I read with interest, as I always do, Honor Hunter's post today at his 'Blue Sky Disney' blog about 'The Disney Lands That Time Forgot'.
In the post he talks about many of the announced or just heavily rumored parks or lands that Disney has considered throughout the years. Of interest to me always are the discussions about the 'Beastly Kingdom' part of the park that was axed as the story goes by Michael Eisner to keep the budget down (I'm sure many people at Disney and within Imagineering know the real answer, but we probably will never know if this is the EXACT tru
th or not. And Joe Rhode didn't address is during his recent 10 year anniversary discussions that I'm aware of either).
Most of us also know that the original logo for the Animal Kingdom contained a large dragon silhouette right in in the middle of the Tree of Life logo, shown to the right.
Of course the current logo in use throughout much of the park no longer contains any animals at all.
So, Beastly Kingdom was suppose to be built where Camp Minnie-Mickey is today. But in one of those little Imaginnering tweaks to the powers that be and always fun to find is here too as a homage to the land that never really made it off the drawing board.
When you cross the bridge from Discovery Island on your way into the Camp, if you look across the right side of the bridge up the river on the left you will see a storm drain that looks, oh, sort of like that mythical creature in the middle of the old logo that never REALLY made it into the park. Fun no?
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Unfortunately, in all my trips to AK, I have never been able to get a good picture of it, since it's just far enough away with the limited zoom on my little Canon point and shoot it always comes out blurry or too dark. So if someone out there is in the area, or has a good 'head' shot of our friend sticking our from the bank, please send me a copy and I'll be sure to update this post with it.
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