Cameron comments on Pandora

[Tonka's Skipper]

Seems Disney's Pandora may turn out to be amazing!


It’s going to be called, I believe, Pandora: The Land of Avatar”

AVATARart

James Cameron recently spoke to the media at the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival about the upcoming “AVATAR Land” project for Disney’s Animal Kingdom. According to /Film, he had the following to say:


It’s going to have floating mountains. It’s pretty cool. I’ve seen the model and the design work the Imagineering people have done is spectacular. They’ve got a quarter inch to the foot scale model of the whole park and I’ve looked at all the sight lines…it’s not a park, it’s a land within the park but a land is not just a ride. There will be several rides and a number of other attractions. It’s really just a place you’re gonna wanna go and hang out. It’s gonna be gorgeous. Of course it’s gonna be gorgeous at night and they’re using every new trick, every new bit of technology that they’ve created.

The animatronics for the Na’vi characters are gonna be fantastic. For example, their early animatronics would use 12 axis of motion and I think the most they’ve ever done was 32 axis recently. I think they’re up to 64 just in the face of the Na’vi characters. So it’s gonna be remarkable. They really see it as a major, major attraction.

If what Cameron says is to be believed, we may be in for something really special…

 

[andyman8]

I completely agree! This is going to be a great addition to DAK. I actually got the chance to peer at some blue prints 7 or 8 months ago, and while plans have certainly changed, it really looks like this is going to be a unique experience and I'm starting to see how this fits in to DAK.

Even more exciting perhaps is the energy this will put into that park. Beyond just Pandora (which Disney is still trying to find a way to put James Cameron's name in the land's name somewhere), because of AVATAR, DAK is getting a nighttime spectacular, more evening entertainment, and a real nightlife of sorts (even a nighttime version of Kilimanjaro Safaris). Of course, we're still talking well off into the future but it's exciting to think about.

 

[derekw]

Very excited about this at AK. Is there anything now at AK (or any Disney parks) related to Avatar (movie props, Pandora layouts/billboards, merchandise?)

 

[ArwenMarie]

I hated the storyline of that movie, but I am very excited for this, I think it's going to be awesome and I think it totally fits into DAK somehow. Let's just hope it doesn't get value engineered or that it doesn't take ten years.