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I like Avatar. Quite a bit, actually. On occasion, I have been known to defend the film, at length, on this very website. I would drop everything to hang out at Disney’s Pandora theme park if I could. (Stupid job, stupid beloved child.) But even I struggle to justify four Avatar sequels, which is supposedly the number of new films in James Cameron’s epic sci-fi series that will be coming in the years ahead.

By sheer chance, last week I spent five days at Disney World with my son’s high school choir, at the same time that Animal Kingdom officially opened its new “Pandora - The World of Avatar” area. Our group was slated to go to Animal Kingdom on Memorial Day, and I was eager to see how Disney had turned James Cameron’s 2009 prog-rock/science-fiction/eco-propaganda experiment into a real-world habitat. So on the morning before our designated day, I opened up the “My Disney Experience” app on my phone to check out the wait times. About forty minutes after the park opened, the line for the “Na’vi River Journey” ride was already three hours long. And the wait for “Avatar Flight of Passage?” Four hours.

So long as you’re not bothered by the ruthless capitalistic spirit of six-dollar bottled water and don’t stumble into the clandestine torture facility concealed within the giant EPCOT globe, everyone loves Disney’s amusement parks. They earned the title of Happiest Place on Earth through a militant doctrine of mandated cheer, and with a new amusement park based on James Cameron’s unkillable sci-fi series Avatar opening soon, they’ll add the distinction of Trippiest Place on Earth to their pedigree. Today brings two brief sneak peeks at the facility set to open this summer, and it’s like you can already hear the hallucinating 20-year-olds begging to be let off the ride.

Big things are a-happenin’ over at Fox, per The Hollywood Reporter. The studio made a slew of scheduling changes on the night before Thanksgiving as a sort of special edition of a Friday dump. (That term refers to the PR practice of burying bad or otherwise uninteresting news on a Friday afternoon, when coverage will be minimal.) Big-name projects have all been shuffled around, and that’s all fully detailed below, but the most eye-catching item on Fox’s docket happens to be an unnamed project from James Cameron’s production company Lightstorm Entertainment.

International recording artists Avatar will be live at The District in September! Avatar is touring for their latest album "Feathers and Flesh" featuring their song "The Eagle Has Landed" heard right here on Planet Radio. They're taking their tour right here to Lafayette...

Avenged Sevenfold will play a brief mini-tour of the Midwest in September with support from Volbeat, Avatar and Killswitch Engage on select dates.

This past Sunday on The Grindhouse, we played the first single 'Stranded', off of Gojira's forthcoming album 'Magma' which is in stores this Friday. Get the full playlist from this past Sunday night below and watch the video for 'Stranded' here!

Avatar have the cure all for your video blues with their new clip for 'The Eagle Has Landed.'

Planet Radio welcomes Avatar to Sam's Place in Crowley, next Tuesday, February 2nd! Opening bands are September Mourning, Saint Diablo and The Other LA.

Were you one of the folks who made 'Avatar' the most successful movie EVER made??? Then luck is on your side. You no longer have to suffer from the post -avatar depression because Pandora is intangible. Disney will be building 'Avatar' themed rides at their parks around the world!!!