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

[yulilin3]

forgot to add that they had a AP exclusive line at bag check which made coming into the park that much faster.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

ok quick (yeah right) report:
Yesterday it was myself, DD16 (no clue about Avatar, never seen the movie, no pictures or videos from Pandora) my DS20 (saw the movie and loved it)
The Land: both were super impressed. They kept saying how it seemed that they ere not in AK anymore, my DD agreed it was on the smallish side, my son got a quick of all the banshees screaming coming out from the mountain when it started to rain, that was so cool. Imerssive was thrown around a lot, my DD loves to take pics and she took 285 in a span of 2.5 hours. My son works at WWoHP and he said that the level of detail is the same, very cool. We all agreed that are very excited with what disney will do with SWLand.
NRJ: They both loved the queue, didn't really spend much time there since the ride was aa walk on both times we went on it. My DS loved the feel of it, he wanted a woodsprite to land on his hand, he loved the crawling bugs, he understood the story of everyone going to the ttree and the shaman.
My DD loved the ride, she said it was very chill and relaxing but was absolutely confused with what she was seeing. After our first ride we explained the story in the movie and she got it
FoP: our fp time was 12 to 12:15pm. We got loaded pretty quick, got on the ride and about 5 seconds in, it stopped. There was a very loud groan from everyone riding because those first seconds are pretty cool. We were left on the ride, stuck for about 7 minutes, I could look back and see that the entire ride platform (not including the back wall were our belongings are in the containers) was tilted slightly down and away from the wall, you could see the mechanism, I wish I had my camera on me to take photos. I didn't feel claustrophobic but can see how others might, there's some wiggle room in the restraints but not much. We finally got "unlinked" sent back to the queue. Had to do the 2 pre shows again (people were not happy about that) all in all our ride time from entering the queue to exit was about 40 minutes.
Anyways, both kids loved it, they wanted to go on it again, said it was the best ride at WDW, my DD was not confused about the story this time because it basically explains what you are about to do in the pre show video. My son said he would wait an hour and a half to ride it. Both felt like they were not sitting next to other people and if you concentrate on what's in front of you, you really lose yourself in the experience, I finally felt the banshee breathing, it is a very cool ride. Only complaint from both were the 3D glasses that kept slipping off cause they are wide.
Food and Drink: we got the rice bowl with black bean vinagrette and chicken, the kids fish rice bowl, the side of 2 hamburger pods, cheesecake, Pandoran Sunrise, Mo'ara Margarita and Night Blossom.
We all loved the chicken rice bowl with the vinagrette, the kids meals doesn't serve the bowl with any dressing and it is lacking cause the rice is very bland, but the vinagrette gives it a nice kick. My DS didn't care for the hamburger pod but my DD loved them, she said she's getting that next time. We all loved the cheesecake and the drinks were good, the Night Blossom was tasty but very sweet, I did not care for the Mo'ara Margarita, I'll stick with the Hawkes' Grog Ale next time. We still need to try the steak bowl and the kids hot dog.
We walked through the standby queue for FoP and they thought it was the best queue, rivaling Hogwarts Castle. they loved the lab area and read almost everything in front of them, got a kick out of the avatar.
All in all the kids loved Pandora and we all agreed that we need to go back when it's open at night time

Thank you so much for the write-up very useful! Good to hear it from someone who is intimate with WWoHP and their view of this - and I fully agree that all the positive talk of the immersiveness of Pandora has me even more excited for Star Wars land!

BTW - have you tried the vegetable curry pods? Good to know about the kids bowls not having the vinaigrette (I was thinking about trying a few kids sized portions but if they are not the exact same I will probably go for adult portions of less things)

 

[yulilin3]

Thank you so much for the write-up very useful! Good to hear it from someone who is intimate with WWoHP and their view of this - and I fully agree that all the positive talk of the immersiveness of Pandora has me even more excited for Star Wars land!

BTW - have you tried the vegetable curry pods? Good to know about the kids bowls not having the vinaigrette (I was thinking about trying a few kids sized portions but if they are not the exact same I will probably go for adult portions of less things)

He works at Diagon Alley as a stage hand for the stage shows and at Hogsmead singing in the frog Choir. He said that while riding FoP he wanetd to recreate the scene in HP where Harry is riding the Hippogriff, extends his arms to his sides and yells
I have not tried any of the vegetarian options, buut that one is next in my list. I was thinking of asking for a small cup of vinaigrette next time. The kids bowl are the perfect portion for me

 

[Spridell]

Anyone who had the 6-8pm preview last night, what time did you leave?

Was it dark enough and did they have the bioluminescence on?

 

[hickorysss]

Anyone have any opinions on riding fop for a pregnant person. I am not asking someone's judgement on whether she should ride, but my wife has rode on soarin and mine train earlier in her pregnancy as it does not pose any concerns in our opinion. But how does the feel of this ride compare in terms of does it put pressure on your stomach and does it have any swift or big movements? I'd love for my wife to be able to enjoy the land as much as possible, but we obviously exercise caution above all else.

 

[CAS239]

Hopefully by next Friday when my preview is they have everything worked out. Seems like some slots they tell you you don't need to wait in line and they say the fast pass slips aren't limited, then some slots the fast passes are gone an hour or more prior to entering. Like cmon Disney, if not everyone in the slot can get on both rides, then don't allow that many people to sign up for time slots.

I have testing for a job that I found out about after signing up for Pandora, and just so happens to be the morning of. Luckily I picked the latest time slot and wife and I will be heading up once I'm done testing. But I'll be pretty annoyed if we get there and all fast passes are gone. So I'm hoping by the end of next week they get it all worked out

 

[CAS239]

Anyone have any opinions on riding fop for a pregnant person. I am not asking someone's judgement on whether she should ride, but my wife has rode on soarin and mine train earlier in her pregnancy as it does not pose any concerns in our opinion. But how does the feel of this ride compare in terms of does it put pressure on your stomach and does it have any swift or big movements? I'd love for my wife to be able to enjoy the land as much as possible, but we obviously exercise caution above all else.

I personally wouldn't have her ride. The ride warning says pregnant women shouldn't ride. And while Soarin and 7dmt in my opinion put no pressure on the stomach area, this ride seems like you lean forward putting weight on the stomach and with the ride tilting downward might add more pressure.

I have yet to ride though so someone who's been on it might chime in. But pregnant women riding did get brought up in this thread like 497 pages ago lol

 

[yulilin3]

Pandoran field guide given when we entered
https://www.facebook.com/yulady.rod...1957.1073742037.1406401066&type=3&pnref=story

 

[Raeven]

Just checked MDE and only 1 is listed for the preview (myself) but I registered the entire family. (I do have the email stating that 4 members were confirmed for entry.) No one else in my family has a MDE account. Do you think we are okay or do I need to call MS to make sure 4 people are listed for the FP entry to Pandora? Thanks!

My boyfriend doesnt have his own but was listed on mine we got one for the 2 of us. His band is on my account and it was on his band when we went in.

 

[aviva5675]

We had safari FP for before our slot Weds and I changed it to after lunch after hearing about needing to be in line so early to try to get the FP. Agree with above poster about it being disappointing that not everyone gets one. Anyway, still super excited about going for our preview!!! Glad we had our rainy day yesterday and looks clear for the week!

 

[cordage]

I was there this morning for the DVC preview. We walked up at about 8:40 and it was a short line to get in.

Random question, did you enter the Park with other guests or was there a separate queue for the DVC preview?

 

[wilkeliza]

Anyone have any opinions on riding fop for a pregnant person. I am not asking someone's judgement on whether she should ride, but my wife has rode on soarin and mine train earlier in her pregnancy as it does not pose any concerns in our opinion. But how does the feel of this ride compare in terms of does it put pressure on your stomach and does it have any swift or big movements? I'd love for my wife to be able to enjoy the land as much as possible, but we obviously exercise caution above all else.

Do not do it. You have 0 control over the restraint. In my review I mention it. I assume it did this because I'm always between clicks and can make the tighter one happen if I have to but prefer not to. This ride since you have no control the restraint itself put me in the tighter click. I could feel it forcefully push me against stomach band at the front.

 

[twebber55]

Anyone who had the 6-8pm preview last night, what time did you leave?

Was it dark enough and did they have the bioluminescence on?

Left at 840 ish and nope just the ground lit up

 

[Spridell]

Left at 840 ish and nope just the ground lit up

Yeah i kind of figured they were not going to have everything lit up.

Thanks

 

[robinb]

Anyone who had the 6-8pm preview last night, what time did you leave?

Was it dark enough and did they have the bioluminescence on?

Left at 840 ish and nope just the ground lit up

I was very bummed about that because we choose the last timeframe for the bioluminescence. So, we were bit in the butt by being the last group (no FPs for us!) and no bioluminescence.

 

[Spridell]

I was very bummed about that because we choose the last timeframe for the bioluminescence. So, we were bit in the butt by being the last group (no FPs for us!) and no bioluminescence.

So the last group had no FP's at all?

 

[robinb]

So the last group had no FP's at all?

There were only a few FPs for the last timeframe. We entered the line at 5:30 and entered Pandora at 5:50 (for a 6:00 - 8:00 preview) and they were already all gone.

 

[FastPasser.]

So the last group had no FP's at all?

It may have appeared that way, but hundreds of FPs were given out, but they went very quickly. If you arrived on time or after the line was completely admitted into Pandora which was very early, your chances were poor.

 

[robinb]

It may have appeared that way, but hundreds of FPs were given out, but they went very quickly. If you arrived on time or after the line was completely admitted into Pandora which was very early, your chances were poor.

(1) How do you know how many FPs were given out?
(2) I arrived 30 minutes BEFORE the they were supposed to open and I still had to wait in a long line to get in.
(3) I would have been perfectly happy to camp out 60-90 minutes ahead of time but I did not expect ALL the FPs to be already given out a half hour BEFORE the time frame even started.
(4) Even if they did give out "hundreds of FPs", that is not sufficient for the number of people they allowed in the area.
(5) All the pre AP preview speculation was that it was going to be smaller than the CM previews and there would be no problem getting on the FoP. Wrong.

My advice: arrive at least 60 minutes early and at least 90 minutes early as the day wears on and the ride breaks down and the line builds. My guess is that they had too many guests still in line from the previous timeframes and cut back on the number of FPs given to the last timeframe. I saw the number of people going into FoP and it was literally a trickle. They eventually allowed us to walk though the queue (which, BTW, is the longest queue I have ever seen) and they had us walk out right before the preshow with FP people in line. There were only a handful of people waiting.

 

[Lost Yeti]

(1) How do you know how many FPs were given out?
(2) I arrived 30 minutes BEFORE the they were supposed to open and I still had to wait in a long line to get in.
(3) I would have been perfectly happy to camp out 60-90 minutes ahead of time but I did not expect ALL the FPs to be already given out a half hour BEFORE the time frame even started.
(4) Even if they did give out "hundreds of FPs", that is not sufficient for the number of people they allowed in the area.
(5) All the pre AP preview speculation was that it was going to be smaller than the CM previews and there would be no problem getting on the FoP. Wrong.

My advice: arrive at least 60 minutes early and at least 90 minutes early as the day wears on and the ride breaks down and the line builds. My guess is that they had too many guests still in line from the previous timeframes and cut back on the number of FPs given to the last timeframe. I saw the number of people going into FoP and it was literally a trickle. They eventually allowed us to walk though the queue (which, BTW, is the longest queue I have ever seen) and they had us walk out right before the preshow with FP people in line. There were only a handful of people waiting.

Pretty sure he's a CM.

I think part of the reason that the line is so long is because people are seeing the "FP" time and assuming their event now starts 1 hr earlier than it really will.

What I'm wondering, if the issue with FoP is really an overheating issue (thought I read that somewhere), is why they keep running the ride instead of shutting it down to properly address the problem. Are they making small adjustments between sessions? Otherwise, it seems like I just pushing this problem farther into the future and risking issues on opening weekend.