I get Zootopia because it's animals, but why Moana?
Moana actually fits the park better than Zootopia imo, although a lot of that is because of how poorly Zootopia fits. At the very least, Moana has a relationship with nature and with the water that I can buy very loosely fitting into the DAK theme, much in the way I feel Pandora fits the park. It's about man's relationship with nature and Moana is sort of similar.They seemed to struggle to answer that very question during the panel.
Zootopia is automatically eliminated in my eyes because we're not talking about real animals. We're talking about anthropomorphic animals that are stand-ins for humans. Talking animals wearing pants (a big difference from something like It's Tough To Be A Bug) have no place in DAK.