Originally Posted By FerretAfros "Indiana Jones is probably going to take over a year to be refurbed and enhanced." How do you figure? Many of the effects that aren't currently working could be worked on after hours while the park is closed to get ready for the major work during the refurb, and if they plan it well, I really don't think it would take any more than 3 months. How long was POTC closed when they completely reprogrammed most of the AA's to talk about Jack Sparrow? Wasn't that just a few months (Feb-May)? I don't see how this could take much longer than that...
Originally Posted By monorailblue alexbook--you surely would have loved it more. The biggest "feature" was the randomness of it all--the experience would be different every time. I remember when the jeep would stall at one of 4 or 5 different places, the car movements were more extreme, etc. Hopefully, any plussing ups the randomness factor a lot--because that's what Indy really was all about 14 years ago--and it hasn't really been fully realized.
Originally Posted By Bellella If the truth be told, I really hate the smell of propane, or whatever it is, that emanates from the pyrotechnics in the part of the ride where we go over the suspension bridge.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It's scented so it will be easier to detect a gas leak. There have been places in the past that have used different scents (the volcano at the Mirage in Vegas uses pina colada scent because there is so much gas used that you could smell it from the sidewalk), but I don't think that's really nessecary for Indy, nor can I think of a scent that would be fitting of the attraction. It's done for safety purposes, so I don't think they have much flexibility on the matter.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris "<<Bumpiness isn't a problem. Some derrieres are just too sensitive.>> It's not the derriere that's too sensitive mon frere. It's the guts getting sliced into by the lap belt. Perhaps the secret is having more padding around the midsection?" Or, in the case of, let's say more "cuddly" guests, perhaps it's having LESS padding around the midsection? ; )
Originally Posted By Bob Paris "3). Replace the 2D paintings of the "blow-dart skeletons" with 3D figures. They'd have to widen the corridor, so I don't know if that's possible." There are actually 3D figures at TDS instead of the flats at DL. Also I second the addition of the smoke ring effect from TDS, as well. That is COOL!!!!!
Originally Posted By Bellella >It's scented so it will be easier to detect a gas leak.< Well, if it reeks that bad normally, I'd hate to smell a gas leak!
Originally Posted By tinkerbelle Does anyone remember the good old days when Indy first opened (say the first few years) when the ride was REALLY fast? I know it's been toned down over the years...
Originally Posted By Bellella Somehow, I don't remember it being any faster than it already is. But then, I was really young when I first went on the ride, about six.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Like Star Tours, Indy's definitely been dialed down in simulator motion.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA People always talk about the 'falling rocks' effect, using ice and an ice machine. I suppose it's correct, but it always sounds like an urban legend (an ice machine? really?) At any rate, I would imagine that through use of projections and other effects, this 'falling rocks' thing could be done easier, and more efficiently than ice falling out of an ice machine.
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 <Well, if it reeks that bad normally, I'd hate to smell a gas leak!> You can't smell a gas leak. That's why they add scent to the fuel you put in your car as well as propane so you CAN smell it if it's leaking. I learned this from the Mechanical Engineer I'm gonna marry one of these days.
Originally Posted By TMICHAEL >>>suppose it's correct, but it always sounds like an urban legend (an ice machine? really?)<<< No, Jim really, and it was one of the coolest effects in the ride. It was right after the jeep comes down the stairs facing the big chamber the first time. As Mara's eye shoots that beam of light at your jeep, it hit the cave roof in front of you and the "rocks and rubble" fell out in front of the jeep as it turned into the skeleton room.
Originally Posted By SFH And since it was made out of ice, they "rocks" could crumble as they hit the walls of the cave below. This is not an urban legend... just a short-lived effect.
