Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Lotion-View-1328.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Lotion: Cars Land and Radiator Springs Racers at Disney California Adventure</b></a> Video and more than 150 pictures from the eagerly awaited Cars Land at Disney California Adventure including the new Radiator Springs Racers. Also includes interviews with Imagineers.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS Again, Doug, brilliant coverage as always. I enjoyed Cars Land completely! Lots of cones LOL. If I *had* to come up with one complaint about this area (which is very hard to do as it is super awesome)it would be that the individual cone snack shops are way too close together. Even in a limited crowd environment, I found the lines confusing and we weren't quite sure what line each person was in because of their close proximity to each other. The lines just kind of intertwined and felt squished.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn What a fantastic feat of Imagineering. Very very nice. I'd love for this to be repeated at Disney's Hollywood Studio in WDW. Rip out the studio tour & Catastrophe Canyon and place Carsland in its place!
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^Had the chance. WDW management said no. And anyway, I'd much rather see this not cloned. Give me something at the same level of care and scale, but with a different theme.
Originally Posted By xrayvision I can see installing a Journey to the Center of the Earth attraction at Disney World. But why would WDW fans want RSR when WDW already has Test Track? Saying that the new RSR needs to come to WDW, when RSR is a modified version of the Test Track ride that's already at WDW doesn't make sense to me. It just like Universal Orlando fans demanding that USH's new Transformers the Ride be added to USF when they have already have Spiderman the Ride (also recently updated), when both the movie and the ride (including the vehicles and track layout) for Spiderman and Transformers are almost identical to each other, just with different themes. If guests are saying that they want Test Track's theme to be converted to a Cars theme, complete with the RSR animatronics, then I get that. But, I don't get having both Test Track and RSR at the same resort. They're too similar to each other IMO.
Originally Posted By DlandDug ^^^--- I was thinking the same thing. (As Post #5.) If they did take Cars Land to WDW, they could come up with another "signature" attraction. ALthough, having ridden both TT and RSR, I find RSR far superior. Even the racing segment is much better. And the show inside the building... well... there's no comparison.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Eh, the "it's too similar to Test Track" argument isn't why i wouldn't want a clone. That's the least of my problems <<when both the movie and the ride (including the vehicles and track layout) for Spiderman and Transformers are almost identical to each other,>> Ugh. track layout for Spider-man and Transformers is almost nothing alike, nor is the video.
Originally Posted By xrayvision >>Ugh. track layout for Spider-man and Transformers is almost nothing alike, nor is the video.>> I'm sorry but I have to respectfully disagree with you on this point. The Transformers Ride looks like they took all the action points from Spiderman and recreated them, using the Transformers characters instead (from the first scene when the robot dog "jumps" onto the the front of the vehicle instead of Spiderman, to the "falling" sequence when you fall off of a skyscraper and plummet to the ground, until BumbleBee/Spiderman saves you). In between those two scenes, there are so many other action similarities between Transformers and Spiderman, like the time bomb vs burning pumpkin flying toward you and exploding as you enter the next room at the same point in both rides; a drive through a sewer in both rides; getting wet from hydroman/bad transformer in almost same point in the ride, etc. It would be easy for IOA to convert Spiderman to Transformers, if needed. A Transformers themed ride may not fit into a Marvel themed land, but that is also transformable as well.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Having ridden spider-man more times than I can count, yest there are 4-5 scenes that are similar. But they come at completely different times in the experiences, save for the fall, and the two track layouts are nothing a like.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA It's the same reason WDW management balks at bringing the "Indiana Jones" ride to the Walt Disney World resort. Same ride vehicle and the exact same track layout as 'Dinosaur.' I noticed it the first time I rode it.
Originally Posted By tashajilek Anyways, what do others think who have been to CL think of everything? 999 what did you think of the attractions?
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn RSR wouldn't be the same a Test Track, because it's Radiator Springs - not Chevy-Tron. I don't ride to enjoy the ride system. I ride because of the story. My Disney creed has always been: "When you're at Space Mountain, you're actually flying around in real space in real rockets... and it's FUN." But I agree with the point that Carsland would probably be best suited once and not twice. It's nice to have reasons to travel to Disneyland.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS Tash, I did love RSR, but it wasn't as fun to me as Mater's Junkyard Jamboree. Mom and I were giggling like little girls. I have mixed emotions about Luigi's - I think if I rode with someone who would actually lean it would have been more fun LOL
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS Tash, I did love RSR, but it wasn't as fun to me as Mater's Junkyard Jamboree. Mom and I were giggling like little girls. I have mixed emotions about Luigi's - I think if I rode with someone who would actually lean it would have been more fun LOL
Originally Posted By tashajilek Im glad that you enjoyed it. Im really looking forward to the junkyard jamboree.
Originally Posted By believe >>>>Tash, I did love RSR, but it wasn't as fun to me as Mater's Junkyard Jamboree. Mom and I were giggling like little girls.<<<< Kind of like me when I rode Indy and Roger Rabbit the first time on the same day. Roger was more fun.
Originally Posted By macnak81 Luigi's looks pretty boring for all of the 2 whole mins. People were just sitting there with their arms folded. Doesn't look nearly as fun as the original tommorowland saucers. Maybe the ride vehicles are just to damn big.
Originally Posted By Finch Fries When I went to the AP preview, I was reading elsewhere that the Flying Tires ride had a big "don't bother to ride it" label from various sources. When my mom and I watched it, we saw that not only people are confused how to make the tires move, but bored. We thought it was funny they threw in tons of gigantic beach balls to keep people pre-occupied. The people that were on-board with childen in the saucers barely moved. The ones that were full of adults and all moved in sync with the leaning were all able to move, but not at a fast speed. They removed the joysticks which made the tires spin in place, but it would've been a better idea to leave them in as a boredom buster. The ride and the line moves painfully slow. One other observation is I don't think the air pump things on the track really do anything other than plump up the skin around the tires. The beach balls barely moved up when they moved over the air hole areas. Hope they can get it right soon or it will be as empty as The Little Mermaid attraction.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I find post #18 extremely... puzzling. I have now experienced Luigi's three times. I have watched it several times. At no time have I ever seen people sitting around with arms folded, looking bored. I have seen people who were having trouble moving around. But generally, I have seen the tires moving smoothly across the surface, and in some cases picking up some pretty good speed. (I can get a tire going quite fast.) The beach balls are in constant motion, and sometimes fly up into the air. I think a legitimate argument against them is that some people spend more time trying to get the beach balls than they do getting around in the tires. The line does move terribly slowly, mostly due to the long process involved in unloading and loading the tires. (P.S. I have hardly ever seen the Little Mermaid attraction empty. The line is often quite short, because the attraction has a very high capacity.)
Originally Posted By DlandDug I find post #18 extremely... puzzling. I have now experienced Luigi's three times. I have watched it several times. At no time have I ever seen people sitting around with arms folded, looking bored. I have seen people who were having trouble moving around. But generally, I have seen the tires moving smoothly across the surface, and in some cases picking up some pretty good speed. (I can get a tire going quite fast.) The beach balls are in constant motion, and sometimes fly up into the air. I think a legitimate argument against them is that some people spend more time trying to get the beach balls than they do getting around in the tires. The line does move terribly slowly, mostly due to the long process involved in unloading and loading the tires. (P.S. I have hardly ever seen the Little Mermaid attraction empty. The line is often quite short, because the attraction has a very high capacity.)
