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Originally Posted By monorailblue Great pictures. Also, please note the logo very clearly says "Toy Story MIDWAY MANIA." Looks like another much maligned prognosticator is right yet again.
Originally Posted By BigJim89 Thanks, really exciting, sounds like a fun ride and a great way to start the DCA makeover. The more I see this ride the more I want to ride it. The Boo Peep game with the "water balloons" sounds and the Finale like fun and Mr. Potato Head looks really cool! One question: will the ride indpendently spin between games/scenes, and will there be physical sets during this part of the ride? On a side note I'm glad they decided to keep "Midway" in the name.
Originally Posted By RaiderMouse It looks awesome, but being a small world boat stopper lol,I wonder about those seat sizes.Is it me or do they look a little cramped?
Originally Posted By BigJim89 Crap, lots of grammar errors in my post. <<The Boo Peep game with the "water balloons" sounds and the Finale like fun and Mr. Potato Head looks really cool!>> The Bo Peep game and the Finale scene sound like fun. indpendently = independently Sorry, and thanks for the great update.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Wow...how many times can you say "magical" in 3 minutes? That was pretty amazing. I'm not sure if I am willing to buy the whole backstory of Andy getting the Midway Mania playset for his birthday and now he's gone thing, but it looks like it will be a fun attraction. The story just seems way too forced, and I would almost rather have the characters just thrown in there randomly than have such a clearly BS-ed backstory forced on us. I also like how they kept trying to beat around the bush to explain how exactly the shooters work, not ever really saying that they were all projections on a screen. "will the ride indpendently spin between games/scenes, and will there be physical sets during this part of the ride?" They will spin however they want to. I don't know if they will be programmed to have the same spin pattern or not, but they could spin in different directions, or even switch directions, if they wanted to. Although they travel in pairs, there isn't much interaction between the two. There will be physical sets (like vending carts and stuff as described in the video), but they won't be anything too fancy. From the various pictures I've seen online, I would expect something a step up from Mr Toad, but maybe not quite to the level of Alice, but the spinning should more than conceal the fact that the sets aren't detailed to the 9's. Overall, I really like what I'm seeing (with the exception of the awful Andy storyline), and it looks promising. For some reaon, I was really impressed and blown away by the general look of the site, especially in this picture: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2wsnz8" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/2wsnz8</a>
Originally Posted By BigJim89 Thanks Ferret, sounds like it will be a rather disorienting ride with the combined spinning and 3-D affects, hopefully not too many people will get sick.
Originally Posted By ArchtMig I for one welcome the backstory. Outside of Grizzly, not one thing at DCA had a backstory, frontstory, or any other reason to be other than it was some sort of ride or attraction plunked down into the wretched little park. And most of them didn't even have any themed queues, either. This is a tremendous improvement. And it even has real ceilings!
Originally Posted By kennect I am trying to figure out the seating question??? How many people per vehicle????
Originally Posted By ArchtMig I don't think the spinning will be severe. Nothing like roger rabbit or the tea cups. It's just a way for the front and backsides of each vehicle to turn to face each new game wall. Each time the thing stops, there will be identical game walls on either side of the pathway (sort of like the identical scenes on either side of the submarines) and each of the back-to-back riders will be shooting at identical games. The spinning aspect is really just a rotational ability of the conveyances to line up to each "midway booth" at each scene stop, and then to rotate back to centerline when the conveyances get back to the load/unload station.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Each "tram" consists of two of the small vehicles shown in the photos. Two people sit on each side of the vehicles, for a total of eight per tram. Note that there are four colors, two of each on each side. This enables each set of eight players to keep track of where they are shooting.
Originally Posted By ArchtMig Eight riders per vehicle, with each vehicle consisting of two linked carriages. The carriages are the rotating parts. Each carriage holds 4 people, 2 & 2 back to back. Therefore, when the carriages rotate to face the game walls, there will be 4 folks shooting at the scene on one side of the track, and sitting behind those will be 4 folks shooting at an identical scene on the other side of the track.
Originally Posted By kennect OK so TRAM is the keyword here???? They are going to have two of these hooked together???? Or am I just lost?
Originally Posted By ArchtMig Good point about the shooter colors. That way each person facing one way will be able to identify their own shots by color. Notice that the shooters in the front carriage are green & yellow only, and the colors in the rear carriage are red and blue only. That way there will always be red-green-yellow-blue facing one screen at a time no matter how the carriages rotate.
Originally Posted By ArchtMig If you prefer, the "tram" consists of two carriages hooked together. It works the same way as the two cabs hooked together at roger rabbit.
Originally Posted By kennect Sorry to say I haven't had the pleasure of the Roger Rabbit attraction so I am not familiar with the idea...But I think I get it now and it makes perfect sense....
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt I see fashion and grooming aren't high the priority list for Imagineers.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "That was pretty amazing. I'm not sure if I am willing to buy the whole backstory of Andy getting the Midway Mania playset for his birthday and now he's gone thing..." It was a bit much, wasn't it? No one will remember it or care after it opens.
Originally Posted By kennect Hans you are right fashion or grooming doesn't seem to play into the Imagineers bit...Funny, I thought the same thing...Who was that gal anyway??
