Well everyone, here we are again – and this time, at Disney’s Animal Kingdom!
By nature of reading this, you’re probably not new to Park Lore. But just in case, I’ll briefly explain. Park Lore is all about seeing the theme parks we know through new and different lenses. Since I started organizing my years of piecemeal freelance work in 2020, I’ve amassed a collection of totally ad-free, in-depth histories of beloved theme park attractions, never-built lands, closed classics, and more, increasingly interspersed with niche theme park art projects, over a hundred hand-drawn ride layouts, and a real favorite of mine – “armchair Imagineered” theme park build-outs.
Hopefully you’ve already journeyed with me through my lovingly “reimagined,” multiversal variants of Disney California Adventure, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Magic Kingdom, and Universal Islands of Adventure. But for so many reasons, each of those was really just a practice round for tackling a very, very big one – a “Blue Sky” refresh of Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
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