James Cameron's Avatar is being made into a collection of theme park attractions, as Disney snaps up the rights...
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The reason? Disney has announced that it’s going to set up an Avatarland-esque attraction at Disney World in Orlando (in the Animal Kingdom bit, apparently). The firm has snapped up the rights to do so from James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment, and the plan is to open a similar attraction in other Disney theme parks, too.
Construction work will begin in the next year or two, with the idea being to open the Avatar attraction in 2016.
Appreciating that Avatar is the biggest film of all time, by some distance, and appreciating too that there’s a pair of sequels on the way, this still all sounds a little odd.
It’s been a couple of years, after all, since Disney bought Marvel, and we would have thought that, were the firm to spend a few hundred million on a new attraction for its theme parks, that Marvel characters offered more possibilities. But then we don’t run theme parks for a living, to be fair.
Go on, then. Don’t let us down on this. Just what will Avatarland feature? Do your worst in the comments, below…
L.A. Times
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