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...acres, Animal Kingdom, fourth of the Walt Disney World parks--after Magic Kingdom (opened 1971), EPCOT Center (1982) and Disney-MGM (1989)--is the biggest. The company hired 2,800 workers to build the park and 2,500 "cast members" (performing employees) to entertain and instruct all the visitors. As many as 10 million are expected the first year...
...family breaks up to go exploring, you'll be tempted to say, "Meet you at the Tree of Life," but the thing is so wide (170 ft. around) that visitors could circle it for ages without finding one another. The downside: you can easily get lost in Animal Kingdom. The thrilling up side: so can your imagination...
...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...
Some of the people behind Animal Kingdom are as charismatic as the beasties on show. Rohde, 42, an intensely jaunty adventurer with a silent-movie villain's mustache and enough gigantic native earrings dangling from his left lobe to fill a display case in a Nairobi Tiffany's, is a fine artist whose drawings from his world travels cued many of the park's lustrous images...
...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 across to the bosses. As he says, "You gotta sell somebody on takin' some chances!" The sales pitch worked, and Animal Kingdom is also a Vegetable Kingdom, gorgeous and peaceable...