Disney reaffirms Avatar will be coming to Animal Kingdom

After making an initial announcement that Disney and James Cameron would bring Avatar to Disney World, management at Disney has been mum.

Now maybe they wanted to focus on New Fantasyland. Maybe they had a change of heart when they purchased the Star Wars franchise. But fear not Pandora fans, this past week Disney has reaffirmed its commitment to Avatar in the Animal Kingdom, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

“We’ve gotten more excited about Avatar as we’ve gone through development. Because we are finding that really playing around with this notion of allowing guests to visit Pandora can be very magical,” Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs told the newspaper.

When it will open is still unknown. Avatar 2 and 3 are speculated to the filmed at the same time. Shooting has not even started, but director James Cameron said filming might start in 2013. So if Avatar 2 comes out at that time and Avatar 3 a year or two later, one would think that Disney would want to cash-in on the tie-ins.