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Orlando Car Rental Travel Guide - The Oasis
All paths from The Oasis lead to the same place - Discovery Island and its centerpiece, the fourteen story high Tree Of Life. Be sure to observe the intricate detail of the more than 325 animals that have been carved into the bark of this impressive park icon. Like Cinderella’s Castle in The Magic Kingdom, this impressive Disney landmark serves as the center of the park, with paths leading away from the tree like spokes on a wheel to the other sections of Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Before rushing into this area’s immensely popular 3-D show, be sure to take some time to venture down the Discovery Island Trails, where a variety of small exotic animals including Capybaras (the world’s largest rodents), Asian Small-Clawed Otters, Red Kangaroos and European Polecats can be found. These trails are also home to a variety of exotic birds such as the East African Crowned Crane, White-Faced Whistling Duck, Wooly-Necked Stork and Blue and Yellow Macaw.
It’s Tough To Be A Bug!:
This 4-D movie (you feel things in addition to the 3-D effects) features popular stars of Disney’s A Bug’s Life and is perhaps the most lauded movie of it’s kind in all of Walt Disney World. Join Flik, Princess Atta and Hopper as you and all of the other theatergoers are made honorary insects for the show. During this action-packed adventure, Orlando car rental customers will learn some of the many hardships that bugs face every day and they may even gain a little bit of empathy for the creepy crawly critters of the world.
The show’s entrance is inside of the Tree of Life and the queue for it winds around the tree. This is an excellent opportunity for people to take some great Orlando vacation photos and check out the incredibly detailed carvings on the tree before descending down into the ground, where the 430 seat theater is located.
WARNING: This highly popular Orlando vacation attraction, for which a FastPass is available, is not for everyone and parents are strongly warned by a multitude of signs that the show can be very frightening to children and even some adults that have a distinct fear of insects.
A Little Birdie Told Me ...
Two years before it opened, then-CEO Michael Eisner invited Jane Goodall to a special sneak peak of Disney's Animal Kingdom. As she marveled at the carvings on the Tree of Life, Goodall asked Eisner where the chimpanzee was going to be located on the tree. Eisner was dumbfounded when he learned from the project's chief sculptor, Zsolt Hormay, that there were no plans for a chimopanzee. The Dinsey head quickly rectified that by asking Jane Goodall where she would like a chimpanzee placed. She indicated that she would like David Greybeard, the first chimpanzee that she ever observed, to be placed just outside of the entrance to It's Tough To Be A Bug. You can't miss him; he is the most detailed of all of the carvings!
There are a number of humorous marquee signs that parody famous movies hanging on the walls of the pre-show area at the It’s Tough To Be A Bug! attraction. These include ‘Web Side Story,” “My Fair Ladybug,” “Beauty and the Bee” and “A Cockroach Line.”
There are more than 100,000 leaves on the Tree of Life and it’s trunk is over fifty feet across. Twenty different sculptors are responsible for the intricate carvings on the tree, which took 18 months to construct.
Do not hop into your Orlando car rental and leave the park without seeing It's Tough To Be A Bug; it is one of the premier attractions in all of Walt Disney World! If you haven't done so yet, you can reserve your Orlando Car Rental here.