Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance lol Hans "too girly and precious for words". Maybe that's why I love it so much. Because I'm too girly and precious for words. lol
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I like the movie Cars, but probably because of the fact that I don't care about cars ESPECIALLY Nascar racing type stuff, it's my least favorite of the Pixar movies. I'll still be looking forward to seeing the new land, I would just choose something else If I had my choice. And I' afraid since the attractions will all most likely be all about cars, I won't enjoy it as much. Kinda like Autopia.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "I don't care about cars ESPECIALLY Nascar racing type stuff, it's my least favorite of the Pixar movies." The audience that does love that kind of thing is who Disney wants to cater to with Carsland. BTW Constance, Cars is also my least favorite Pixar film. I couldn't get past the talking car thing. It just didn't work for me.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Yeah I think you kinda have to be a big racing fan to get too excited over it. It's hard to care too much about a character when it's a car.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance And the little flying cars with wings that were suppose to be like bugs? Just kinda dumb to me.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Funny, change the word Cars to princess, and that is how I feel about most of the rubbish Disney has been pushing for the last decade. Carsland is a cool concept and the movie is one of my fav Pixar flicks. That said, I would prefer a Route 66 real car area.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance There isn't anything funny about you liking cars more than a girl who likes princesses better. Besides, I'm looking forward to CarsLand my son will freak out when he sees it, it'll be a lot of fun experiencing it with him.
Originally Posted By snappyfun "Could care less about cars, never would buy a brand new car and I can't stand ever even having a car payment." I agree i hate my car payment, and never again!
Originally Posted By Sweeper Nascar is a snoozer to me and yet I am thrilled with Carsland. Can't wait! Don't stereotype the people who will enjoy Carsland as just Nascar fans. How big is Nascar in California anyway? I don't know anyone who is a fan. None of my students ever talk about it at all.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I don't think anyone is saying that Carsland will ONLY appeal to NASCAR fans.
Originally Posted By mousermerf Test Track garnered 5 hour waits prior to fastpass and the opening of Soarin (heck, it still has them on holidays with Soarin and Mission: SPACE open.) The Cars ride looks to take everything that was good about Test Track and amplify it, add in the parts of the original design for Test Track that weren't technologically viable in '97, and then overlay an actual fitting theme instead of the sorta sterile "crash test" themed. It will be popular - assuming it actually turns on in the morning. Test Track can't be shut off at night when the park does holiday hours because they're afraid it wont turn back on. They pay CM's to cycle the cars instead. (midnight close meaning 1am or so when it's really "shut down" and then 7am opening meaning test/startup beginning around 5am - ao it makes logistic sense, I suppose.)
Originally Posted By mousermerf Side note - the bunny hills intrigue me. Test Track has a "dip" in the interior and the vehicle has to slam on the brakes as you go over it and you can still feel it "bottoming out." The cars being so close to the track don't seem to take dips very well at all - they do the same thing when you pop outside from the barrier test too. If they've figure out how to get the vehicles to do a quick series of dips without slamming on the brakes - wonderful! Otherwise, those bunny hills are going to interesting..
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I'm not saying I won't enjoy it or that it's only for NASCAR fans. I'm just saying that the whole Nascar theme of the movie cars turned me off a bit since I'm not a fan. And a whole land themed specifically on the movie cars seems like a bit much, but maybe the rides will be a lot of fun and I'll love it, we'll just have to see. I know my son will love it so it'll be great fun seeing him experience it.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Fun, the NASCAR bit of Cars is just a very small part (they don't even show it in the UK, and yet it is popular here). What is wonderful is you have a guy who is career driven, wants to be the top. He has no friends or close associations and alienates people in the name of career. Then one day he is forced to slow down. He learns about community and he falls in love. To me, that is a great story (it is a little like Doc Holiwood, which I love too). Add in all the cool cars and characters, a great soundtrack and the route 66 subtext and it is a great movie, one of my favs. But more to the point, I already really like Test Track, and I want to try Journey to the Centre of the Earth. So seeing this kind of tech with a deeper environment on a grand scale, I cannot wait. The Racers attraction is the only thing in the expansion that has me excited (though I would still prefer "real" cars rather than a toon tie in.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "Otherwise, those bunny hills are going to interesting.." I know that the forces on the cars in the bunny hills will be more like the dips in TT, but the big drop during the finale of Journey to the Center of the Earth seems to do just fine without slowing down. The cars accelerate their way in a circular path to the top of the volcano and get shot out the side, down a drop that's probably 40-50ft long. It does not start hitting the breaks (at least that you can feel at all) until well after the drop. I'm assuming that in the 9 years since JTTCOTE opened, they've worked out a few more bugs in the programming (it was pretty unreliable at first), so it should work a little better out here. Also, why do you think they're already putting up tracks in that portion of the ride while the rest of it hasn't even begun foundation work? They know that it will be an issue and want to get the earliest testing possible in to get it working perfectly by opening.
Originally Posted By mousermerf Does JttCotE have the sudden change in angle the way Test Track does? Well, Test Track's.. track.. is built like a real road and thus follows the same sort of rules for angles which seem to match up with the bunny hills. Does Journey have a different change in angle, possibly more gradual?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be too surprised if they did round out the angle some on Journey. However, even with a possibly less sudden change, you still get a good bit of air time on the top of the hill because you're going so fast. I think that's what the breaks on TT are designed to eliminate, as it causes the cars to pull upward on the track instead of push down with gravity, so it's the same problem, but somehow they managed to solve it. What's always bugged me a little about TT's design (and it looks to be similar with the bit of Racers track we see) is that the track is straight bits connected by little curved pieces, like a model train kit. This isn't a big deal for the turns, but when used for hills, it's very strange to change angle so suddenly, and then travel in a straight line along that angle. Unlike the sweeping curves of roller coasters, it's just a little jerky and feels very mechanical. I'm sure the forces are a lot easier to figure out this way, but it's just a really strange feeling that I don't think I've had on any other ride (including Journey, but I'm not positive about that).
Originally Posted By LOVE-DCA I doubt that cars land will be just like nascar…. Seriously you got to think with an open mind that this new addition is going to be grand and spectacular and fun for the whole family if not just the kids—I actually can’t wait to see what is put in that new part of the DCA as I’m sure that what is featured in the drawings at blue sky cellar will change as it is built. Did autotopia resemble nascar?? And I love dca.. I think it’s a very fun park!! Otherwise my name would not be love-dca.. Thank you, ♥
