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If this project actually gets built, I bet the budget will top $1B.
I'm a little confused as to why creating an artificial environment would be so difficult. I mean, lets just take my local museum for example. They do INCREDIBLE displays in the animal and dinosaur sections with fake plants and animatronic creatures. There's a rainforest section there that is just awesome - sure everything is fake, but they do it so well that it really feels authentic. Why, then, would it be so hard for a theme park to do something similar?
I don't understand the hate for 3D. Isn't Spiderman pretty much the #1 ride in the world? I don't hear you guys complaining about that, but God forbid James Cameron wants a ride . . .
And don't forget about Rainforest Cafe, T-Rex
I don't understand the hate for 3D. Isn't Spiderman pretty much the #1 ride in the world? I don't hear you guys complaining about that, but God forbid James Cameron wants a ride . . .
I dislike the fact that 3D is getting shoved down my throat lately.
Not hate for 3-D. Hate for the fact that the 3-D will more than likely be the focus of the ride. Spider-Man is Indiana Jones mixed with 3-D. And I would say FJ is the #1 ride in the world, due in large part to the physical set-pieces.
You are kidding, right?
I never said it's a theme park, I just said it's an example of successful artificial plant-life. What's so wrong with that?
Oh dear... I wasn't going to say anything but you people brought it up. When I was talking about fake dusty plants I was thinking of ET. Even the bark on the pine trees is dusty. It looks like a 20yo Natural History museum display. Add to this that I am a HUGE fan of the movie... much more so than Avatar. Yet I did find Avatar to be a brilliant and artistic cgi achievement.
Today I saw Doug from UP backstage and thought to myself why that might be and then an idea arose--UP as a surprise addition to the DAK expansion. There is absolutely no evidence for this at all, but allow me to dream. Imagine if the next continent was South America with UP as a flagship ride?
I think a couple of pages back (or maybe in a completely different AK thread) I suggested the 3-D Soarin' with an UP theme. James Cameron is after my lucky charms...
2015/2016 - AVATAR - Confirmed - (12/12/11) Stitch Kingdom has posted an interesting article about a new patent Disney has filed for detailing a new kind of attraction, officially titled as ‘Amusement Park Ride with Cable-Suspended Vehicles”. In a way, it kind of looks like a revamp of the old Konfrontation style ride concept at Universal, with the ability of the cabin to move through a real 3D space, while being able to control the altitude, pitch, roll and yaw of the rider cabin.The concept goes even further, suggesting that guests could be able control certain aspects of the ride’s movement, that could change the storyline or thrill level of the ride experience.
So just what ride may this really be for? There is some speculation that this could possibly be put to the test as an AVATAR based attraction, though given the timeline, I do have to wonder if it may have been dreamed up for something for the Shanghai park first.
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