[longtermmemmory]

In their weakest park, they put up a fake eccology for politically correct nonsense. The LAST thing I want in a theme park is preachy environwakos.

AND there is an avatar sequel comming out. (hopefully pandora is mined out completely)

[God luvs America]

i was there in August and i didn’t find it preachy at all...rather they made suggestions and recommendations...

[equaviator]

It’s like one land of make-believe giving birth to another land of make-believe!

[kevkrom]

My first reaction was "'Dances With Smurfs'-Land? Yuck!"

But on further reflection, this might very well work. Avatar, for all of its flaws, was visually stunning and if Cameron and his crew work well with Imagineering, they could produce something amazing. Or not. But I'm betting on a positive outcome.

And if the ham-fisted preachiness of Avatar it can be toned down, it would fit very well in Animal Kingdom. Remember, the area this will go in was originally supposed to be a "fantasitc" (as in "fantasy") Beastly Kingdom, so it's not like it won't fit in with the original park design.

[Tax-chick]

I saw part of “Avatar” while we were on vacation. Ghastly.

[blueunicorn6]

Now there’s a good idea......Disney chasing after Universal Studios.
“OK...you’re imagineers....let’s hear your ideas.”
“We could have a series of films about a lesbian witch named Mary Porter and build a park just for that.”
“It’s a small world after all! It’s a small world after all! It’s a small world after all! It’s a small, small world!”

[Huskrrrr]

Pass.

[dead]

I was there when they called it “The Rainforest Cafe” and the food sucked.

[COBOL2Java]

Aw, I liked “Avatar”. Sure it’s got lefty messages, but to quote Freud, sometimes a movie is just a movie...

[COBOL2Java]

Aw, I liked “Avatar”. Sure it’s got lefty messages, but to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a movie is just a movie...

[TalonDJ]

there is an avatar sequel comming out. (hopefully pandora is mined out completely)

It should be the one where the miners smash a huge asteroid into the planet and then mine the shattered remains of the planet in the hard vacuum of space.

[Blue Ink]

Disney didn’t create “Star Wars” either, but “Star Tours” fits seamlessly into Tomorrowland, which is all about the human experience in an imaginary future.

“Avatar” doesn’t fit into the Disney universe at all, and certainly not Animal Kingdom. At the simplest level, those blue computer-generated creatures are neither animal nor human.

I’m guessing they’re being pressured to do something, even the wrong thing, to bring up attendance at that park. Curiosity will bring in the crowds once. Then ghost town. Same thing happened at Disney’s California Adventure — fans went once, then never went back.

How did they let “Harry Potter” slip through their fingers?

[kidd]

They're going to base an entire area on ONE movie and sequels that haven't been released?

Disney doesn't learn from its mistakes.

Anyone here familiar with the "Dick Tracey" debacle?

See: http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/20...n-part_11.html

"Well, everybody at the WDC was so much convinced it (the movie Dick Tracey) will be a big hit that Walt Disney Imagineering designed a fantastic Dick Tracy attraction, a whole park area (at DHS) in fact. An attraction where "Dick Tracy will recruit guests to shoot it out with gangsters bad guys"...

"It looked great, doesn't it? And not only the Dick Tracy Crime Stoppers attraction was envisioned for the Disney MGM Studios, but also for Disneyland, Anaheim for a whole new land: "Hollywoodland". And if you ask any imagineer who worked at WDI at that time and who had the luck to see the model, they will all tell you how great the attraction would have been.

Yes, but...the problem was that the box office of the movie didn't reached the WDC expectations, and, well, you know what kind of things happen when a "eagerly anticipated summer hit" finally is not that successful, don't you? That's right, all the plans were cancelled, and we're all still waiting for this Dick Tracy attraction..."

[kidd]

'Avatar' — a sad consolation prize for Disney

see: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/views/os-mike-thomas-disney-avatar-092211-20110921,0,5826653.column