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And so we've got Africa, we've got Pandora.

So, you know, the whole Avatar land, you know, We had Dinoland USA.

It is currently closed and being reimagined into Pueblo Esperanza.

And then we, of course, have Asia.

So definitely spend some time looking at those.

Whenever you go into Pandora, this is that bioluminescent, you know, rainforest with the floating mountains.

It's, it's, timeline is decades after the Avatar films.

But it's really quite beautiful whenever you're kind of entering into like the dusky time of night, whenever all of that bioluminescence really lights up.

And the question is this.

On a scale from one to five, how big a fan are you of Pixar, Marvel, and Avatar films by James Cameron? Hmm.

Because now that we know Disneyland has moved to Mar-a-Land in front of the Avatar project at DCA, you've got to wonder if answers to this question, Jim, is helping Disney make those decisions.

It's one thing to point to box office numbers and try and quantify the appeal of Avatar in the parks.

But what percent of the people going to the movies are also going to the Disney parks? and who want to see a Pandora land.

That's something that this question answers, that the box office numbers don't.

do you think? Yeah, I just, you know, look, you know, what's fascinating about this is, you know, you and I both went to this year's D23 Expo.

We stood in the Imagineering Pavilion.

So it's disingenuous, I think.

How do you feel like other films or even other studios or high profile examples that are on your mind like that do kind of highlight the spectacle? I guess I'm thinking about like Avatar, for instance.

Right.

That's obviously the other end of the spectrum that like this is a major technological achievement.

Well, James Gunn is busy with Man of Tomorrow, but James Gunn didn't step in and say, "I'll do it," right? And then also, David Ellison picked Steven Soderbergh, which is, who's a pretty liberal director.

And so I think, you know, that and the renewal of Avatar, you know, the, uh, the Airbender series, Seven Havens, it's making me feel that perhaps some of our fears about what David Ellison might do with the studio were, you know, uh, assumptions, and that perhaps Ellison at the end of the day does wanna just deliver good content with talent.

So if he can have a balance where you have some things like this, and then he wants to also do some of the more conservative-leaning or I guess you could say more middle-of-the-road-leaning content that could also maybe do well like Angel Studios, well, then maybe he will have a, a really strong best of both worlds.

So we'll see.

Wright says, wants to point out that Seven Havens two through four were already greenlit internally before Ellison, uh, and that a lot of it's already animated.

That's true, but he could've canceled it or not approved, like, the new series.

Um, you know, and there, I have to tell you, as a critic who votes in the Critics Choice Awards, they're pushing the Avatar: Aang movie to us very hard for Best Animated Feature.

So they're th- you know, the company is working hard on beha- behalf of that franchise.