AVATAR land construction progress

[wdwmagic]

This thread is for posting AVATAR construction updates only.

It is not for discussing whether AVATAR has a place in Animal Kingdom, or opinions of the movies. You can discuss those at - AVATAR land coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom

 

[wdwmagic]

Height test balloons spotted over the AVATAR site at Disney's Animal Kingdom

 

[twebber55]

Height test balloons spotted over the AVATAR site at Disney's Animal Kingdom

did anyone get pictures?

 

[Beholder]

3-4 stories tall? What does that compare too, relative to other Disney attractions? Show buildings, eating areas, shopping?

And I'm referring to the size, is this about what we expected?

 

[wdwmagic]

Joe Rohde was in the park this morning giving some presentations to cast. Hopefully we will get some information out of that.

 

[twebber55]

Joe Rohde was in the park this morning giving some presentations to cast. Hopefully we will get some information out of that.

yeah i follow him on twitter and noticed he mentioned flying out of LAX and going to DAK

 

[Gregoryp73]

3-4 stories tall? What does that compare too, relative to other Disney attractions? Show buildings, eating areas, shopping?

And I'm referring to the size, is this about what we expected?

I'm thinking Finding Nemo show building between Everest and Dinoland USA...probably a good comparison.

 

[ToTBellHop]

This is about the height of 3 Na'vi.

 

[danlb_2000]

3-4 stories tall? What does that compare too, relative to other Disney attractions? Show buildings, eating areas, shopping?

And I'm referring to the size, is this about what we expected?

A story is generally considered to be 10 feet, so that is 30 to 40 feet. By comparison the Tree of Life is 145 feet tall and Everest is 199'

 

[neoshinok]

I hope/expect that's not the peak of the tallest structures. I think the floating mountains will need to be at least 100, probably closer to 200 feet to have any convincing scale.

 

[FutureWorld1982]

They will definitely have to be no taller than 199 feet, though. It wouldn't be nice seeing red lights flashing on top of those floating mountains.

 

[gboiler1]

Sounds more like show buildings height and getting an idea of where facades and foliage might need to be to block them.

I don't know the obstacles that would be presented, but they could always build down too I suppose.

 

[twebber55]

Sounds more like show buildings height and getting an idea of where facades and foliage might need to be to block them.

I don't know the obstacles that would be presented, but they could always build down too I suppose.

agree especially where the mods said the balloons were, behind RF cafe..i believe the big rock structure e ticket will be back off to the left (total speculation) not near the front of the park

 

[NoChesterHester]

Those rock structures are absolutely taller than three stories. It would look utterly silly at three stories.

FYI - The buildings on Main Street USA are about 35 feet tall.

 

[matt9112]

do we even have a rough layout of said land? lee should draw us a picture...and forge some NDAs.

 

[Buck]

do we even have a rough layout of said land? lee should draw us a picture...and forge some NDAs.

Inquiring minds...

 

[themonkeyisthesultan]

Joe Rohde was in the park this morning giving some presentations to cast. Hopefully we will get some information out of that.

The presentation wasn't really "detail oriented" it was more about the general conception of the land and how it will fit into the expanded "full day park" version of Animal Kingdom.

One thing he did say was that the floating mountains will provide shade for the entire land, so I'd say they'll be substantially taller than 30-40 feet.

 

[Glasgow]

Whether or not you like or agree with avatarland or not, it's pretty exciting knowing that a potentially highly themed land addition is on its way. The best part of NFL is the ambiance and environment, IMO .. So hopefully AL will have both show and substance.

 

[Beholder]

A story is generally considered to be 10 feet, so that is 30 to 40 feet. By comparison the Tree of Life is 145 feet tall and Everest is 199'

Yeah, this is what I was kind of getting at. I'm hoping this is for the show buildings and not the "floating" mountains or whatever landscape dominating feature they might create. It is more than a little (too me!) exciting that we finally get to see something going on.

 

[JCtheparrothead]

Should we expect to see some more test flights of the Dragon Plane in the future? I mean they are in the picture and Disney wouldn't put anything in a picture that wasn't going to be used right?