***Official*** Pandora: The World of Avatar Information Thread

[ChrisNY2]

Coming down to the wire here and still need to decide which to FP+. How much of FOP ride experience is lost by FP-ing it?

In my opinion - none. The queue is well-done, but nowhere worth waiting in line for given the length of the lines for the next few months.

 

[CAS239]

Coming down to the wire here and still need to decide which to FP+. How much of FOP ride experience is lost by FP-ing it?

FP if then ride standby as well.

No ride experience is lost by FPing. You'll be by passing a good majority of the queue which is easily the best queue line in all of the parks

 

[mesaboy2]

Coming down to the wire here and still need to decide which to FP+. How much of FOP ride experience is lost by FP-ing it?

Sounds like much of the queue is bypassed using FP. You can either get the full ride experience and wait in a potentially very long line, or sacrifice some of that experience and wait less.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Whew! After a week of working at it, I've finally reached the end of this thread.

Thanks to you all. Lots of good information here.

 

[gap2368]

Coming down to the wire here and still need to decide which to FP+. How much of FOP ride experience is lost by FP-ing it?

you lose none of the ride you do miss all of the really cool line if you FP it, but do you want to stand in a 3+ hour line. the video you see on line are fine for me.

I was able to do stand by and FP this past weekend

 

[mtemm]

We will only have one chance to ride it so it's either rope drop or FP. We have a short trip, only one day at AK, and so much we want to do!

I have never seen avatar and am a ride wimp, although I am going to give this a try. Dh is so excited for it, it's the one ride in all of wdw that he wants to do most of all.

 

[ChrisNY2]

We will only have one chance to ride it so it's either rope drop or FP. We have a short trip, only one day at AK, and so much we want to do!

I have never seen avatar and am a ride wimp, although I am going to give this a try. Dh is so excited for it, it's the one ride in all of wdw that he wants to do most of all.

Definitely up to you, but I'd watch the queue video on youtube and FP the ride, since there is a lot of stuff you want to do.

 

[Flyerjab]

Anyone know if tonight is the debut of the bioluminescent effects or is that this Saturday? @rteetz?

 

[CAS239]

From Contemporary hotel



And couple other goodies. Think it was all posted though

 

[mtemm]

So I watched 2 videos on YouTube of the queues. just checking does the fastpass one have any preshow? I'm a little unclear as to where it leaves you. The video just sort of ended

 

[gap2368]

So I watched 2 videos on YouTube of the queues. just checking does the fastpass one have any preshow? I'm a little unclear as to where it leaves you. The video just sort of ended

with the FP you see the 2 movies, you skip the lab part of the line

This is what you skip

FP joins the line right at the end of this video

4:23 on is what you will see with a FP

 

[rteetz]

Anyone know if tonight is the debut of the bioluminescent effects or is that this Saturday? @rteetz?

Yes they debut tonight.

 

[rteetz]

Sorry I have been MIA today. I've got a lot of updates to do.

 

[DisFanDad]

Wow...really? That sounds insane to me.

I thought so too, but if you walk the que and see just HOW MUCH SPACE there is ..., like, its not only long, but has several rooms of the zig zag expansion que area, and then when you approach the end of the que it breaks into two MASSIVE loading areas that could hold I'd say conservatively like 1000 people themselves.

 

[mtemm]

Thank you! That helps!

 

[DisFanDad]

At AKL here, some people came out and dumped a whole bunch of glow in the dark beach balls (they have a glow rod in the middle of them) in the pool at around 8:45, I straight up asked one of the CMs if they were bringing these out because of the VIPs. She didn't hesitate to say yes. A few minutes later, someone's kid was swimming around and pulling the glow sticks out of the middle of them. He had to have a dozen or so before the CM got to him. I'd really like to know what she said, could see on her face she was struggling with offering good customer service and telling the lil' brat to leave the glow sticks for everyone to play with.

 

[DisFanDad]

***Disclaimer, I am NOT going to do this, just thought about it and wondered ****

Sitting on two FoP rider swap tickets good until May 31 ... wondering how much I could sell them for ?

Seriously though, our plan is to give them to someone getting off the magic express on friday while we are waiting to leave. Should be a nice kick-start to their trip.

 

[TISHLOVESDISNEY]

***Disclaimer, I am NOT going to do this, just thought about it and wondered ****

Sitting on two FoP rider swap tickets good until May 31 ... wondering how much I could sell them for ?

Seriously though, our plan is to give them to someone getting off the magic express on friday while we are waiting to leave. Should be a nice kick-start to their trip.

Out of curiosity, do they say they allow 3 guests? I scheduled our FPs for July, and split them for my DGS7months and DD22 and DD15 to ride the river ride while we (myself, DS13 and DS5) ride FOP, then planned on swapping and letting her ride with my 2 older children. I'm so worried about child swap on this new ride, especially after reading someone got a 1 person CS on KRR.

 

[Lost Yeti]

Out of curiosity, do they say they allow 3 guests? I scheduled our FPs for July, and split them for my DGS7months and DD22 and DD15 to ride the river ride while we (myself, DS13 and DS5) ride FOP, then planned on swapping and letting her ride with my 2 older children. I'm so worried about child swap on this new ride, especially after reading someone got a 1 person CS on KRR.

Rider Switch passes do allow for three people and it says so on the ticket (I have one for EE in my hand as I type this) . We had one for FoP during a preview and I'm pretty sure it said the same

 

[FastPasser.]

From Contemporary hotel

The reason for the Harambe sign is because that's where it was supposed to take place at AK.
They had to make a, what we call "a weather backup call" earlier in the day to move it to the Contemporary.