I'm happy Mr. Eisner was shown in a better light for once. You can tell his passion was in this project in particular and we all thank him for that.

I met Joe Rhode on Friday! He was so kind and awesome to me, despite being in Animal Kingdom after working.

I love the fact that they turned an oil rig into a giant tree. Great job Disney on the details of the park but please fix Disco Yeti

All the old clips and stuff you played made me happy nostalgic cry, specially the commercial where the tree of life grows in the building 😭😭😭

Animal Kingdom will always hold a special place in my heart because it’s where my family spent the turn of the millennium. It was the only park left with capacity for visitors that didn’t stay in a Disney Resort (they were fully booked so long in advance we couldn’t get a room in one of the cheaper ones. We’re from Germany and it was before you would book everything online, no travel agency at home could help us get a room.) At first, we were pretty disappointed because we thought there wouldn’t be a firework since Animal Kingdom usual doesn’t have them to protect the animals. But the park was open so much longer than usual, and they actually had a stage with live music AND a firework at midnight somewhere around the parking lot(?), a good distance away from the park and the animals. And you could see the other fireworks from the other parks all around you so clearly. Standing there, surrounded by people wearing goofy 2000 glasses and hats, is one of the clearest memories of my life. Also, I remember being on the Safari in the afternoon of 31 December and most of the animals were already kinda freaking out and behaving like crazy. It took us soooo long to finish the tour because way more animals than usual kept blocking the road or coming up to the vehicle... animals and New Year’s Eve just don’t get along, no matter if it’s an ostrich or a pet dog.

When I was younger my favorite park was Magic Kingdom. As I got older, it became Animal Kingdom. I feel like you’re only really able to appreciate the theming, research, and the authenticity of the park if you’re a tad bit older - moreover I feel like you’re only able to appreciate the details, and blatant hard work required to maintain the park with age. Love it!

Nothing like this will happen under Iger. In fact, Eisner's biggest reservation concerning Iger as his successor is that he avoided any risks and squelched creativity. Looks like he was right.

My family used to dislike Animal Kingdom and it spread towards me. We’d just zip through the park and never emerged in it. After going back last year and seeing pandora we actually slowed down and seen everything due to traveling with older guests, I love how close you can get with the animals and learned about them. I love how detailed everything is. It’s great to know the true meaning of it instead of just thinking of it as a “dumb educational zoo park”.

A great way to start the morning! awesome video as always! that park would be amazing if 1 they built Beastly kingdom and 2 they fix the Yeti!

When I went on a week long trip to Disney on 08 Animal Kingdom was the park I was least excited about. Once I got there I was blown away how awesome it was. It's a great park to visit.

Safari Village is the former name for Discovery Island where the Tree of Life, home of the Animal Kingdom's main attraction, is situated.

Nice we got the creation of Animal Kingdom I think I wanna see the creation of Tokyo Disneyland and the history of Beastly Kingdom

I love this park. It is the most immersive park as a whole that I've ever been too and with the addition of Pandora, they've upped the stakes massively. Would be nice to see how they continue to expand the park, especially with the rumours about Dino Land.

Animal Kingdom is one of my favorite Disney parks. It was so cool

Animal kingdom has always been a great park with Disney, it created a world where people can connect to animals, dinosaurs, and myths. This park has truly been taken to be a great park in Florida

I’m from the uk, and have been visiting Florida parks since my parents first took me on holiday their since I was 5, they took me back year upon year and I was lucky to see the opening of mgm studios as a child, then universal studios, blizzard beach, islands of adventure etc. I’m now 34 and so appreciate your channel, as it gives me the opportunity to both revisit my childhood and also keep up to date with the new innovations. Thank you

I think Disney's Animal Kingdom is actually the 3rd most visited park in the USA now.. Such a great place.

I never visited Animal Kingdom, although I did go to Discovery Island twice. My sister however did go to Animal Kingdom and it was a joy to me to find out that one of the hippos she saw on the safari was a hippo that lived at the Central Florida Zoo when we were kids and would have seen her there.

When I was little animal kingdom was brand new. The one thing I remember more than anything about my trip is the tree of life. I probably spent an entire hour picking out different animals and I was just so blown away by it

joe rhode is so creative its amazing! i was blown away with the construction of everest / all the behind the senes stuff they did to build it and the area. also excited for an episode on killimanjaro safari! i remember when the ride had the "gotta catch the poachers" story and never knew why they changed it! was kinda hoping you'd throw in the old commercial where they say animal kingdom commercial where they all yell "its notazoo!!" it feels like my brain made that one up haha

I can’t express how much I love your videos. The amount of information and detail you give is always so interesting. Another amazing video

A friend brought me a souvenir book back the year it opened. It is always a MUST for me to visit the park. I first went in the early to mid 2000's. The theming is over the top and immersive. Tree of Life is a visual must see as well. Have not experienced Pandora 1st hand, but I know it's AMAZING! Oh! There are"tons" of hidden Mickeys in the park.

Gotta give Eisner credit. He saved Disney and expanded the parks

The use of the AL CD Soundtrack was the master stroke for this excellent video. Thanks

Amazing start of a series!! Such a great idea to go through Islands of Adventure and then Animal Kingdom to tackle both The Lost Continent and Beastly Kingdom afterward, since they have a lot to do with each other, that's amazing narrative foresight. I'm from Latin America and the promotion for Animal Kingdom here was huge, I remember how hyped the park was and how promoted it was at the time, there was this super eerie magazine ad that had a family walking through the park being followed by shadows of animals and as a kid I was so enthralled, especially with the idea that there could be dragons involved. I'm looking forward to the next installment!

Great video! Very comprehensive and yet concise. Animal Kingdom has become my favorite of the four parks. I was a bit skeptical regarding Pandora, that is before visiting it...WOW! What a great addition to the Animal Kingdom. Once again- Very nice video!

The sheer amount of variety in what parks and rides you cover is amazing. An IOA and an AK series at the same time; excellent video as always.

I eagerly await to see your take on Beastly Kingdom. It was probably one of my Most Wanted expansions to a Disney theme park

Very informative and extensive in the right ways. I've seen a few of these about the Animal Kingdom, but this one focuses on all the things I've not seen in the others. 😃 👍

But when we getting those imagined Animals, no I don't count Avatar Land. Still want a dragon and a unicorn.......

Great video, your content gets better and better. Animal Kingdom is such a special park, nothing else like it.

Sam, you have hit the last two videos out of the park!!! Well done sir. I think Avery is right I think the Disco Yeti deserves it's own Expedition. Or the other great one is the first story line of Kilimanjaro Safaris.

Your narrative is fantastic. Love your channel. Great editing and information.

The way you put your videos together to tell a story works perfectly. Every video I have watched of yours amazed me, since I found your channel through the video made about Pleasure Island Cleethorpes UK (My home town) I am hooked. Great work

Animal kingdom is my second favorite disney park behind MK! Loved the episode! Theme park fandom is still very niche so its always a treat to see new uploads!

0:33 I saw this on a commercial years ago. I even saw it on the VHS of Disney’s The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride. Then I visited Walt Disney World in 2001 & there I saw… 0:57 Disney’s Animal Kingdom itself. I returned again in 2007 & again in 2009. Those were excellent good times. Oh yeah, good times alright. Someday, I hope to return to Walt Disney World & see some of my favorite stomping grounds. Especially those at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Although I know there’s been some changes since & not all of my stomping grounds are at the heart of Orlando Florida anymore. I sure will miss one of them. I can only hope some my other favorite stomping grounds at Disney’s Animal Kingdom are still there.

Animal Kingdom is my favorite theme park of all time and the Pandora addition makes it pretty untouchable to me

Easily the best themeing of any Disney park other than DisneySea. People always seem to be blown away by the immersion of the Wizarding World, but Animal Kingdom went for the whole immersive experience long before. I know that this may be low on the list, but I would like to see the history behind Rafiki's Planet Watch. Michael Eisner's fusion of entertainment and education is a principal that has sadly been lost under Iger.

i really appreciate all the effort you put into your videos! i'm becoming more and more of a disney theme park geek, so your videos really help me

Hey, here's a fact you could possibly add to your video on Expedition Everest. In the queue, there's a footprint of the Yeti that was given to the imagineers by Josh Gates, the host of Expedition Unknown on Discovery Channel. Joah had made a trip to the Himalayas a few years back and brought home a mold of a supposed Yeti footprint, which he gave to the imagineers working on the attraction at the time.

Excellent video as always! I'm so excited for these future episodes!!

"So, you wanted to talk about the project? And we should cancel it?" *brings in bengal tiger* What a boss move.

Animal Kingdom was easily the most memorable of all the individual Disney parks that make up Disney World. Especially after having gotten used to Disneyland in California. I loved the atmosphere and I still have memories of eating at the cafe and having egrets come right up to me

Uploaded on Earth day, so much attention to detail. Love this channel

Thank You very much for making this, it truly means so much to me. Being a part of the Animal Kingdom family will always be a large piece of me. This video was so well done and so visually captivating that I am excited to see what the next expedition will bring.

This is by far my family’s favourite of the parks. We always make more trips to AK than any of the other Disney properties.

It comes as NO SURPRISE that the GLORIOUS Adventurers Club came from the Totally Whacked-out mind of Joe Rohde!

My gosh man you’re on a roll! Awesomeness! 🙌

Great video! Love some good ole' Disney Parks history! Thank you Sam!

Love your Disney and universal videos. The best. Great footage and info!

Love it! So excited for the rest of the vids in the series. You should collab with bright sun films or defunctland!

Love this park!! Ak is the fave Disney park of mine! 🦁🦓🦒 ~Dawn

Yayayayaya ive been waiting for this series

Yes! I've been waiting for this video to be made :)

So good 👍 I love your channel you rock it out of the park 😁 doing DAK justice!

One of the members of my extended family was part of the steel crew that put together the tree inside animal Kingdom. I got to hear stories about how they put together some of the stuff in that park.

Great video again. I love Animal Kingdom, it's become maybe the most-rounded theme park at Walt Disney World for me. For those interested in the imagineering process, Tiffins Restaurant has a lot of artefacts, photos and sketches from the imagineers' trips to Asia and Africa on the walls.

This is one of your best videos yet!

The lost continent bgm is a nice touch along with pandora

Cant wait for the Beastlly Kingdom/Lost Continent episode

The theming and shows at Animal Kingdom are amazing! The downside is it gets crowed very quickly and there's not a lot of shade to escape the heat.

It's my favorite WDW park by far

*COOL!* Looking forward to the inevitable coverage of DinoLand USA!

Glad to get a look at this park. I feel like it is underrated.

I just love this , I’m suppose to do hw but this is better

I've Might Go To Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park At Walt Disney World Resort In Florida In The United States of America One Day. Thanks Expedition Theme Park Mate. X

Animal Kingdom finally did get mythical animals in 2017 in some form though with the new land, Pandora: World of Avatar. So basically now Animal Kingdom finally does have current, extinct and mythical animals in the park like it was originally intended to be.

This was a amazing video, as always. I have one suggestion, do a history of universal studios japan. It's not really known and it would be cool to watch.

OhhhMy goodness 325??? Me and my friend were just at this park last week and was debating the numbers of animals carved in that tree🤣this park is amazingly done so well that zoo hardly comes to mind 🤷🏽‍♂️Pandora alone speechless

This park will always be my favorite after my old CP stay in '10.

A video on how Pandora came to be at Animal Kingdom.

I got a preview of the park before it opened. Dinosaur was called "Countdown to Extinction" and it was hella rough. Seems just as bad today.

Happy 21st bday Animal Kingdom

Joe Rhode is an absolute legend. I would give my eye teeth to meet him.

A series of Animal Kingdom? YES!!!!

When I was little this was always my park because Everest had just opened when my grandmother took me and we did a lot more of the attractions than my sister or any of my cousins did. Could you do a video on delta dreamflight please?

I am excited for this one. I think Animal Kingdom is my favorite park when I get down to the base of it.

I'd like an in depth look at the original and the changes for Kilimanjaro Safari's . Also why not do an episode on all the behind the scenes tours .

The interviewers really made me angry lol

This is looking like a wild video

Anyone realize the Lost Continent soundtrack at the end. It's playing before he even plays the ad from IOA

Woooo!!!! Animal Kingdom!

We need a lost continent tribute video that be so cool!

I love this park! If you’re an animal lover it is truly a religious experience lol! 🐼🐨🦁🐘🦄🐉

Please do some more Animal Kingdom videos like one about Dinoland and Countdown to Extinction.

I didn't know animal kingdom had been around so long

Please do 6 flags Atlantis!!!

I've head the Beastly Kingdom story several times before, but it ties with Lost Continent? Now I'm interested.

Love u expidition theme park make more animal kingdom videos please and

Another really good video Sam, So again when is your next Efteling video coming + I remember you saying you were next goin to start videos on Phantasialand how is that going? :-)

I'm very much a zoo and zoology person so this park is my favorite.

I wish there is a circus that will educate and inspire people when it comes to live animals.

I love little Animal Kingdom.

Some people think that Pandora doesn’t belong in Animal Kingdom it doesn’t fit, but I think it does. Yes, it does stink that we will never get Beastly Kingdom, but I think that Pandora is pretty close, and it’s certainly better than Camp Minnie-Mickey. But I think that because they went the nature route for Pandora and made it centered around the plants and animals, with nature taking over industrial building, it fits with Animal Kingdom seamlessly. And yeah, it’s not as educational about conservation as the other lands, but neither is Dinoland. In Pandora they reinforce the idea of people living on harmony with nature, which sounds like Animal Kingdom to me. I think that they did a really amazing job with the land, and it has definitely made Animal Kingdom even greater than it already was.

Happy 21th birthday animal kingdom beastly kingdom Would be awesome

Good video

Very interesting video 👍 Do you think you could do an history of the ‘Dubai Parks and Resorts’ (most mainly Motiongate Dubai, Legoland Dubai, and Bollywood Park Dubai)?

Great video!! I would love to see a theme park history video of Busch Gardens👏🏾

Where does Joe get those earrings he only wears one of? Creative inside and out!

I have a chronic fear of flying 😨 I wish I could walk upon this legendary park.