Originally Posted By HokieSkipper You know what I still can't wrap my head around? Why the hell DHS isn't getting a Start Wars land instead of this. Star Wars is FAR more popular than Avatar, and sells much more merchandise. Plus they already have a good working relationship with Lucas. Also, DHS had the lowest attendance of the WDW parks last year. I know DAK needed something new. And it should have still gotten something new. But if they wanted to base a land off of a big name franchise, they really couldn't do better than Star Wars.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt ^^ I agree. At one point there was talk of turning DL's Tomorrowland into a Star Wars themed space port. I wonder what happened to that idea.
Originally Posted By ChiMike Perhaps there was a plan proposed for DHS that Lucas wanted too much for. I would suggest that a plan was at least proposed. Between Lucas perhaps being too greedy or rigid, and the more dire need to utilize the AK park asset. This was a more strategic win internally. The lackluster response to the new Star Tours probably also didn't help, but that was only in May.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Between Lucas perhaps being too greedy or rigid, and the more dire need to utilize the AK park asset. This was a more strategic win internally.<<< Lucas? Rigid? This is the man who brought us Jar Jar. He's not rigid. LOL
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Lucas? Rigid?" His girlfriend is a financial analyst who sometimes appears on Good Morning America. She seems incredibly uptight to me.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>Lucas? Rigid? This is the man who brought us Jar Jar.<< His insistance that he was right on the JarJar idea for I, his spite retaining JarJar as a character in II and III, tells me many things. Rigid being one.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>His girlfriend is a financial analyst who sometimes appears on Good Morning America. She seems incredibly uptight to me<< Too funny
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "This is a great move if it pans out to what people already expect. It is certainly good for AK, if again, the attractions end up being blockbusters." Indeed. I think we ALL know all we are going to get is a large shed where guests walk through a black light "forest", one motion simulator(where we are going on a trip through Pandora and something goes wrong...), a cheesy "Lion King" type show with large blue smurf-cats dancing around and some shops and restaurants. As somebody said upthread(and my partner), "What, are Disney going to create floating mountains?!?" "However, it is without question a consolation prize that is only resulting from seeing all the 8 year old boys roaming 'Disney Parks' with Harry potter capes and wands." Quoted for truth. Avatard will ALWAYS be the consolation prize for Disney, the former industry leader. Very sad.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "My first experience of ET was horrendous! My nephew who was 3 at the time suddenly needed the toilet while we were in line and had to go in an empty water bottle (thank goodness it's dark in there) and then proceeded to be terrified by the ride itself and screamed the whole way round! Good times!!!" LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hilarious mate! Made me flash back to a time when I took my little cousin to the zoo. We went to see the bears who were in this nifty environment where it was like they were in caves. You were looking through faux rockwork on an elevated viewing platform, like a cave entrance into the enclosure but through very thick glass. There were no bears in sight and my little four year old cousin was very disappointed. Then suddenly, like a scene from a horror film this MASSIVE bear, that must have been sleeping out of sight beneath the viewing area suddenly stands up in front of us to about eight feet tall! My cousin Matthew screamed and proceeded to piss himself. I spent about half an hour in the bathroom with him sitting on a toilet while I held his pants and undies under a hot air blower, drying them out! Then there was the time I went with a whole bunch of girls who, due to the reaction of a cage full of gibbons were obviously....... Well, perhaps for another time!
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance I always thought George Lucas seemed like uptight *edit*. But on a brighter note, a Star Wars themed Space Port for Tomorrowland sounds like a spectacular idea!
Originally Posted By u k fan <<<Oh my god. That sounds terrible and funny at the same time.>>> I guess that's one way to describe it! I think it was the police chase that scared him initially, but I don't think he found ET's planet any less traumatizing! I assume with Cameron saying he'd like a flying attraction we'll be getting a spinner. What's the Avatar version of a flying elephant?!!!
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 That stupid dragon thing. Oh and I bet the blue smurf cats will be bored Orlando teenagers with those bouncy spring things from that old DCA parade on their legs.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad When I saw this, the first thing I thought was they will just retheme the dinosaur ride to Avatar. Hope that is wrong and that they build a whole new world. Everyone says AK needs help but for us it is at least a whole day or more park. But, I will never turn down a new attraction. I do wish they would give us some idea about the attraction b/c I just can't visualize what it would be.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Will big, giant, corporate Disney have to rip the giant Tree of Life down to the ground to fit the new Avatar attractions?
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 If you ever watch any of the Robot Chicken Star Wars specials you'll see that Lucas actually does have a sense of humor.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>...those bouncy spring things from that old DCA parade...<< Which old DCA parade? They've managed to make an appearance in every one of them (except the Electrical Parade, which doesn't really count) so far, including the Pixar Pals mini-shows they're running right now with all the construction. On occasion, they make their way into other parks (the flowers by the Alice unit in DL's Parade of Dreams), but they have become a hallmark of DCA's parades
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "those bouncy spring things from that old DCA parade" They are called Velocity Stilts. The guy who created them lives in Vegas and does a lot of work for DLR parades.
