Avatar Flight of Passage | 4K POV Full Ride | Pandora: The World of AVATAR | Animal Kingdom

Avatar Flight of Passage | 4K POV Full Ride | Pandora: The World of AVATAR | Animal Kingdom Park
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Avatar Flight of Passage is a 3D flying simulator attraction within Pandora – The World of Avatar at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Set in the Avatar universe, the attraction allows guests to take flight on a native mountain Banshee and soar across the landscape of Pandora.

Work on Avatar Flight of Passage began in 2012 and involved staff from Walt Disney Imagineering, LEI (Lightstorm Entertainment Inc., co-founded by James Cameron), and Weta Digital. All of the footage in the ride is original, with Executive Producer Amy Jupiter revealing, "Everything you see in the attraction’s main show was original to this production. We were fortunate to be able to use the model and texture assets from the first film during our templating/visualization process. We were also able to use animation cycles for our [background] characters." Weta Digital provided the main ride film footage.

Ride experience
In the attraction's storyline, the humans and Na'vi are attempting to restore the banshee population to natural levels, after the mining tactics caused by the Resources Development Administration generations prior. Alpha Centauri Expeditions (ACE) has reactivated the avatar program through the Pandora Conservation Initiative as a method of conducting research, and allows guests to link with an avatar to fly on an Ikran (known as a "Banshee" by humans) to partake in the Na'vi's tribal coming-of-age tradition.

Set within the remains of a former Resources Development Administration facility, the attraction invites guests into the ACE lab where guests are linked to an "avatar" and fly aboard a banshee across the Valley of Mo'ara.

Disney's Animal Kingdom
Area Pandora – The World of Avatar
Coordinates 28.3554°N 81.5921°W
Coordinates: 28.3554°N 81.5921°W
Status Operating
Soft opening date May 26, 2017
Opening date May 27, 2017
General statistics
Attraction type 3D flying simulator
Designer Walt Disney Imagineering
Lightstorm Entertainment
Theme Avatar
Music James Horner
Simon Franglen
Duration 4.5 minutes
Height restriction 44 in (112 cm)
Audio-animatronics Yes
Virtual queue Lightning Lane available


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