Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Lotion-View-1308.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Lotion: Test Track's Final Night</b></a> Pictures and video from Test Track's final night at Epcot on April 15th. Test Track is now closed for a major rethemeing and will reopen this Fall.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 It's going to be down a long time, I hope the new theme will be fun and exciting.
Originally Posted By Megara I liked the old version. Going past those cardboard cut out trees. But I guess its progress and lets hope its gonna be great !
Originally Posted By danyoung Excellent pics and video, especially knowing it's the last time we'll see it in that incarnation. Although I'm betting that the theming will change and not much else.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Uhhhh. We have to design our own vehicles in the "Chevy Design Center" before the ride? But I don't want a Chevy. And I'm on vacation. I don't want to work on vacation.
Originally Posted By macnak81 sure hope they really re-tool this boring, stagnate attraction. It would be nice to see some of the original audio-animatroinc scenes brought back, and mixed in. The inside is so poorly blocked and dressed, you can see the whole empty building during many scenes.Really cheapens the whole experience. Lots of potential. Hope its more than new paint.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn (sighhhh) Reminisce: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3TxLbX5rYM&feature=relmfu" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...e=relmfu</a>
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn and more... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi2MUrwX0C0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...MUrwX0C0</a>
Originally Posted By tonyanton There is so much more they could do with the enormous show building with the exisiting track and vehicles. Does anyone else hope that "just perhaps" the mess of an entry is streamlined as well (i.e. awning, multiple snack shops, etc.)
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn even better: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM2QAT_WjkE&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...=related</a>
Originally Posted By CDF2 A couple of questions: (1) Why refurb one of the two thrilling Epcot attractions over the busy summer months as opposed to the fall? (2) We are not talking about converting that huge show building into something like the Dinosaur ride where you have a bunch of smaller scenarios playing out are we? The idea of Test Track being a showcase for the process of designing and improving a vehicle seemed pretty interesting to me - yes there was a bit of a theatrical presentation with the Semi almost hitting the car on a simulated roadway but are they going to set up more of those obviously staged situations as opposed to showing how cars get tested on actual test tracks? Might some guests find it disturbing to experience a bunch of close calls in a car at an amusement park and then get flashbacks when they return home and face their couple of hours daily commute each day?
Originally Posted By sjhym333 My guess is that Disney decided that closing down for the summer with a five month rehab was a better option than being closed for the Christmas holiday. I would also say that the days when you can go to the parks in September and they would be virtually empty are long gone. So any rehab will affect many people.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros While I suspect that more guests total visit during the summer months than Christmas, the TestTrack ridership may be higher during Christmas. Since the ride shuts down during thunderstorms, that creates a whole lot of downtime in the late spring/summer months. If they knew they were going to need to close it anyway, maybe they just decided to do it in the part of the year that already has logistical headaches. That said, I really do wonder how much work they can do in 5 months. In 12 months, Space Mountain only got a few noticeable upgrades. DL's Buena Vista Street is being completed in 9 months, but may not be fully operational on opening day. 5 months just seems like an awfully short time to get a lot of big changes, so I'm a little confused on what to expect from the changes. I feel like, realistically, it will be some signage changes, maybe a queue update, new preshow and on-ride videos, and general freshening up, but it will probably remain largely the same; why else has there been no concept art?
Originally Posted By disney pete Always wondered why i never got to experience WOM and then seen the closing date we missed it as first visit wasnt untill april 97,really like Test Track but would have loved to ride World of motion thanks for the videos guys.
Originally Posted By CDF2 The whole Test Track conversion from WOM was a great example of a project gone wrong - Disney had all sorts of promotions running featuring Test Track before its announced opening date and ended up looking pretty foolish when the opening was delayed for an extended period. I remember this well because an engineer who worked for a company that was providing software to my company at the time expressed a huge amount of disappointment with the fact that he had scheduled his vacation time and booked a very expensive hotel package and non-refundable airfares for the supposed opening time for Test Track only to find out the opening was not going to take place a couple of months beforehand. Since that fiasco, Disney has been very careful about announcemts of when attractions will open.
Originally Posted By Bellella They better get cracking. Hopefully they won't re-theme it to Cars. So did General Motors allow the cars to run on gas or electric?
Originally Posted By tashajilek The theming does seem a little bit dated, so this will be a nice improvement. I have only been on TT a handful of times, so the next time i visit it will be nice to see some changes.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<I really do wonder how much work they can do in 5 months. In 12 months, Space Mountain only got a few noticeable upgrades. >> Different beasts entirely. Test Track is basically barren inside, so prefabbed theming and scenes just need to be shipped in. Space Mountain was almost all structural work, something that's not really necessary in Test Track, at least not to the same extent.
