Walt Disney has announced that Animal Kingdom’s newest attraction “Pandora – The World of Avatar” will officially open on May 27.
The new attraction is based on the world from the Academy Award-winning movie “Avatar.”
The opening date was announcedduring the 2017 quarter one earnings call.
Guests will be able to walk under the floating mountains of Pandora for a “truly immersed experience.”
Walt Disney Imagineering senior vice president of creative Joe Rohde said in order to re-create the alien world almost everything, from hundreds of plants to the ride systems, are custom-designed.
“I was very skeptical that it was even physically possible to build the world of Pandora,” Rohde said. “This was a crazy thing to try to do.”
“Avatar” director James Cameron said in the video he has been blown away by the work on the new land.
“I know all the mechanics behind it all, the engineering,” Cameron said. “There’s just so much of it. It’s a world.”
Disney also announced that Star Wars land will open in 2019.
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