yep its been two months
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Avatar construction aerial updates
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HouseHacker97
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at this point i'd rather see updated aerial pictures than breathe air
PorterRedkey
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If you don't have air, you can't see the pictures. Priorities!
BrianLo
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Seems about the time. Then we'll give up hope by month 5 or so and within a matter of days we'll get some random website chartering a flight over the park, an update from Nearmap and one from @photoflight for good measure.
msteel
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Of course when that happens we surmise that the random website chartered a flight with @photoflight, he also took his own pictures during the flight and then sold rights to nearmap...
HouseHacker97
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I've been holding my breath for a month, but look what I found! @MickeyXtreme just posted these and several more on twitter https://twitter.com/MickeyXtreme
Looks like the mess hall restaurant is finally vertical.
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danlb_2000
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Those yellowish roots in the foreground look really cool. This also gives us a good idea of how much rock work is left to be done. There is still a good bit that hasn't even gotten past the steel skeleton phase.
Disneyhead'71
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5-6 mins.
phi2134
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That's not horrible, do you know if the show buildings are tangled together or are there two distinct structures underneath the theming?
prfctlyximprct
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I feel like avatar land is moving at a faster pace than frozen land...
Mike S
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Well Frozen Land hasn't started construction at TDS at all. Frostrom at Epcot has though.
yep
if you ride the bus from AKL you can see it for a second
Atomicmickey
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These are great, and more on Twitter! Was getting a little tired of pictures of that one rock . . . 
flyerjab
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That building is enormous! Actually, everything about this expansion is enormous. And to think that TSL is roughly the same acreage and SWL is even larger. Wow!
hpyhnt 1000
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Every new aerial leaves me more impressed with the sheer scale of the land.
Here is a zoomed in crop of one of the photos. It's a bit grainy, but I think that the specks in the red circles are people (I'm sure there are others but it's hard to tell for sure).
Just trying to put the image in a bit more perspective.
Here is a zoomed in crop of one of the photos. It's a bit grainy, but I think that the specks in the red circles are people (I'm sure there are others but it's hard to tell for sure).
Just trying to put the image in a bit more perspective.
No Name
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Wow. Those pictures show a ton of progress. The yellow root-looking supports are particularly cool.
I hate to judge and criticize things before they're finished, but one big concern I have is being able to see the showbuildings. The rocks don't fold over the top of the showbuilding for some reason, instead they stop a couple feet short of the top. Why, I am not sure. All I'm saying is that the building better not be able to be seen, becuase that would ruin any illusion or magic that they're going for.
I hate to judge and criticize things before they're finished, but one big concern I have is being able to see the showbuildings. The rocks don't fold over the top of the showbuilding for some reason, instead they stop a couple feet short of the top. Why, I am not sure. All I'm saying is that the building better not be able to be seen, becuase that would ruin any illusion or magic that they're going for.
hpyhnt 1000
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I think what you are actually seeing is the gap between the two. For this project the rock work and show building are 2 separate structures that aren't attached to each other. At this angle, the gap between them makes it look like the rock work is "shorter" than the building when I don't think that is actually the case.