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Disney's Animal Kingdom you enter a world where you can explore Asia
Africa take a ride into the Himalayas explore the mythical world of Pandora and get up close with some prehistoric
dinosaurs
All while you're still in Florida at the Walt Disney World Resort
Disney's Animal Kingdom opened on Earth Day on April 22nd
1998 it costs nearly 1 billion dollars to build and is Disney's largest theme park in the world
Now across the parks 500 plus acres of land
It's home to about 2,000 animals representing 300 different species, but Disney's Animal Kingdom is not a zoo
It's much more
The park celebrates animals with a focus on conservation
While placing you in immersive lands that will entertain you through live stage shows
thrill rides water rides and a one-of-a-kind
African safari that takes up a whopping
110 acres all by itself
Kilimanjaro safaris is actually bigger than the entire Magic Kingdom theme park that's only
107 acres when building Disneyland Walt Disney himself wanted to include live animals on the Jungle Cruise
But didn't do to how unpredictable live animals could be
Well fast-forward 40 years and Walt's idea of live animals at a Disney theme park plus so much more
Became a reality right in Florida
There's a lot of unseen Disney magic that goes into making Animal Kingdom the theme park. It is so today
We're gonna be looking through the parks history and counting down the top 10 best secrets and facts of Disney's and kingdom
number 10 out on a limb at the center of animal kingdom sits the iconic park
Centerpiece you see the Tree of Life, and you instantly think of Disney's Animal Kingdom it stands
144 feet tall and 50 feet wide at the base it
Features thousands of artificial branches with some that even sway in the wind and a hundred and three thousand two foot long
Artificial leaves it's no ordinary tree so the Imagineers needed something enormous to support the giant branches
Well what they came up with was a massive upside-down?
offshore oil rig that formed the base of the Tree of Life and
Speaking of the base of the tree if you look closely you'll notice
Animals carved into the tree trunk it took three Imagineers and ten artists a year and a half to carve
325 animals out of cement and plaster right into the tree next time you walk by
Take an extra second to check out just how detailed all the carvings really are
Number nine no plastic
Safety always comes first and next to the guest safety Disney wants to make sure all of its animals at the park are also safe
Well as a preventative measure
Animal Kingdom doesn't have classic lids for the cups and serves the drinks with a
biodegradable paper straw the no plastic rule at Animal Kingdom
Ensures that none of the animals would come into contact with plastic since it could cause health risks and even though
It's a staple to be able to buy a balloon at a Disney theme park
You won't find these either at Disney's Animal Kingdom for the same reason as the plastic lids and straws
And if you bring a balloon into the park from another park you'll have to check it at guest services
Before entering and then pick it up once you leave
Number eight divine now you could say animal kingdom is divine
Or you could say divine is divine well
it's a very easy thing to miss but divine is a very talented still performer completely covered with leaves and
Blends right into the dense foliage of animal kingdom. She made her debut with the park in
1998 and you can usually find her along the oasis paths in the mornings or on the pathway between Africa Asia during the day
The performances last 20 minutes and during her set she roams around the area posing for pictures
But she'll never actually make eye contact with you if you ask a cast member
They'll be able to tell you exactly when and where you can find her at the park
number seven three of a kind
Pandora the world of Avatar opened in May of
2017 and is completely
Breathtaking the queue for Avatar flight of passage is probably one of the most detailed cues
You've ever seen in a Disney park as you head into the first cave there's a lot of Navi paintings on the walls depicting banshees
Symbolic drawings and even some handprints well as you're exiting the ride through the bottom. Level corridor
You'll find three more handprints and these are no Navi prints
they're actually the handprints of Disney Imagineer Joe rody who worked on designing pandora avatar director James Cameron and
avatar producer John Lando since they all had been working on this project since 2011
They decided that they wanted to leave their permanent mark right in Pandora
number six
It's a beast have you ever looked at the animal kingdom logo, and noticed anything strange about it anything that stands out
I'll give you a second
Well each animal in the logo was used to represent a different area of the park
But one species of animals that doesn't appear in the park are dragons
During the initial development and construction of animal kingdom the park was designed to be built with an area called Beasley Kingdom
The land would have been a mythical world that focused on mythical creatures like unicorns dragons and sea monsters
But while they were building the park Disney was severely over budget
So beastly Kingdom was put on hold and they created camp Minnie Mickey as what was supposed to be a temporary placeholder
Well beastly Kingdom was never built and now that plot of land is home to Pandora
Which in a sense is based on mythical creatures so the banshees are probably the closest thing to
Dragons will ever get to see in the park now
Do you think that Disney will ever change the logo of animal kingdom let us know down below?
number-5
safari sets
Kilimanjaro safaris is probably the most authentic Safari ride you'll experience without going to Africa
but the safari adventure is
Sprinkled with a lot of Disney magic giving the illusion that everything has always been there
It starts as soon as you enter the oversized Jeep well
actually they aren't even jeeps Disney specially designed and retrofitted GMC trucks into vehicles that look like jeeps and
They don't run the vehicles on gasoline or diesel either. They actually use propane gas
Which is a much safer alternative for the animals also?
most of the tire tracks you see along your Safari ride have been molded into cement to make them look like
Authentic tracks in the dirt now at first glance on your Safari ride you may have noticed a lot of fallen tree stumps and rocks
Well though serve a purpose as well to encourage the animals to stay near the vehicles
Imagineers design fake tree stumps and rocks that are actually feeders to keep the animals in viewing distance
And you know those enormous upside down bail BAP trees
Well, those are props as well all these trees found in Africa would have physically been impossible to relocate and replant in Florida
So Imagineers created very convincing replicas out of cement and plaster, and you might also hear your driver
Talk about the ostrich eggs that can be found on the ground also on the right side underneath the tree
Those are indeed ostrich egg
Well Disney actually uses fake eggs for a lot of their older bird species to sit on
When the birds know they already have younglings on the way, they're less compelled to lay more eggs
so this controls the
overpopulation of the birds at the park it still allows the younger birds to learn how to keep a nest and also allows for
Guests to see some ostrich eggs on their Safari adventure number 4 our record setter
Did you know that Expedition Everest is a record setter well after three years of construction?
5,000 pounds of structural steel and 10,000 pounds of concrete the attraction officially opened on April 7
2006 the ride cost the Walt Disney Company 100 million dollars and that price makes Expedition Everest
the most expensive roller coaster ever built to date in the entire world
a portion of the cost does include the rides extensive theming but the mountain is part of the coaster and at a height of
199 feet it also holds the record for being the tallest mountain and the tallest structure in all of the Walt Disney World Resort
number 3 Dino land detail when it comes to Disney theme parks
Everything has a back story
So the story behind Dino land USA is that it originally started as a small highway town where some dinosaur bones were discovered in
1947
When you're in Dino land you'll see a highway sign with the route number
498 well Animal Kingdom opened in April of 1998
So the route number stands for the 4th month being April and the year 98
Also as you make your way through Dino land USA Hill approached Chester, and hester's Dino Rama
That's placed in the old parking. Lot nearby the asphalt is faded with cracks and even has the parking spot lines
It's totally convincing that it's ashphalt, but with the really hot, Florida Sun
Asphalt can get very soft and could stick to guests fee
So instead Disney use concrete and made it look like asphalt faux, Jew then it
Number to
extinct attractions
Although animal kingdom is the newest theme park at Walt Disney World the park does contain some history of the past
one of the opening day attractions was the discovery river boats
the boats main purpose was to transport guests from the dock at what used to be Safari village all the way to the dock and
Asia while giving guests a view of the surrounding area guests weren't too
Happy with the ride because it didn't offer anything exclusive. That couldn't be seen on the walking paths around the Tree of Life
So due to low guest satisfaction scores Disney closed the boat attraction on August 21st
1999 just less than a year and a half after opening well if he visit Animal Kingdom today
You're still able to see both docks around the river the old Safari Village
Dock is located on the right as soon as you cross the first bridge onto
Discovery Island and is now a place for guests to relax and the other dock in Asia is used for the King Louie and Baloo
Meet-and-greet also the boats still docked in the maintenance Bay behind theater in the wild and are occasionally used as floating stages along the water
number one
degrees of
Separation ever wonder how some of the animals on the Safari like the elephants or Lions never get too close to the ride vehicle well
Disney has secretly designed
Barriers that include water features moats and natural barriers to keep the animals completely separate from the guests
Take for instance the elephants they have a six acre area
Surrounded by hidden moats that they wouldn't be able to cross over and the lions. Well. They'll stay on Pride Rock for two reasons one
Because there's an 18 foot deep and 21 foot wide moat that separates them and two the rocks have built-in air conditioning tubes
Disney brought these lines to Florida from Oregon
They had a difficult time adjusting to the heat and didn't want to be outside so to solve this problem
Imagineers installed many air conditioning tubes into Pride Rock to cool the Lions down and to encourage them to stay out for guests to see
Animal Kingdom is definitely a park that shouldn't be missed on your next trip to Walt Disney World
So what's your favorite thing about Disney's Animal Kingdom?
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