Originally Posted By _PinCrazy_ One day I was just surfing the Internet when I came across a rumor that the original Rocket Rods were coming back to Disneyland. Does anyone know if they it's true or not?
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA We can only hope they don't... They pretty much sucked air the short time they existed in Disneyland.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss JMHO, I actually enjoyed the ride, especially sitting in the front seat at night. What sucked about RR was the engineering, and thus the reliability. The queue was a huge waste of space too.
Originally Posted By KCCHIEF Hey, I loved that ride....but the wait was always over 2 hours when I was in the park
Originally Posted By oc_dean Rocket Rods was doomed in the middle of construction when it's sponsor (GM) pulled out .. and the mini "Epcot" type pavilion got nixxed and imagineers were left with no money to do anything ... and were forced to create a lackluster "Waiting Room", essentially.
Originally Posted By GMLSKIS I absolutely loved the ride - bad thing was that it broke down all the time. I for one miss it.
Originally Posted By DlandDug So the Rocket Rods failed because the waiting room was boring. Noted. The rather expensive Rocket Rods vehicles were all destroyed some time ago. (I think an example or two may have been retained.) It is inconceivable that the money would be spent to recreate a failed attraction.
Originally Posted By Moon Waffle Rocket Rods were not a failure, nor were they unpopular. The constant long lines were a testament to that. Generally speaking, people liked them. They were simply an engineering nightmare, a fine example of cost cutting to the point where everything suffers. I honestly believe if they had been done correctly they would to this day be a very popular, successful attraction.
Originally Posted By jdub Loved, loved, LOVED that ride. If it could have actually stayed operational, I think it would be my favorite ride to this day. But being as how the engineering, as noted, did not work out--coming back seems to be a long shot.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>So the Rocket Rods failed because the waiting room was boring. noted<< I didn't have time to tackle every reason at that moment. okay?! >>Rocket Rods were not a failure, nor were they unpopular. The constant long lines were a testament to that.<< Dude, it had long lines because it was a low capacity attraction. The lower the capacity attraction .. the longer the lines become. Look at the difference with Peter Pan, a ride that can only hold 2 people at a time, vs. Pinnochio and Snow White with vehicles that hold 4 people each. And I'll give Rocket Rods this much ... The ride was NEW, and "newness" of rides always have longer lines in it's first year .. and begin to taper off (Monsters Inc. for instance). Rocket Rods never experienced a fall off .. because the ride didn't last long enough to know. Though the ride opened May 1998 with an "official" closure of Sept 2000. Which was 2 years and 3 months ... the ride broke down so many times. Sometimes as much as a month or more ... It's actual tenure is something more like a year and a half at best.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Rocket Rods were not a failure, nor were they unpopular. The constant long lines were a testament to that. Generally speaking, people liked them.> I didn't have the chance to do much guest polling back when the Rocket Rods were operating, so wouldn't know. For me, Rocket Rods sucked air. A high-speed ride on the PeopleMover track just doesn't work. You can't see anything, you can't really go fast enough to feel like it's fast, and it was annoyingly noisy. Didn't work for me.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 The Rocket Rods were an attempt to fit a square peg (the rods themselves, which were actually pretty cool) into a round hole (the existing peoplemover track). Like most such attempts to fit a square peg into a round hole, it didn't work. They'd have been much better off tearing down the PM track and creating a new track for the rods that worked WITH them specifically. Then they could have banked the turns, and created a true high-speed ride, even creating things like major changes in elevation in the autopia area. A true high-speed rods ride zipping around TL would have been fun to ride, and fun to watch from the ground. Instead, they took this square peg they had, and tried to...
Originally Posted By monorailblue <<Rocket Rods were not a failure, nor were they unpopular. The constant long lines were a testament to that. Generally speaking, people liked them.>> They were an abject failure, and had bales and bales of horrific Guest reaction. Good riddance.
Originally Posted By barboy Front seat... Night ride... 30 minute wait... YOU BET!!!! Back row..... Day ride..... 2 hr wait from technical difficulies.... NO WAY!!!
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Rode them once... Right before they went to Yesterland. Waited in line for about 1.5 hours... Actually thought the old Circlevision spot ('waiting room') was kinda cool. I liked the blueprints and old ride vehicles, but the film was too short for the time spent in there. The ride itself was kinda neat on a first (and only - as it was down for the rest of the time we were there) run, but overall we were left with the feeling of, "Is that it?" And ditto, Jim... The high-pitched, whirring noise was extremely annoying - on or off the ride.
