Pandora – The World of Avatar Pandora – The World of Avatar Pandora – The World of "Avatar" is a themed area inspired by James Cameron's "Avatar". It is located within Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. Set a generation after the events of the "Avatar" films, the area is based upon the fictional exoplanetary moon, Pandora, and features Pandora's floating mountains, alien wildlife, and bioluminescent plants. Spanning , Pandora – The World of "Avatar" includes two major attractions, "Avatar" Flight of Passage and Na'vi River Journey, as well as retail and dining outlets. Disney
Avatar (2009 film) added that "the Na'vi represent something that is our higher selves, or our aspirational selves, what we would like to think we are" and that even though there are good humans within the film, the humans "represent what we know to be the parts of ourselves that are trashing our world and maybe condemning ourselves to a grim future". Cameron acknowledges that "Avatar" implicitly criticizes the United States' role in the Iraq War and the impersonal nature of mechanized warfare in general. In reference to the use of the term "shock and awe" in the film, Cameron said, "We know