pounce wrote:Can't the two years that the directors said be included as part of the long "growing up" log sequence. 4½ years later seems way too long. This should fit the right in the middle of 2-3 years it takes for a lion to fully mature into an adult (2 years and 6 months - according the fact of eating animals from Simba stated above). If the directors were going to add "Kenya: 2 Years Later" then they'd expect people to think that that's how long Simba was in his self exile. Directors wouldn't want people to do math calculations during the film. Also, the directors said that the reason why they took it out was because it was "a little retro", thus the fact should be creditable.
Maybe pounce, maybe. Remember I heard that the directors say they want to placed the "Kenya, 2 years later" at the end of the "Hakuna Matata" sequence. Also, a 4½ year self-exile would seem legitimate (though too long even for my own estimates on Simba's exile), as Simba would be 5 yrs. old at the end of the movie. In real-life, lions challenge other male lions to become the alpha lion at around 4 to 5 years of age.
Well, I guess that can't happen in real life. But, I only include real lion facts because we can't say lions and lionesses can live for 50 years. I just feel the need to include real-lion facts and the filmmakers's words to estimately guess how long is the 
