◆ Latest milestone
Added a permanent nighttime safari, with a stadium-sized artificial-sunset lighting wall extending operation into the evening and introducing nocturnal animals including African painted dogs and hyenas.
Patch Notes // latest change 2016.05.27
Africa · Animal Kingdom · Walt Disney World
Ride · opened 1998 · Animal Kingdom · 3 changes on record
◆ Latest milestone
Added a permanent nighttime safari, with a stadium-sized artificial-sunset lighting wall extending operation into the evening and introducing nocturnal animals including African painted dogs and hyenas.
Retired the original poacher storyline, removing the captured 'Little Red' baby-elephant rescue finale and poacher-chase climax and replacing the ride's ending with a new open savanna animal habitat.
Opened on Disney's Animal Kingdom's opening day as the park's flagship attraction, an open-sided safari vehicle ride through a recreated East African savanna populated by live animals.
That's every change on the record on Kilimanjaro Safaris since 1998.
The spotters in our Discord catch the next one first — and the record only grows when someone notices.
Per the documented record, Kilimanjaro Safaris at Animal Kingdom opened on Apr 22, 1998.
The latest documented change (documented May 27, 2016): Added a permanent nighttime safari, with a stadium-sized artificial-sunset lighting wall extending operation into the evening and introducing nocturnal animals including African painted dogs and hyenas.
3 documented changes, dating back to 1998 — the fan-kept ride changelog nobody else keeps.
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