Saturday, August 17, 2013

It's in the Details #10

 In this series, we'll be looking at details that are hidden all around you at the parks. The Imagineers do a great job placing in many hidden gems and things to try that one has to take a moment to notice, or explore. Many of these are obvious and in plain sight, and some are hidden quite well, you just have to know where to look.



  This week's It's in the Details covers a small detail placed in an attraction as a tribute. In Animal Kingdom is the excellent time travelling ride Dinosaur, you're led to a secret basement time travel facility at the back of the Dino Institute, where you're on a journey to capture an Iguanadon, while evading a hungry Carnotaurus. Originally called Countdown to Extinction, it was changed to Dinosaur in 2000 to correspond and promote the movie of the same name; it opened with Animal Kingdom on April 22, 1998. As you begin safety checks in the Time Rover, to far right of the facility, on the wall above several electrical boxes and interfaces, is a label for the current sector within the facility:

SECTOR CTX-WDI-AK98

 It's fairly easy to break down given the previous information I gave:
CTX = Countdown to Extinction
WDI = Walt Disney Imagineering
AK98 = Animal Kingdom '98
    It serves as a tribute and reminder of the attraction's opening and origins.

Missed It's in the Details #9? Check it out here!

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