Pandora

The concept designs for Avatar Land at Disney World look incredible. Floating Pandora trees, bioluminescent plants, creatures everywhere, the entire blue Na’vi world rendered in full. The opening’s still years away—2014 at the earliest—but the designs are enough to imagine what it’ll actually feel like walking through those spaces.

I’ve always been drawn to immersive environments like that. You want to step inside them and stay there, exist in that logic for a while. Theme parks try to do it with physical space, but usually they’re thin when you get close. Something like Pandora could feel different though—close to actual transportation, stepping out of the real world into another one completely.

But if I’m being honest, if I could somehow take the whole thing once it opens, dismantle it completely, and haul it to some empty Earth-like planet, I would. Just rebuild it somewhere remote where no one else would ever find it. Keep the entire experience to myself. Live there, explore everything at my own pace, end up with one of those blue Na’vi and settle down, build a whole life in that world together. No tourists, no crowds, no schedules interrupting it. Just me and my private Pandora, and wherever that would lead.