Theme parks are magical places. When you’re a kid, the magic feels quite real. When you’re an adult and can see behind the curtain a bit, it may feel less like magic, but the things that theme park designers like those at Walt Disney Imagineering can do are no less incredible. Sometimes, it’s by knowing how the incredible attractions at Disneyland and Walt Disney World work that you can really appreciate the creativity.

While I know a lot about how various attractions, lands and parks are created by Disney, there’s always something new to learn. Such was the case when I happened across an Instagram post from just_disneythings that revealed something about Pandora - The World of Avatar at Disney’s Animal Kingdom that I never realized: some of the waterfalls aren’t really waterfalls.

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