Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Animal Kingdom boasts other shows: a zesty Jungle Book presentation, with gaily colored puppets; and a Festival of the Lion King (the fourth stage show Disney has spun off from its 1994 animated smash) that blends audience participation with tumbling, stilt-walking, Cirque du Soleil-style big-topicality. In Dinoland U.S.A. there's a dinosaur thrill ride, Countdown to Extinction, that uses the technology of the popular Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland, California. But the best spectacles are the ones visitors create, discover or stumble into on their...
...planting is not orderly--no exotic topiary of Disney's beloved barnyard critters. The look is what Comstock calls "promiscuous and harlequin," a quiet riot of greens, a forest painted by Rousseau. Comstock found some of the plants in Nepal, riding a mother elephant named Durgha Kali who recalled Paul from a previous visit and insisted on porting him again. As Comstock tells it, he would point to plants; Durgha would pull them out and pass them up to her master. Like any good Imagineer, Comstock must not only talk to the animals (and plants) but also put his vision...
Rohde and Comstock help fulfill an old Disney credo: the park is the ride. If the wait time is too long for the big attractions, you can have a blast just glomming the architecture and atmosphere. That is truest in Animal Kingdom. The backrests of park benches are carved as turtles, eagles, crocodiles. Harambe, the African "village" near the safari ride, is not idealized in Magic Kingdom fashion. It is stylized: worn, with cracked pavements below buildings of a Moorish-Disney design that might be called "mosqueteer." For visitors with an antic mind and a free year or two, Dinoland...
Life is full of adjustments. The Zulus who came to Florida to build the thatched huts in the Harambe village found their hotel rooms too cold; so, says a Disney employee, they built fires in their rooms. Some of the 82 Africans who work in the park are troubled by the "help" of their U.S. colleagues. Mmathabo Marule, 20, from Johannesburg, was vexed when shown how to use a microwave: "I had to tell her we do have those at home...
...which should bring families back for their fun and Disney's profit. Audiences return to a movie like Titanic to relive the same experience. They'll go back on the safari to catch things they missed the first time. And isn't that a good thing? In a pop-culture era offering passive, instant gratification, this park seduces visitors into becoming active searchers for the bounty of animal and floral life. By adroitly mixing the educational and the enthralling, Animal Kingdom proves they can be the same thing. It's a fun field trip for adults of all ages...