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doctornick

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twebber55 said:

we ve talked about this before would you want 1 or 2 rides and a night time show or three rides with 2 e tickets ( not talking specifics just hypotheticals here
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Personally, I'd go with 2 rides and a night time show. If it would only be 1 ride + a night time show, then I'd prefer 3 rides.

That said, why should we choose? Why not 2 Avatar rides, a third quality ride elsewhere in the park, a night time show and still having a day time parade? That fact that this sounds like "too much" for Disney to build -- despite a rumored $700M budget directed towards DAK -- is what is sad.
 
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twebber55

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doctornick said:
Personally, I'd go with 2 rides and a night time show. If it would only be 1 ride + a night time show, then I'd prefer 3 rides.

That said, why should be choose? Why not 2 Avatar rides, a third quality ride elsewhere in the park, a night time show and still having a day time parade? That fact that this sounds like "too much" for Disney to build -- despite a rumored $700M budget directed towards DAK -- is what is sad.
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great point....inefficient in time and money
 
RunnerEd

RunnerEd

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I'm not a huge fan of the Avatar film but I seem to watch it every time it's on television. Pandora is stunning and I'm actually now looking forward to seeing what Imagineering/Cameron come up with. If I had to vote on the above, I would take 2 attractions and a night time show. After recently returning from my first DL trip, World of Color was unspeakably good. I hope we get something like that at World sooner rather than later.
 
Gabe1

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Tim_4 said:
Feel free to move this to the Avatar thread but I figured I'd start a new thread for actual news rather than bury it in 200 pages of argument.

1. Workforce management has provided Labor estimates to the costuming team who has begun design and assembly of new costumes.

2. A study has been done to determine how much Animal Kingdom cast parking will need to expand to support the new headcount.
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Am I to understand that this is the progress of Avatar to date? Costuming and Cast Parking studies?
 
Lord Alfred

Lord Alfred

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While I am no huge fan of Avatar, I'm not in charge so I'll hope for the best. I really think it could be good if they do a great job with it, personally.

That being said, I do NOT want a nighttime show at DAK. Unlike some, I actually enjoy going to DAK. I enjoy watching animals and take time to do so on every visit (around once a year). This seems to be the differentiating factor among my friends who like the park and those who don't. But even if I take time to do all the animal watching, I am still ready to go back to the hotel before the sun goes down. Frankly, I am glad for this. DAK is hot, humid, and huge. By the time I've seen everything I'm tired and ready to go back and relax (or enjoy a nice dinner at one of the resorts or Epcot). If there was a nighttime show, not only would I feel compelled to stay past the point I really want to, but I'd also have to avoid riding Kali River Rapids because I tend to get completely (and uncomfortably) soaked on that ride. We always save that until the end so we can go back to the room and change if needed.
 
Prototype82

Prototype82

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WDWFREAK53 said:
LMAO! I did literally chuckle at this.
A theme park about conservation and a ride with a military force just wiping out an entire species LOL.
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lol. I would love to see the ruins of mech suits laying about: to show the danger that was encroaching upon the land. (You know, because they screwed up the Kilimanjaro Safaris story by taking the poachers out of it.)
 
space42

space42

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Turtle said:
It's also been revealed that the e-ticket won't be a simulator.
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However - the only information that we have seen DOES indicate that they are developing a simulator. James Cameron stated that he wanted to do something like Soarin' and the leaked blue prints confirmed this. I hope that this has changed but I'm not holding my breath.
 
NoChesterHester

NoChesterHester

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Lord Alfred said:
While I am no huge fan of Avatar, I'm not in charge so I'll hope for the best. I really think it could be good if they do a great job with it, personally.

That being said, I do NOT want a nighttime show at DAK. Unlike some, I actually enjoy going to DAK. I enjoy watching animals and take time to do so on every visit (around once a year). This seems to be the differentiating factor among my friends who like the park and those who don't. But even if I take time to do all the animal watching, I am still ready to go back to the hotel before the sun goes down. Frankly, I am glad for this. DAK is hot, humid, and huge. By the time I've seen everything I'm tired and ready to go back and relax (or enjoy a nice dinner at one of the resorts or Epcot). If there was a nighttime show, not only would I feel compelled to stay past the point I really want to, but I'd also have to avoid riding Kali River Rapids because I tend to get completely (and uncomfortably) soaked on that ride. We always save that until the end so we can go back to the room and change if needed.
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So in other words: "I hate change."
 
NoChesterHester

NoChesterHester

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space42 said:
However - the only information that we have seen DOES indicate that they are developing a simulator. James Cameron stated that he wanted to do something like Soarin' and the leaked blue prints confirmed this. I hope that this has changed but I'm not holding my breath.
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The "leaked blueprints" were confirmed to be of an older concept that is no longer being developed.
 
Jimmy Thick

Jimmy Thick

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Avatarland will be huge, more so than Carsland at DCA.

If Cameron is adding input, the man is a perfectionist, this won't be done on the cheap or sacrificed in quality. Disney mentions it anytime they can, this is going to be huge.


Jimmy Thick- The future of themed lands lives here...
 
Captain Neo

Captain Neo

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space42 said:
However - the only information that we have seen DOES indicate that they are developing a simulator. James Cameron stated that he wanted to do something like Soarin' and the leaked blue prints confirmed this. I hope that this has changed but I'm not holding my breath.
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Link please
 
MerlinTheGoat

MerlinTheGoat

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Jimmy Thick said:
If Cameron is adding input, the man is a perfectionist, this won't be done on the cheap or sacrificed in quality. Disney mentions it anytime they can, this is going to be huge.
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His perfectionism pays off when he's actually left to his own devices and allowed to not do things cheaply. He is often allowed this leeway when he's making his own movies. That's not the case here. Disney corporate heads are in charge of approving the budget. And besides being stingy in the first place, their incredible bloat and wastefulness cause projects to cost immensely more than it should for their relative quality. Going over budget is not something Disney (modern Disney anyways) is going to allow him to do. And whatever Cameron wants to do is inevitably going to cost way more than Disney will allow. We already know from the insiders here that the expansion has shrunk a lot from some of the original concepts and proposals.

Cameron likely has little to no say in the matter of budget besides begging (and unlike Tony Baxter and probably Lasseter, he likely has no real political ammo/dirt to threaten them with to get his way). If a decent budget isn't approved (which is highly plausible and even likely given Disney's track record), there's really nothing he can do about cheapness. Even his role as a creative force on the project is probably very limited.
 

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