DinoLand U.S.A.

Um, I mean, the park has changed quite a bit, right? You had Camp Mickey, which is now Pandora.

Um, Dinoland, I know Corey's always talked about, you know, their, the, uh, Primeval Whirl, right?

Yeah.

Was-

That's the slowdown.

Yeah, and I think there was some slower things to do over in, like, if Dinoland USA was still up and running, I would say, like, there was some stuff to do over there, but we'll have to see what

Tropical Americas brings us.

We will, and that area won't be any place to slow down in for a while, I don't think.

This land will be in Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom.

It will replace what used to be Dinoland USA, which had Primeval Whirl, the Boneyard, and the attraction called Dinosaur.

It's going to cover an area of about 11 acres, and within this area will be Pueblo Esperanza, which means Village of Hope in English.

According to Disney, this area will feel lived in with a long, rich history.

But it will be there, a quick service area, along with shopping, not surprisingly.

And there's still going to be a play area for kids where they can unearth artifacts.

So if you've been to Walt Disney World Animal Kingdom, you may remember if you saw Dinoland USA, they had this thing called the Boneyard and kids loved it.

It's where you'd go and you'd play and it's almost like a huge sandbox and it had bones hidden in the sand and so on.

We never tried it, but it seemed interesting.

But some of their offerings are baked mac and cheese with pulled pork, mac and cheese with buffalo chicken, and then if you were a fan of the buffalo chicken chips that were near, um, Dinoland USA, this is where they moved to.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

You used to have Triceratops spin over at...

Dinoland USA, you know, there's rides like that, not just at Disney, but at most theme parks and just even carnivals and stuff all across the country.

You have probably been on a ride just like Dumbo many, many times in your life.

But think about your early trips to Disney, if you've gone for a long time.

And they have it coming.

Dinoland is closed.

Oh, that's right.

And it's being replaced by the...

Dino-rama?

I knew that I, if I got, well, I'm trying to think if it said Dinoland or Dinarama, but I think it said Dinarama.

And I knew that that only included Primeval Whirl and Triceratops Spin.

Yeah.

But I got trained for both of those things.

Like, no matter what.

Also, I forgot to mention, Nemo does technically count as Dinoland.

But typically, a lot of CPs do not get Dinoland.

They wanted ...

They, they, uh, you know, Rohde put as much detail as he could into Dinoland U.S.A.

Uh, he didn't love it, even though he put so much detail into it, but he's like, "I wanna replace this with Tropical Americas," and Disney kept saying, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no." Ro- Joe Rohde's quote, "Up until the day of my retirement, my team and I tried for 15 years to get a Tropical America land into this park, and much, uh, and many such design, uh, uh, attempts involved gutting Dinoland to do it." He wanted it so bad, and he assumed that it was going to happen, that if you go into Tiffins, there is, on the wall, there's a, um, a map of the world i- in, like, uh, bas-relief wood.

And there's all these, like, little places where Disney's Animal Kingdom took from.

This is a super exciting land where I think getting three new attractions by itself is a pretty big thing in today's, you know, environment with Disney expansions.

And I am very nostalgic about Dinoland.

I loved that area, but I am also really pumped about the things that they've announced.

Yeah, I am too.

This is one of the first announcements we started to get.

It was teased way back.

in that D23 where they were giving us vague concept art that Dinoland would be replaced.

And at the time, they weren't really sure what it was going to be.