Recent content by Dinoman96

Imagine, if you will, an alternate universe where Meet the Robinsons was a smash hit on the level of Encanto, Frozen, etc Maybe that's how that we could have revitalized Countdown to Extinction/DINOSAUR: retheme it to be a prequel to MTR where the Bowler Hat Guy whisks us away to the late...

Well the excuse seems to be "the Encanto ride is going to based around the supporting character who can talk to animals" and "the Indy ride is going to be about him chasing down some mythical creature". So basically it's two IPs that are their core, aren't really about animals but are...

Dunno about Zootopia (Disney's PR about Rohde "peer reviewing" it has always felt a lil' bogus to me) but he does seem to show genuine enthusiasm about Tropical Americas going by his recent Instagram posts. maybe they paid him to say this

IMO Fichwa Fellow comes off better because at the end of the day, it's really just a little background detail, it's functionally a glorified Hidden Mickey, and not, you know, a full blown attraction lol edit: looking deeper into it, "fichwa" literally means "hidden" in Swahili, so yeah...it...

I guess the weirdest thing about the carousal to me is that, well, its backstory indicates that Disney animated characters and movies are fictional in the context of Tropical Americas, yes? So it's just kinda weird to me that right by, one of those animated features that inspired the villager to...

DinoLand will always just make feel sad to think about because it's clear that, as Joe Rohde mentioned in that Instagram post, a lot of its problems was really the result of budget cuts up the wazoo. Like looking at the original concept art pieces for it, it's clear that it was initially meant...

So I just watched footage of this, and uh... That sure was Animal Kingdom's first post-Joe Rohde project, eh? Was he even a "Creative consultant" on this like how he's supposedly been for Tropical Americas?

This is something I've been musing about, actually. TBH even before it went into permanent B mode, I was always thought it was a weird decision to have this super advanced, lifelike audio-animatronic placed and positioned...at the very end where you go so fast you barely even get to see the...

Well, one of those wasn't a total bomb when it came out

Yeah for my money's worth, Expedition Everest was the one true successor to Beastly Kingdom. Once again I'll let Jeremy Thompson of Roller Coaster Philosophy circa 2012 say it better than I can: https://www.rollercoasterphilosophy.com/2012/animal-kingdom/ Thankfully the final product largely...

TBH I feel like 2016 was the last year I didn't have to worry about DINOSAUR/Dinoland, in 2017 there were already rumors floating around that Disney was looking to convert it all into Indiana Jones (which, uh, kinda happened in the end, in a round about way) and by mid-2019, Primeval Whirl was...

Reminder that both the Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland versions of Space Mountain have been permanently rethemed to Star Wars. Reminder that nothing is sacred anymore.

Yeah I imagine if you asked Joe Rohde about it, he'd probably give you that as an answer. I always felt that there was a clear design choice on his and the Imagineering team's part to explicitly avoid doing rides that were just third person retellings (or "book reports" as we're calling them in...

A sad and funny thought: there exists a universe where The Good Dinosaur was an actual critical and commercial hit and thus a universe where we'd probably be looking at Dinoland and Dinosaur being revamped into that. I guess it'd be a way to keep dinosaurs in Animal Kingdom...I guess.

Meh. I guess, but I think I'll let Roller Coaster Philosophy say it for me: The funny thing is in that regard, I'd say Expedition Everest worked more as a successor to the concept of Beastly Kingdom, even if it's not a dedicated land. In fact a while back over on Inside Universal here, I saw...