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Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari is a bonus feature from the 2003 Platinum Edition release of The Lion King , and later the 2004 DVD release's of The Lion King 1 ½ and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride . It stars the eponymous Timon and Pumbaa as they take players on a "virtual safari" through the Pride Lands and other locales, often encountering characters from the films and other strange oddities. Each game has the player choose left or right at designated checkpoints, with different encounters and characters found in each choice, up to and including how the climax of the ride will play out.

This game consists of the following tropes:

• Animal Stampede : A mandatory plot event in the first game has Timon and Pumbaa get caught in another wildebeest stampede.
• Bad Guy Bar : The restaurant operated by the hyenas in the first edition appears to be this as their menu consists of food using meerkats and warthogs.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space : Timon and Pumbaa get launched into space towards the end of 2.0 and can still breathe just fine, let alone survive their journey back to Earth.
• Call-Back : The Rafiki animatronic in 2.0 quotes lines from both of the previous movies - "Look beyond what you see - so what are you going to do?"
• The Cameo : In one ending of 2.0 , Stitch makes a cameo while Timon and Pumbaa are floating in space.
• Carnivore Confusion : In the parody of Pirates of the Caribbean in 1.5 , a hyena pirate chases a citizen for a plate of grubs, and Timon's Ma even asks why he's trying to get grubs in the first place.
• Denser and Wackier : While the first edition was already zany, 1.5 really ramps it up to accommodate the midquel also being much wackier in tone with lots of Disney theme park references.
• If they go through the left side's drive-thru, they get to feast on bug-related foods and leave content.
• If they go through the right side's drive-thru, they learn that the restaurant is run by the hyenas who serve meerkat and warthog-based foods to customers and have to escape before Banzai and Ed catch them.
• Elephant Graveyard : The location appears in all three editions of the game.
• In the first installment, they are running a fast food restaurant specializing in meerkats and warthogs, and are later shown at the Elephant Graveyard before chasing the duo through a cave.
• In 1.5 , they appear towards the end of the tour to menace the group, and are also seen in various decorations such as the paintings parodying the Haunted Mansion.
• In 2.0 , the player may choose to inadvertently briefly strand Timon and Pumbaa in the Elephant Graveyard where they'll briefly menace them.
• Incredibly Lame Pun : Pumbaa makes a few in the first edition to Timon's frustration.
• In the first edition, Timon says the river is full of alligators. Pumbaa corrects him stating that alligators are in North America, whereas Africa has crocodiles.
• Timon's Ma even asks why there's a Yeti underground near Pride Rock in 1.5 , and Timon chalks it up to "artistic license".
• Never Smile at a Crocodile : In the first edition, Timon and Pumbaa ride their boat through a bunch of hungry crocodiles who attack them.
• In the first edition, the player may ride past Pride Rock which is observed by Timon and Pumbaa, though Timon complains about how a rock can be proud, quoting himself in the then-unreleased midquel.
• In 1.5 , the group may encounter a Yeti randomly underground near Pride Rock. Given the focus on parodies of Disney theme park rides, this was probably a nod to the forthcoming Expedition Everest on its way to Animal Kingdom at the time.
• Shout-Out : One of the main themes of 1.5 is the prevalence of parodies of Disney theme park rides. We see parodies of the Haunted Mansion , It's a Small World , Pirates of the Caribbean , and even the forthcoming Expedition Everest .
• Verbal Backspace : After the first edition concludes, Timon gives a cheery farewell to the player, and Pumbaa worriedly asks if that's all he's going to say after all they've been through. Timon insists it was just a ride, and Pumbaa immediately backpedals and claims he knew it was a ride the whole time.
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Disney’s Virtual Safari Puts Timon and Pumbaa in Driver’s Seat

Lion King DVD Set-Top Game Repurposes Digital Assets for New 3D Experience.

Timon and Pumbaa step into their own with Virtual Safari , which is included in the new Lion King special edition DVD. All images © Disney. All rights reserved.

Timon and Pumbaa have come a long way since their Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-like turn in The Lion King . Early next year, the zany meerkat and warthog star in their own Disney DVD premiere, The Lion King 1-1/2 , but in the meantime they host Virtual Safari , a fun and fitting set-top game on the new Lion King special edition DVD thats a cross between the venerable Jungle Cruise and Indiana Jones Disney theme park rides. With a simple flick of the remote, viewers can choose between the jeep and jungle cruiser options and take a wild ride with their nervous guides as they navigate through dangerous territory, while familiar images from the movie dart back and forth. You may think youre in control of the direction, but Timon and Pumbaa are in the drivers seat (with Ernie Sabella reprising the voice of Pumbaa and a Nathan Lane sound-alike voicing Timon).

Thus, Virtual Safari marks the first time that Buena Vista Home Entertainment has partnered so ambitiously with its colleagues at Disney Feature Animation and DisneyToon Studios to produce a virtual set-top game of this type. Our quest was to expand the set top experience and, given that it was The Lion King , to try and do something that was a higher benchmark, explains Andy Siditsky, sr vp worldwide creative services and DVD production. We thought: wouldnt it be cool to create a virtual tour through The Lion King experience. We started thinking about various theme park rides land Timon and Pumbaa were our natural hosts. That led to different ways of doing it and different pieces and wondering where would you go?

We talked about a jeep tour and a boat tour and even a walking tour, but then it became too long. Working with re-recording mixer Terry Porter, we brainstormed [within our small group]. We worked very closely with the Feature Animation team in developing the animation and assets for this kind of experience. Honestly, we didnt know if we could pull it off. This had never been done before. We went down to Walt Disney World and hung out on [ The Jungle Cruise ] and read some of the scripts and really used those as our guide. In fact, I had a script that Disneyland had issued a long time ago. By doing this experiment as we did and ending up where we did, its given us a whole new avenue to create these virtual safari type of experiences.

Indeed, there will be another virtual game on The Lion King 1-1/2 DVD to be released Feb. 10, 2004. Only this time the roller coaster experience will be patterned after Mr. Toads Wild Ride , with a lot more humor and Lane on hand to voice Timon.

Siditsky adds that the initial challenge was how to make the game appealing as a set-top experience, since were competing with so many others, and how do we relate it to The Lion King and enhance the experience within this theme park-style ride on DVD. There was a lot of trial and error and the script writing was something that we wanted to make sure was engaging enough and had some adult humor too.

Meanwhile, from an animation standpoint, the trick was how to repurpose the movie into the game. The challenge on any of these things is to really try to get the quality up to the level of the movie, adds Dave Bossert, a producer/artistic coordinator on Virtual Safari , who served as an FX animator on The Lion King back in 95. You know youre never going to do that due to time and budget restraints, but thats the goal. And I think in this particular case, the lushness, the fun of it and the amount of information shows [after six months of work].

Bossert, who currently works at DisneyToon Studios, says they wound up combining traditional and CG elements throughout the game. For instance, when Timon and Pumbaa are in their jeep and get stuck in the famous Wildebeast Stampede, the animators put in a different environment. We took some beautiful backgrounds from the movie and cut them apart digitally and created a new jungle along the riverbank, layering in new materials.

Bossert suggests that this is the first time theres been such a synergy at the studio among the home entertainment and animation divisions and outside vendors. It was a very creative environment with a lot of conversations going on without the typical youre supposed to do this and youre supposed to do that. I spent a number of hours at John Ross shop at Gork Enterprises and it was a very collaborative process. We supplied them with digital images that were projection mapped onto billboards. They put together the CG elements and digital artwork and built the environments. I helped them match the look of the film, such as when repurposed monkeys jump up and down on the bow of the jungle cruiser.

Bossert estimates that about 20% of The Lion King was repurposed for Virtual Safari . We were able to use environmental bits from the movie so that it felt like you were going through part of the Pridelands as opposed to starting from scratch.

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Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld , is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire .

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• Print length 16 pages
• Language English
• Grade level Preschool - Kindergarten
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Posted on Jul 7, 2020 • Updated on Jul 21, 2020

I Recreated Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari Jeep Tour for the Web

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Link to project here

As a disclaimer, I am still a student and by no means a professional. This project was always something I wanted to do when I became introduced to user experience design and web development. However, rather than jumping in and starting this project immediately, I wanted to learn all of the tools as much as I could so that I create a final product I was proud of. Is what I am sharing perfect, nope. The question I asked myself before writing this post however is whether or not my project elicits the same emotions I experienced sitting cross-legged on the carpet in front of the tube TV. The answer to that question would be an undeniable Yes .

Well what is Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari?

But Alexander, what is The Lion King?

Shut down your computer, go to your preferred streaming service and watch the movie. Seriously. Now go.

Why did I recreate this game of all things?

Besides nostalgia, so that the game can exist on a platform in which everyone can interact with it as it was meant to be experienced, rather than watching a YouTube video of someone else playing it.

How did I do it?

Here's the general order of steps I took in order to achieve the final product.

• Downloaded and edited YouTube video of the entire game into multiple smaller clips ( Source Clip ). To do this I used DaVinci Resolve, a free editing software I have used in the past to make short films and other videos.
• Create a responsive screen with HTML and CSS in which the user would interact with the game. I wanted to have the game work in both portrait and landscape mode on mobile so I used @media queries and orientation: landscape so that the game would perform correctly.
• Figure out the logic of the game with JavaScript (this was the hardest part of the process of course). I knew there wasn't just one path that I needed to take in order to reach a working version, as is the way with problem-solving.
• I first put the sources of each of the video clips I made into an array where a function would grab the desired video.
• I choose to use a switch statement as the brains behind the choices ( Switch Statement Documentation ). There are three total switch statements in the program: one for when a video ends, one for the left button, one for the right button.
• The final piece of JavaScript I needed was opening and closing fullscreen. I felt that the game warranted it to go automatically fullscreen, however, I do provide video controls if the user wishes to view the game out of fullscreen.

Here it is!

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• Release Date : February 10, 2004
• Languages : English, Spanish
• Captions : English, Spanish
• Audio Format : 5.1

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An overzealous biologist named Mr. Happy finds Timon and Pumbaa taking a nap. Believing they are endangered species, he takes the two friends to an Animal Sanctuary.

When Mr. Happy introduces himself to Timon and Pumbaa and explains his action, which is that the reason he thinks their endangered is because he has never heard of them, Timon tricks the young man into believing that he is endangered since he has never heard of him either. While Happy tries to find a sanctuary of his own, Timon and Pumbaa attempt to escape the wildlife preserve.

After all of Timon and Pumbaa's attempts to escape the Animal Sanctuary fail, Pumbaa, who was at first excited to be safe, suggests that he was right the first time, but Timon disagrees, telling him that the sanctuary would prevent them from going anywhere they want or doing what they want. Mr. Happy returns and tells the two friends that he did not find a sanctuary anywhere. Timon admits that he was trying to get rid of him, which causes him to sob.

Happy tells Timon and Pumbaa that he created some activities they can do in the Animal Sanctuary. This makes Timon want to stay and accept living a new life in the preserve. Pumbaa, however, starts to feel homesick and wants to leave the sanctuary. Timon argues that they could do lots of things at the sanctuary and suggests that they should stay.

28 years later, Timon finally realizes that living in a fenced up environment isn't for himself and Pumbaa and agrees that they should get out of the sanctuary. Pumbaa comes up with an idea to distract Happy while they tunnel out of the preserve, which Timon, as usual, takes the credit for. Timon and Pumbaa use sacks of potatoes as dummies of themselves escaping the sanctuary. Happy and his dog, Happy Dog, chase the potato sacks as well as some other animals while Timon and Pumbaa tunnel out.

After their plan succeeds, Timon and Pumbaa are happy to relive their old lives. Mr. Happy and Happy Dog chase the sack of potatoes and run into Timon and Pumbaa, who attempt to escape him as they are worried that he will force them to live at the wildlife preserve again.

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Timon and Pumbaa's Pride Lands Safari is a book inspired by The Lion King . It was published by SFI Readerlink, Dist. on June 11, 2019.

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"Join Timon and Pumbaa as they explore the Pride Lands!

Join everyone’s favorite meerkat and warthog duo, Timon and Pumbaa, as they give a tour of the Pride Lands in Disney The Lion King Timon and Pumbaa’s Pride Lands Safari! From Pride Rock to Hakuna Matata Falls, Timon and Pumbaa introduce the habitats in the Pride Lands and the animals and characters that live in each. This book includes a spyglass viewer with six images that correspond with the story. As the two pals explore the Pride Lands, use the spyglass to help Timon and Pumbaa find key characters from The Lion King !" [1]

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