Since Zuri’s Sweets Shop is the only air-conditioned space to open with the new Harambe Market at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, we’ve spent a lot of time in there looking around and cooling down. Of course, one of our favorite pass times is looking for Hidden… Read More »Found: New Hidden Mickeys in Zuri’s Sweets Shop
Today we have our third and final update of Disney’s Animal Kingdom changes as of the end of June 2015 (read parts one and two). The park is in the middle of an upgrade as expansive as the Magic Kingdom got with its New Fantasyland… Read More »Disney’s Animal Kingdom Update – Part 3: Coffee & Dessert
Africa Marketplace, a new shopping and dining option for park-goers in Harambe, the village anchoring the Africa section of the park, is planned to open in late May of 2015. The location duplicates an UNESCO world heritage site from western Kenya. One highlight of the… Read More »Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Africa Marketplace Construction Update
Walt Disney’s Imagineers are busy remaking large swaths of one of the world’s most beautiful theme parks – Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Not only is James Cameron’s Avatar project coming to the park, but Africa’s Harambe Village is expanding, the Discovery Island hub is getting a variety of improvements (and a new Starbucks), and the river between Asia and Dino-land is becoming a stage for “Rivers of Light.”
Can’t watch the video? More photos below:
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Entrance to the Harambe Village expansion
One of the most fantastic parts of Disney’s Animal Kingdom has always been how nature and the man made interacts throughout the park. Disney’s Imagineers carefully crafted buildings down to the tiniest crack to make it look like there is a battle between construction and nature and that nature has the edge. No where is this more evident than Harambe Village.
In my opinion Harambe Village is Disney’s most fully realized creation in Orlando. Now, with the opening of the Harambe Theatre, it’s almost like the village has doubled in size. In fact, putting aside a few unfinished bits of landscaping, the themeing is so wonderful, the theater looks like it’s always been a part of the village.
Harambe Theatre, of course, is home to the relocated Festival of The Lion King show. It is back with only a few very minor changes. Once you’re inside the theater itself, you have to look close to tell we’re no longer in Camp Minnie Mickey.
There is one change that is worth noting–a much longer Fastpass+ line. The old location did have Fastpass, but it was only a few dozen people a show. The new location fills about 1/3rd the theater with Fastpass+ holders. Therefore, if a seat close to the floor is important to you, make sure you are holding a Fastpass+ for your show. Once the rabble is allowed in, all the remaining seating is in the back.
A gallery with images from the area is below the jump in case you can’t watch the video above:
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