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Virtual Safari is a special DVD feature that has been included on three DVDs: The Lion King , The Lion King 1½ , and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride .

Virtual Safari [ ]

In Virtual Safari, Timon and Pumbaa take the viewer on a virtual adventure through the Pride Lands . There are two different choices that viewers can choose from: A boat cruise (inspired by the Jungle Cruise ) and a jeep excursion (loosely inspired by Kilimanjaro Safaris ).

On the boat cruise, Timon and Pumbaa take the viewer on a cruise down a river, where they encounter hippos , a giant snake , a view of Pride Rock , monkeys with a special appearance by Rafiki , and even a group of hungry crocodiles who attack the boat.

On the jeep ride, Timon and Pumbaa guide the viewer on an expedition across the African savanna that leads to encounters with an angry rhino that rams the jeep, a stop at a drive-thru section called Restaurant Road, a run-in with a herd of stampeding Wildebeests , a close encounter with some bats, and a thrilling conclusion where the jeep drives through a cavern full of lava geysers while narrowly avoiding a pack of hungry hyenas .

During each experience, there are points on the ride where the viewer can choose which path the vehicle takes by clicking on one of two directional arrows, and each choice will result in a different experience. For example, at Restaurant Road, the viewer can choose between either a drive-thru serving some of Timon and Pumbaa's favorite bug -themed foods or a drive-thru run by hyenas who are looking to eat Timon and Pumbaa.

And at the end of each experience, Timon and Pumbaa will show the viewer a brief montage of pictures showing them reacting to everything that occurred on the ride. This montage will vary depending on the choices made by the viewer. 

On the selection menu, there is also a choice that points to a poster promoting Timon and Pumbaa's "all-new virtual safaris" pinned to a refurbishment wall. When this is selected, Timon, Pumbaa, and an offscreen narrator will tell the viewers about the upcoming virtual safaris that will be featured on the DVDs for The Lion King 1 1/2 and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride .

Virtual Safari 2.0 [ ]

Virtual Safari 2.0 is similar to the original Virtual Safari, except that instead of being able to choose either a boat or a jeep, Timon and Pumbaa take the viewer on an excursion riding atop Gertie the Elephant. Over the course of this journey, Timon, Pumbaa and the viewer encounter many surprises, including a rickety wooden bridge, a wildfire, and even end up getting launched into space, where they encounter Stitch in his spaceship or a Hidden Mickey satellite before they reenter the atmosphere, move through the Pride Lands at super speed, and meet Gertie at the water hole. As with the previous version, Timon and Pumbaa conclude the experience with a montage of pictures showing their reactions to different scenes during the experience.

Virtual Safari 1.5 [ ]

In Virtual Safari 1.5, Timon and Pumbaa have built a ride called the Lion King Pride Lands Adventure and are taking Ma and Uncle Max for a ride. On the ride, the group rides on wildebeest -based ride vehicles. Despite initial difficulties caused by Timon sitting on the On Button, the group actually goes through parodies of various Disneyland and Walt Disney World attractions including " It's a Small World ", " Mr. Toad's Wild Ride ", " Matterhorn Bobsleds ", " Pirates of the Caribbean ", " Jungle Cruise ", " The Haunted Mansion ", and " Splash Mountain ". Things go really wrong, however, when the ride gets stuck in the "It's a Small World" parody and as a result of Pumbaa being unable to determine (at the time) which of the buttons on the ride vehicle is the emergency stop button, the vehicle is then launched out of the show building at an incredibly fast speed (including a really cheap ripoff of the "E.T. moon shot"), and is then sent on a whirlwind thrill ride through the Pride Lands that includes a madcap dash through the savanna, the elephant graveyard, the meerkat colony's tunnel network, an actual train, and even to the peak of Pride Rock, down the tunnel used to defeat the Hyenas in the movie and through an icy cavern where they encounter the Yeti from Matterhorn Bobsleds (much to Ma's confusion).

No matter which good choice is selected, however, Uncle Max will still refer to this ride as the worst he has ever rode on, and Timon will admit that his ride has a few bugs in it and needs a little extra tinkering while Pumbaa wants to go on it again.

As with the other versions, this experience is concluded with a montage of photos from the ride that shows Timon, Pumbaa, Ma, and Uncle Max reacting to different scenes.

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Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari

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Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari is a feature that has been included in DVDs for The Lion King , The Lion King II: Simba's Pride , and The Lion King 1½ .

Virtual Safari [ ]

The feature is narrated by Timon and Pumbaa , who take the viewer on a virtual tour of the Pride Lands . One of the stops is an area called Restaurant Road, with a bug-focused restaurant on the left and a hyena-run restaurant on the right.

Virtual Safari 2.0 [ ]

This version of Virtual Safari is heavily influenced by the first. It features some of the same elements, such as the character of Gertie the Elephant. In the final scene, Stitch from Lilo & Stitch makes a cameo.

Virtual Safari 1.5 [ ]

For this version of Virtual Safari, Timon and Pumbaa have built a ride called the Lion King Pride Lands Adventure, and are taking Ma and Max for a ride. Despite initial difficulties caused by Timon sitting on the "On" button, the group actually goes through parodies of various Disneyland attractions, including "It's a Small World", "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride", "Matterhorn Bobsleds", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Jungle Cruise", "The Haunted Mansion", and "Splash Mountain". No matter which good choice is selected, however, Uncle Max will still refer to this ride as the worst he has ever ridden on.

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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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Join Timon, Pumbaa, Xion and her friends as they go on a new virtual safari! This time, they're taking Timon's Ma, Uncle Max, the Lion Guard and the Young 6 along for the ride. But this safari contains many comedic obstacles.

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