Originally Posted By dixielandings found this on web today is this old news ?<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Rio_del_Tiempo" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E l_Rio_del_Tiempo</a> i guess its due a revamp
Originally Posted By dixielandings interesting, I cant find any thing else on adding the 3 caballeros to the river of time any one have any insite on this ?
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I don't doubt it but past experience has taught me to believe exactly 62.3% of what I read on Wikipedia.
Originally Posted By dixielandings thanks DVC im begining to wonder as well if it is goin to close for rehab or not . if so im gonna have to make a special trip and do a marathon farwell ride
Originally Posted By BlazesOfFire I heard this rumor a long time ago, but a "3 caballeros" theme would be unfitting. El Rio del Tiempo means "river of time" and when you go theough the ride it, at least at first, showcases Mexicos history. Maybe to put them where all the puppets are would be ok...
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech It's true. Not sure how much of it is going to involve the Caballeros, but I know they are at least appearing in animation form in the projection portion of the attraction. Eric Goldberg (animator of the Genie) is directing the animation and animating Panchito.
Originally Posted By dizneed >>The ride begins on a quiet river under an (artificial) evening sky. It passes a volcano, and continues on to scenes of native inhabitants. Next is a fireworks-filled night sky in modern-day Mexico City, and then views of Mexican beaches. The final scene is a movie of a Mexican shop, where sales people talk directly to the rider, and try to bargain with them.<< Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the beaches and sales people, movie, come before the fireworks filled sky?
Originally Posted By mickey_ring Though not always a consistent theory, but it seems like when an Epcot attraction changes or when characters are added to it, it means "loss of sponsorship". Did Mexico say Tiempo's Up?
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech Actually my guess would be that they may have got new sponsorship, and that dinero is suddenly being spent where it wasn't before. Just a guess though.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the beaches and sales people, movie, come before the fireworks filled sky?" No, the fireworks come before the sales people. Also, last time I was on it, they had turned off the sales person's dialogue. Maybe it was too stereotyped? I don't know, but I always thought it was kind of funny...it's less so without the talking. I've also heard about the makeover, but like anything Disney does, nothing is final until the attraction opens...
Originally Posted By dixielandings the full ride thru video shows the fireworks at the end <a href="http://www.wdwmagic.com/elriodel.htm" target="_blank">http://www.wdwmagic.com/elriod el.htm</a>
Originally Posted By Brian55nh Actually, the fireworks don't make their appearance until *after* all the movie stuff is viewed. They (the fireworks) appear in that last scene exploding overhead as those life-size marionettes dance round and round...
Originally Posted By TDLFAN 2nd to last actually. The last being seeing Auntie Clara trying for dear life to get out of the boat ahead of us.
Originally Posted By barboy If Disney willfully turned off the dialog on Rio for PC reasons then that is just wrong. I have been to Mexico countless times: Cancun, Puerta Vallarta, Tijuana, Mexico City, Cozumel, Guadalahara and Manzanillo. In tourist areas that is exactly how Mexican street and beach sales work. It is their culture and to turn off the dialog is a face slap to Mexicans.
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech How dare you, Barboy, probably a white person, tell the truth about Mexican people! Shame on you. Don't you know that's not allowed?!
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech Sorry, not trying to be racist- I should have clarified that my comment was meant more as a cultural one than a racial one.
