The dinosaurs have begun to go extinct once more. As of January twelfth, sections of Animal Kingdom’s Dinoland, U.S.A., have formally shut down as Disney World prepares for building on the Tropical Americas land slated for the realm. Whereas the flagship journey DINOSAUR will stay open for the remainder of 2025, the family-friendly TriceraTop Spin wasn’t so fortunate and has already joined the checklist of closed Walt Disney World sights. The dinosaur-themed journey won’t be anybody’s favourite, however it’s a disgrace to see it fully scrapped. That is why I believe the attraction ought to reimagined and moved elsewhere, particularly to a galaxy far, distant.
Sure, I’m speaking about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge over at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Most individuals agree that Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is without doubt one of the greatest rides in any Disney Park and that Galaxy’s Edge is superbly performed. Nonetheless, the land isn’t with out its faults. Excessive up on the checklist of friends’ issues is the truth that the large space solely has two sights, each of which have top necessities, making it not possible for households with young children to benefit from the land’s choices collectively. That’s the place TriceraTop Spin might are available.
The previous Dinoland, U.S.A. journey operated identical to Magic Kingdom’s Dumbo the Flying Elephant, however as an alternative of boarding elephants, friends boarded dinosaurs. As of now, there are not any dinosaurs within the Star Wars universe, however that doesn’t imply the attraction ought to be scrapped altogether. As an alternative, Imagineers ought to take the fundamental perform of the journey and easily redesign the dinosaurs into creatures that followers of the franchise will acknowledge.
It might be a reasonably easy redesign, too, provided that many Star Wars creatures share related physique shapes with the triceratops. Simply think about what it might be like to have the ability to journey a Bantha just like the Tusken Raiders on Tatooine or perhaps a Blurrg like Kuiil did in The Mandalorian. It would take some additional pixie mud, however Imagineers would possibly even be capable of change the form of the triceratops right into a Tauntaun.
Not solely would this save TriceraTop Spin from rotting away in a warehouse or being scrapped for components, it might additionally pay homage to the rumored third attraction that was initially a part of preliminary Galaxy’s Edge planning. That journey was stated to contain friends getting on the again of a large Bantha-like creature that may take them from one a part of the realm to the opposite. Not like that concept, which might have taken up a large footprint within the space and created extra foot site visitors congestion, a retheme of TriceraTop Spin would hardly impression the land in any respect, except for elevating the attraction complete to a few.
It is also not fully unparalleled for Imagineers to take a formally shuttered attraction and retool it for a unique space. In actual fact, it’s precisely what occurred at Disney’s California Journey Park when A Bug’s Land shut down. As an alternative of demolishing Flik’s Flyers — one other Dumbo-like, family-friendly attraction — they rethemed and moved it over to Pixar Pier 9 months later, the place it turned Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind.
The Imagineer and building groups at Walt Disney World have quite a bit on their plate with a slew of recent and upcoming sights slated to start improvement this yr, so it’s unlikely {that a} transfer like this may occur anytime quickly. However I’m positively going to be preserving my fingers crossed that it does occur ultimately.