and toy story are double the same ride experience. Can't make this up. Spider man ride is the biggest disappointment since marvel land open.
Disneyland Anaheim should preserve Walt original works and stop culture cancelling certain themes (wenches).
Keep activism and politics OUT of the parks!
Stop expanding and deal with the issues first! Better pay, and have an tendance cap, stop flooding the parks for profits.
If you want more solutions, pay me.
I love your ideas and the concept of continuing this series for the other parks. An Antarctica pavilion would be really cool (pun completely intended). SeaWorld already has a small version of this that is visually very fun.
Love the Antarctic world building
You guys should build your own theme park. You're very knowledgeable about these things. I'd go to your park!
Forget you guys!
Animal Kingdom needs Zootopia and I am not going to let anyone say otherwise!
They aren’t going to bring Joe Rohde kill back and frankly he shouldn’t because he brought on the WORST themed land that being Avatar! That has absolutely no place in a Disney park whatsoever!
What they SHOULD have done was Lion King land, Beastly Kingdom, make Kali River Rapids into a Jungle Book boat ride and why the heck not, Zootopia in DAK.
THAT’S how you fix Animal Kingdom.
This is a great series to do.
I wish we knew the true park operating costs because that informs the return on the investment. Is AK a zoo with an amusement park or an amusement park that has limited attractions?
Animal Kingdom should be the easiest to upgrade as there’s not as much emotional investment as compared to the Magic Kingdom-any change there will always meet 50+ years of nostalgia.
I’m here for this proposed series🎉
Super excited for Epic Universe!
Animal also closes the earlieat, rarely being open during any darkness despite significant work at pandora to have a unique lighting system for it. The compromise between the animals and attractions is an issue i think that either is or is used as an excuse for why not to do something or give those evening opportunities
I would prefer Animal Kingdom get Tokyo DisneySeas’ version of Indiana Jones and Raging Spirits roller coaster. Improve with 2 loops. I been on both and they are really fun rides. Then Disney can put in some reptile exhibits for cross promotion.
Add another new land for ride capacity. Not Zootopia. Make it a new Dinosaur land that’s catered to kids. It shouldn’t be scary. Use the same ride vehicle technology as Runaway Railway and transfer the animatronics from Dinosaur ride.
I would bring back Michael Eisner to act as Overseer to run the company and bringing back the magic. He can smooth things out between the various factions, DeSantis, and the media.
I agree with the bluey thing but go a step further get the rights for bluey and build a heeler house like the Mikey house in toon town and have meet and greets with the healers.
I agree with the people mover idea , pandora needs a themed restaurant “ Eet with the Banshee’s”
Eet just opened in Disney springs , they can make one in AK in land of pandora …. People would love that 😄
When anyone is comparing the length of their rides - even 1 second is longer - is it not? Why destroy TRON by nearly half?!?!?!?!? It makes zero sense. None. I would not step foot into the cue simply because I can ride the same lousy short 8$ ride at universals Flight of the Hippogriff in Hollywood @48 seconds long - that is crap. Big friggin deal - pass Dozney.