Avatar experience announced for Disneyland in California

Feb 08, 2023 in "Disneyland Resort"

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Avatar experience announced for Disneyland

Posted: Wednesday February 8, 2023 5:48pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney CEO Bob Iger today revealed that an Avatar experience is coming to Disneyland Resort in California.

Avatar experience announced for Disneyland

Bob was speaking at the quarterly earnings result call and did not elaborate on the comment.

Iger's use of the word "experience" and not "attraction" should temper expectations. Early speculation suggests this new experience may go into the former Star Wars Launch Bay.

Avatar creator James Cameron revealed in December 2022 that he had spoken to Bob Iger about ideas to update the existing Avatar attraction at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Walt Disney World. News of an Avatar experience coming to Disneyland is therefore not surprising.

Avatar: The Way of Water recently crossed the $2 billion mark in worldwide revenue, one of only six movies to reach that mark.

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MistaDee6 days ago

Looks a bit like Jurassic World over at Universal Hollywood

Phroobar7 days ago

The new movie concept art looks amazing. That ride totally looks like Shanghai's Pirates.

britain8 days ago

Nice I guess, but that warrants news for the OCR?

DCBaker8 days ago

From OCR: Disney theme park chairperson Josh D’Amaro promised to deliver “something you haven’t seen yet” when the new Avatar themed land based on the sequels in the $5 billion action sci-fi film franchise debuts at Disney California Adventure. “We’re so excited about the future of the Disneyland resort, especially at Disney California Adventure, where we’re creating a new experience inspired by the ‘Avatar’ films — including something you haven’t seen yet,” D’Amaro said at D23 Brazil. D’Amaro made the comments over the weekend during D23 Brazil — a smaller version of the Disney fan event that took over the Anaheim Convention Center in August. https://www.ocregister.com/2024/11/13/disneyland-teases-avatar-land-at-d23-brazil/

chadwpalmOct 15, 2024

Isn't 9:45-10:00pm usually the busiest time of exiting for DL since so many people leave after the fireworks are over? At least on days they do the fireworks.

MistaDeeOct 15, 2024

Closing times is one thing Disney does significantly better than Universal in my experience. In terms of how many hours of stuff there is to do at DCA vs DL right now, it’s crazy to think that in 5 years (theoretically) DCA will add a new land and 5 new attractions. That does a lot to help close the gap between the two

truecoatOct 14, 2024

The monorail could be used since it is already in both parks and close to both locations.

BrianLoOct 14, 2024

They do have TDS and TDL closing at the same time. Granted the mass transit infrastructure is stronger and guests walk to the Maihama station versus take the monorail from TDS. I think DLR, with a functional eastern gateway, should have the infrastructure to divert everyone simultaneously. It’s probably a big reason they’ve wanted to do it for so long.

Disney IrishOct 14, 2024

I’m sure that was the (excuse) reason originally, but if they build out DCA, as is expected now, it’ll be hard to explain why it closes 2 hours early while its sister next door stays open later.

TysusOct 14, 2024

I wonder if DCA closing earlier, besides not being a real full day park, is if they want to manage how many people are leaving at the same time?

Disney IrishOct 14, 2024

Well with a few more things to do it would become a real full day park, so I’d be more shocked if it didn’t stay open as late as DL.

DarkMetroid567Oct 14, 2024

I will honestly be shocked and impressed if DCA ever routinely closes past 10. Disneyland is, as far as I’m aware, the only theme park in the world that routinely closes as late as it does.

DisneyAJOct 14, 2024

With the added capacity of the upcoming 4 attractions (hoping for 5 with a second for Avatar) it would be nice to get an 11pm close. Other than there being much less to do I’ve never really understood why DCA closes 2 hours before DL.