Disney Announces Avatar Park, Disney Fandom Loses It's S**t

Let's hope it's replete with poisonous gas and oxygen masks are a requirement for entrance. Authenticity!

Edit: it would have been a good idea to submit this as a scoop. Posting movie news is against the rules, FYI

Just let me blast some Na'vi with machine guns... and consider my ticket bought!

Seeya, "It's Tough to be a Bug" 3D.

 

Make way for AVATAR under the tree of life

 

Seems like a good business decision to me.

 

This will fail, as Avatar has little staying power.  Less people talk about it nowadays than Titanic (yeah, I know, this one's gonna shove us some sequels) and less people talk about that than numerous genre franchises that have never even made the transition to dedicated sections of theme parks, much less a park of their own.  Plus, as bigbigbig as the movie was it's way too narrow in scope for a whole day's worth of rides, (gasp)shows, events, food, etc. - they might as well make Gotham City, New Detroit, Elm Street, USA, or Kashyyykland.  Heck, they might as well make a Pirates of the Caribbean theme park.  Or one with giant ants and ball-shatteringly bad CGI that emerges from flat surfaces called Them Park.

 

If Disney seriously wants a theme park property with a chance to be wildly successful they need to look at the Warcraft properties.

Eh, I'm all kinds of Avatar'd out.  No thanks.

I went to Disney Land when I was 7, and IMHO they should expand TEMPLE OF THE FORBIDDEN EYE to include new areas and adventures. That ride was one of the most profound expiences I've ever endured (covered my eyes for half of it), and when you read about the tech behind it (10000 possible iterations of the same ride, generated at random), it's doubly astounding

No offense to Comrade Cameron, but IMHO we need more INDIANA JONES rides, not more AVATAR. For everything I like about that movie, the Navi really are not part of that. IMHO they are kind of lame

Give people the option to kill Na'vi and I PROMISE YOU... this will make so much money.

Who cares?

 

The film made its mark (obviously to many Geeks chagrin) and will get some sort of ride attraction thing happening.

 

Who cares did someone bemoan Terminator 3D as well back in the day?

I wish I'd seen T3D. I have this feeling that was the moment when the 3D revolution was born, when Cameron climbed up on the table and told the world that entertainment as we knew it would soon pass into history, and a new age of immersion was imminent. Everything I've read about it sounds like it was built for exclusively that purpose, to blur the line between cinema and sensory reality till they were one in the same

Yet I've never even seen the footage Furlong and Arnold shot, I am sad to report

As far as Cameron's new venture, this AVATAR ride, it's fine, it makes sense as a business move, it just bothers me that stuff like the original 20 000 LEAGUES sub ride, the WATERWORLD stunt show, the Dino De Laurentiis inspired Kong Tram, the ALIENS experience, all that cool stuff is gone without me having lived it first hand, and of the few movie rides we do get in this day and age, this one is based on a property for which the prospect of a ride seems decidedly... ho hum (IMHO)

PS I did go on the BACK TO THE FUTURE ride 7 times in a row with my dad right as UNIVERSAL was closing. A magical night..

T3D was kind of lackluster. This is coming from someone who loved Terminator 2 way back when (Maturity has brought more to Part 1).

 

20000 Leagues sub ride sucked. Waterworld was pretty good but I remember the A-Team stunt show being better (never saw Miami Vice one).

 

Loved the Kong tram hanger and was sad that it burned down. The King Kong 3D is epic though and amazing. People actually applauded myself included (I was shocked it was like my body reacted before my mind did).

 

Missed the Aliens experience sadly. A trip to Pandora is escapism as was that film as Nick's old review points out its Burroughs filtered through the weird tribal/industrial battle bubble.

Give guys the option to fuck Princess Monona'vi and it'll make even more.

I told my girlfriend last weekend at Disneyland that they needed some sort of "Avatar" ride. Imagine my surprise when this news broke.