Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "I expect that the area will look great since Joe does atmosphere well." In case you haven't seen the concept art: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/17/4847612/disney-world-avatar-land-finished-in-2016-first-concept-art">http://www.theverge.com/2013/1...cept-art</a>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA That's a fun photo opp - the giant shovels are very clever. I'm 99.9% sure that the Avatar character is NOT photoshopped trickery.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance It us definitely photoshopped. It would have been in the videos if it was real.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance This quote from the link you posted Hans, struck me as funny. "Disney's CEO wants park-goers to be able to "soar on the back of a Banshee.""
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I like the idea of a boat ride "Pirates of Pandora"? I also like that the park will stay open later and have night time entertainment. I know they haven't had it before because fireworks could freak out the animals, but it will be nice to have something that won't and the concept art looks good.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros For what it's worth, this group of high-ups was also doing various site visits after the groundbreaking ceremony. On Thursday, I saw them in the Studios walking in front of TSMM while it was drizzling. They had a flock of tour guides with them (and I didn't notice Joe Rhode, but he may have been there), and I couldn't tell where they were coming from/heading to, but a CM friend said that they were visiting multiple locations around WDW Let the rumors begin!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan For my secure retirement plan, I would like to arrange it so that I get 5ยข every time a guest misidentifies an Avatar character as a Smurf. ; )
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>How was your trip? Did your nightmares come true?<< It was a lot of fun! I was there with a really good group, and got to meet up with a bunch of old friends along the way. I was there for 6 days, but it really felt like a multi-week vacation, completely escaping the real world (ironically, it was my first trip in ~10 years that we ventured off-property) I'll try to throw together somewhat of a trip report, but we had a good time. My nightmares didn't come true, but there were several times where I was just too tired to get worked up about much of anything
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>I think Indy is dead. But I doubt the franchise generates much interest any more. If there ever was any question, I think Kingdom of the Crystal Skull killed it off.<<< I wouldn't say that. Disney acquired the rights for future Indy movies from Paramount. By the way they should have sldo tried to get the first four movies and the TV series as well. Even if Disney makes a fifth movie, what are the chances to see a new Idiana Jones attraction in any Disney park worldwide? SDL and HKDL don't feature an Indy ride and I would love to see the IJA in Paris, but I guess that's too expensive. >>>The DL ride still works because it is a great attraction... it could be based on ANYTHING.<<< In Florida it is absed on Dinosaurs and I wouldn't say that it is such a great attraction. The ride system is nice, but I wasn't overwhelmed by it. IJA in Anaheim and Tokyo looks so much better than Dinosaur at DAK.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>...and I would love to see the IJA in Paris, but I guess that's too expensive.<< As far as I've read, I've always read that a version of IJA was intended for DLP. According to the legend, they even poured some of the foundations in the space beyond the Indy coaster, in preparation for the ride to be built at some point in the future. If that's true, I would assume that they'd need to repour the foundations, but at least the space is there. Even if it's not themed to Indy, it would be neat to have a big attraction like that in the back corner of the park I always have mixed feelings on Dinosaur at DAK. I rode it on Monday and was pretty underwhelmed, even with my lowered expectations. There were a couple things not working, but it seemed like they had turned the lights down so low (not that it was ever especially bright in there) that you couldn't see half of the stuff in front of you. There was a neat new-to-me vortex light/fog effect during the time travel scenes, but that didn't make up for the darkness of the ride
Originally Posted By dagobert >>>As far as I've read, I've always read that a version of IJA was intended for DLP. According to the legend, they even poured some of the foundations in the space beyond the Indy coaster, in preparation for the ride to be built at some point in the future. If that's true, I would assume that they'd need to repour the foundations, but at least the space is there. Even if it's not themed to Indy, it would be neat to have a big attraction like that in the back corner of the park<<< Plans already exist for IJA in Paris. You have to scroll down a bit. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2011/02/when-indiana-jones-adventure-will-be.html">http://disneyandmore.blogspot....-be.html</a>
