Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-76695.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: No More Evening Extra Magic Hours for Animal Kingdom</b></a> <p>Disney has announced that starting Wednesday, March 2nd, Animal Kingdom will no longer offer Extra Magic Hours (EMH) in the evenings at Animal Kingdom. Instead of having one morning and one evening EMH per week the park will now have two morning EMHs on Mondays and Wednesdays. </p>
Originally Posted By dzy76 Oh that makes me sad. I really wanted to go to that park in the dark someday. Bummer.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 for whatever reason I never took advantage of EMH there at night- always early entry..so although I am interested in the park at night- in all this time I never used.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt We did the morning hours once! Total walk on for every attraction! Everest que went too fast & we missed all the Yeti info. Oh well, have to go back I guess!
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Oy... and what sucks is that that park has a wonderful lighting package.. that no one will get to see.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo >>>Oy... and what sucks is that that park has a wonderful lighting package.. that no one will get to see.<<< think of the money saved by not lighting it.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 We never used the EMH night too. We were always ready to leave by 5 or 6 anyway. Maybe thats one of the reasons they stoped it, not as many guest went to the EMH night.
Originally Posted By Christi22222 I literally plan my trip to be there at night. It is amazing for so many reasons. This is sad. However, if it was for the animals and not the money crunchers, I would fully support it. I am willing to let any policy change that is in the best interest of the critters slide.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Attention the final evening hours will be the AP event on Saturday Enjoy! I know DLPOstcardguy will be attending!Anybody else?
Originally Posted By JenniBarra Count me in as another person sad to see it go. On our last trip, we used it as an opportunity to see "Festival of the Lion King" since we'd heard that's a good time to easily catch it. I seem to recall we also got in a ride or two on Dinosaur. (If I didn't think of it as Expedition N-Everest, DH would probably have wanted to do that, too.)
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Our first ride on Everest was during EMH. Feb 1, 2006 the day before my 40th birthday. It wasn't even officially opened yet, so it was like getting a birthday gift from Disney. We rode 3 times and then walked from Asia to Africa with almost no one in sight for the entire walk. It was so peaceful and nice. So sad there will be no more night time strolls around AK.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer .... This further distances the park from having night entertainment. Greaaaat.
Originally Posted By Mr X Animal Kingdom opened around 12 years ago now, have they *ever* offered night entertainment? I think the main point is to have a park that is early to rise and early to sleep, in order to move the customers along to the next place and prepare the night lighting for the special events and corporate parties. As to SuperDry's theory, I think they keep the lights on regardless of opening/closing hours. I could be wrong, but that has been my experience late night in Disney parks (it's fun to hang out in World Bazaar at 3 o'clock in the morning with nary a customer in sight but all the lights shining just for us workers. ;P)... Certainly that's not the case for all the parks in all cases, but the night workers DO have to move around, after all. And certainly they need proper lighting for the corporate parties which, if I'm not guessing wrong, occur in ALL the four parks in Florida from time to time (if not all the time).
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>I think the main point is to have a park that is early to rise and early to sleep, in order to move the customers along to the next place and prepare the night lighting for the special events and corporate parties.<<< That sounds like a excuse to me. Every other park now has a nighttime spectacular. It's part of the Disney Difference. You expect shows like that. ...To not have one in DAK is a large loss.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>to be fair EE, DHS only has 1 two nights a week, and it is lame.<<< Also a problem. Fantasmic needs to play nightly, ans actually have some semblance of show quality brought back to it. What a joke. ...But at least it has one.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 It's pretty sad that one of the most memorable things about F! in MGM for me was, as an audience, doing the Mexican wave! As Australians we had never done this peculiarly American thing before and it was just another "cultural experience" thing we enjoyed being a part of. The show after that(and particularly after seeing DL's version ten days before)was decidedly underwhelming!
