VIDEO - Drones surround the Tree of Life for special media event moment

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Thursday May 25, 2017 7:32am EDT · "The Tree of Life"

Last night at the Pandora - The World of Avatar media event, a special moment at the Tree of Life was created to celebrate the nighttime magic at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Hundreds of drones were flown to surround the canopy of the Tree of Life.

This is the second time that drones have been used at Walt Disney World, following from 'Starbright Holidays' drone show at Disney Springs. Although this new performance was a one-off for the media, Disney is known to be working on some advanced drone technology for use in nighttime spectaculars in the future.

Here is a look at the Tree of Life moment with drones.

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VIDEO - Drones surround the Tree of Life for special media event moment
What exactly are the drones supposed to add? I must have missed it.
↩ replying to DABIGCHEEZ
Fireflies over head. They're the natural world's version of faeries.
Just saw the Awakening for the first time the night of my Pandora preview. It was beautifully done...and a magical end to an evening in Pandora and rides on the nighttime safari and Everest. I've fallen in love with DAK at night, especially Harambee.
↩ replying to MisterPenguin
OK... not really needed though IMO.
I doubt we see it again (the drones), they gotta make everything all special for media days.
So does anyone know what's going on with the newly installed aerial tree "firefly" lighting around the park? The exit of Pandora (By FOTLK) had lasers shining up at some of the trees and the backside of the ToL they have both lasers and steady on yellowish lights in some of the trees.... It almost appears as they might not be fully finished installing them since it was only a few random trees?
↩ replying to mnelson3
Any pictures? I hadn't heard anything else about these.
↩ replying to cjkeating
I did not take any unfortunately. They must have been just installed since I have not seen them before. Also the back of the ToL now has projections with random moving animals... but I don't think the actual shows are taking place on the back yet, if they will at all.
It's curious that they can effortlessly control airborne drones, yet not floating lanterns.
↩ replying to mickhyperion
I may be wrong but I think the biggest issue they faced with the floating lanterns was the water current knocked them around to much and they couldn't control their direction along with the lotus and animal floats.
↩ replying to wdwmagic
anyone else getting a block on this due to copyright issues?
↩ replying to Stevek
Blocked for me in the US.
↩ replying to MisterPenguin
I'm in the US as well. Weird.
↩ replying to LAKid53
Too soon