Floating mountain being put in place at Pandora – The World of Avatar

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We’ve been keeping an eye on the construction progress at Animal Kingdom’s newest land, Pandora – The World of Avatar. Today we took a trip out to find that a floating mountain was being put into place.

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The two yellow beams are being used to support the mountain, as we see in this picture from the parking lot.

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A closer look at the details on the mountain.

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It looks like Imagineers might be trying to use forced perspective with what appear to be trees on the top of the mountain.

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Here’s a look at how it relates in scale to the rest of what we can see of the project.

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A quick look at progress on other facade work. This work is to the left of the above picture.

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UPDATE: Another great photo from @ORLParkPass shows the scale of the above photo in relation to the project.

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Here’s what we can see from the parking lot.

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UPDATE: @ORLParkPass posted an aerial photo of the construction on Twitter. We’ve circled the floating mountain as seen from the air. The scale of this project is amazing!

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