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0:31 ‘Avatar’ Experience Coming to Disneyland Resort
1:57 Disneyland Monorail Closing for Refurbishment in March
2:19 Pirates of the Caribbean Boat Sinks at Disneyland, Guests Evacuated by Fire Department
4:13 Reopening Date Announced for Grizzly River Run at Disney California Adventure
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5:04 New Churro and Dole Whip Jars at Disneyland Resort
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5:52 Cell Phone Gets Run Over on Luigi’s Rollickin’ Roadsters, Starts Smoking & Shuts Down Cars Land Ride
7:23 Construction Walls Removed, Reopening Adventureland Pathway at Disneyland
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Could the avatar experience be going into innoventions?
The lithium batteries inside an iphone can spontaneously ignite when exposed to air
Love Tom's quips!
Finally we now know what Disneyland is doing with Tarzan's treehouse! They're going to turn it into the Avatar tree!! 🤣🤣🤣 Seriously though, I hope they don't do the river journey, that thing is severely underwhelming. Heck I hope they leave Avatar away from Disneyland (either park) as I can't see anyplace where it could fit in, maybe if they got ride of Autopia and put it in there it could be cool with the monorail going around trees and stuff and I personally would love Autopia to go away but I know quite a few people think nothing should change in Disneyland.
It has been a huge disaster.
Man an hour stuck in a "sinking" boat and by sinking it wasn't going any lower than it was there simply was water in the bottom of the boat. My complaint would have been "what took you so damn long to get us out" not what kind of compensation do I get, I think some cool Disney socks and lightning lane vouchers would have been cool personally … unless they excluded rides like Rise of the Resistance, Big Thunder Mountain, and Space Mountain then they'd be typical Disney cheapasses 🤣🤣 That said my wife and I were stuck on the Carousel of Progress at the Magic Kingdom for 45 minutes while the last skit just kept repeat over and over and over and over and over… and we got jack for that experience.
I may hate Six Flags for personal reasons, but I will say that Disney seems to have a lot more problems with boats flooding than Six Flags does. I mean, I went on Splash Mountain at Disneyland with my friend who used to work at Jet Stream at Magic Mountain, and he pointed out that our boat was taking on too much water (explaining the way flume rides are supposed to empty their vehicles) and actually had the Cast Members pull that boat from service after pretty much showing them the issue. Six Flags has a lot of problems, and believe me I have an extreme amount of dislike for them (Magic Mountain specifically) but it's always funny to hear the comparisons between Disney and them.
You know, they could probably set up a Colonel Quaritch's Shooting Gallery in the Tomorrowland Expo Center without too much trouble. 3D projector, some IR zappers, and blammo, there ya go. "Shoot that animal."
Tom trying to read slang and AAVE in a newscaster voice is hilarious.
Avatar experience = another water feature that takes 5 years to build.
Those are some serious typos hahahahaha
Hopefully Avatar saves the hate of Tainas Ingredient Adventure
Oh yes phones can smoke and even explode. Lithium is extremely energy dense and reactive in that manner. Not only can they do that, but the smoke is also extremely noxious and dangerous. When the Note 7 had its unfortunate rollout a clip showed a lady who'd passed out trying to collect her kids as the phone smoked.
Your funny, thanks for the updates
I would have been happy with $30 and some lighting lanes! PS I need that Dole Whip jar!
Avatar "experience" = Virtual Reality experience, meet and greet, photo opportunity, or walkthrough experience like in Singapore. Something simple and easy to put and use as they did with VR experiences for films. Not another ride due to not enough land nor money.
Wow the avatar phenomenon is huge
The Grizzly Riverdance joke was RIGHT THERE
Considering the lush rainforest environment at DAK's Pandora would be quite challenging to pull off in SoCal & Disney might want to keep it unique to DAK, I think they might take a different approach. As a HUGE Pandora fan, my hope is that they finally get rid of Autopia and Launch Bay and incorporate the Sub Lagoon to construct a mini-land built around the Metkaiyina village featured prominently in Way of Water & future sequels.
The tropical beach/mangrove/coral reef environment would be unique, easier to maintain in SoCal, would blend in nicely with the vibrant sub lagoon and ties directly into the future of Avatar films & you know Disney love that SYNERGY! James Cameron has also mentioned recently he has had conversations with Imagineering about updating Flight of Passage to incorporate environments from the upcoming films. I can only imagine Disney is quite frustrated with having the one representation of the spectacularly bioluminescent world of Pandora existing solely in a park that regularly closes at or before sundown. They're leaving a lot of money and capacity on the table. They have the potential to make something really unique and spectacular here at Disneyland. I hope they take it! However, my biggest question is: What is Pandora without Joe Rohde?
I see them transforming grizzly peak to pandora and replacing soarin with flight of passage and retheme the rapids ride and redwood creek trails to pandora as well
Where would they even have room for that?
"The Most Deadliest Place on Earth"
I predict the Avatar “experience” will be put in the Star Wars Launch Bay/Inoventions/America Sings/Carousel of Progress show building. All that is in there now is a Disney Visa Darth Vader met and greet.
the phone was crushed and the lithium battery was more than likely pierced, which ignites.
My sunglasses did fall off when I was on mater’s junkyard jamboree . But luckily they hit the wall and didn’t get on the ride like the phone.
Some are speculating that it might be a Avatar Themed Restaurant as well
NGL that intro song still slaps to this day.
They have a sock store in DD
Heck, when I was a kid, if the Small World boats would've started sinking, we would've thought it was cool!
How about using the 3 million in profits to make Pirates to match the superior ride in Shanghai.
Walk Ye PlanK! Pirates joins the ranks of Splash, small world, & Jungle Cruise in boats taking on some bromine. I'm dyin! We don't talk about fake churros & smoking phones. You know Disney was part Irish. I'll be having some Irish whiskey + wearing of the green that day.
They’d have to put it in Tomorrowland. There’s not enough room for an actual “Pandora,” but they could 100% put a single FOP theater in place of the old Carousel Theater. It would be a traveling exhibit similar to the Imagination Institute. Option 2: Nemo Subs replaced with Way of Water subs.
They better not replace a current attraction for this new avatar land
If they were 100% building a full Pandora land, Iger would shout from the rooftops that they will be building a Pandora land. If they were building a Pandora ride, he'd at least use the word "ride" and not "experience". He's the Prince of Announcing Things but he's also the King of Annihilating Budgets. This was all for the shareholders, who like to hear the business is expanding and being reminded that Disney is in league with the big movie that's out now. If this announcement were for the actual parkgoers, it would be far less nebulous.
Like the Princess and the Frog overlay. Big ol' announcement and then a whole bunch of suspicious silence. Then Lin-Manuel Miranda decided to blackmail Disney by announcing that he pitched an Encanto attraction, totally hinting that he'll have nothing to do with the company if this doesn't happen. (Why he's happy with this Treehouse makeover is another story.) Anika Noni Rose knows a baller when she sees one, so she announced a 2024 opening date for the retheme – not Summer 2024, not a specific month. I think she was just making sure IN PUBLIC Disney hasn't "forgotten". Remember, they already had concept art, so they easily could've just said she was right and moved on like they did the first time. Instead, they waited a month and I'm not sure they added anything extra. It felt to me like they had told her 2024, but had done little work on it, their specialty. To me, it felt like it had never left the concept stage and they needed a month to see if they could actually get it done by 2024. You may think I'm reading too much into this, but MK is getting only about a year and a half and DL is getting a year. When has a Disney park EVER taken just a year to do anything? This totally suggests some serious fast-tracking.
For this Pandora "experience" we don't even have concept art. Mmm-hmmm. The land is about 350,000 square feet. There's nowhere to put that in Anaheim! The Autopia + the Subs are 310k. The area north of Hollywood Blvd in DCA is about 185k. The parking lot behind Avengers Campus is about 165k. The conjoined ride building and façade alone is more than 140k.
So IF an attraction actually comes, it's only Flight of Passage, which looks like it's about 70k (can't tell where one ride begins and ends). The Sub lagoon is only about 65k and it just wouldn't fit with thematically between the Matterhorn and Tomorrowland. The Wonderbra area is 75k. It would fit and it's an area that the theming wouldn't fight its surroundings. BUT the only theming would really be the façade, and this was supposed to be the spot for Frozen Ever After. Disneyland needs that more than it needs Avatar.
Meanwhile, DCA desperately needs Flight of Passage. I always thought they'd retheme that to an Iron Man "suit-testing" ride. After the reception of Stark n Roller Coaster in Paris, they had to go back to the drawing board for the Avengers Campus E-Ticket. And now they actually have options, with the Guardians and Tron coasters getting good reviews. I think Tron could be forced in, but it's 80% about those visuals so it's most likely slotted for Tomorrowland, and it would fit if they dumped the Subs and moved the Autopia queue and station to the lagoon, opening up that area plus America Sings.
It's going to be a lot harder to deny Cosmic Rewind a spot in Avengers Campus now that it's gotten such rave reviews. You know Disney; if something is beloved then a cone goes everywhere. YOU get a Tower of Terror! And YOU get a Tower of Terror! Considering they've already got the Guardians in a ride, it would obviously need an Avengers retheme. I'm sure they could figure it out. Besides, if the Avengers Campus was better received, then maybe they could've shoved a small Pandora way back here. But the success of that land requires another E-Ticket.
Which leaves the northern half of Hollywood. Taking over the two theaters in the west – only 53k – wouldn't be enough. Squaring the southern edge of the 3d theater with the eastern edge of Millionaire only gets up to 65k. To get to 90k, and leaving Monsters alone, it would need to take over from the edge all of the square and a larger part of the theater building, leaving only façades along Hollywood Blvd. And that's still basically just the rude building and maybe that hangy tree thing. The only way they're making a "real" Pandora is to take everything north of Hollywood Blvd, saving the Hyperion but dumping Monsters. There have been plans in the past to build a dark ride behind the Incredicoaster, I don't know what that building holds now. I could see Disney moving it since it wouldn't be that expensive. That could include FoP, the two restaurants and a decent chunk of theming in front of all this.
That said, $$$! It'd be far cheaper to put a rethemed Cosmic Rewind in the back AND a rethemed Flight of Passage in the Disney Jr/Animation buildings, making Avengers Campus an actual thing. Most of the stuff in those buildings could easily move into the Millionaire building and maybe this land wouldn't be so sad.
Let's not kid ourselves though. "The Avatar Experience" is going into America Sings, and it's just Star Wars Launch Bay all over again. Both these park have gotten new lands in the past few years and Disneyland got another ride on top of it AND they're getting the Splash retheme. They're both done for awhile.
LOL!!! Imagine a place where animals can speak and humans can't spell.
LMAO Tom… cell phones are run by lithium batteries… like a Tesla but a lot smaller.
Avatar experience…..so store with over priced merch. Cool. That's all the Marvel experience is.
It will be an 'Avatar Experience' kiosk on Main Street. 🧐
Everyone can think back on these proof reading errors the next time you laugh at someone getting a college English degree…😶 instead send them a link for Disney employment!
No Avatar crap at Disneyland!!! Keep that crappy land and rides on the east coast!!
lol if they believed in avatar at all this would have been announced before the movie
I know thumbnail said attraction but I think it’s experience?
Oh. Oh, buddy. Anything that holds a charge of compressed energy can smoke. Batteries, capacitors, you name it. Physical alterations in that chemical process (like running over a battery that's storing energy) is a great way to trigger a chemical reaction and/or discharge.
I made trip to WDW back in 2016 and I am a so cal local, just happen to have the Great Movie Ride and the Three Caballeros both break down on my trip as I was riding. It was actually really great and loved the bts feeling I got (especially with GMR) I hope everyone on that pirates boat didn’t get to much a soggy bottom waiting!
"Made you walk the Plank!"
Clearly they terminated the signage editor-in-chief in the layoffs.
I can’t imagine the Pandora thing being anything sizeable. For one, I literally have no idea where they’d cram so much as a single ride, though to be fair I could’ve said the same about Runaway Railway. My guess is they’re gonna carve out some old buildings in Tomorrowland and stick a meet and greet, the big avatar in the tube, maybe that animatronic banshee from that one park in it. I doubt they’re getting anything cloned from WDW or anything too original.
Edit: Tom somehow missed all those videos of people’s phones blowing their pants pockets up back in like 2016? Lithium batteries are MAD flammable when slightly damaged, it’s why Teslas are a nightmare to put out during a wreck lol
My first thought was…. Retheme Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage to Avatar: World of the Seas.
Will it happen? Nah. But I can imagine it.