[Tufino] It was a dream of mine to come to Disney.
About three years ago, when I first came in to Animal Kingdom,
they told me they're gonna be opening up a new land, Pandora.
"This land is gonna be your guys's to maintain."
You know, like, there's a lot of lights out here, and we maintain all of it.
When I first finally got to see it open, I was like, "Whoa!" [chuckles]
My name is Pablo Tufino.
I'm a Computer Ride Show Technician here at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
We take care of all the lighting out here.
It is a sense of pride that I take in making sure that the land looks great.
The change when Pandora goes from day to night, it's amazing.
Once it starts getting into nighttime, you start seeing stuff just start lighting up.
It's like, "Is this real?" And it's kinda making that plant alive.
When the park's completely clear, it is amazing.
Um, 'cause it is nice just to be able to walk through the land, the main area,
just to see how the area is lit up.
Here, we do our testing for making sure that our fixtures do work,
making sure all the emitters, like the LED, RGB, works properly,
but the main idea for here is what we do is we wanna make sure
that we can actually show all types of color.
We wanna give that illusion that, you know, when you're walking
through Pandora at nighttime you're actually seeing,
or if you're touching something, the lights start changing
while you're kind of seeing the atmosphere.
There are too many lights to count in Pandora.
So, through here, what I like to try to do, like, mostly every night,
is walk the land just to make sure, like, some of our lighting, it is on,
but you get to see the, kind of, the ground, the bioluminescence.
This is the, kind of, the effect we want to give the guests when they walk through.
It's like, "Oh, okay." It's like, "I'm walking through here
and actually seeing and feeling, you know, that... I'm in Pandora."
A lot of what we try to look for in the Pandoran plants,
especially with our bladder polyp,
how they start illuminating like two different colors.
Like, we have the green and the blue,
but combined together just illuminating through a fiber optic.
It's not just only Pandora that we end up taking care of,
it's the other lands as well, like Africa, Asia, DinoLand, Discovery Island.
They all have their unique stories.
We try to show those stories through our lighting.
It all comes together and basically describes a story to the guests.
And we're part of it to maintain it,
to give them that same feeling that we had when we first saw it.
It's a huge responsibility, and it's a good feeling.