Tree of Life Awakening

[emmakatbaby]

Can anyone tell me about what time this takes place each evening?

 

[Gehrig1B]

Starts at sunset and runs throughout the evening until park close.

 

[Robo]

Starts at sunset and runs throughout the evening until park close.

Yes, and actually, it continues to run well past closing time.

 

[FredQc]

I was at Animal Kingdom tonight (Saturday). The park closure time was 10pm. I walked by the Tree of Life around 9:20pm, and I stayed there about 10-15 minutes. There hasn't been any of the vignettes, and there was no movement from the animal on the Tree. Very few people stayed in front of the Tree, compared to the crowd when the show goes on.

While it didn't rain on the park, there was a lot of lightnings. However, I suppose that the Tree of Life projection show isn't really weather sensitive. (Similarly, during the 8:45pm representation of Rivers of Light, the four floating animals barely appeared on the show; they exited from the backstage river at the appropriate moment, but immediately returned towards that river rather than joining the lotus.)

Finally, I thought that Tree of Life awake each night. However, on the park times guide, it was scheduled only on Friday and Saturday, this week. I suppose the 8:30pm closing time, the other nights, is too early...

Well, all that was a bit disappointing.

 

[rpb718]

Would rather sit or lean on a railing somewhere with an unobstructed view of the ToL awakenings and watch all night rather than do RoL again, at least until the new changes to RoL kick in over Memorial Day weekend.

 

[dachsie]

I was told they come on automatically when it gets dark enough. That’s odd that it didn’t come on for you

I thought there were several different showings with different scenes when it first started. Now there is only one or was I misinformed?

 

[Robo]

1. I was told they come on automatically when it gets dark enough.
2. That’s odd that it didn’t come on for you
3. I thought there were several different showings with different scenes when it first started.
4. Now there is only one or was I misinformed?

1. Unlikely that they would come on "automatically" (like a streetlight.)
2. May have been a technical problem.
3. Yup.
4. I've not heard that they dropped the multiple "shows."

 

[Wildcard]

We saw this a couple of weeks ago, on a night when it wasn't listed (Wednesday). We asked a cast member and they said there was no fixed start time, but that it would start once it was "dark enough". We ended up waiting about 10 minutes as a crowd had already gathered and we assumed it would be soon. I got the impression that while it wasn't automatic, someone must be watching the sky and hit the button when they thought the lighting would be right.

 

[Robo]

I got the impression that while it wasn't automatic, someone must be watching the sky and hit the button when they thought the lighting would be right.

Very likely.
If the sky is cloudy or overcast, the appropriate darkness level will come earlier than on nights with clearer sky conditions.

 

[dachsie]

The reason I said automatic was because a PPP told me one day it got so dark due to weather in the afternoon that it turned on. To me that sounded like automatic like a dusk to dawn light would work