In what appears to be a rare reversal, Disney World has opted to make a portion of a dark ride easier to see. Attractions like the soon-to-be-extinct DINOSAUR dark ride have been getting darker over the years, making it difficult to see and photograph many scenes within the ride. Another example used to be the rainforest scene in the Living with the Land attraction.
However, Disney World has recently updated the scene to include a lot more lighting – allowing guests to enjoy some of the otherwise difficult-to-see details. While visiting EPCOT recently, we rode Living with the Land to grab some photos of the updated lighting. It is quite blue at the moment, but I’m sure that can be adjusted. Here’s a look!
Living with the Land Improved Rainforest Scene (Video)
We’ll start with a video of the updated lighting. Our video starts in the first scene, during the thunderstorm. We didn’t notice any lighting changes in the first scene, but starting in the scene before the rainforest should provide some context to the brightness (and blue-ness) of the updated rainforest scene.
Living with the Land Rainforest Scene Improvements (Photos)
Here are some photos of the new scene. It is quite blue, and some parts of the scene are more “hotly” lit than others, but it is still an improvement over what was there before. You feel far more enveloped by the scene now, and you can appreciate the detail in some of the set elements more now than in the past few years (or longer). Note that I rode a few times and used different lenses and different low-light settings. In person, the scene is brighter than the video, and brighter than some of the wide photos below, but darker than other photos.
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That new lighting in the rainforest looks absolutely amazing.
That’s great, now they need to update all the old rides like that, like Spaceship Earth and several others. Bring a revamp of Journey of Imagination like the original but better. Revamp in Magic Kingdom the Tomorrowland Speedway into electric with a modern track like a trackless.👌❤️❤️✨️✨️✨️✨️