While you’re waiting for Pandora to open at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in 2017, a recently announced touring Avatar exhibition attraction may be enough to tide you over.
Global Experience Specialists (GES) announced yesterday a partnership with Twentieth Century Fox to develop and tour an exhibition based on James Cameron’s Avatar film franchise.
The state-of-the-art global touring exhibition, which will begin touring the globe in the fall of 2016, is inspired by the fictional world of Pandora first introduced in the record-breaking Avatar film.
Fox and GES are developing the interactive attraction in consultation with James Cameron and Jon Landau’s Lightstorm Entertainment.
“This unprecedented global exhibition will create a truly memorable experience for fans,” said Jeffrey Godsick, president of Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products. “Bringing the world of Pandora to life and comparing it to the wonders of our own planet, the Avatar exhibition will bring together immersive new storytelling and science in a tangible, engaging forum.”
The Avatar exhibition will include immersive, interactive displays that highlight Pandora, the alien world created by James Cameron, putting it in the context of science here on Earth — as a real place that can be studied and visited. The 10,000-square-foot exhibition will offer guests a dynamic 45-minute experience including a wide range of exciting explorations and captivating environments highlighting bioluminescence, connectivity among Pandora’s living things as well as its incredible and diverse flora and fauna.
“The world of Avatar made possible by James Cameron’s vision and ingenious technological advancements, fits perfectly with GES’ philosophy of storytelling through art and science,” said Steve Moster, president of GES and president and CEO of Viad. “We couldn’t be more excited to present Cameron’s world of Pandora to film fans, school groups and families around the world.”
Some of the things you’ll find inside of the exhibition include:
- An examination of the Alpha Centauri system, home to the fictional planet Polyphemus and its moon Pandora, that offers visitors a multimedia journey into the world’s discovery and the challenges of space travel to reach it from Earth.
- A Bioluminescent Theater, where visitors experience a recreation of Pandora at night and learn about its beauty, danger and the connections among the many organisms that inhabit the moon.
- An Amplified Mobility Platform suit for guests to step inside to experience the challenge of surviving on Pandora as a human.
- Na’vi culture depicted through careful reproductions to provide an in-depth look at these humanoid inhabitants and how their clans have created unique ways of connecting with nature.
- More than a dozen hands-on interactive components that will appeal to everyone from the most avid fan to newcomers to this compelling world.
The exhibition, although based on a fictional planet, has ties to reality: “By showcasing the science and wonder of Pandora, the exhibition will allow guests to better understand the beauty — and fragility — of our own planet Earth.”
The Avatar exhibit will tour to “multiple global markets” which will be announced at a later date.
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