--- title: Pandora: The World of Avatar Is One of the World’s Greatest Places 2018 description: Find out why Pandora: The World of Avatar in Bay Lake, Florida is on TIME’s 2018 list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places. canonical: https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366678/pandora-the-world-of-avatar-bay-lake-florida/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-22T21:20:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:26:33.490Z og:title: Pandora: The World of Avatar Is One of the World’s Greatest Places 2018 og:description: Find out why Pandora: The World of Avatar in Bay Lake, Florida is on TIME’s 2018 list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places. og:url: https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366678/pandora-the-world-of-avatar-bay-lake-florida/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9dedf08ec0d248e/698938548fd2ee842835c6ea/pandora-bay-lake-worlds-greatest-places-2018-07.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Pandora: The World of Avatar Is One of the World’s Greatest Places 2018 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pandora: The World of Avatar Is One of the World’s Greatest Places 2018 twitter:description: Find out why Pandora: The World of Avatar in Bay Lake, Florida is on TIME’s 2018 list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9dedf08ec0d248e/698938548fd2ee842835c6ea/pandora-bay-lake-worlds-greatest-places-2018-07.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 22, 2018 # Pandora: The World of Avatar Bay Lake, Florida by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  David Roark—Disney Just as James Cameron’s sci-fi epic _Avatar_ marked a new level of technological innovation for movies, so too is [Pandora: The World of Avatar](https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/destinations/animal-kingdom/pandora-world-of-avatar/ "undefined") reinventing the modern theme park. Among its other­worldly attractions: an animatronic character that’s “as lifelike as possible” and a botanical garden that glows with neon after sunset. The park’s flagship is Flight of Passage, a ride that combines 3-D projections and virtual reality to create the illusion that guests are flying atop a living, breathing mountain banshee (a creature that figures prominently in Cameron’s mythical universe). The park says it’s the highest-rated attraction at Walt Disney World, per guest surveys. _—Megan McCluskey_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366678/pandora-the-world-of-avatar-bay-lake-florida/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366678/pandora-the-world-of-avatar-bay-lake-florida/"},"headline":"Pandora: The World of Avatar","datePublished":"2018-08-22T21:20:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:26:33.490Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366678/pandora-the-world-of-avatar-bay-lake-florida/","keywords":["World's Greatest Places 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9dedf08ec0d248e/698938548fd2ee842835c6ea/pandora-bay-lake-worlds-greatest-places-2018-07.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9dedf08ec0d248e/698938548fd2ee842835c6ea/pandora-bay-lake-worlds-greatest-places-2018-07.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2018/5366678/pandora-the-world-of-avatar-bay-lake-florida/","name":"Pandora: The World of Avatar"}}]}] ```