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

[Sunshine1629]

Has anyone noticed how cell service is in the line? Some queues at Disney seem to be dead zones for me, but I'm not usually in line long for most rides. My party will most definitely split up for FOP and if I'm going to stuck in line for two+ hours I need to be able to keep tabs on the rest via text.

 

[PrincessV]

Has anyone noticed how cell service is in the line? Some queues at Disney seem to be dead zones for me, but I'm not usually in line long for most rides. My party will most definitely split up for FOP and if I'm going to stuck in line for two+ hours I need to be able to keep tabs on the rest via text.

I'm on AT&T and I had no cellular reception deep into the FOP building, but had a good Wifi connection!

 

[BigRed98]

My Pandora Experince

Land: The land itself is just amazing! Everywhere you go, there's something to look at. So detailed and I always discover new things! A+

NRJ: I liked it a lot! I thought it was really cool and just a nice gentle boat ride. The shaman is just out of this world! I just wish it was longer and wish there was creature AA's like a direhorse or viper wolve. B+

FOP: This whole ride experience blew me away! I rode it twice. The first time I waited was from 8:50 pm to 10:45 pm and the second time I waited was from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm. The second wait, time said 140 and it was way longer. The queue is incredible and that Avatar AA is amazing! The ride experience was thrilling and adventurous! It's definitely a Top 5 at WDW in my opinion. A+

Sautulli Canteen: I was surprised by how awesome the food was! The first day I had chicken bowl with red and sweat potato hash with creamy herb sauce and it was amazing! My sister had the beef with kale and quinoa salad with the onion chimicurri and she loved her's as well. Today I got the cheeseburger pods Bc I had to try them and those were pretty good as well. Similar taste to McDonalds. My sister had the fish with rice and creamy herb sauce and she liked that dish too. The mobile order service is so quick, convenient, and so easy to use. The place is now my favorite WDW quick service. It isn't also very detailed and beautiful inside. A+

Pongu Pongu: It's well decorated and adds to the great theming! The night blossom was awful, it was like drinking a thing of sugar. I would never get that again. My sister got the Grogs Ale and she liked it but not her favorite beer. She also tried the frozen margarita and she said it was good but a little sweet. The lumpia was awesome and delicious! I went back to get more of them today at 1:30 pm and they ran out. I wish Pongu Pongu was located somewhere else in Pandora Bc the lines for that, Windtraders, FOP and then the canteen being all right there it just causes confusion and it creates bottlenecks. B

Windtraders: It was a cool store! Everyone in the store was just buying banshees and ofc I had to buy myself and orange one! I wish they had more shirt variations. Ovarell cool store. B+

Night Time Experince: The night time experince was a little diasappointing. I expected it to Ben a bit more vibrant and colorful. I also expected all the pathways to be completely lit up. I hope they improve the lighting as it is a bit underwhelming. I guess I just expected it to blow me away. C+

CM: The CM's were very helpful and very informative. They definitely enhance the experince. A+

Ovarell: Pictures does not do it justice and it needs to be seen in person. The land as a whole is a must do. Can't wait till they fix all there issues and expand the land. A

 

[Sunshine1629]

I'm on AT&T and I had no cellular reception deep into the FOP building, but had a good Wifi connection!

Thanks, we are on AT&T as well. Good to know about the Wifi.

 

[RobDoc]

As of 10:30 EST on MDE

Flight of Passage 240 minutes
Navi River Journey 90 minutes

We arrived at AK at 7:30, caught the tram and went thru the 'No Bags' security entrance and the AP turnstyle so we were inside the park by 7:50am. The area in front of ToL was filled with guests all facing to the left towards Pandora. About 8am, the mass amoeba began the migration towards Pandora. We got into the FoP 'line' at 8:05 and began the sluggish journey back towards FotLK. We were at the turn-around area for the line and the CMs there suggested we should be on the attraction within 3 hours. By 9:05 we made it to the actual queue for the attraction where the Stand-By sign suggested a wait of 180 minutes. We were inside the building by about 9:30 and spent 20-30 minutes in each 'room'. We reached the attraction at 11:15 and were into the pre-show video a few minutes later. The pre-show and actual ride was a little under 15 minutes total.
The sky was overcast early, so the heat was not oppressive and the outside fans did help with the comfort level. There were 2 men who tried to cut into the line by all-of-sudden appeared standing in the area the CMs were keeping as a walk-way. When it became apparent that they were moving as the line moved several suggested they not try to cut in line. They replied first with 'Its OK - we were here earlier' and followed that up with 'We have FP' - but they drifted back a few groups and finally assimilated into the line just before reaching the 'Standby' line sign (in spite of their non-existent FP). It takes all kinds.

FoP itself was wonderful - not worth a 3 hour wait in the future, IMO - but a truly creative adventure! The landscaping and theming enhance the experience. When we exited the attraction, the 'Standby' wait was 240 minutes and NRJ was 120.

We'll try NRJ on a future trip.

 

[Accident]

That's what I thought too. But earlier in this thread someone posted a link to a TP article that sounded like they would remain open.

It's only basically dinoland, EE and another ROL that is staying opened.. nothing else, no stores, last night they even closed down africa and asia and you basically could only walk from pandora to dinoland and around to EE. (if they continue)

Still great, I did a tribute to bob you can find in the disunplugged fans group on facebook where I rolled around last night in a live stream.

 

[miTnosnhoJ]

The FOP standby was 240 minutes at one point and a few minutes later went to 130. The difference seemed to be that a theater that was off line came back on line.

 

[lovethattink]

Has anyone noticed how cell service is in the line? Some queues at Disney seem to be dead zones for me, but I'm not usually in line long for most rides. My party will most definitely split up for FOP and if I'm going to stuck in line for two+ hours I need to be able to keep tabs on the rest via text.

We have Sprint and my dh wasn't able to use his phone in FoP while waiting inside.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

the parking lot is always open

Do you know when the buses start running in the morning?

 

[wareagle57]

We arrived at AK at 7:30, caught the tram and went thru the 'No Bags' security entrance and the AP turnstyle so we were inside the park by 7:50am. The area in front of ToL was filled with guests all facing to the left towards Pandora. About 8am, the mass amoeba began the migration towards Pandora. We got into the FoP 'line' at 8:05 and began the sluggish journey back towards FotLK. We were at the turn-around area for the line and the CMs there suggested we should be on the attraction within 3 hours. By 9:05 we made it to the actual queue for the attraction where the Stand-By sign suggested a wait of 180 minutes. We were inside the building by about 9:30 and spent 20-30 minutes in each 'room'. We reached the attraction at 11:15 and were into the pre-show video a few minutes later. The pre-show and actual ride was a little under 15 minutes total.
The sky was overcast early, so the heat was not oppressive and the outside fans did help with the comfort level. There were 2 men who tried to cut into the line by all-of-sudden appeared standing in the area the CMs were keeping as a walk-way. When it became apparent that they were moving as the line moved several suggested they not try to cut in line. They replied first with 'Its OK - we were here earlier' and followed that up with 'We have FP' - but they drifted back a few groups and finally assimilated into the line just before reaching the 'Standby' line sign (in spite of their non-existent FP). It takes all kinds.

FoP itself was wonderful - not worth a 3 hour wait in the future, IMO - but a truly creative adventure! The landscaping and theming enhance the experience. When we exited the attraction, the 'Standby' wait was 240 minutes and NRJ was 120.

We'll try NRJ on a future trip.

Was this today? I'm a little surprised that being there at opening resulted in a 3 hour wait.

 

[rteetz]

We arrived at AK at 7:30, caught the tram and went thru the 'No Bags' security entrance and the AP turnstyle so we were inside the park by 7:50am. The area in front of ToL was filled with guests all facing to the left towards Pandora. About 8am, the mass amoeba began the migration towards Pandora. We got into the FoP 'line' at 8:05 and began the sluggish journey back towards FotLK. We were at the turn-around area for the line and the CMs there suggested we should be on the attraction within 3 hours. By 9:05 we made it to the actual queue for the attraction where the Stand-By sign suggested a wait of 180 minutes. We were inside the building by about 9:30 and spent 20-30 minutes in each 'room'. We reached the attraction at 11:15 and were into the pre-show video a few minutes later. The pre-show and actual ride was a little under 15 minutes total.
The sky was overcast early, so the heat was not oppressive and the outside fans did help with the comfort level. There were 2 men who tried to cut into the line by all-of-sudden appeared standing in the area the CMs were keeping as a walk-way. When it became apparent that they were moving as the line moved several suggested they not try to cut in line. They replied first with 'Its OK - we were here earlier' and followed that up with 'We have FP' - but they drifted back a few groups and finally assimilated into the line just before reaching the 'Standby' line sign (in spite of their non-existent FP). It takes all kinds.

FoP itself was wonderful - not worth a 3 hour wait in the future, IMO - but a truly creative adventure! The landscaping and theming enhance the experience. When we exited the attraction, the 'Standby' wait was 240 minutes and NRJ was 120.

We'll try NRJ on a future trip.

Thanks Doc!

 

[yulilin3]

Do you know when the buses start running in the morning?

supposed to be an hour to an hour and a half before park opening

 

[RobDoc]

Was this today? I'm a little surprised that being there at opening resulted in a 3 hour wait.

Yes, this morning when the park was listed to open at 8am. They obviously opened the turnstyles well before then and then rope-dropped right at 8.

 

[abnihon]

I'm heading back solo to ride FoP!
Any reports on FP lines today?
Since DS isn't coming I used his band to get a NRJ FP.
If I had thought of this 60 days ago I would have gotten him one for FoP and ridden twice!

 

[Tiffany_m15]

Heading to AK now, Any idea if there is a wait to get into Pandora?

 

[SaraSpringsIsHome]

We are going in mid July and I'm super happy I secured a FOP FP for 9:50-10:50 a.m.! I'm interested to see how crazy it is by then with just having "normal" 9 a.m. - 10 p.m. operating hours. The plan is to rope drop NRJ and then scoot over for our FOP FP!

 

[QueenHeather]

I posted this awhile back, but it got lost mostly with so many pages. A lot of people are posting about opening procedures and timing. We were there on Sunday, arrived at the parking lot at about 5:30. We were there with maybe 30 other people. Parking lot attendants told us they were there at 4:00 am. We were allowed through security at 5:45. Through the tapstiles at 6:15. They held us at the tree of life until 6:30. Cast members walked us to the end of the bridge into Pandora and held us there until 7:00. Park opening was listed at 8:00. We rode FOP with no wait and then NRJ with no wait. We then went to the store and bought a banshee, also with no line to speak of. My husband an daughters rode FOP again with a rider swap and we walked around a bit and left Pandora at 9:30 with lines already crazy.

This was on the second day that they were open so not sure if they have done it this way since then or not. But in our experience, getting there early was definitely beneficial because we had no fastpasses for either ride and were able to ride them both with no wait.

 

[JPDtheJD]

This morning we got off the bus at 7:10, went through passholder turnstiles, stayed in the crowd at the tree of life until 7:55 when we started moving. They gave us the rider switch pass for FOP at 8:15. (Standby line) My husband and daughter got off the ride at 9:40. I then rode it using the rider switch with my daughter so she got to ride twice. Loved it. Our whole family had a fast pass for NRJ.

 

[maryj11]

Unless you have a special transportation situation (wheelchair/ECV/ huge stroller) then Uber or a taxi may be the best bet. We Ubered from the Swan for Saturday EMH at 7AM. THe drive took 2 minutes to arrive. We go to AK at 6:10AM.

I did not want to chance a slow bus, or multiple pickups in the AM. $10 on Uber well spent IMO.

Since it was so early did you have to make your request for an Uber the night before or just when you were ready to leave? I have never used Uber but plan on it this trip.

 

[CampbellzSoup]

Anyone see photopass out today?? I'm def gonna score a photo by the mountains day and night.

Also I'm gonna have to reserve a Disney resort because I need the fastpasses on these bad boys unless the waits stabilize in November