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

[ziravan]

We left at noon. The crowds pouring in as we were leaving were incredible.

 

[ziravan]

We're sitting at Sanaa and it just started with a light rain. So some people might melt.

Maybe that'll make evening crowds slightly better.

 

[ziravan]

 

[rteetz]

For those of you who know John Panda from BigFatPanda he was able to get on Flight of Passage. He said it was tight be it was an amazing experience.

 

[wilkeliza]

In line for Navi River. Even the queues are incredible. Wait is showing 30 minutes thanks to rain and FoP being down.

 

[PaintsWithAllTheColors]

For those of you who know John Panda from BigFatPanda he was able to get on Flight of Passage. He said it was tight be it was an amazing experience.

In line he was talking about how much he was hoping to ride it so I'm glad it worked out for him! Otherwise his plan was to go home and eat chickpeas until able to ride

 

[Lost Yeti]

In line for Navi River. Even the queues are incredible. Wait is showing 30 minutes thanks to rain and FoP being down.

Any word as to whether it's just temporarily down or down for the entire 3-5 time frame?

 

[wilkeliza]

Any word as to whether it's just temporarily down or down for the entire 3-5 time frame?

I think temp as we were given fastpasses to ride which they wouldn't have done if it was down for the whole period.

 

[cmarsh31]

OMG OMG OMG! Checking constantly pays off again! We can't ride FoP (I'm having cervical spine surgery next month) but I had all but given up hope of scoring FPs for Navi River - just managed to score them for our June 2nd AK day!

 

[ziravan]

They had cameras everywhere this morning. I signed a release over video of my daughter buying a banshee.

 

[PaintsWithAllTheColors]

Now furtively trying to make our 5:30 flight home (thankfully it's been delayed 20 minutes already). Here are our thoughts:

- beautiful land!! Can't emphasize enough, you lose all awareness of Animal Kingdom and are truly transported

- waited 15 minutes for River Journey, we really liked it! Tons of detail, screens worked well and DH even questioned where they started and stopped, besides the obvious animal movement. Weirdly, we both felt the animatronic was just "ok", not super blown away. Overall, it was incredible and we'd do it again in a heartbeat. We didn't think it was noticeably short.

- FoP was simply breathtaking. Everyone's already raved and we completely agree. I'll add that the preshow was actually cool in our opinion and didn't seem like too much. Maybe it was the first time experience. We did have to wait 45 minutes due to "banshees not cooperating", but it was worth it.

- We split a couple different meals (bowls and kids cheeseburger pod) and while I enjoyed it, DH is the real foodie and couldn't stop raving. A sweet CM asked how we liked it and DH was telling her how impressed he was. She said she'd be right back and brought us a blueberry dessert, saying we had to try it. Though skeptical while looking at it, DH was once again impressed. He insists we eat here next time.

- Could've spent tons more time here just enjoying the land but alas, our plane won't wait for us.

Final note, waiting for the bus and rain/thunder/lightning coming down hard. For those coming later, come prepared!

 

[ziravan]

For those of you who know John Panda from BigFatPanda he was able to get on Flight of Passage. He said it was tight be it was an amazing experience.

I'm a big guy: 5'9" 260 lbs.

No problem at all. Wasn't tight or anything.

 

[yulilin3]

Still at Pandora. The day I came for cm preview it was sunny but it's raining now and the sounds around the land are different. The banshees are making sounds in the mountains, animals around are screeching,so cool

 

[JennLTX]

I am LOVIN all these real-time updates. Thanks so much everyone!!!

PS Plz hide blue banshee in store, then PM location to me. Need a blue one, don't want them to run out.

 

[aviva5675]

please still post about getting fp for FOP, all or only some, thanks... We go Weds, and the idea of having to wait 90 minutes before entering is daunting.

 

[Jfine]

So we got done with our preview a little bit ago. It was definitely interesting. No one in my group consider themselves Avatar fans. A few have never seen the movie. I add that because it's very clear that if you are a fan, you'd definitely appreciate this area more than we did. It's very well done. While it was impressive, it's not anything we're in a hurry to return to. We're going back this summer (out of state AP) and not sure if we'll visit Pandora except to see it at night. So a 1.5 and done for us. At least for awhile. I'm also really glad we could visit when lines were relatively low.
A lot of detail in the land. Very impressive overall.
FOP, great!! We couldn't figure out the first preshow but our group had a fun time speculating what me going on. But ride is really awesome. Restraints: A cm was going through the line showing people pictures of the restraints, so not sure where they are on that. Hopefully they get a test seat soon. We did speak to one CM who said they're working on it and expect them to be "relaxed" but people are still being turned away...have no idea if it was today or previous previews.
Really enjoyed the river ride, but we wouldn't be willing to wait in long lines for it. It is visually a great ride though. Just a quick ride...especially for a boat ride. It also appears they had steps of some sort to help people who had limited mobility get down in the boat. Maybe that's normal at all rides too?
Food was okay in our experience. We enjoyed the bowls better than the pods.
Shop seems to be a great success. I was quite surprised with how much merchandise was being bought.

 

[bluefunnel]

My wife unfortunately could not ride FoP, the back locked but her knees couldn't get high enough. This is also our last day of the trip so it ends it with kind of a sour note.

 

[cigar95]

I'm interested to hear about the queues for both attractions.

We already know - standby for FoP is long and fantastic, and the FP queue misses most (all?) of it.

That gives us three others to report on. Anyone?

 

[ziravan]

Sorry if this has already been posted! It's hard to read the thread on my phone, so I may have missed it.

For those wondering about the Banshees, you do get to choose the color you'd like. The blue/purple one seems to be the most popular. They are REALLY cute in person!

There's a wall of them. You choose.

Frankly at $50 bucks, they weren't any more expensive than an HP wand.

 

[PaintsWithAllTheColors]

In response to questions about waiting, we arrived at 10:37 for our 12:00 preview. We were let in at 11:00 and given a FP for 12:15-12:30. So doesn't seem to be an issue but it's nice to be let in early