Patch Notes // latest change 2020.07.13
Asia · Animal Kingdom · Walt Disney World
Ride · opened 1998 · Animal Kingdom · 4 changes on record
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Retooled and renamed Feathered Friends in Flight!, dropping the Pixar Up IP and characters in favor of birds presented by animal-behavior specialists; UP! A Great Bird Adventure had closed Mar 12, 2020 and did not return.
Reworked UP! A Great Bird Adventure: the cultured Anandapur host was replaced by a bumbling Wilderness Explorer, Troop Leader Jones, and the script was simplified and made more comedic.
Rethemed to UP! A Great Bird Adventure, a Disney-Pixar Up overlay starring Russell and Dug; Flights of Wonder had given its final performance Dec 31, 2017.
Opened with Disney's Animal Kingdom as Flights of Wonder, a live exotic-bird show staged at Asia's Caravan/Anandapur stage.
That's every change on the record on Feathered Friends in Flight! since 1998.
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Per the documented record, Feathered Friends in Flight! at Animal Kingdom opened on Apr 22, 1998.
The latest documented change (documented Jul 13, 2020): Retooled and renamed Feathered Friends in Flight!, dropping the Pixar Up IP and characters in favor of birds presented by animal-behavior specialists; UP! A Great Bird Adventure had closed Mar 12, 2020 and did not return.
4 documented changes, dating back to 1998 — the fan-kept ride changelog nobody else keeps.
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