Former Show // latest change 2017.05.27
Pandora · Animal Kingdom · Walt Disney World
Former Show · the memorial record
Also known as Colors of the Wind, Friends from the Animal Forest.
This show is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
Pandora - The World of Avatar opened on May 27, 2017 over the former Camp Minnie-Mickey land that had held the show's theater.
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All of Camp Minnie-Mickey, including the former Grandmother Willow's Grove theater site, closed permanently in early January 2014 to clear the land for Pandora - The World of Avatar.
The final performance of Pocahontas and Her Forest Friends took place on September 27, 2008, ending a run of more than ten years for a show Imagineering had originally planned as a roughly two-year placeholder.
After the show ended, Grandmother Willow's Grove became a smoking area and a stroller parking lot rather than hosting another production.
The official Walt Disney World website listed Pocahontas and Her Forest Friends under 'Meet the Characters' rather than under 'Shows' in 2001.
The show opened with Disney's Animal Kingdom on April 22, 1998, playing in the 350-seat open-air Grandmother Willow's Grove theater in Camp Minnie-Mickey under the title Colors of the Wind, Friends from the Animal Forest.
Within the park's first months Disney retitled the 12-minute production Pocahontas and Her Forest Friends, because guests were already calling it simply the Pocahontas show.
Disneyland's The Spirit of Pocahontas stage show closed in September 1997, and its props were reused in building Camp Minnie-Mickey at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
Per the documented record, Pocahontas and Her Forest Friends at Animal Kingdom opened on Apr 22, 1998.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Pocahontas and Her Forest Friends is dated Sep 27, 2008: The final performance of Pocahontas and Her Forest Friends took place on September 27, 2008, ending a run of more than ten years for a show Imagineering had originally planned as a roughly two-year placeholder.
The latest documented change (documented May 27, 2017): Pandora - The World of Avatar opened on May 27, 2017 over the former Camp Minnie-Mickey land that had held the show's theater.
8 documented changes, dating back to 1997 — the fan-kept show changelog nobody else keeps.
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