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It has been so fantastic collaborating
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with Walt Disney Animation to produce
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and Walt Disney Imagineering to bring
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Zootopia better Zoo together to Disney
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Animal Kingdom because we love this
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world and it's so exciting to bring it
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to life in a whole new way. The request
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was what do we put in the Tree of Life
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Theater? You know, the idea of Zootopia
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came about because the filmmakers
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actually did a lot of work researching
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animal characteristics at Disney's
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Animal Kingdom. We really wanted to tell
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a story that celebrated what we all know
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Animal Kingdom now represents, which is
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that people, animals, and nature are all
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connected in this fundamental way. and
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our filmmakers Dared Bush and Byron
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Howard were involved right from the
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start as we brainstorm how do we bring
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the story to life in a whole new way
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that really makes sense for the icon of
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Animal Kingdom which is the Tree of Life
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Theater. And then because Jared and
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Byron are directing Zootopia 2, you
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know, they were able to feed in some
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characters and places that that we get
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to go in Zootopia 2 into our attraction
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so that way we feel completely up to
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date by the time we open. A lot of fun
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gags definitely from Jared and Byron.
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Plusing them up with some more special
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effects to make it really feel like
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you're there with them.
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People are going to laugh and enjoy
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being these characters, but hopefully
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they'll also walk away with a message of
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we are better together.
