Over the past few months we've been able
to give you a behind-the-scenes look
into some of the experiences that are
coming when we build The World of
Pandora. Today I want to look at some of
the inspiration behind the experiences
we're going to offer our guests
authenticity is important as business
animal kingdom's
because it's a real place and we want
you to feel that so when you come here
it's like you see the actual artisans
hands have touched things so we took a
research trip to Bali and Jakarta to
work with indigenous people they're
doing some of the creative weaving and
carving that the indigenous people on
pandora would do this sort of the idea
of natural growth coming I like
migration tells you it's old right hold
and Evan here a long time and we're
inspired not only by the culture but
you're there out with these different
people seeing different landscapes
architecture and that's what inspires
the designers and how can we translate
that back into Disney's Animal Kingdom
so it gives that inspiration to our
deaths as well one of the great things
about Disney's Animal Kingdom and the
world of Pandora is the amount of detail
in trying to bring that exact experience
to life making sure that our guests when
you walk into a space you get what it's
about you know everything about it -
every detail paving the landscape for
lighting it's all those layers that were
famous for and that's going to make the
difference and that's really what ties
the existing park to Royal Canberra
well I think thanks to Joe rotors his
philosophy about theme parks and theme
parks about telling the story this is
the opportunity for us to create the
most immersive storytelling of all where
people are actually to be transported to
Pandora and I think the whole design of
the park is in a lend itself to the open
esteemed experience because you're going
to be consumed on Pandora above the
sides and below so when we thought about
Pandora thought about this idea that you
are going to be unique of course coming
to town
or we wanted to create an organization a
story group that is going to sort of be
the facilitator of your business and so
we came up with eight alpha centauri
expeditions they are a tour company neko
tour company
there's eco tour companies all over
Earth right now they sort of act as both
the adventure facilitators as well as
sort of almost national park like
caretakers of this land that we're
coming to there are also other
characters around there are scientists
there are sort of x-pac characters that
have been there since the end of
conflicts and and love Pandora when the
land is going to be several large totems
probably about twenty feet tall they're
woven all different they'll represent
different plans of navi's we want to
remind the guests that it's all about
scale the animals are big people are big
fruits are big so that's a very fun part
of it to get across but that is just
part of the story because we've also got
the thick forests of again of alien
plants and again at night is going to
become completely by witnessing we also
then have rivers and streams and jungle
and mountains beyond the floating
mountains and so as you sort of make
your way up into those mounds to get to
our avatar Plato passes you are going to
be going up to like 25 feet saying with
the Navi River journey going to to go
out riding the canoe and through the
shaman you're going to go deep into the
force and work your way to this pick
forth it's just going to feel like
you're going on constant journey and
adventures as you're sort of wandering
around and discovering things and
getting ready to go on these experience
I think guests should take their time in
exploring this land because they'll be a
lot of hiddens has a lot of interactive
things that won't be have signage so you
just kind of cover them we want to be
explorers we don't want to dis explore
technology we want to explore ideology
we want to explore you know themes that
people can relate to because the theme
is what you leave the movie with to plot
you've even 50
we're bringing that same sense of indoor
that we're creating here there's
hopefully there'll be a takeaway theme
that everybody leaves with this is our
home
it's the animals home and if we don't
take care of it then we have nothing and
so animal kingdom is the place to
inspire people to take action