There’s no doubt that last night’s Oscars is getting all the headlines today. When they flub the award for best picture that’ll kind of do that the next day. But I’d like to bring to your attention something that happened right before the Oscars. It came in the form of a commercial. Disney unveiled the first look at James Cameron’s Avatar theme park.
According to AV Club, the director’s promoted Pandora’s earthly construction since it was announced a few years ago, releasing artist renderings of its foliage and vegetation–which is what people primarily remember about the movie, and not, say, the tall blue people with penetrating ponytails. Now just two years after that video was shared, we have a commercial that marks the official opening of the theme park.
Here’s a look at the commercial.
However it doesn’t end there. There’s an extremely unsettling image of a female Na’vi that scared the living daylights out of viewers. The Na’vi actress is making super weird expressions between sentences and it caused a chain reaction on Twitter. Turns out that the character was merely an animatronic from the Pandora theme park but that’s not what viewers thought. Here are a few reactions:
I thought I understood true terror until I saw the animatronic abomination that is the Avatar alien in the #Oscars Disney World commercial
– Dane Praznikopolis (@Praznikopolis) February 27, 2017
The end of that Avatar Disney World ad is right out of my nightmares #Oscars
– Josh McLean (@RadioMcLean) February 27, 2017
Did anyone else scream in terror when that Avatar World commercial? #Oscars
– Obi Wan Kenobi (@jojounareal) February 27, 2017
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