'A Celebration of Festival of the Lion King' to open mid-May 2021 at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Awesome! I love how they don’t always announce specific days for things like this then - BAM! - it happens.

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Hooray! Can’t wait to hear what it’s like now!

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So fun!!!

I haven’t read to the end of the thread, but wanted to let you know that if you’re prepared to watch you might well get to see it tomorrow.

As I’m sure someone will have posted, soft openings start today. But that means you probably won’t see show times in the app.

It’s meant to be opening May 15th I believe, but that is not official as in announced by Disney.

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Aaahhhh!!! We just arrived today and tomorrow is our AK day!!

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There is a report on chat that CMs are saying “not today” but who knows?

https://mobile.twitter.com/Blog_Mickey?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1391059610002415617|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=

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Ha! That is about 5 minutes after a liner reported a CM told everyone in the queue to leave!

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Oh dear, I bet there are some unhappy people around now. Hopefully most of them were still close enough to get back - if they heard in time of course.

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https://twitter.com/wdwnt/status/1391065421974056961?s=21

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They probably didn’t want a ridiculous like what happened with the Peoplemover.

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They just confirmed a 1:30 show too

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Nice!

The singers are in the show!
https://twitter.com/mainstmagic/status/1391074954121199617?s=21

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From DFB’s Instagram:

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Here’s a video of it from WDWMagic, waiting for the 4K version.

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It’s a bit echoy in there with so few people in the theatre!

I didn’t watch in full, zipped through here and there, but overall it looks like it is well done. If you never saw the original you’d probably really love it. I miss the monkeys and the flying birds. I hope those things will come back one day.

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From what I hear they were cut because Disney is still insisting on distancing between cast. So they’ll return in time I’m sure.

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No monkeys?! That’s my kiddos’ favorite part…

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