Originally Posted By Dabob2 <now it would be like looking at a crumpled Us Magazine at an orthodindist's waiting room by this point.> LOL! Great line!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 And the lame celebs they chose was, to me, the worst part of SSL. Had they not included them, I think it wouldn't have been hated so much (by most, anyway). I also didn't think it was all that bad - not great, certainly, but as a C-ticket okay; and I actually give them props for shooting for something different.
Originally Posted By debtee We really enjoyed Monster's Inc and are looking forward to visiting it again on our next trip! I really like the doors scene think it's fab, the wait area has been themed well too! Roz commented on me the first go around and I didn't think anything of it but on the second go around she pointed me out again and said really loud, YOU with the red hair in the first row, you have been here before! lol So we thought that was great! It's a cute ride and I don't think it's meant to be anything other then that....some people are hard to please!
Originally Posted By Nobody "Is there a petition to bring back the unused building yet? I'd sign that." That petition was deemed unnecessary due to the close proximity of the "Millionaire" building.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "That petition was deemed unnecessary due to the close proximity of the "Millionaire" building." Not to mention Hollywood & Dine!
Originally Posted By onlyme ^^^Thanks bud!! >>It's a cute ride and I don't think it's meant to be anything other then that....<< Exactly!!
Originally Posted By Aussie Obsession I'm with debtee as well. We were lucky to be there the week it opened (officially and unofficially), and we thought it was alright as well. Compare it to Pooh and it's right up there. But for bringing the movie to life and being entertaining, it does it's job well. I had a video going and Ros asked me to make sure I got her best side. What more could I ask for. I reckon some here need to go as often as us OS visitors go, and you'll start to appreciate the smaller things alot more.
Originally Posted By pitapan16 You left coasters can ship Monsters Inc out to Disney World any time you want. WDW visitors aren't as danged sophisticated as you guys and we would actually enjoy it I totally agree. I thought the ride was great. I love the atmosphere it puts you in and also enjoy the queue. It's not an E ticket but its a great C ticket for me. VERY fun!
Originally Posted By Hannibal 8 I read some of the posts and I think the DCA bashers are way wrong on this one (as usual). Monsters is exactly what it's supposed to be and what Walt envisioned a dark ride to be... a movie that you actually ride through scene by scene. The imerssion and scene changes are very good. You pass through the city streets, a sushi restaurant, the Monster Inc. locker room, a hazmat scene, and the door room. There is a very clever use of mirrors in the door room that would have made Marc Davis proud. Add to that you have some nice new tech things like Randall in the shower, the video doors, the color changing Randall. and of course the interactive Roz. I like the old Disney dark rides from my childhood too, but let's face it people... they are mostley flat sets and black lights. Monsters is a cut above and it does what it's supposed to do... Tell a simple story, scene by scene.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Onlyme, you got mail . Yeah, I LIKE Monsters Inc and I'm a 'stickahotpokerinmyeyebeforeyoudragmetoDCApeople' . But Monsters is fun, and it's SERIOUSLY add something that is missing to that place a REAL family ride, the most creative thing in the crappy place minus Soarin (and that's just a movie) AND it lasts longer than the 2 minutes than most of those rides do there. Seriously, it's one of those rides you ride everytime you enter the park (because at DCA, seriously, what else can you do???) SOOOORRRRY, the old DCA hate coming out of me. I been through therapy and I been a really good boy, really!!! Gotta go and take out my anger out about that park on my poker (therapist approved).
Originally Posted By knoxvelour I rode Monsters Inc for the first time on Saturday. I thought it was a good little ride. Not something I HAVE to go on each visit, but it makes a nice addition to DCA. A few more attractions like this and the park will really start to flesh out.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 "A good, solid "C" ticket" You know, since they're aren't ticket books anymore, is it really fair to judge rides as C or E tickets anymore? Since I no longer pay for each ride individually, why should I be asked to only expect "C-ticket" level quality from one ride and "E-ticket" level quality from another? Wouldn't it make more sense that people entering the parks will be judging all rides against all other rides equally?? Unless you're a big Disney fan, you won't know that Monsters is supposed to be a C-ticket and Pirates an E-ticket attraction. And come on, it's kind of embarassing that Disney of 2006 still builds these rides with such static characters when they clearly have the technology to do otherwise. It's one thing to leave an old ride the way it is, but to keep building new rides with technology from the 1950s is just sad. (Pooh is a really good example of this.) PS - For what it's worth, I did think Monsters INC was cute - I just think it could have been a lot better.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<And come on, it's kind of embarassing that Disney of 2006 still builds these rides with such static characters when they clearly have the technology to do otherwise.>> I totally disagree. Five 20 million dollar attractions will generally refresh a park better than one 100 million attraction will. If we wanted Disney to "hit one out of the park" every time they opened a new attraction we would probably not see more than one per decade. Besides... lately Disney seems to have done better with its C tickets than with its E tickets.
Originally Posted By BrigmanMT 2 I really enjoyed Monsters Inc. I just rode it for the second time on Wednesday. The only things I have against is the prementioned imaginationless queue (although it still ranks in DCA's top 5 best queues), the obvious reuse of animation from the film, and as put so well be Dabob, "But when you see the big Sully character "talking" and yet nothing moves, it detracts. It's less necessary in the FaL dark rides, where you're so close to the sets. In the more spacious Pooh and now Monsters, static characters are much more noticeable." Roz didn't do anything for me. She is an actual animatronic which is pretty cool, but I swear nobody even staffs that thing. I really think this attraction is leaps and bounds above SSL, and I am not one of those who likes seeing characters constantly added to the park. I feel that Monsters is second in DCA only to Soarin, Animation, and the Tower. It is on par with the 3-D films. It is a wonderful, imaginative family attraction, and it was exactly what DCA needed (at opening). Now if they could just up the atmosphere in every land and create an original Pirates of the Carribean calibur attraction that would get people flowing through the gates.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs My sister and I rode Monsters for the first time this past Labor Day, and we both liked it. The closest that I have come to it before was seeing videos of it at VisionsFantastic. I noticed that the AAs were done in the style of Pooh and the Fantasyland rides: they just move limbs and don't move their mouths when they "talk." Come to think of it, why are most dark rides like that anyway? Why couldn't they be actual AAs like in Splash, Country Bears, Matterhorn or Pirates? I never noticed that Roz interacts with you... hmmm... I'll have to pay more attention next time. I also enjoyed the Corridor of Doors, er, the door room and the door that featured actual film footage. Um, what's the hazmat room?
Originally Posted By Kayoss <<I noticed that the AAs were done in the style of Pooh and the Fantasyland rides: they just move limbs and don't move their mouths when they "talk." Come to think of it, why are most dark rides like that anyway? Why couldn't they be actual AAs like in Splash, Country Bears, Matterhorn or Pirates?>> LOL.... silly rabbit. AA's are for E TIckets (Although, happily, there are some big exceptions to this lately)
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara I've always enjoyed the Monsters Inc. ride. You have to understand that it is supposed to be a dark ride along the lines of those in Fantasyland--same static type of figures. Not an E-ticket, not a thrill ride, not Pirates, just a dark ride like those in Fantasyland. Not a park-saving mega ride. It's designed to appeal mostly to the younger set and it does. What's interesting is how much more technologically sophisticated the new Finding Nemo ride in Epcot is--yet it remains a Fantasyland style dark ride all the same. I bet kids enjoy both equally.
