Originally Posted By leemac I can't remember for the life of me if I have already posted this but here it is anyhow: The final phase of redevelopment of the pavilion will be completed by February. The Turtle Talk with Crush theater is to be relocated to one of the old Seas theaters which is being modified for this purpose (much more intimate with a lower ceiling and about an extra 100 seats). The theater itself is down a short corridor behind the current Nemo & Friends exhibit). The Nemo & Friends exhibit will move into the current theater area (ie. it isn't being removed) allowing WDI to develop that space into the holding area (queue) for the expanded Turtle Talk theater. New interactive displays will keep guests occupied as they wait for their turn with Crush.
Originally Posted By tonyanton I don't think you've mentioned this Lee. Thanks for the info. Sounds like a good plan in terms of crowd control in the main area outside the current "Crush" theater.
Originally Posted By danyoung >...relocated to one of the old Seas theaters...< Wasn't there only one theater? I don't recall ever seeing another one.
Originally Posted By leemac <<Sounds like a good plan in terms of crowd control in the main area outside the current "Crush" theater.>> That was the driver (as opposed to increasing the theater capacity which is just a bonus). With the omnimover dumping 2 people per second into Seabase Alpha from tomorrow they needed to find someway to correct the screw-up by Ops to have the queue running throughout the center of the main level. Ops could never handle the volume of people going into Turtle Talk and hopefully this will alleviate some of the congestion at the heart of this re-invigorated pavilion.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ^^^^^^^^^^ sounds like a plan to me as the wait this June was brutal and the line very convuluted. Now it was made better by a brief diving demonstration in the tube that the kids really enjoyed
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Wasn't there only one theater? I don't recall ever seeing another one.<< There were two theaters in the pavillion.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Of course... by the time the move is finished, the appeal of this little theater show will probably have passed.
Originally Posted By leemac ^^ Unlikely when it is still hugely popular. I don't believe anything else is coming soon to Turtle Talk.
Originally Posted By Indigo Ah-hah. That explains the walls around two of the aquarium displays today. I saw the clam-mobiles. They're very cute. There's also at least one 'double-wide' (for lack of a better term) that has some extra 'coral' decorations and is wide enough to hold a roll-in wheelchair. No idea if the omnimovers must stop to load the wheelchair. But the attraction stopped a couple times while I watched, that could have been why. Wish I could have seen more, but it was just CM preview today. I'll be back on Friday afternoon after work.
Originally Posted By CMDad While I was on today for the CM preview ... they were obviously testing the various speeds the ride can run - most likely for the purpose of loading a wheelchair or such.
Originally Posted By Disneybrad We hope to not have to slow it down, but right now. After being only the 3rd or 4th day most of us have loaded guest, we still havnt got the hang of when to slow it down to give some guest extra time to load, and we still need more practice to get it back up to mornal speed as fast as posible after loading a slow moving guest or a wheelchair
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror Brad, the YOUTUBE videos seem to have this clocking in (excluding delays) at about six minutes or so. Do you know the intended running time for the ride?
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror Thanks. Though I'm not crazy about characters overtaking TLS - I'm intrigued that here, in this one place, is an attraction that couldn't have been done exactly the same way in any other park or with any other existing attraction. Though they're using the same technology in Disneyland for the renovated Sub Ride, it's kind of a different experience on its own. This is probably not something that would have been purpose-built from the start, given the cost of creating an entire aquarium experience. So that's kind of cool - this attraction required a real investment of money, time, research and forward-thinking. Looks like they really nailed this one.
Originally Posted By LadyandtheTramp Rode the ride today during the Passholder Preview (3 times), and was impressed with the overall feeling of the attraction. The technology used is very, very impressive, and there are a couple of times where we just thought "How did they do that?". Especially liked the EAC segment with the turbulence, and the next to last part using the Living Seas fish tanks. We would definitely rate this a very good D-ride.
Originally Posted By ChiMike In 2006 it's hard to argue D or C, but I appreciate the review! Each successive review I read get me more and more excited. I hope this shows Disney what butters their bread. I predict this tiny little quaint dark ride will be 5x more popular than the multi-multi-million dollar M:S. But, ohh, wait, M:S WAS the #1 thing to see and do at WDW. pfft. >>The technology used is very, very impressive, and there are a couple of times where we just thought "How did they do that?".<< It does sound like Claude would be grinning!
