Avatar construction aerial updates

[Hakunamatata]

Wait - so this stuff won't actually float...?

I know. I know. Disney taking the cheap way out......wont invest in transporting actual floating mountains from deep space.......

 

[Tom]

When do the pretty floating rocks show up?

My sources say they're on backorder.....so who knows. They may get value engineered into a few piles of rip-rap.

 

[FLFQTR]

Yeah this baby is rolling alright. It's rolling like a Ford Pinto in neutral being pushed by an 80-year old grandfather with osteoporosis down I-95 from Maine down to Florida. By the time it finishes rolling and comes to a stop in 2017 we'll all get to marvel at its old technology borrowed from a Disney's California Adventure ride from 2001! Whoohooo!!!!

I just deliver the mud but once they get going it will be fast. Just look at the parking garage only a handful of pours left before the 1st one is topped out.

 

[FLFQTR]

2nd pour going this am

 

[twebber55]

I just deliver the mud but once they get going it will be fast. Just look at the parking garage only a handful of pours left before the 1st one is topped out.

thanks for your info and think Andy was just making an attempt to be funny.

 

[FLFQTR]

thanks for your info and think Andy was just making an attempt to be funny.

I figured that but these days you just never know.

 

[twebber55]

I figured that but these days you just never know.

i know next to nothing about construction....like how long does a pour take? how many pours will there be? what comes after the pouring concrete?

 

[Master Yoda]

i know next to nothing about construction....like how long does a pour take? how many pours will there be? what comes after the pouring concrete?

It depends on how big the pour is. Your average house slab can be poured in a few hours and ready for vertical construction in 2-3 days. Larger pours like this can take weeks to do.

What is next is also kind of up in the air. They might have more site work to do or the might start vertical construction.

 

[dstrawn9889]

probably more grading, then if the pours were for foundations(point loads and exterior walls, then backfill and compaction for slabs...

 

[omurice]

We have to be patient, because unobtainium is VERY expensive!

 

[JEANYLASER]

awesome!

 

[JEANYLASER]

I would like to see some updates and some pictures of the Avatarland construction!

 

[djkidkaz]

I would like to see some updates and some pictures of the Avatarland construction!

I agree, but we're at the mercy of photoflight. Hopefully he'll be able to fly overhead soon.

 

[roj2323]

I agree, but we're at the mercy of photoflight. Hopefully he'll be able to fly overhead soon.

At this point I want to know how much money he wants to take a photo once a month. The suspense is killing me

 

[JEANYLASER]

The Suspense is killing me too! I really wanted to see those pictures!

 

[Mike730]

yeah anyone has them aerials?

 

[dstrawn9889]

NOPE NOPE NOPE not gonna post it this time, not gonna do it, no, no ,no

 

[JEANYLASER]

dstrawn9889 Don't worry we wait!

 

[AndyMagic]

thanks for your info and think Andy was just making an attempt to be funny.

Attempt? I didn't succeed?

 

[Sped2424]

My guess is that the vast majority of the "perspectives" will make them look like they float, but there will be a small area of perspective that it will be evident that they don't, that they will try to hide by foliage, water falls, etc?
***and let me qualify "guess" to mean, I think I read that somewhere.....

They way they are getting them to "Float" judging by the models seems to be through the vines connecting them to the ground.

Those vines seem big enough to hide supports inside for the large structure. But you seem to be right about the smaller mountains on top. It looks like it's behind the other mountains just enough so you can't see the beam holding them together.