Beastly Kingdomme project

Today we'll talk about something that was going to be spectacular, but that never made the cut.

Beastly Kingdomme was a huge area that was going to be located where Camp Minnie-Mickey now stands.

Indeed, the Camp was meant to be only temporary, that would have been converted to Beastly Kingdomme just a couple of years later.

Here's its placement:

But, what happened? It has been 12 YEARS, and we still don't even see works on that spot!!! Why?

One of the reason is that some Imagineers where fired after Animal Kingdom was completed in 1998 (I don't know the reasons), so some of them went to "pay a visit" to Universal Orlando, that the following year opened Islands of Adventure.

So, they just helped IOA, giving the projects to Universal that realized a very good but small version of a part of BK (it's not Burger King, it's Beastly Kingdomme): The Dragon's tower.

Here you are some copyrighted images of the never-realized project:

There are some rumors though that say that Beastly Kingdomme will be realized as soon as the new Fantasyland will be completed.

By the way,the only attraction that was actually built with the same theme of Beastly Kingdomme is Expedition Everest:

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