Disney plans to create Avatar theme park

MOVIEGOERS pining for a return to the lush moon of Pandora in James Cameron’s film Avatar will finally get their chance — first-hand.

Walt Disney Co is teaming with the Oscar-winning director and News Corp unit Fox Filmed Entertainment to mimic the thriving green landscape depicted in the highest-grossing movie of all time in a section of its Orlando, Florida, theme park.

Under their agreement, Disney won exclusive global theme park rights to the “Avatar” franchise. It will begin building from 2013 and will eventually take Avatar “lands” beyond Orlando’s Disney World.