AVATAR breaks ground

twebber55

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I just did a quick estimate on the size of the show building for the simulator ride shown in the leaked blueprints. One of the plans does appear to have a scale on it but the numbers are to small to read, so I am estimating the scale from the size of a single door which would normally by 36" wide. Based on that the show building is roughly 336' square which would be 2.6 acres.
a football field is roughly 3 acres so that should give you a an idea of scope...which is pretty big...thinking out loud i wondering the size of gringotts?
 

lobelia

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a football field is roughly 3 acres so that should give you a an idea of scope...which is pretty big...thinking out loud i wondering the size of gringotts?

I think American Football fields are just over an acre when you include the end zones. It looks like
Soccer (or Football) fields are 1.24 acres.
 

George

Liker of Things
Premium Member
I think American Football fields are just over an acre when you include the end zones. It looks like
Soccer (or Football) fields are 1.24 acres.

Sorry for the drift, but did you know professional soccer fields are like baseball fields? They vary in dimension. Roughly, they need to be between 100 and 130 yards long and between 50 and 100 yards wide.
 

WED Purist

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Don't know it's coming? How could you not? Lol your at a dead end and I think a five year old could figure out that your going to go backwards. Now if your talking about the actual turn inside the mountain that's different and I assume that's what you meant.... I hope;)
I didn't know that there were people on earth had never seen the ride on TV or talked to someone who rode it. Then some friends came to town, and upon exiting one of them actually had no clue what was happening, had never heard of the ride until that trip, and was blown away when she started heading backward (after thinking the track may just teeter and continue on forward). That made me think how cook it was to ride/see/experience things for the first time ever.
 

orky8

Well-Known Member
They actually are mutually exclusive. We have metrics on how much plaster a crew can shoot per day. If the carving gets really detailed, and inside of the mine is some of the best carving I have ever seen; that production rate goes down.

But why just one crew (or whatever the number may be)? It's understandable that one crew can only do so much a day, but what is less understandable is why there aren't more crews working. Or painting. Why have portions of the rock work that appear ready to be painted at the front of the mountain taking so long to be painted.

At the end of the day, if neither of these items are on the critical path, then I suppose it doesn't really matter, but the work seems to go so slowly. That's not a criticism of the workers, by the way, but of the managers or perhaps more likely, the check-writers.
 
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