Animal Kingdom July 2010 update (part 1)

Here's finally a new update on Disney's Animal Kingdom!
As I said many times, even though I'm a nature-lover, Animal Kingdom still doesn't meet our standards for being an Orlando theme park. It has 12 years and it's still poor of attractions.
Blame the economy, blame Disney or whoever you think it is, but it's still not enough rides.
They used to call Animal Kingdom "NATAZU" (not a zoo), but I think they should have called it "JASTAZU" (just a zoo)..... They need to do something with it!!

Anyway, yesterday Animal Kingdom amazed me. It was a gorgeous Florida day with no sun, many beautiful clouds, a bit too humid of course, but great. Crowds were very limited in the afternoon. All the animals (but the Gorillas, I don't know why) were outside, and the safari was GREAT!!! I saw every single animal! The lion was even roaring, rhinos were crossing the road with a baby, Hippos were out of the water (that is something great, they're very difficult to see out of the water!) like we were in the real Savannah.

Now, on to the pictures!:

The theming is great:

I hope the Discovery River boats will come back one day:

It's the enormous Tree of Life:

I've never seen this dinner before:

No more central Fastpass:

We don't need a Fastpass for 3D movies!!
Philarmagic: NO MORE FP;
Captain EO/ HISTA: NO MORE FP;
Muppet*Vision 3D: NEVER HAD IT (actually, somebody said that it had the FP, but for a very brief time);
.... and It's tough to be a Bug:

In the evening it was pretty empty, which was great:

Some pictures of Pizzafari:

Africa:

I've never noticed these before:

The Safari had a 10 minute wait all the afternoon:

Okapi:

I love Meerkats!!:

Works on Beastly Kingdomme:

Ah ah!! Got you!

The Tree of Life:

Yak and Yeti:

PART 2 is viewable RIGHT HERE!