Hey Teebin, since you appreciate a lot of the little things that go into creating these attractions, at allears.net there is a blogger by the name of Jack Spence who continually goes in depth into a lot of the attractions, how and who made them, and why. He usually does an excellent job, and he actually just did a couple of blogs on the Kilimanjaro Safaris, its always a fun read, check it out:
http://land.allears.net/blogs/jackspence/
Thanks Virus. My word, the dates are all messed up... a post I made 3 weeks ago is coming up as brand new as of March 1, 2011.
Jack has some new ideas that I had not read before. I bought the book "The Making of Disney's Animal Kingdom" back in 2004. While it is a Disney publication, it is quite telling if one reads between the lines. It is not coincidental that the finest design art of any park in the USA is both AK and IOA as they were often created by the same designers and artists. The contractors of the WW went and took all of this knowledge, research of technique, and expense to a whole new level yet again. It is very expensive to create utter perfection (rip it apart, redo, rip it apart, redo) and many parks just cannot afford to spend the ridiculous amounts of money on such detail. Thank goodness we all got to witness this behavior again in the past year.
I need to start a blog, I am so lucky to have learned what I have learned and I want to tell everyone the back-story to the back-stories and details of why what and how. Stuff I have not seen spoken of anywhere on the internet; actually nowhere but from the folks who were there.