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[Tufino] It was a dream of mine
to come to Disney.

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About three years ago,
when I first came in to Animal Kingdom,

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they told me they're gonna be opening up
a new land, Pandora.

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"This land is gonna be
your guys's to maintain."

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You know, like, there's a lot of lights
out here, and we maintain all of it.

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When I first finally got to see it open,
I was like, "Whoa!" [chuckles]

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My name is Pablo Tufino.

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I'm a Computer Ride Show Technician
here at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

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We take care of all the lighting out here.

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It is a sense of pride that I take
in making sure that the land looks great.

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The change when Pandora goes
from day to night, it's amazing.

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Once it starts getting into nighttime, you
start seeing stuff just start lighting up.

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It's like, "Is this real?"
And it's kinda making that plant alive.

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When the park's completely clear,
it is amazing.

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Um, 'cause it is nice just to be able
to walk through the land, the main area,

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just to see how the area is lit up.

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Here, we do our testing for making sure
that our fixtures do work,

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making sure all the emitters,
like the LED, RGB, works properly,

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but the main idea for here
is what we do is we wanna make sure

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that we can actually
show all types of color.

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We wanna give that illusion
that, you know, when you're walking

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through Pandora at nighttime
you're actually seeing,

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or if you're touching something,
the lights start changing

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while you're kind of
seeing the atmosphere.

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There are too many lights
to count in Pandora.

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So, through here, what I like
to try to do, like, mostly every night,

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is walk the land just to make sure,
like, some of our lighting, it is on,

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but you get to see the, kind of,
the ground, the bioluminescence.

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This is the, kind of, the effect we want
to give the guests when they walk through.

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It's like, "Oh, okay."
It's like, "I'm walking through here

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and actually seeing and feeling, you know,
that... I'm in Pandora."

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A lot of what we try to look for
in the Pandoran plants,

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especially with our bladder polyp,

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how they start illuminating
like two different colors.

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Like, we have the green and the blue,

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but combined together
just illuminating through a fiber optic.

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It's not just only Pandora
that we end up taking care of,

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it's the other lands as well, like
Africa, Asia, DinoLand, Discovery Island.

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They all have their unique stories.

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We try to show those stories
through our lighting.

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It all comes together and basically
describes a story to the guests.

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And we're part of it to maintain it,

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to give them that same feeling
that we had when we first saw it.

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It's a huge responsibility,
and it's a good feeling.