Pandora: The World of Avatar Announcement, Construction, & Preview Discussion
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Goodness, maybe you need your eyes checked but the illusion to me seems very flawless...
I await the reviews on here. The project was a silly tall order for designers and engineers from the get go.
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Lets stop calling the Hogwarts Castle a castle because they are just hollow walls. They obviously arn't floating mountains but I think they did the best job possible considering gravity is real. I've seen it in person and the illusion looks impressive from the outside.
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All I know is that nothing could encourage me to spend an extra $200/day unless it was Zoe Saldana giving me a personal tour and I'm not famous either.
That said, even with the lack of updates, the land looks great. Hopefully, kids aren't xenophobic about the aliens or vice-versa. I still can't get over the amount spent versus the amount produced. With the budget of close to $1.0B (if that is remotely accurate), AK should have received three to four good rides. Fill that five acres with ride buildings and theme the fronts only.
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That said, even with the lack of updates, the land looks great. Hopefully, kids aren't xenophobic about the aliens or vice-versa. I still can't get over the amount spent versus the amount produced. With the budget of close to $1.0B (if that is remotely accurate), AK should have received three to four good rides. Fill that five acres with ride buildings and theme the fronts only.
Note to self: Don't reply to conversations until you have caught up to where the thread is conversationally.
Not wanting to derail the thread more than it already has. I have wondered how Disney scopes out park hoppers. I get that there is biometric readers on the tickets but that seems an easy way to bloat attendance numbers.
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No one is saying you'd spend an extra $200 per day. I am saying many will spend an extra $200 total on their WDW vacation as a consequence of Avatar.
For once the budget doesn't bother me because it feels like the first Disney World project in absolute years that hasn't been whittled down to its simplest possible form.
There's some clear bad allocation of resources and bloated budgets on show though, but is anyone truly convinced that if Disney hadn't have spent that much they would have spent it elsewhere at WDW? I'm not.
We're talking about a company that has done relatively little in over a decade for what should be their flagship resort.
There's some clear bad allocation of resources and bloated budgets on show though, but is anyone truly convinced that if Disney hadn't have spent that much they would have spent it elsewhere at WDW? I'm not.
We're talking about a company that has done relatively little in over a decade for what should be their flagship resort.
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I feel like Disney's biggest issue will be Star wars land, that park only has what? 4 rides currently? adding 4 more (Toy story, star wars) will only rise the attraction count to 8. and closing The great movie ride for Mickey doesnt seem like the smartest move, we need MORE rides, not replacements of rides. Animal kingdom will have about 9 rides after Avatar, and with the Animal exhibits and Walking trails (The park is HUGE) as well as the night time shows (projection show and Rivers of Light) should keep people Busy, Hollywood studios is so compact with so little to do i can't imagine how they will open Star wars land...
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I agree additional capacity is required but the park would be massively helped by refreshing the shows.
Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Indy have been at the park over 20 years. That's ridiculous. How many people are skipping these because they've seen them so many times?
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get in line business is booming there as far as tourism goes in the last 7 years
I believe my log in screen used an image of that location recently. I recall thinking that it looked like pandora.
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With that ideology, why go to theme parks at all?
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