Na’vi translator available for Avatar land
Walt Disney World will sell a “Na’vi Translator” when it opens Pandora — The World of Avatar in May at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Visitors using the translator can learn how to pronounce 90 Na’vi words using interchangeable translation cards. The devices will also light up at night.
The “Avatar” land will depict Pandora, the mythical moon where the fictional Na’vi people live in the 2009 movie “Avatar.” The Na’vi Translator Device costs $19.99. It will come packaged with 15 translation cards. The device has a clasp that extends up to 12 inches and can be attached to a belt or backpack.
Additional translation cards will be sold in trading card packs, each containing eight randomly selected cards. Other cards will be sold in trading card packs for $6.99 each. Each pack will contain 8 randomly selected cards. There are 90 trading cards to collect.
Disney said when selecting words and phrases, creators thought about the most essential words necessary to explore another country here on this planet.
Disney merchandise product developer Cody Hampton partnered with Lightstorm Entertainment and Dr. Paul Frommer, creator of the Na’vi language for “Avatar,” to acquire audio recordings of spoken Na’vi words for the translator. has announced Experience Kissimmee as the winner of its 2017 Grassroots Travel Champion Award.
Experience Kissimmee president and CEO D. T. Minich was cited for his instrumental role in facilitating meetings for U.S. Travel representatives with staff from both 2016 presidential campaigns, among other things.
Minich also served as the “Travel ‘16” spokesperson in Florida, publishing an op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel encouraging the new administration and Congress to embrace travel-friendly policies.
Recently, Minich helped U.S. Travel organize Travel Talks roundtables with members of Congress and the local travel industry, including an upcoming meeting with Rep. Darren Soto (DFL).
Experience Kissimmee has also been a vocal supporter of Open Skies agreements, highlighting the impact important aviation agreements have on Central Florida.
“Our ‘Travel ‘16’ campaign in Florida would not have been nearly as successful without D.T. and his team,” said U.S. Travel President and CEO Roger Dow in a press release.
“Even after the general election, Experience Kissimmee continues to play an integral part in our efforts to promote travel priorities and build relationships with lawmakers in Florida, a state where more than 1.4 million people are employed by the travel industry.”
Frontier Airlines will launch its first-ever service to San Juan from Orlando and from Philadelphia, beginning June 11. Flights will run daily.
“Our network continues to expand in markets where people want to fly,” said Josh Flyr, the air- line’s vice president for network and revenue, in a press release. “And customers in these two new markets to Puerto Rico now have a new low cost option.”
“American Horror Story” is making a return engagement to Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights in 2017.
The FX television series will be featured in a new haunted house maze at this fall’s event at Universal Studios Florida. It will include three installments from the anthology.
Along the way, guests will encounter serial killer Bloody Face, the voodoo Queen of New Orleans Marie Laveau, Madame Delphine LaLaurie, Piggy Man, the grisly Polk family, the ghosts of the blood moon and more.
The first “AHS” house debuted at Halloween Horror Nights in 2016.
“Last year, ‘American Horror Story’ was the highest guest-rated haunted house in Halloween Horror Nights history — and we can’t wait to immerse our guests in allnew horrors from the show,” said Michael Aiello, senior director of entertainment creative for Universal Orlando, in a press release.
A new “American Horror Story” maze will also be installed at the Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Universal released no other details about its HHN27 mazes or other entertainment.
Halloween Horror Nights will run for 34 nights between Sept. 15 to Nov. 4. The park has not released its full list of ticket options for the event.