Kung Fu Panda: The Furious 5 feel kinda pointless

In real life, the distance between them is 1,223 km (759 miles).

Is there a source on where the Valley is located? The wiki just says that it's based on two regions in China, which are also pretty far from each other. I measured the distance from the most mountainous region in Mongolia (those mountains looked pretty tall) to the modern day capitals of both of them. If the Valley is in the Yellow Mountain region then the distance is ~2800 km in a straight line or ~3700 km by land routes. If the Valley is in the La River basin then the distance is ~4420 km by land. If we go by real-life stats then, like you said, a snow leopard would be able to cover 25 miles (40 km) in a night. Sooo it would take him 92.5 days to reach the closer location and 110.5 days to get to the further one.

But Tai Lung isn't just a regular snow leopard, he's a super pissed Kung-Fu master, trained from birth and hungry for revenge. So let's be generous and assume that he can run for 18 hours a day at top speed that would also be increased relative to an average Snow Leopard, to maybe 55 mph (87 kph). At that speed he would get to the closer location in a day and 18.5 hours and to the further one in two days and three hours. Which is a little closer to the movie timeframe. Of course there's also the question of how would the five even intercept him over such an enormous distance since there must be thousands of different paths he could take and he's just a relatively small animal, very easy to miss. But I guess I'm overthinking this movie for children too much already.

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