Florida Park May Answer Call of the Wild

Miss the Lion King Celebration parade at Disneyland?

You may be able to catch up with Simba and company in Orlando next year when the Walt Disney Co. opens its fourth Florida theme park, Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Company officials are considering reusing in the new park some portions of the enormously popular Lion King procession that left Disneyland June 1 to make way for the new Hercules Victory Parade.

Recycling is a common pastime in Disney’s theme park empire, where attractions that prove successful in one location are frequently replicated in another.

While the full-scale Lion King Celebration will probably not be cloned for the Florida park, pieces of it may resurface in Orlando, according to Disneyland spokesman John McClintock.

“When a show closes, we always look for elements that can be reused somewhere else,” McClintock said. “Right now [Florida officials] are looking at certain elements and deciding which way to go.”