Sounds cool. Only thing I wonder is why Disney thinks an alien race fits into a theme park designed around animal characters. Aliens = animals in the World of Disney. Walt, I miss you.
Ive been perusing the boards of the Disney Fan sites and boys are they up in arms! Mostly negative comments in the threads Ive read expressing the same sentiment about how this is Disney at all.
I have to disagree and I think this is a great move. Here are the best comments Ive seen so far:
When I first read this I went, "Huh?" with a lot of other people. And I get the negative comments. But even if you've never seen the movie or know the story, if Disney does this right, they could really have something.
First, James Cameron is a BIG thinker. In Disneyspeak, he likes to "plus" things. He uses technology to his strongest advantage in his films, and he definitely gets "immersion" into a place and time. And, big exclamation point, he likes to spend money to make things look good.
Second, Pandora fits perfectly in the original vision of mythical creatures in Animal Kingdom, and in the current park itself. Jungles, vistas, the beauty of nature, and adventure all exist in both AK and Cameron's world.
I can't think of a single attraction in any park, Disney or not, that plunks down a movie storyline verbatum in an attraction, so I don't understand the worry about violence. The POTC movies had throat-slittings, shootings, hangings, etc., and last I looked, the Pirates movies were proudly Disney, and none of those things turned up in the POTC attraction revamp.
I can see this idea having lots of possibilities. We skipped AK on our last trip, but hopefully this will be ambitious enough for us to spend a day there.
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