Floating mountains in Avatar theme park

Filmmaker James Cameron has offered hints about a new Avatar theme park at Florida’s Walt Disney World, which will be ready by 2017.

“It’s going to have floating mountains. It’s pretty cool,” he said of ‘Pandora: The Land of Avatar’. Besides revealing the name of the park, Cameron discussed his ideas about how it will look at the Hero Complex Film Festival in Los Angeles recently.

“It’s a land within the park but a land is not just a ride. There will be several rides and a number of other attractions. It’s really just a place you will want to go and hang out,” the director said.

“Of course, it’s going to be gorgeous at night and they’re using every new trick, every new bit of technology that they’ve created.”

Construction for the park at Disney’s Animal Kingdom got underway in January 2014. The finished attraction will incorporate a water ride, a flying simulation and nighttime events.

Cameron, who has Avatar 2 due December 2016 and Avata r 3 scheduled for December 2017, also spoke about the technical accomplishment involved in constructing animatronic models of the film’s blue-skinned humanoids, the Na’vi.

“The animatronics for the Na’vi characters are going to be fantastic. For example, their early animatronics would use 12 axis of motion and I think the most they’ve ever done was 32 axis recently,” he recalled.

“I think they’re up to 64 now. So it promises to be remarkable. [Disney] really see it as a major, major attraction.” .