Geography of the Pride Lands

[trexmaster]

Originally posted by Woes of Folly
Wow, an island? That's kind of different ... but cool with me. That plesiosaur in the lower left is a nice touch. It's so ... happy looking .

It's supposed to be a tribute to the old maps with sea monsters drawn in the ocean regions. Also, the tsunami was based on the big wave in that famous Japanese painting...

[Shatara]

Originally posted by Woes of Folly
That's certainly a very nice looking map. There was a thread that had a map I made a while back as well as some other people's revisions or alternate versions. As for all of the positioning details, I've given up. Especially since, on the "Proud of Simba's Pride" segment on the Simba's Pride re-release, somebody who worked on the film mentioned that the orientation of Pride Rock on screen was actually a metaphor for the two sides of the story. Pointing left represents Simba's Pridelands. Pride Rock pointing to the right represents the Outlands. (If I remember correctly.) If Pride Rock can just shift randomly like that, then the positioning of everything in the TLK universe can never really be established for certain.

I think you're reading too much into it.

Pride rock faces East. This is not in dispute. THE CAMERA is what moves.

In the first movie, we see the lit (North) side almost exclusively (name a scene we see the south side).

In LK2, we see it from the shadowed (South) side a few times (most notably, when Vitani is watching Kovu not killing Simba). The sun rising on the shadowed side isn't that big a deal, and can be viewed as purely metaphorical, and ignored without losing anything.

Also, I don't see how the Pride Lands could be an island. Plains/praries/steppes/savanahs are very much an inland phenomina.

EDIT: Also, I'm pretty sure the Outlands are to the south-west.

[Timali]

There used to be some sort of map thread here earlier, and inspired by that I made my version of the map of Pridelands in July. It was based on one discussion of the possible look of map of Pridelands. It's too big to post in this thread, so here's the link.

(Off-topic: Great avatar and signature pic, Shatara. Vitani is cool.)

[Vidan]

Originally posted by Shatara
I think you're reading too much into it.

That may be so. It all made sense to me at one point, but I just don't have the patience to remember and refine. I would agree that the Pridelands couldn't be an island, unless you consider Africa an island. The 'sea monster' was a nice touch, though.

[TakaTiger]

well, it looks good to me wether its wrong or right

[Tigz]

Hey, all the links in this thread don't work. Not surprising really given they were a year ago... but does anyone have a copy of the map they could give me? Please? *bats cute tiggy eyes*

[unregistered user]

Hey Tigz, Timali's link still works. And I personally think it's the most accurate. Here ya go:

http://fanart.lionking.org/Artists/T...delandsMap.gif

[Tigz]

Originally posted by Ravoc
Hey Tigz, Timali's link still works. And I personally think it's the most accurate. Here ya go:

http://fanart.lionking.org/Artists/T...delandsMap.gif

Thanks for the link mate, and it does indeed still work!

No idea who Tigs is though. :P

[unregistered user]

Ah, sorry for the mistaken identity, it has been corrected x)

[HasiraKali]

That's a nice map.

[mirta]

:sad:
I can?t see non of these pics and the links don?t work for me :sad:

can you post the pic here trexmaster, enstead of link?