VIDEO - New Awakenings come to the Tree of Life for the holidays

Looks good!

Well, the help-wanted said they were looking for 'bears.'

In this case, teddy bears.

My friend has been sending me videos throughout the afternoon. They did something REALLY spectacular with these puppets.

This is the kind of stuff that makes AK the best WDW park these days. While they do use plenty IP through the park, they still also make the effort to create these original experiences that have traditionally been a big part of what elevates Disney parks above the competition.

Really?

I guess it's a little cheesy to have decorations in Pandora, but it looks like they've done an excellent job making them seem unique and handmade by the people staffing the base (or whatever it is!).

I like most of the Pandora decorations, but the AMP Santa, just...no.

It’s definitely a scientist’s sense of humor...

Who's got a beard that's long and white?
AMP Suit's got a beard that's long and white
Who comes around on a special night?
AMP Suit comes around on a special night

Special Night, beard that's white

Must be AMP Suit
Must be AMP Suit
Must be AMP Suit, AMP Suit Claus

Who shoots you with splats of red?
AMP Suit shoots you with splats of red
Who will ambush and crush your head?
AMP Suit will ambush and crush your head

Crush your head, splats of red
Special night, beard that's white

Must be AMP Suit
Must be AMP Suit
Must be AMP Suit, AMP Suit Claus

Here is the new Tree of Life Awakenings for 2019

Random thoughts:

I like the slightly overexposed video, most others are too dark. I like to be able to catch glimpses of the underlying structures the mapped projections are trying to hide. I like to peek behind the curtain.

I'm kinda surprised at the blatant Christmasy songs. Would have thought they would have kept it more Winter Solstice-y than Weinachtenlich.

I like the part where the virgin lioness gave birth to the Cub Aslan and were visited by the three Wise Owls.

Missed another chance to just show a scene from Fantasia (Waltz of the Flowers) where Fall turns into Winter.

I like that the animations are new and not the horribly slowed down frame-by-frame mess when they try to take a piece of animation from a movie and use it in another context (like what sometimes happens in the Castle projections).

I like the the animations contain representative artistry and not just straight animation, like they did with the Lion King vignette.

I like the idiot that tried to take a flash picture of a projection. Just kidding, they're on my hate list forever.

I hope they keep the regular vignette of The Radical Snow Fox That Just Wants to Help and Have Fun and Stuff.

I like how they 'painted' the animals with the same 'tattoos' that the "Christmas animals' in the main entranceway (Merry Menagerie). It ties it all together.

Nice to see representation in Animal Kingdom of North American animals!!

Oh, so that's where reindeer come from!

I agree about the music, really seems out of place for the area and tree.

I'm just glad "Let it Go" wasn't included. I like the instrumentals, and the projections are lovely. It's a must see for us in December.🎄

Seems like missed opportunities all around. I would have created a more emotional musical theme and a story. The scenes are kinda random and not very imaginative. You have a giant projector on a tree in Disney World and this is what they came up with. Meh.