Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Dinosaur is one of the most disappointing attractions at WDW." It scared me to death. I screamed like a little girl on that ride.
Originally Posted By leobloom >> Indy and Dinosaur are virtually the same ride, but Indy is far better because of a fantastic queue. << That's only one of the differences between Indy and Dinosaur. The only similarity is the same track layout and same vehicles. It ain't just the queue that separates them. Not by a long shot.
Originally Posted By leobloom Dinosaur is scary because no one likes to be violently shaken in total darkness. You could recreate the same effect with an office chair and a dark closet. The ride has always been a disappointment compared to Indy, but with all the missing effects, it's just flat out sucks.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 The Dinosaur attraction is a mess in my opinion. They set the story up with the video and then take you to the basement to board the attraction. Why? It is a tour into the past. The vehicles leave load go around the bend but as you go down the tunnel to time travel the lighting is terrible and even though the vehicle shakes you never really get a clear illusion that you have time traveled. The attraction then starts off ok with various dino's but one the whole meteor and being chased story line begins you are plunged into darkness and thrown around violently. It is just terrible story telling. I even hate the name. I preferred Countdown to Extinction. For me it is one of those attractions that could have been done better. It's not the queue or the ride system, just shoddy story telling.
Originally Posted By dagobert We didn't like Dinosaur that much either, but thanks to a Dream Fastpass, we have been there during the Year of a Million Dreams, we rode it.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 I liked Dinosaur fine, and we go the best picture ever. In addition to my husband, two kids and I, we had my husband's mom, dad, and brother with us. My mother-in-law is wonderful, but can be a little spacey sometimes, and the picture shows everyone in the vehicle screaming at the dinosaur, and she is looking in the other direction with a confused look on her face. She asked us after the ride what we were all screaming at, because she couldn't see anything but some plants
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance ""Dinosaur is one of the most disappointing attractions at WDW." It scared me to death. I screamed like a little girl on that ride." LOL, oh Hans. lol
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "I liked Dinosaur fine, and we go the best picture ever. In addition to my husband, two kids and I, we had my husband's mom, dad, and brother with us. My mother-in-law is wonderful, but can be a little spacey sometimes, and the picture shows everyone in the vehicle screaming at the dinosaur, and she is looking in the other direction with a confused look on her face. She asked us after the ride what we were all screaming at, because she couldn't see anything but some plants " LOL
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The on-ride photos from Dinosaur are among my favorite things to look at in the entire park. In almost every car, you'll see a grown-up laughing, half a dozen people looking scared-in-a-fun-way, a couple truly-scared people, and a small child burying their face in someone's lap. Best reactions ever!
Originally Posted By tashajilek I'm not a huge fan of Dinosaur either, but you can't really compare it to Indy because it isn't. Dak is my second favorite WDW park behind Epcot. I'm sure most agree Anaheim does the other two parks much better.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "My mother-in-law is wonderful, but can be a little spacey sometimes, and the picture shows everyone in the vehicle screaming at the dinosaur, and she is looking in the other direction with a confused look on her face. She asked us after the ride what we were all screaming at, because she couldn't see anything but some plants " Best Disney story I've heard in a long time!
Originally Posted By sjhym333 I think that you can compare Indy and Dinosaur in that they use the same ride system moving along the same track layout. The difference is in the story telling. Indy does it much better. Honestly I think the Dinosaur could be amazing if Disney went in and made some changes. The ride wouldn't need a complete redo. Just a focusing of the story, losing some of the dark areas and plusing some of the scenes.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom There are other differences between Dinosaur and Indy. Indy is on multiple levels. Dinosaur is on a flat hilly track. It would be like comparing Mr Toads Wild Ride to the Alice in Wonderland ride. Indy is perhaps Disney's best ride in this hemisphere.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<There are other differences between Dinosaur and Indy. Indy is on multiple levels. Dinosaur is on a flat hilly track. It would be like comparing Mr Toads Wild Ride to the Alice in Wonderland ride. Indy is perhaps Disney's best ride in this hemisphere.>> Dinosaur and Indy have the same exact track layout.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom <spoiler alert> On the Indy ride, in the cavern room scene with the lava and fire, you travel across a rope bridge. You exit that room traveling under the same rope bridge. Also, in the scene with Indy on a rope and the giant ball rolling down toward the ride vehicle. The vehicle "drops" down to a lower level. Just watched a video on youtube posted by coaster news, of the ride with the lights on.
Originally Posted By dagobert So on Monday Disney held the celebration for DAK's 14th anniversary and I guess Joe Rohde wasn't part of it. Do we already know why he wasn't there?
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<On the Indy ride, in the cavern room scene with the lava and fire, you travel across a rope bridge. You exit that room traveling under the same rope bridge. Also, in the scene with Indy on a rope and the giant ball rolling down toward the ride vehicle. The vehicle "drops" down to a lower level. >> You do the same thing in Dinosaur. It's just not themed to a bridge. I was originally going to be a bridge, but they got rid of it before construction. Indy/Ball scene is the final Carnatour head before the time machine brings you back.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If you know the Indy track layout pretty well, it's very easy to pick out when you cross the 'bridge' in Dinosaur. After a few sharp turns, it's the long flat perfectly straight section of track. Since nearly all of the rest of the track is either on a curve of vertical slope of some manner, that's the easiest part to pick out. Similarly, the part just after Indy's snake room, where you travel down hill toward the giant decaying Mara head, is where you dip under the pteradactyl in Dinosaur. Again, since it's a relatively unique part of the track, it's somewhat easier to pick out
Originally Posted By DlandDug I have been on Indy more times than I can remember. Riding Dinosaur the first time, I was able to "know" where I was the entire time. Of course, I had already been tipped off that the track layout is exactly the same. The reason it seems different is that there is never a perception of being in "the big room" in Dinosaur. It seems more like a series of hills and drops that are unrelated to Indy. But, as others here have said, it is the same exact layout.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Agreed all, it's the identical track layout. And it's really quite criminal what they did to take the best E Ticket they had in the empire (at that time, late 1990's) and dumb it down so much that it became a forgettable bumpy ride through the dark past some plastic dinosaurs. Add in 15 years of spotty maintenance by WDW's overworked maintenance crews, and Dinosaur is just painful to visit a few days after you've been on Indy in Anaheim. Indy has had several rehabs in the past five years, ranging from a couple that were just few days to a couple that were a few weeks to the most recent multiple-month rehab. Has Dinosaur at DAK had even one rehab, even just a couple of days long, in the last five years? I can find no evidence of one online, and judging by the way the ride currently looks maintained, it's been more than five years. A decade since the last rehab?
