AdvertisementInside Avatar, the Theme Park Version Disney tries to recreate Pandora, the world it depicted in the genre-defining 3-D film “Avatar.” Here’s how the company did it. That includes, of course, some of the most memorable touchstones: the floating mountains, the bioluminescent forests and the flying banshees. Image Sculpted mountains "float" throughout Pandora: The World of Avatar. Imagineers wanted to make Pandora seem like a real place, not a theme park, so they didn’t put up garish ride signs. Joe Rohde, a senior executive with Walt Disney Imagineering, said that it is one of the most advanced examples of robotics to be found on a theme park ride.

Source: New York Times July 31, 2017 14:15 UTC