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Actually there was a vote and it passed by one vote. Where were you when we needed you? It's all your fault.

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Just 'cause I know y'all can't get enough Avatarland news, this is from Inside the Magic...

 

 

At the recent Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Film Festival, director James Cameron spoke a bit about the world of Avatar being added to Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Slash Film reports that Cameron said the name of the new area, now under construction, will likely be “Pandora: The Land of Avatar,” adding that advanced Audio-Animatronics figures will be featured somewhere within its attractions.

“The animatronics for the Na’vi characters are gonna be fantastic. For example, their early animatronics would use 12 axis of motion and I think the most they’ve ever done was 32 axis recently. I think they’re up to 64 just in the face of the Na’vi characters.”

Pandora: The Land of Avatar is set to open in 2017.

 

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http://www.insidethemagic.net/headlines/james-cameron-names-pandora-the-land-of-avatar-as-new-walt-disney-world-area-says-advanced-navi-animatronics-are-coming/

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From the Boston Herald...

 

 

'Avatar' ride coming to life at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Thursday, December 11, 2014

By: Marc Graser

 

http://youtu.be/j3fkuaQNGHI

 

Walt Disney Co. It turns out one of them is getting to be the first to ride the winged beasts that will be one of Animal Kingdom's signature rides when "Avatar" land opens inside the Walt Disney World theme park in 2017.

 

Bob Iger said he was recently given the chance to try out the ride, which will enable guests to fly through "Avatar's" Pandora on the back of a flying banshee.

"It felt so real, so lifelike," Iger said of the prototype vehicle guests will board to travel through the fictional land. "There's never been anything like it."

 

The vessels that guests will ride upon will essentially be the banshees themselves, with bodies that move to mimic a breathing beast. The flying sequences will be brought to life through large video screens -- similar to "Soarin'" -- with vehicles moving with the 3D action inside a massive theater.

 

While Disney and "Avatar" franchise creator and director James Cameron and producer Jon Landau already had announced that "Avatar" land would include the flying attraction, Iger excitedly provided a better glimpse of the experience, describing how he had to scale scaffolding in order to try out the ride for the first time.

 

Iger discussed the new theme park shortly after discussing plans for "Star Wars" at the company's resorts during a Q&A with Variety co-editor-in-chief Claudia Eller at a Dealmakers Breakfast Wednesday morning, presented by Bank of America and sponsored by Delta.

 

Disney broke ground on the "Avatar" park in January. The themed addition, designed with Cameron, represents the largest expansion to Animal Kingdom since the park opened in 1998.

 

Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, the land will include Pandora's floating mountains and bioluminescent plants across several acres that will house attractions, including a boat-based attraction, and eateries.

 

The addition of "Avatar" land is clearly Disney's answer to Universal's pair-up with Warner Bros. to build the wildly successful Wizarding World of Harry Potter park and Diagon Alley expansion inside Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios in Orlando.

 

The themed land will open as Cameron releases the first of three new "Avatar" sequels, starting in December 2016.

 

© 2014 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media; Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC

 

 

 

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/travel/2014/12/avatar_ride_coming_to_life_at_disneys_animal_kingdom

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Hmm... this means Avatarland at AK will open before the sequel hits the theaters. From WDWMagic...

 

 

AVATAR sequel delayed until late 2017 says James Cameron
Jan 14, 2015 | 10:56am EST
 

According to the Associated Press, AVATAR creator and director James Cameron has stated that the first of the AVATAR sequels will be delayed until late 2017, a year later than expected.

 

Three sequels are planned, with the releases staggered across three years. The first sequel which was originally intended to open in theaters in later 2016 would have been the perfect spring-board for the Disney's Animal Kingdom AVATAR land opening in early 2017. Disney and Cameron are expected to be using elements from the sequels in the new land, which now will open before the movies hit the screens.

 

"We're writing three simultaneously. And we've done that so that everything tracks throughout the three films. We're not just going to do one and then make up another one and another one after that," Cameron said. "And parallel with that, we're doing all the design. So we've designed all the creatures and the environments."

 

The original AVATAR movie is the highest grossing movie of all time, taking nearly $2.8 billion at the box office.

 

http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/avatar/news/14jan2015-avatar-sequel-delayed-until-late-2017-says-james-cameron.htm

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