James and his producing partner Jon Landau and their team at Lightstorm Entertainment will serve as creative consultants on the project and will work side-by-side with our Walt Disney Imagineers as we dream up experiences that will take our guests deep into worlds of AVATAR like never before. There are also two sequels to the record setting first film in the works, which will offer more fascinating stories, characters and locations to explore in the AVATAR universe. Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort is planned as the site of the first AVATAR-themed land with construction expected to begin by 2013.

We believe Disney’s Animal Kingdom is a great fit for this project because it was created to give guests the opportunity to experience the worlds of animals and nature – real and mythical – in new ways. Disney’s Animal Kingdom also celebrates adventure, living in harmony with nature and environmental stewardship – themes that are deeply rooted in the story of AVATAR.

To read more follow this link to the Disney Blog http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/09/avatar-coming-to-disney-parks/

Walk through the regular line, after entering the building, in the second room, on the second table there is a tin that looks like a Hidden Mickey was dented into it.

In the destroyed Tea Kettle, where the Yeti put two claws through it. The claw marks cause an indention and below it is a “smashed” part that is Mickey’s head.

Pictures:

• Expedition Everest Queue Line – Teapot
• Expedition Everest Queue Line – Teapot – MOUSEovers
• Expedition Everest Queue Line – Teapot Large
• Expedition Everest Queue Line – Teapot Large – MOUSEovers

The fourth park built at the resort, it opened on April 22, 1998. It is the first Disney theme park to be themed entirely around animal conservation, a philosophy once pioneered by Walt Disney himself.

Home to more than 1,700 animals from 250 species and sprawling across 500 acres of lush landscape, Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park is the largest animal-themed park in the world!

Kilimanjaro Safaris – Flamingo Island

There are so many animals to see this one might just slip by you. The island that the Flamingos sit on (Flamingo Island) in elephant country is shaped like a classic Mickey it is to the left of the ride vehicles.

Pictures:

• Flamingo Island Aerial – Can You Find Mickey?
• Flamingo Island Aerial – Ahhh There He Is
• Flamingo Island Close up – Where Is He?
• Flamingo Island Close up – MOUSEover To Help

In a aerial view of Mt. Everest in Asia, a classic mickey is formed by the tracks of the ride as the ears and Everest itself as Mickey’s head (the second image below shows this with overlay). You can check out more aerial views from Google Maps.

Pictures:

• Hidden Mickey without overlay
• Hidden Mickey with overlay

The male baby gibbon was born last week and has not been named. You can see baby, mom (Melaka) and the baby’s two sisters, Suki and Tuyen, in their habitat near Kali River Rapids.

White-cheeked gibbons, an endangered species, spend their lives in the tops of trees. They produce offspring about once every 2-3 years after 7 to 8 months of gestation. Infants have the ability to cling to their mothers immediately after birth, which allows females complete range of motion while moving about the forest with their offspring.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom participates in a gibbon Species Survival Plan program coordinated by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).