Originally Posted By Admin This topic is for Discussion of: <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Blogs/Doobie/View-82.asp" target="_blank">7/19/07 The Attractions Only I Dislike</a>
Originally Posted By disbiz It has to be The Alien Encounter ride in tomorrowland at WDW. I can't believe they dumped more cash into the ride and took out the alien and replaced it with Stitch...
Originally Posted By TongaToast Test Track in Epcot. Years of promise and hype and technical problems and delays. For a car that goes almost as fast as you go on the highway? I think the real kicker for me is the part where you ride through the "intense heat". Really? I was just outside in a hot, humid Orlando day and I am supposed to be impressed by "intense heat" testing on the car? I have to say though, I do love Buzz Lightyear. I grew up in the video game generation and there is nothing more satisfying than getting a higher score than my big brother.
Originally Posted By TongaToast I just saw the other thread for Test Track. So I am certainly not the only one! Give me a flume ride any day.
Originally Posted By karlg Journey Into Imagination (the original) - I disagree on this one, I loved particularly the beginning of the original Journey. I like the way the Dreamfinder follows along with each car as a ride concept. The second part was weak. They ¡§improved it¡¨ by taking out the only really good part of the attraction. Main Street Electrical Parade I¡¦m 100% in agreement with Doobie. I went to DL a number of times in the early 1990¡¦s and MSEP was definitely played out. I mean it was a moving Christmas lights parade. It was ok but definitely it was past its prime. Then came 1996 and it was madness with it going away. After the failure of Light Magic, began they began the tradition of ¡§taking things out without replacement.¡¨ Buzz Lightyear Another agreement. I consider Buzz a nice makeover of an attraction. I find the shooting gallery pointless as the guns are hard to aim and the bonuses are ridiculous. Wishes Another agreement - While I like wishes, I LOVED Believe. Wishes is bigger and more presumptuous, but Believe had heart and touched my emotions. Pirates of the Caribbean Doobie is entitled to his opening even when he is wrong ƒº I still remember my first time on Pirates, I had seen it introduced on TV in 1966 but did not get to ride it until 1972 and I was very impressed particularly by the size and scope of the first battle scene. Sleeping Beauty Castle I like both DL and WDW in their own way. Bigger is not always better. To me it is a bit like Wishes versus Believe fireworks.
Originally Posted By BrooklynsMom Maybe I'm the only one, but I love Wishes! I love the soundtrack and like the message of you can never run out of wishes. As far as Test Track I can not agree more. It is the biggest waste of a line. Now, the original Alien Encounter, I'm talking when it first came out, was scary. It was pitch black in there and the effects were great. I guess it was too scary because the next month, it was no longer in the pitch black and the effects were much weaker. Now with Stitch, it is pretty pitiful. Buzz Lightyear is a great ride for families. My sisters and I love to compete against each other and my 3 1/2 year old nephew rode it about a million times and couldn't get enough. For what it is, I like it.
Originally Posted By BluemoonT I agree with Doobie on Pirates. I almost fall asleep spend time yawning through the attraction. But oh wow as a child on my first visit to Disneyland, Pirates was spectacular. Love the Pirate movies. Indian Jones is the one everyone loves but me. If I wanted to go off roding, I'd do it for real. Great que, great special effects, but to bumpy and jerky for me. And Doobie you forgot, Disneyland is THE ORIGINAL, so Sleeping Beauty's Castle is quite a sight looking down Main Street if you think nothing like that existed before 1955.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Have to agree with Test Track. I mean, it's okay, but it doesn't live up to its concept. The idea that you're in a car being subjected to a car's "torture tests" is a good one, but in execution it never really feels like that. And while the finale outside is kinda fun, I almost wish they'd put the speed in kilometers per hour only... it wouldn't be so obvious that "wow, I'm doing 70. Like I do on the freeway all the time." I'll always fastpass TT and do it if I'm at EPCOT, but considering the build-up and the concept, I always found it disappointing.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Why stop at a single ride or attraction. How about an entire park? Can we loose California Adventure.
Originally Posted By Doobie That doesn't really address this topic - things most people like but you don't. A list of things a lot of people dislike - that's much easier. Doobie.
Originally Posted By Doobie Just thought of one more - Mr. Toad's Wile Ride, my least favorite of all the Fantasyland dark rides. Having absolutely no familiarity with the original story is probably a factor. Doobie.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf Yeah, but Mr. Toad gives you the ability to go to hell and back - that's what I call a magical experience.
Originally Posted By u k fan The Haunted Mansion or Phantom Manor at my "home" park DLP. Pretty much everything Doobie said about POTC is how I feel about HM. I'm not really a fan of Haunted Houses in any medium. I just don't get the point. I do like the music when it's played slow and menacing, but the version sung by the busts does nothing for me. I appreciate it as the piece of imagineering that it is, but that's as far as it goes. The other one for me is Motors Action at WDSP/MGM. It's fine, but that's it. For me it lacks the human interest of The Indy Show and just leaves me cold. I never feel a sense of real danger and it doesn't hold up to repeated viewings IMHO!!!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Just thought of one more - Mr. Toad's Wile Ride, my least favorite of all the Fantasyland dark rides. Having absolutely no familiarity with the original story is probably a factor.. Get thee to a video store, dude! (Or Netflix). The 35 minute Toad half of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is really delightful.
Originally Posted By doombuggy The Whoopi movie at DCA. What a 20min sleeping pill that thing is. As a kid I loved Mr.Toad for years then I got to see the cartoon and was bummed cause the hell part was not in it. So now it's like "what has this got to do with it?"
Originally Posted By monorailblue ^^^ Doesn't apply, because everyone who's anyone hates the Whoopie show.
Originally Posted By karlg Regarding Post #13 I agree about the Motor's Stunt Show, at least what I saw at Disney-MGM. I understand that it is now a cut down version, but that is what I saw. It felt like for the first half of the show they just spun the cars in circles; my understanding is that they cut one or more jumps. I was really looking forward to it at WDW and I found it a pretty lame show. As for DLP, it has been many years since I saw it (it was still called EuroDisney), but from what I remember I liked the HM/Phantom Manor. I was, however, unimpressed by Pirates in Paris. Maybe I was just confused by the change in sequence and I only had time to go on it once (I was there on a business trip and only could go on one Sunday), but I had read all kinds of things about how much better it was and I didn't feel that way.
Originally Posted By dresswhites i agree with pirates. don't get me wrong, i love the grand scale of the attraction. it truly is one of the most impressive theme park attractions anywhere. However, about halfway through, usually at the mayor or sometimes past the bride auction, i start getting a little bored. not sure why. Main Street Electrical parade in it final years was pretty boring. it is very boring and dated at DCA. i much prefered the Mulan parade and pararde of dreams to main street electrical parade. (i do like that part of the main street electrical parade is a part of Remember. )
Originally Posted By karlg I would put the new Nemo Subs high this list of attractions others like but I don't. I think after the newness wears off, it will settle in as just a so-so attraction. While something is better than nothing and the moving subs do add to the overall atmosphere, I think it is was a bad choice to bring them back the way the did. My problems with the Nemo Subs include: 1. Poor capacity resulting in long lines regardless of the popularity. 2. The subs are too restrictive in the views. You almost might as well be looking at a TV screen. Unlike most other attractions such as Pirates, IJ, HM, etc. where the action is all around you, the sub windows give you tunnel vision so that you only see a limits view of what is directly in front of you. Furthermore the sub forces them to duplicate everything on both sides of the sub; with a better vehicle system they could have let you see twice as much. 3. Poor story concept. Very thin. I also think the idea of the hydrophones ment that some of the talk was garbled. 4. Too much dependence on Pepper's Ghost type video. I wanted to see more. 5. The subs are expensive to operate. I would rather cast members be doing other things rather than driving a boat. Basically the subs were and still are an operational nighmare.
