Sixty truckloads of dirt were delivered to the site daily for two whole years, amounting to 4.4 million cubic yards in total. He is quoted saying, “I’m like the earring of Imagineering.”Ĭonstructing Animal Kingdom began with the movement of millions of cubic feet of dirt. Joe Rohde, one of the most creative and influential people at Walt Disney Imagineering today. The tiger leapt onto the conference table and supposedly stared down Eisner the project was approved. After the presentation, Eisner said “I just don’t see the appeal of being up close with animals.” Rohde left the conference room… and came back in with a tiger. The final meeting was a make-it or break-it moment: at this meeting, Eisner would decide whether or not to advance the project. Not to be dismayed, Rohde’s team was cut down and he had a few more months to develop even further. The following meeting was with Michael Eisner, who originally did not appreciate the vision of the park and claimed that he just couldn’t understand it. When he came back with more ideas, they gave him more people and more time to refine it to the point of detailed completion. As the story goes, he took the idea to the head creative team of Imagineering they liked the idea, and gave Rohde a team of staff members and six months to further develop the project. Imagineer Joe Rohde, famous for his world traveling Instagram account and long feathered earring on his left side, spearheaded the project in the early nineties. The project was one of the last successful projects completed by CEO Michael Eisner before his ousting roughly five years later. After recreating his original magic kingdom, his legendary community of tomorrow, and a studio modeled after his love for film, Disney’s Animal Kingdom would explore a lesser-known side of Walt that celebrated man’s love and connection for nature. It seemed only natural that Walt Disney World’s fourth (and most recent) park would also draw on inspiration from Walt.
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The series ended some time in the mid-seventies, but conservation efforts through film continue today with the DisneyNature brand. One of Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures.
Even the Frontierland attraction Nature’s Wonderland took guests on a tour through natural settings of the Midwest. Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise originally called for live animals that would sit on the banks of the river, but this was deemed impractical because animals were unpredictable and could not be controlled in such a small setting. His “True Life Adventures” series explored the unique regions of the world and brought the inhabitants of places from the Arctic Circle to the Galapagos Islands to the big screen (he actually won a number of Academy Awards from this series). For films like Bambi, Walt had actual forest animals brought into the studio with the intention of creating the most accurate animated animals as possible. Animals were always an important part of Walt Disney’s filmmaking process.
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