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Your thoughts: Pandora better at nighttime or daytime?
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GhostHost1000
Premium Member
Completely agree with you there.
mergatroid
Well-Known Member
People are saying it's not as spectacular at night as they'd expected, mainly saying the colours aren't as bright and vivid as they'd hoped. Only seen videos myself but it has been repeated by quite a few. They're not saying it's bad, just not quite as spectacular as they'd hoped?
Dizney Crew
Active Member
Night time was a MAJOR disappointment, especially after all the hype. If the whole land was lit up like when you first enter the land from Tiffins it would be a lot better the walkway looks cool, but the area by the rides and restaurant looks like a typical Disney park nothing spectacular. Day time makes the land look a lot larger also as you get really good views of the forced perspective which adds to the land. Day time gets my vote.
beertiki
Well-Known Member
Night was a let down. As someone who really knows how to use a camera in low light situations, including UV photos of fluorescence in corals, I was excited. Nothing I saw looked like the pictures I had seen. It was much darker. Yes, I could manipulate my camera and get some images that are better than what my eyes see in real life, but that is cheating. No different than if I was diving in green water and made it to look clear and blue. We had two nights planned for Pandora, but went to MK for the second.
RustySpork
Oscar Mayer Memer
It's possible the bioluminescence will make you sick, and it's nothing more than some black lights and paint. For those reasons, my opinion is that daytime is better. Yes, I've visited both during the day and after dark.
discos
Well-Known Member
I've only experienced Pandora during the day but after seeing all the detail of the land during the day I realized you'd probably miss a lot of that detail at night. The nice thing with the queue for Flight of Passage is that a nice chunk of it is themed to nighttime inside the mountain, giving you the bioluminescence look you'd normally see outside in the evening.
ChrisFL
Premium Member
I don't know if they're finished with the lighting yet. It does feel darker than it should with having lights everywhere, so I wonder if they're still tweaking things. I've heard various reports of things being different on different nights.
Also, the concept art made it seem like there would be more "movement" in the plants and stuff but it's 99% static, so maybe that's part of the disappointment.
Also, the concept art made it seem like there would be more "movement" in the plants and stuff but it's 99% static, so maybe that's part of the disappointment.
Uncle Lupe
Well-Known Member
Is the bio luminescence on the ground disappointing or on the floating miuntains?
Dizney Crew
Active Member
I would say on the ground, outside of the entrance to the land there isn't really any really any effect that grabs your attention. And even the so-called Bio luminescence ground looks just like glow in the dark paint splattered on a sidewalk with black lights shining on them. the "floating mountains" look better in person than in pics, in pics they just look like Big Rocks with Vines on them, in person, especially when standing underneath them, you get a cool floating effect that works.
The floating mountains just have purple lights on them and it's not very bright. The stuff on the ground is also just not very bright which I think is the big issue. When you watch the movie and even see the way things look in the river journey it's all so vibrant, as you would expect with CGI and using black lights and fluorescent paint. But outside somehow the effect just doesn't pop as you would expect it too. Everything seems very muted.
Who knows, maybe it's not done.
FoP is frickin amaze-balls by the way.
agreed on all accounts
Oddysey
Well-Known Member
This post mostly mirrors my thoughts. I enjoy the daytime more because one can really appreciate all the detail that was put into the land. Pandora is definitely worth seeing at night because of all the bioluminescent effects, but overall the area is very dark and it is difficult to appreciate the detail. To sum it up, in the daytime I was "wowed" by Pandora, and at night I thought it was "neat," but I was not similarly "wowed."
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Tom Morrow
Well-Known Member
Personally I think both night and day are great. You can see more details in the daytime, but I actually don't mind that the lighting is kind of dim - it made it feel like a true alien forest and not a theme park land designed for photographs. The floating islands should probably glow more though.
nelsonj3
Well-Known Member
I absolutely agree. I don't have a low light camera, and video that I took on my iPhone 6S (that takes outstanding video during the day) was so dark, it was almost pointless, and I can film in Tomorrowland at night with no issues with this phone. Not sure why they didn't do more with the lighting in Pandora. A huge missed opportunity, in my opinion.