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Eventually they determined the Tree of Life was the symbol they wanted for Disney's Animal Kingdom so they began to increase its size. A thought was to create a semi geodesic dome which would have leaves stuck to it. It was to feature a restaurant on the bottom floor. Very late in the development of this design one of the engineers explained that the steel and the branches were substantial enough to hold anything. They would no longer need the geodesic dome.
