Pandora: The World of Avatar Announcement, Construction, & Preview Discussion

[JoeCamel]

I'm 6'2" 260 and I wear an XL. While not small, I'm am not an above average height person. The only ride that I've ever had a problem getting on was a drop tower ride with OTSR's. It was a squeeze, but I got it locked. If the 6'2" quoted earlier is a legit baseline(and I realize you aren't quoting exact specs) it's going to exclude a lot of guys.

Yep, a lot of bloggers not going to ride if those are the limits

 

[amityboattours]

From the Disney website;

Unoridebigguy is Navi for "Unhappy tourist"


/rimshot

 

[epcyclopedia]

The bloggers return for night photos shortly!

 

[quinnmac000]

Almost Final Thoughts about Pandora:

Cons
I visually can't stand how artificial the land looks.Get its a theme park. Got its purpose. But some of the artifical plants look hella fake.
The merchandise is patronizing as heck and if Navi people truly did exist, they would be screaming culture appropriation. It seem Disney has been rather stupid lately on being culturally sensitive lately with that lame racist Maui costume they tried to sell and now selling off on of the Navi's tails is incredibly blind sided and dumb. As well as the Navi Babies, like wtf. The boat ride would be nap time for me. Again aesthetically though there is is much color, it lacks variety of color tones. Those floating mountains look horrendous not on a proper scale.

Pros:
I think the AA is really well done for the river song. The tank is fun feature in FOP queue and wowed me a bit. Actually more so than the Shaman. I like the imitative taken for this land

May the night photos will change my mind.

 

[Legacy]

So... is there animatronic banshees on FoP? I've yet to see a hard answer.

(Feel free to answer in spoiler tags.)

 

[DoubleJ]

Almost Final Thoughts about Pandora:

Cons
I visually can't stand how artificial the land looks.Get its a theme park. Got its purpose. But some of the artifical plants look hella fake.
The merchandise is patronizing as heck and if Navi people truly did exist, they would be screaming culture appropriation. It seem Disney has been rather stupid lately on being culturally sensitive lately with that lame racist Maui costume they tried to sell and now selling off on of the Navi's tails is incredibly blind sided and dumb. As well as the Navi Babies, like wtf. The boat ride would be nap time for me. Again aesthetically though there is is much color, it lacks variety of color tones. Those floating mountains look horrendous not on a proper scale.

Pros:
I think the AA is really well done for the river song. The tank is fun feature in FOP queue and wowed me a bit. Actually more so than the Shaman. I like the imitative taken for this land

May the night photos will change my mind.

I can't tell if you're trolling or not.

 

[fryoj]

Almost Final Thoughts about Pandora:

Cons
I visually can't stand how artificial the land looks.Get its a theme park. Got its purpose. But some of the artifical plants look hella fake.
The merchandise is patronizing as heck and if Navi people truly did exist, they would be screaming culture appropriation. It seem Disney has been rather stupid lately on being culturally sensitive lately with that lame racist Maui costume they tried to sell and now selling off on of the Navi's tails is incredibly blind sided and dumb. As well as the Navi Babies, like wtf. The boat ride would be nap time for me. Again aesthetically though there is is much color, it lacks variety of color tones. Those floating mountains look horrendous not on a proper scale.

Pros:
I think the AA is really well done for the river song. The tank is fun feature in FOP queue and wowed me a bit. Actually more so than the Shaman. I like the imitative taken for this land

May the night photos will change my mind.

If you are really offended by Disney appropriating a mythical alien race's culture.........

 

[epcyclopedia]

Aww man... it's blacklight bullcrap.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

I can't tell if you're trolling or not.

I actually agree with the point he specifically makes, on the merchandising.

In a sense, it is rather tasteless on a lot of the merch for the Na'vi and that it could backfire, strangely easily.

 

[giant4203]

So... is there animatronic banshees on FoP? I've yet to see a hard answer.

(Feel free to answer in spoiler tags.)

there are none fortunately... they actually would seriously detract from the experience

 

[amityboattours]

So... is there animatronic banshees on FoP? I've yet to see a hard answer.

(Feel free to answer in spoiler tags.)

Spoiler

The DIS gave an absolute NO to this on their twitter page. The mystery of that old picture showing one is still unresolved.

 

[quinnmac000]

If you are really offended by Disney appropriating a mythical alien race's culture.........

Are you not living in the world we are living in where people are tired of the colonial mindset of taking someone's else culture and exploiting it? I'm not offended but I can see a whole lot of people realizing the similarities and its a quite unnecessary battle for a theme park. Its rather tasteless and against goes against the part of the message in the film Avatar. Look at it this way, if Disney opened Disney America and sold headdresses and Tomahawks and you got your face painted in Native American war paint, would anyone be okay with that?

 

[epcyclopedia]

I would say having the items as token.. ok, whatever.. but selling the babies? That's some sambo-level stuff right there.

 

[Legacy]

there are none fortunately... they actually would seriously detract from the experience

Danke!

(That's German for the Na'vi word for thank you.)

 

[epcyclopedia]

So... it's not finished..



And notably, there's no background music yet.

 

[DoubleJ]

Are you not living in the world we are living in where people are tired of the colonial mindset of taking someone's else culture and exploiting it? I'm not offended but I can see a whole lot of people realizing the similarities and its a quite unnecessary battle for a theme park. Its rather tasteless and against goes against the part of the message in the film Avatar. Look at it this way, if Disney opened Disney America and sold headdresses and Tomahawks and you got your face painted in Native American war paint, would anyone be okay with that?

The fact that you are even bothering to complain about this is a testament to the perfectionism of Pandora.

Your comment wreaks of hypocrisy.

 

[epcyclopedia]

Meh.

 

[Alicia]

Meh.

It may look like blacklight, but there's a glow like blacklight on the characters in the film too. It's the color of the glow in the film so I can deal with that.

 

[Brian G.]

The fact that you are even bothering to complain about this is a testament to the perfectionism of Pandora.

Your comment wreaks of hypocrisy.

Dude, really?

 

[Brian G.]

Alright - after a bit of clean up. @Miketheboss @DoubleJ @epcyclopedia - play nice. Next wrong move is a ban.