PhilharMagician
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Thanks Scott for the pics and I look forward to you future additions.
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Avatar construction aerial updates
- Thread starter photoflight
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A little premature, but here's a video of the Avatar construction site from 1995 to present day. Just having fun 
PhilharMagician
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Scott, next time you are up can you get a shot of the DTD construction. I am curious to see the footprint of the garage going in. The ground level photos do not interpret well as far as the size of it.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
He posted one the other day...
http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/disney-springs-construction-begins.862340/page-39#post-5893205
PhilharMagician
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Thanks for the link. That garage is huge and it is only the first one.
Atomicmickey
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Thanks for these! Looking forward to lots more!
NoChesterHester
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Have there been any rumors about Rainforest Cafe going away? I remember we heard that early on.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
I haven't heard any more rumors about that. I can't seem them getting rid of a sit-down restaurant, especially if they want to turn AK into a full day park. I could see them maybe replacing it with a different restaurant. I think there was talk of moving it to provide more space, but they should have more then enough space for Avatar without getting rid of it.
doctornick
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In the video, with the current overhead view, there is a new building next to the east bridge off Discovery Island (currently a backstage bridge), south of the FOTLK and not really near the theater. Does anyone know what that building is? New merch for FOTLK?
jdmdisney99
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Most likely
toolsnspools
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I noticed that there will be a view of EE from the front of the FOTLK like there is from the bridge to Africa. That should be pretty cool.
jt04
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My guess is it will be taken apart and repurposed elsewhere on property or sold off.
jt04
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Might as well start a thread since the construction "officially" is under way.
As I understand it the new area is replacing Camp Minnie Mickey so that's what I've concentrated on. If they expand south into the open field I'll expand coverage on these and future images (if and when I get them).
First as a baseline, Camp Minnie Mickey in January 2013
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The site about a week after the official "ground breaking". Not much going on except Camp Minnie Mickey is closed.
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Related, here's the new Festival of the Lion King theater, due north of the old location. This shows a transition from 2013 to 2014 note: updated the video, the previous date captions were wrong
The new theater looks slightly larger. And with external theming.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
The new theater looks slightly larger. And with external theming.
Yes, it is a little bigger. I took the of the image of the new theatre from Scott's video and adjusted it so it was the same scale as the Google Maps image using the surrounding buildings as reference. Here is an image with them side by side.
themonkeyisthesultan
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Lots of rumors going around that the site will end up being bigger than people think. There is talk that the perimeter road will be rerouted and the retention pond and some backstage buildings will be moved/removed.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
If that were to happen I doubt the current South Florida Water Management permit would be sufficient. We would probably see another permit filed for that.
doctornick
Well-Known Member
I'm all for doing as much as possible, but I hope that the added space would bring in more than the two rumored rides.
NoChesterHester
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I'm cool with two Avatar rides. If they were to add a third I would hope it were in another section of the park or a method of transportation.