AVATAR Concept Art released

[JenniferS]

Poor Joe. Just look at the expression on his face. Whether or not you support this ridiculous plan for expansion at Animal Kingdom, I think we all can appreciate the fact that Joe had this facial expression during a posed publicity shot.

In all fairness, he could have been mid-comment, mid-blink, mid-I need a coffee. You should see what I can make Judge Judy look like, depending on when I hit pause.

I, for one, do not think he is sending subliminal "I hate Avatar" facial messages. Only he knows for sure.
Would you rather see three fawning, sycophantic expressions?

 

[AdventureHasAName]

Poor Joe. Just look at the expression on his face. Whether or not you support this ridiculous plan for expansion at Animal Kingdom, I think we all can appreciate the fact that Joe had this facial expression during a posed publicity shot.

Joe better watch his back - he's *this* close to being branded "angry theme park designer guy".

 

[lazyboy97o]

In all fairness, he could have been mid-comment, mid-blink, mid-I need a coffee. You should see what I can make Judge Judy look like, depending on when I hit pause.

I, for one, do not think he is sending subliminal "I hate Avatar" facial messages. Only he knows for sure.
Would you rather see three fawning, sycophantic expressions?

Disney isn't the kind to do spur-of-the moment shots, but it is possible.

 

[doctornick]

Agree
We re getting an incredibly beautiful land while losing nothing

Excellent point in that, unlike so many other things at WDW in recent years, this is an actual honest to good expansion that adds attractions without losing anything. It is good that when this is done, there will simply be more to do in DAK, which is definitely needed.

 

[misterID]

Harry Potter, kids grew up with it. It's kid friendly. LOTR, some kids grew up with it, it's still kid friendly.

Avatar...is NOT kid friendly.

LOTR is definitely not kid friendly. Minus the nudity it wasn't far off from the original Conan film. It took a long time to get the nieces and nephews to watch those films. Avatar was much easier and comfortable for them to watch.

 

[doctornick]

Yep, essentially all they did was release a couple of pretty pictures to appease the rabid WDW fans, without releasing any new information.

I don't agree. New information:

1. Picture of a boat ride, which was thought to be possibly axed
2. Discussion of the "riding on banshee" ride concept, which was never officially talked about previously
and, most importantly,
3. Acknowledging a new night time show on the Discover River and the night time safaris -- both of which had some rumors but were never seen as definite and never talked about officially previously.

 

[GoofGoof]

who says the land will not be child appropriate?

There were no strollers in the concept art or stroller parking areas and I think the people in the nighttime party art were all drunk. The only time I ever walk around in sunglasses at night is when I've had a few too many. Clearly they are drunk..

 

[BaconPancakes]

There were no strollers in the concept art or stroller parking areas and I think the people in the nighttime party art were all drunk. The only time I ever walk around in sunglasses at night is when I've had a few too many. Clearly they are drunk..

Now that I could get behind. An adults only nighttime DAK with free flowing alcohol.

 

[BaconPancakes]

Well we can all agree that the concept art pictures are pretty.

 

[WDW1974]

Nope. All I can add is that leaked artwork from 2012 pretty much nailed things. And there will not be three attractions, there will be two.

I can also say that Disney feels Avatar is so unliked by the fan community that they made sure to prominently talk about night safaris (something the park was built to have) and Rivers of Light or whatever dumbed down MAGICal Disney name they will put on the night spectacular. They wanted to. And sure they were not just talking about Pandora, but DAK 'new stuff' in general.

Now, you can go back to talking about how awful the film was (it was very, very bad).

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Nope. All I can add is that leaked artwork from 2012 pretty much nailed things. And there will not be three attractions, there will be two.

By the leaked art, do you mean the "blueprints" showing the Soarin clone and boat ride?-
http://thedisneyblog.com/2012/10/26/avatar-plans-for-disneys-animal-kingdom-leaked/

I only asked about the roster because Martin mentioned earlier in a thread (forget which one, this one or another) that a third ride (coaster?) was under consideration. He indicated it still may be in talks. Oh well.

I am happy about the night changes. I love Disney parks at night. Do you happen to know when the night conversion is planned to happen? Is it going to happen before the rest of AVATAR Land, or begin at the same time? Seems like the night conversions could begin now and open well ahead of 2017 easily if they wanted to.

 

[Sped2424]

Thank God they kept the boat ride with REAL THEMING and REAL Audio Animatronics. God how long has it been since they did a ride like that? I wanna say since the early days of Epcot

I think the last boat ride done (with animatronics, not including the early days of the boat at AK) at walt disney world that is, was maelstrom? Off the top of my head at least.

 

[marni1971]

Again thread hijaked so ill try to get back on subject. The model is what is intersting to me. Wondering how tall will the mountain will be? Any guesses

199ft.

In a vain attempt to get back on topic.

 

[wdwmagic]

I've had to move 100s of posts discussing why people don't like AVATAR the movie. Can you please keep that discussion to the original announcement thread at AVATAR land coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom.

This thread is for discussion of the recently released concept art. Please stay on topic and post in the correct thread.

 

[wdwmagic]

This appointment certainly makes a lot of sense given the look that they are going for.

Environment and rockwork specialist Zsolt Hormay recruited back to Imagineering to produce AVATARland exterior environments

 

[SirLink]

So judging from the concept art I see no human buildings so I take it we won't see recreated in the park a giant mech with a dagger trying to kill the Navi?

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

So judging from the concept art I see no human buildings so I take it we won't see recreated in the park a giant mech with a dagger trying to kill the Navi?

There is a concrete looking structure on the right side of this piece of art (it's in the background but looks like a human sort of building)-
http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/avatar/gallery/12oct2013-avatar-concept-art-disney's-animal-kingdom/19718.htm

It does have vines covering it though, perhaps it's supposed to be an abandoned building overrun by plant life...

EDIT-
In fact there seems to be another (smaller and farther away) such structure visible on the left side through the trees. And there's a pile of rubble in the middle of the image that I believe is a broken mech, lying on its back (you can see its windshield). Again all of this looks like it's supposed to be kind of old and overgrown with plants.

 

[Alektronic]

There is a concrete looking structure on the right side of this piece of art (it's in the background but looks like a human sort of building)-
http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/avatar/gallery/12oct2013-avatar-concept-art-disney's-animal-kingdom/19718.htm

It does have vines covering it though, perhaps it's supposed to be an abandoned building overrun by plant life...

EDIT-
In fact there seems to be another (smaller and farther away) such structure visible on the left side through the trees. And there's a pile of rubble in the middle of the image that I believe is a broken mech, lying on its back (you can see its windshield). Again all of this looks like it's supposed to be kind of old and overgrown with plants.

On the right hand side, it looks like a bridge to me.

 

[Alektronic]

About the floating islands, I would have to say the bigger ones would be on the left hand side as you enter from Discovery Island. The show building should be put there because there is already an access road there also. They need something to cover up the back side of the Rainforest Café and the big waterfall on top, it's pretty ugly from behind.

 

[WDWFREAK53]

The only time I ever walk around in sunglasses at night is when I've had a few too many. Clearly they are drunk..

Drunk...or Corey Hart fans?