mcd2745 said:
I'm with you in the minority.
I'm fine with AK as it is right now. I've never seen it as only a half-day park. I see HS as much more in need of improvement. Give me Cars Land and an overall expanded Pixar presence, but you can keep Avatar/Pandora.
I cannot accept any park with a "hub and spoke" layout that has what amounted to at least two "dead end" non developed spots open when the park was opened as complete.
Not if the still are largely open 15 years later as well.
There is absolutely no case to be made that animal kingdom was ever laid out as originally planned. Or is "completed" in Disney's eyes. No sir/ma'am.
And I'm not talkin about what my fellow Disney geekers cry out for...the famed "Beastly Kingdom"...
I talking about this:
The allstars, Coronado, blizzard beach, the wide world complex, and later AKL...all developed FOR animal kingdom. Without the plan to open a fourth, large gate (to rival MK and EPCOT), those don't get built.
I'm talking about a zoological park that is far more expensive to run pound for pound than a traditional amusement park - Disney or otherwise.
I'm talking about huge, ambitious park site...the largest layout/ available space by far...and that's not entirely because of the safari/ animal habitats.
And I'm taking about largely no expansion on a park that you know they are spending a fortune on...and is the lowest attended. That makes no sense based on Disney's m.o.