Disney’s Animal Kingdon

Posted on May 18, 2009 by deidrawr

Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park is divided into 7 areas:

  • Oasis
  • Discovery Island® area
  • Camp Minnie-Mickey
  • Africa
  • Rafiki’s Planet Watch® area
  • Asia
  • Dinoland, U.S.A.® area

And once again, Disney exhibits complete disregard for historical, temporal, or spatial accuracy. In the case of Dinoland, U.S.A and the entirety of Africa and Asia, fictional locations are placed next to real ones (does this make the fictional places seem more realistic or does the opposite occur?), and those real places are essentialized, making them, in a way, fictional.

Even if people believed that Dinoland existed within the United States, it is not pretending to be the entirety of the United States, much less an entire continent.

There are other problems here, but that was the one that stuck out to me.

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/animal-kingdom/

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