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

[erionm]

An alarm went off in the building which caused them to evacuate the rides. Both are evacuated because the share the same building. Reedy Creek FD needs to inspect the building before anyone will be allowed back in.

They were also evacuated yesterday, which turned out to be a false alarm.

 

[Spridell]

I saw on another board that the fire alarm went off and all were evacuated.

Went off again

Pictures on twitter of people evacuating out of back exits of building

2 days in a row on Disneys most popular 2 rides is not good at all.

 

[AngiTN]

Something truly odd about that too.
They operated without issue on opening weekend, and on through opening week. With extremely high crowds, higher than are there now, I dare say.
Did they push it too hard then?
Is there an alarm within reach of guests and some idiot keeps tripping it off? (I always include the idiot factor)
Something else up?

 

[ucfknight]

Going on 2 hours down now....

2 things:
1. 2+ hours seems like an incredibly long time to clear a false fire alarm
2. Who was the idiot who thought it was a good idea to have the only 2 rides in a $0.5 billion land share a ride building? Operationally there would be no benefit. The only benefit I can think of is maybe a slight lowering of summer energy bills since each building has 1 less outside wall area since they are joined together. Everything thing else is negative, as we are seeing right now with both rides having to be down at the same time due to a fire alarm issue in one of the buildings.

Given that I have a very hard-fought FP+ for FoP tonight I hope they get this cleared up soon.

 

[KimBean]

Were they evacuated again? Or still not cleared? Still says closed.

 

[erionm]

Were they evacuated again?

Yes

 

[KimBean]

Yes

I didn't really care. An OP asked a question about why it was closed today and was told their was a fake fire yesterday. I was just trying to explain to her/his responder that they are also down today... just in a nice way.

 

[erionm]

I didn't really care. An OP asked a question about why it was closed today and was told their was a fake fire yesterday. I was just trying to explain to her/his responder that they are also down today... just in a nice way.

The first part of my post from earlier today was in response to the closure today. The second part was about yesterday.

An alarm went off in the building which caused them to evacuate the rides. Both are evacuated because the share the same building. Reedy Creek FD needs to inspect the building before anyone will be allowed back in.

They were also evacuated yesterday, which turned out to be a false alarm.

 

[rteetz]

From what I understand, Disney is limiting the number of people into Pandora but even so, how bad is the crowd to just look around?

Is it wall to wall people, shoulder to shoulder, inching their way trying to see the land?

I remember trying to see Osborne Lights once and it was a miserable experience because it was a gridlock of people.

Anyone have pictures of what the crowds look like on the walkways? Can anyone share their experience with the crowds? Also please tell me the time of day you went. I would think rope drop crowds would be very different than late morning or afternoon.

The land hasn't been closed off since opening day and a few days after.

It's crowded but I never felt overly congested in the land. I could walk freely around without bumping into someone.

 

[rteetz]

Something truly odd about that too.
They operated without issue on opening weekend, and on through opening week. With extremely high crowds, higher than are there now, I dare say.
Did they push it too hard then?
Is there an alarm within reach of guests and some idiot keeps tripping it off? (I always include the idiot factor)
Something else up?

Not really sure. It is very weird that this has happened twice now.

 

[HydroGuy]

Going on 2 hours down now....

2 things:
1. 2+ hours seems like an incredibly long time to clear a false fire alarm
2. Who was the idiot who thought it was a good idea to have the only 2 rides in a $0.5 billion land share a ride building? Operationally there would be no benefit. The only benefit I can think of is maybe a slight lowering of summer energy bills since each building has 1 less outside wall area since they are joined together. Everything thing else is negative, as we are seeing right now with both rides having to be down at the same time due to a fire alarm issue in one of the buildings.

Given that I have a very hard-fought FP+ for FoP tonight I hope they get this cleared up soon.

Hindsight is always 20/20. I do not see any reason to not have the rides share a building and a lot of reasons for them to share a building. Fire alarms are something that in general are a rare occurrence. Yes it is happening now. Probably won't happen again for the next 10 years.

 

[KimBean]

The first part of my post from earlier today was in response to the closure today. The second part was about yesterday.

Confusion... confusion... ditzy... read below.

 

[TLPL]

Also, share the same show building save space and free up space for guest area. And have a bigger taller building allows them to build impressive facade. Like in Pandora's case the big stone arxh mountain that hide the show building is just hugh!

 

[ucfknight]

Hindsight is always 20/20. I do not see any reason to not have the rides share a building and a lot of reasons for them to share a building. Fire alarms are something that in general are a rare occurrence. Yes it is happening now. Probably won't happen again for the next 10 years.

It has happened 3 times in 2 days now. And Disney has been at this for almost 70 years. They have people who get paid a lot of money to consider these types of things.

 

[ucfknight]

Both rides have now been down for 3+ hours.

 

[KimBean]

The first part of my post from earlier today was in response to the closure today. The second part was about yesterday.

Okay, I'm sick that is my excuse. Must have missed your second sentence completely and since thread was moved didn't know who said what.... wait what? lol.

Mea culpa.

And now, something I knew nothing about, I'm completely sucked in. What is happening?

 

[Spridell]

Dont know if this picture has ever been posted before as I have never seen it before today.

This shows FOP being tested and WOW WOW is it a cool picture

 

[KimBean]

Dont know if this picture has ever been posted before as I have never seen it before today.

This shows FOP being tested and WOW WOW is it a cool picture

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well oh my. This is certainly different then I pictured it from just seeing the riding seats from behind. Can you tell you are really high up? This is freaking me out.

 

[tinkstoes]

Sitting here by Pongu Pongu. Rides have been closed since we got here today essentially it seems like. We got to AK at about 0915. The castmembers at the ride entrances keep saying they have no information on what's going on. If it's truly a fire alarm issue then say so and tell us a guess, even in the dark, on a time frame. This is our last day and I won't lie. We will be pretty bummed if we don't get to experience at least one of these rides.

 

[Linkura]

Sitting here by Pongu Pongu. Rides have been closed since we got here today essentially it seems like. We got to AK at about 0915. The castmembers at the ride entrances keep saying they have no information on what's going on. If it's truly a fire alarm issue then say so and tell us a guess, even in the dark, on a time frame. This is our last day and I won't lie. We will be pretty bummed if we don't get to experience at least one of these rides.

So they may have been closed all day so far? Ouch. Wonder if we will get more info somehow.