Originally Posted By Manfried <<At some point Disney has to get on with the business of improving its parks as it sees fit without weighing the opinion of every uber fan online.>> Bravo. Wasn't it these same uber-fans that convinced Disney that the return of Lincoln would bring guests flocking to its gates. It has the latest AA technology. Look at how that paid off for Disney. (yawning through the dripping sarcasm here.) Seriously bringing back a technological upgrade of a show that is over 40 years old? BORING.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Rocket Rods only sucked because its budget was slashed repeatedly and robbed it of some of its best design features.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I'm saying the ride itself. Trying to create a speed race through Tomorrowland was pointless. I just located Robb Alvey's POV You Tube video. It kind of sums up my feelings about the ride. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WUbeJgYuHg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...beJgYuHg</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean If this rumor is true, I'm not impressed. An exact clone .. will only reach an audience east of the Mississippi river. If you want to capture the wide$t audience po$$ible .... then you make each resort as unique to their own attractions, as much as possible.
Originally Posted By Manfried <<If you want to capture the wide$t audience po$$ible .... then you make each resort as unique to their own attractions, as much as possible.>> While I agree with this in principle, each park's Space Mountain, Pirates and Haunted Mansion have been different enough that they still draw lines. If Radiator Springs Racers draws lines here, it will probably draw lines elsewhere. Oh, and Rocket Rods was one of the stupidest wastes of money by that vaunted Imagineer with the initials T.B. ever done.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Oh, and Rocket Rods was one of the stupidest wastes of money by that vaunted Imagineer with the initials T.B. ever done." Whoops. You sound like me.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<I'm saying the ride itself. Trying to create a speed race through Tomorrowland was pointless.>> Except it would have been awesome. If given the proper budget and the banked turns it was supposed to have.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Except it would have been awesome. If given the proper budget and the banked turns it was supposed to have.> Coulda, woulda, shoulda...
Originally Posted By Manfried Proper budget to do what with Rocket Rods? Build a better track? What would they have added to give it a show? Where would they have put that show? The ride as conceived had no show.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn I had fun on Rocket Rods, but its queue line through the Circlevision Theater, then through some underground basement tunnel was a little weird.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "The ride as conceived had no show." Of course it did. The "show" was zooming over Tomorrowland in a futuristic vehicle. Kind of like... well... The Peoplemover, only faster.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper So, just to keep everyone in the loop, new rumor (and apparently may even be announced today) says Fantasmic is getting a new show and an expanded theater.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Like a larger theatre on the Tom Sawyer Island? Also coming -- reserved blankets to scatter on the sidewalk.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>An exact clone .. will only reach an audience east of the Mississippi river.<< Which is already the lion's share of the market. And speaking of west of the Mississippi, I know a LOT of people here in Colorado who have been to WDW but not DLR. I think that the common wisdom is that if you're going to travel, then you might as well go to WDW.
Originally Posted By CDF2 Posted by Jim in Merced: Building Carsland with the same technology as Test Track is weird. Too similar. It's the same 'weird' factor as building Indiana Jones Adventure at DHS. I agree - why not build something completely different in Florida? You could do an indoor Indy mine car coaster in the area of the current stunt show for instance instead of just dropping in a clone of the DLR or TDS Indy ride. The guys down the street at Universal are putting their pedal to the metal to build up the Potter franchise and draw in more guests to their parks - you would have to feel that increased attendance at those parks will not be the result of increased visitors to Orlando but a shift in those coming to the area from a Disney park to a Universal park for one or more days. The battle is on in O-town, is it not?
Originally Posted By Manfried Universal is building rides using 3D projections. Over and over again. Spiderman? 3D technology. Harry Potter? Projection technology. Transformers? 3D projection technology. All different right? No, just a different story each time. So Cars Land uses technology like test track and somehow Universal is better? I think they're drawing from the same playbook.
