THEME PARKS OBSESSED WITH FILM

When Disney announced that they’d bought the rights to “Avatarworld”, it set me on a nostalgia-laden trip to Universal Studios California, and the increasing realisation that most new theme park rides are based on blockbuster films. Does “The Big Dipper” no longer cut it? It seems not…

“It’ll be interesting to see what Disney and James Cameron come up with for Avatar, particularly when Cameron is promising “an unprecedented sense of reality”. That’s some log flume ride.”

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