Originally Posted By Skellington88 You know the Little Mermaid Dark Ride that is a feature in the dvd? Tony Baxter says the ride may get built if WDI gets enough letters from fans. Here is the WDI address: 1401 Flower St. Glendale, California, 91221 USA So remember if you want to see the Little Mermaid ride built just write Imagineering a letter expressing how you feel. I know I will.
Originally Posted By Nobody Actually, for once this is CONFIRMED!!! I think we can all guarantee that this ride may get built. Of course, this also means that it may not get built. If it turns out that the outcome is not one of the above options, I may give each of you a dollar. ;-)
Originally Posted By Skellington88 This was CONFIRMED from Tony Baxter the guy who designed some little known rides for Disneyland including Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Star Tours, and Indiana Jones adventure.
Originally Posted By Skellington88 This was CONFIRMED from Tony Baxter the guy who designed some little known rides for Disneyland including Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Star Tours, and Indiana Jones adventure.
Originally Posted By woody Doesn't the carousel in DCA count? I think it does. Thumbs down on the Little Mermaid Ride. I already think Disney ruined DCA with too many "Bugs" rides.... a 3-D movie, bumper cars, slow and short train, a barely operable Lady Bug spinner, and the tall kiddie spinner. No more sameness.
Originally Posted By Skellington88 uhh...the Little Mermaid dark ride would be an AA filled e-ticket extravaganza that would rival any dark ride in tokyo. They are probably going to bulldoze all of those DCA rides you mentioned in the next 5 years anyway. Little Mermaid can go in DCA's Pier OR Disneyland's Fantasyland (Motorboat area is looking for a new attraction...)
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>This was CONFIRMED from Tony Baxter<< Hey Skel .. buddy.... he also ~confirmed~ Dumbo Circus and Discovery Bay around 1980. He's just an imagineer .. with people above him making the "yes" or "no" decisions.
Originally Posted By oc_dean I would like it if Imagineering gave him final word on many things .. but that just isn't the case.
Originally Posted By LindsayC <uhh...the Little Mermaid dark ride would be an AA filled e-ticket extravaganza that would rival any dark ride in tokyo. They are probably going to bulldoze all of those DCA rides you mentioned in the next 5 years anyway.> Actually the ride wasn‘t to be full of Audio-Animatronics - we recently interviewed Tony about the project for the next issue of Tales from the Laughing Place (and we were given some superb model shots) Tony talked about what BV wanted to do when creating the ride thru: “They also wanted to fully animate the characters but I wanted to go back to the way it would have been in ’92 as it was in the vein of traditional cycle animation of our dark rides without fully functioning Audio-Animatronics©.â€
Originally Posted By Skellington88 Well it would still have more AA's then most of the rides being built in the stateside parks now adays!
Originally Posted By woody >>Actually the ride wasn‘t to be full of Audio-Animatronics<< Sounds like it might be Nemo II. Yuk!!!
Originally Posted By Skellington88 Woody let me assure you that the Little Mermaid ride totally puts the nemo ride to shame. It would be like comparing Splash Mountain to Stitch's great escape or Winni the Pooh.
Originally Posted By bean Peter Pan, a traditionally built dark ride has 3dimensional figures that are not fully animated yet it is the most popular dark ride in Disneyland. One thing that wouldhad made this Little Mermaid attraction is the dual view of both the upper level of the dark ride while riding the bottom level. It would have really given the illusion of being underwater. The fiber optic ripple effects and the lazer effects to create the water surface would have definately have been a wow factor. Imagine what could be done after more than a decade of improved technology
Originally Posted By ChiMike I agree Bean. This concept would only be improved considering the technology available today. I thought the setups for what was proposed was very interesting. And I thought the 2 dimensional characters were more than sufficient.
Originally Posted By bean I think another plus for the attraction is its ride system. One of the reasons which i feel make Peter Pan unique. WDI had been working on a new ride system which was rumored once to be used for a Monsters inc attraction i am sure it would be much smoother and believable than the 50 year old track in Peter Pan.
Originally Posted By ChiMike Yes I remember that. Didn't it have an "X" type restraint. Not sure if it would mesh with a family Little Mermaid ride, but I agree I would like to see WDI in the future try to adopt something like that into a managable-capacity attraction.
