'Avatar: The Way of Water' projection show is now playing on the Tree of Life at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Dec 12, 2022 in "The Tree of Life"

Tree of Life Awakens - 'Avatar: The Way of Water' projection show
Posted: Monday December 12, 2022 6:14pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney's Animal Kingdom debuted a new 'Avatar: The Way of Water' projection show on the park's Tree of Life centerpiece earlier this evening.


Avatar filmmakers Lightstorm Entertainment partnered with Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Live Entertainment on the new sequence.

The nearly 4-minute projection show on the Tree of Life takes place each evening from sunset, although there are no set performance times.

This new Tree of Life projection show will play for a limited time to celebrate the theatrical debut of 'Avatar: The Way of Water' on Friday, December 16, 2022.

Watch the video below to see the new 'Avatar: The Way of Water' Tree of Life Awakening. (4K YouTube)

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PrinceCharming617Dec 13, 2022

Looks nice, Avatar seems to fit Animal Kingdom more and more.

Disney AnalystDec 13, 2022

The projecting at the very end, of the water - really cool.

wdwmagicDec 12, 2022

AndyS2992Dec 11, 2022

He may have come up with it but it would have gone through focus groups and marketing before being selected and then approved, several other titles would have also been offered up as well. Anyway, a silly little joke people are taking far too literally is derailing the thread.

DKampyDec 11, 2022

Wrong again…Disney approved in allowing the sequel to happen(and who wouldn’t when the first was the biggest movie of all time) but Cameron gave Avatar the title

AndyS2992Dec 10, 2022

Disney would have had to approve it first

Prince-1Dec 10, 2022

Sorry you are totes wrong. James Cameron named it. Disney had nothing to do with it.

AndyS2992Dec 10, 2022

Okay, whilst not an imagineer, Disney owns 20th Century Fox, and therefore Disney did name it.

Cmdr_CrimsonDec 10, 2022

I see the title and I still think of..

Prince-1Dec 10, 2022

The name of the new movie is Avatar: The Way of Water. Disney had nothing to do with it.

AndyS2992Dec 10, 2022

Totes original name there.. Moana: Journey of Water.. Avatar: Way of Water.. Seems an imagineer at Disney has a fetish for water.

TouchdownDec 10, 2022

Not to mention Pandora has been part of the projection show since the beginning (predating Pandora itself by a few months.)

JoeCamelDec 10, 2022

Everest? Front or back side