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

[Miketheboss]

Not my pictures.

The engineering for this project is crazy. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this looks like it will surpass Diagon Alley in terms of theming and beauty.

 

[*Q*]

Oh... thanks. I had not seen that. Sorry MTB!

I wonder what it is made of to require two steel i-beams to lift it. Whatever... yeah, very clever.

Unobtanium, obviously.

 

[deathcab4cutie]

Not my pictures.

The engineering for this project is crazy. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this looks like it will surpass Diagon Alley in terms of theming and beauty.

yes and no the thing that makes diagon alley so great is you can go in every building while this will no doubt look really good it wont be as explorible as diagon so surpass in beauty but prob not in themeing

 

[Miketheboss]

If you've gone to Diagon Alley once, you dont really pass by each shop every time you visit. You just go straight to Gringotts. I feel like Pandora will be explorable, maybe even more so than DA. My opinion so dont blast me. Also, I feel like the original WWOHP is larger than Diagon.

 

[ThemeParks4Life]

If you've gone to Diagon Alley once, you dont really pass by each shop every time you visit. You just go straight to Gringotts. I feel like Pandora will be explorable, maybe even more so than DA. My opinion so dont blast me. Also, I feel like the original WWOHP is larger than Diagon.

Length wise it is but Diagon is much deeper.

 

[Mad Dog]

yes and no the thing that makes diagon alley so great is you can go in every building while this will no doubt look really good it wont be as explorible as diagon so surpass in beauty but prob not in themeing

You make a great point. We spend tons of time in Diagon. Even after so many repeat trips there's so much to see and do, plus we're always discovering things that we didn't catch before. You can't discount how Universal recreated the ambiance and atmosphere of wanting to stay in that area. Diagon puts you in the story and you live the story with those great characters, stores, restaurants, alleys, shows etc. that just jump to life in front of you. I think Pandora will be beautiful to look at, and I'm looking forward to it's opening. But short of the rides there probably won't be much to hold my interest, at least nowhere near a Diagon level. And the Pandora restaurant (canteen) sounds uninteresting. uninteresting. It's like those two new areas in the Africa section, the food area & Lions Theater area. They're very authentic looking but I end up spending about ten minutes total in those areas since there's really nothing to do or explore outside of the first glance.

 

[TheDecemberists]

Length wise it is but Diagon is much deeper.

In my experience girth is more important than length.

 

[misterID]

*cymbal crash*

 

[Teebin]

a TMI moment...

 

[Jwhee]

 

[sjago13]

cant see whatever this is. funny i can see it in quote.

 

[ThemeParks4Life]

In my experience girth is more important than length.

I actually considered saying wider but thought it'd be too sexual

 

[Miketheboss]

From Blog Mickey

You see the structure on the right of the ORL pic, supporting it seems to be the 4 or five steal curved horizontal steal beams.

 

[IzzyB]

I keep looking at all these pics and still don't see how they will seem to "float" to us. Should be interesting. While I am not into the IP and I think it was the wrong IP, I personally am excited to see this area. First thing Disney has done in years I am excited to see and experience.

 

[Miketheboss]

I keep looking at all these pics and still don't see how they will seem to "float" to us. Should be interesting. While I am not into the IP and I think it was the wrong IP, I personally am excited to see this area. First thing Disney has done in years I am excited to see and experience.

Those curved steel beams are going to look like draping vines and the small steal structure under the mountains will eventually be removed.

 

[Cole]

This is pretty much how I thought these mountains would float. This is so weird because this effect is almost like one you'd see on a ride or something closed from the outside. Pretty hilarious how through construction we now know how these mountains float, completely destroying the magic of them. Not a fault on Disney because it was inevitable to begin with. I have to say though this construction looks really cool so far, it's gonna be awesome when they finally open those gates

 

[IzzyB]

This is pretty much how I thought these mountains would float. This is so weird because this effect is almost like one you'd see on a ride or something closed from the outside. Pretty hilarious how through construction we now know how these mountains float, completely destroying the magic of them. Not a fault on Disney because it was inevitable to begin with. I have to say though this construction looks really cool so far, it's gonna be awesome when they finally open those gates

Very true. Maybe I shouldn't be looking at these pics trying to figure everything out But really not that many people see these pics.

Oh and now that I see the artistic picture I see how this will work.

 

[Miketheboss]

From other artistic renderings there will be water falls coming off from these floating mountains so that should look cool.

I wouldn't wanna be anywhere near there during a hurricane though.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Those curved steel beams are going to look like draping vines and the small steal structure under the mountains will eventually be removed.

Bingo. Unlike the movie these mountains will be more "defying gravity" (no pun intended) than 100% floating.

 

[Miketheboss]

The rest of the pics will be released tomorrow night.