"A Wild Decade"

A WDWCelebrations Commemorative Event celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Disney's Animal Kingdom® Park

April 22, 2008

Our first Commemorative Event, “A Wild Decade,” celebrated the 10th Anniversary of Disney's Animal Kingdom® Park, on April 22, 2008.  Building on the success of Celebration 25, over 400 people registered for “A Wild Decade” to join us on this fantastic day.  A huge thanks to all of our Sponsors and Partners for helping to make this day a success!

Special events included a rededication ceremony with renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, a talk by legendary Imagineer Joe Rohde, our ever-popular History Walk which began with a warm welcome from Val Bunting, the Vice President of Disney's Animal Kingdom® Park, a group meal with reserved space at Flame Tree Barbeque, and the presentation of what we hope to be the first of many donations to Lou Mongello's DisneyWorldTrivia.com Dream Team Project which benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America.  (Read the story on the Dream Team blog.)  In addition, the schedule included group experiences of Finding Nemo The Musical, Expedition Everest, and Dinosaur (which to the delight of all had some serious issues during our ride!).

Many thanks to Brian Sikorski for allowing us to share his collection of photographs from the day, which are available on his Flickr page.  One of his shots is a group photo, shown below, which can be downloaded directly.  If anyone else would like to share their photos of the day, please email us and we'll be happy to link to them.

Deb Wills of sponsor AllEars.Net posted a recap of the day on her blog, with several nice photos including this group photo.  There is a link in the blog entry to download a large version. 

Lou Mongello has the complete audio recording of Joe Rhode's presentation available for download at DisneyWorldTrivia.com.  Additionally, a transcript is also available.

More event coverage:

"A Wild Decade" Event Coverage by AllEars.Net's Deb Wills.

"A Wild Decade" Event Coverage by AllEars.Net's Linda Mac.

"A Wild Decade" Event Coverage by MousePlanet and MouseStation Podcast Episode 178.

"A Wild Decade" Event Coverage by DisneyWorldTrivia.com Dream Team Blog, Lou Mongello's Blog, and WDW Radio Show #64.

"A Wild Decade" Event Coverage by The DIS Unplugged Blog and Podcast Episode 145.

"A Wild Decade" Event Coverage by MickeyNews.com.