Originally Posted By dagobert >>>They're still incredibly vague on the details for such a major project (remember all the constant updates and blog posts they gave us for DCA's redo?). We've maybe gotten half a dozen photos of people of people in staged meetings and concept art, but that's about it. Considering all the work that's being done at DAK at the moment for Avatar, Rivers of Light, the Africa Marketplace expansion, Starbucks addition, and table service restaurant (taking over part of Pizzafari), they really haven't been doing a good job with publicity for any of it. Imagine how strong it would be if they could bundle all those projects together. As it is now, guests just show up to the park and are surprised by the construction walls that stretch throughout the entire park (nearly as bad as DCA at its worst)<<< That's how it works at DLP. Now you get to experience that as well. No informations about anything, even after construction has started. At least Disney officially confirmed Avatarland. The Ratatouille building had already walls when Disney made an official announcement.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Given the way that people book their trips to DLP relatively late, I think that strategy makes some sense. But people book their WDW trips way in advance, so I don't think that some construction would really impact the number of visitors. DLR seems to do a pretty good job of keeping everybody informed, and WDW does too at times (the Fantasyland projects had lots of updates) so it's strange that they're so quiet about all this... ...not to mention that they still haven't made any announcements of any sort about what's coming to the Studios, despite closing several things in recent months
Originally Posted By dagobert A member of the Themeparx forum did a layover with the blueprints. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.themeparx.com/avatar-land-disneys-animal-kingdom/?p=5691#post5691">http://www.themeparx.com/avata...post5691</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That's a good way to visualize it! I'm still trying to figure out what the white areas are. The black circles on them look like they're some sort of columns, but I can't imagine why they would want columns spaced that close together; there would be hardly any useable space between them
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Disney is also very quiet lately with details regarding the 60th at DL, and Star Wars projects in the works. Wonder why they're being so quiet lately?
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt They're being pretty quiet on SDL too. Loose lips sink ships, so to speak.
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>Star Wars projects in the works.<<< Didn't Robert Iger say in an interview, that there will be an announcement in 2015 for SW.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Loose lips sink ships, so to speak.<< Especially when the ship is really just a collection of debris that's being hastily tied together to keep somebody afloat (which has been my impression of the SDL construction process) >>Didn't Robert Iger say in an interview, that there will be an announcement in 2015 for SW.<< I'm not sure if he said anything, but it's widely assumed that there will be an announcement at the D23 convention in August. There's also a big Star Wars convention in Anaheim earlier in the year that they could use for the announcement, but that seems less likely
Originally Posted By dagobert Robert Iger also talked about Avatar at the Variety event. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/avatar-ride-coming-to-life-at-disneys-animal-kingdom-1201376587/">http://variety.com/2014/biz/ne...1376587/</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>Remember the chorus of people here who said that Avatar Land would never happen?<< Given the (1) Scarcity of any information, (2) what little there was - VAGUE, and 3) nothing mentioned for a big period of time, what rational person wouldn't think it might have been cancelled or postponed? Is the colored blueprint their "Soarin'" ride layout? With 4 Imax screens? Seems to take up most of the land. What about this boat ride? I thought that would take up more room than anyone could possibly imagine. Like the size of PotC.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Is the colored blueprint their "Soarin'" ride layout? With 4 Imax screens?<< Yes, that's the one. It appears that it will load with guests on multiple levels, more like Back to the Future/Simpsons at Universal than Soarin's lift system. It will be interesting to see how that works in reality. It seems like it could require a lot of extra staffing, and vertical circulation is always difficult with large groups of people >>What about this boat ride? I thought that would take up more room than anyone could possibly imagine. Like the size of PotC.<< I think the boat ride was always intended to be more of a C/D-ticket level attraction. I might expect something on a similar scale to the boat rides in World Showcase at Epcot, rather than POTC
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn There is no ride system. It will be riding real creatures in a real world. And it's be FUN.
Originally Posted By monorailblue I can't wait not to go to Avatarland. I maintain that it has no mass or general appeal, notwithstanding the success of the first movie (which seems exceptionally unlikely to be repeated or approximated by any sequal).
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I'm kind of meh about Avatar the film. I liked it, but I'm not one to ever get overly excited about movies, so I'm not the best person to guage how the general public might respond. I'm also aware that very few people care about this franchise, at least at the moment. However, setting all that aside, the model shown in this link (along with various concept art images around the internet) gives me the impression that this will be a spectacularly immersive world worth visiting. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.insidethemagic.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/IMG_2231.jpeg">http://www.insidethemagic.net/...231.jpeg</a>
Originally Posted By monorailblue But only if there's something to do there other than walk around and go to shops and restaurants . . . .
Originally Posted By dagobert I don't like the Avatar movie, but if the land is cool, I can't wait to experience it. I don't like the Transformer movies, but I'm very excited about the ride at Universal. Judging from the concept art, it looks good. Now it would be great to get more informations about the rides.
Originally Posted By dagobert Here's a new aerial picture: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-LdjD9Qm/0/X2/i-LdjD9QmX2-X2.jpg">http://photos.smugmug.com/phot...2-X2.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It looks....just like the last one. I guess they're starting to put up some of the forms for vertical walls, and I'm sure they're doing a lot of things that we can't see at this point (laying utilities, waterproofing, etc), but it looks pretty similar to an untrained eye
Originally Posted By dagobert Disney released a video about Avatarland. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQm4B2UYGY8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...4B2UYGY8</a> In my opinion it looks very promising.
