Originally Posted By oc_dean At 1:30 in the morning ... I'll have to wait to read posts 41 through 120 ... but I'll just say - the above Post Header - "A Truly Modern Dark Ride" ... is a good description. They did a good job with it! I clocked it from the moment I boarded ... to the point I exited the vehicle. Unfortunately it went into "creep" mode twice .. but for a very short period both times. I came up with 6 mins. 15 seconds. But without any interruptions that would throw it into creep mode ... I'll say this comes in just SLIGHTLY under 6 minutes. About 30-40 seconds shy of Haunted Mansion's time. And just a "hair" less than Adventure Thru Inner Space.
Originally Posted By cheesybaby <<OMG Spokker, the Snopes article about the DL deaths is chilling.>> But is it "dramatic"?
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt The OC Register ran a nice spread yesterday about the attraction: <a href="http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2011/06/01/little-mermaid-ride-set-for-grand-opening/79025/" target="_blank">http://ocresort.ocregister.com...g/79025/</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt The LA Times also did a review: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/themeparks/la-trb-little-mermaid-disney-california-adventure-review-06201101,0,5430289.story" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/travel/...89.story</a>
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "The cute, new $100-million Little Mermaid dark ride is just what Disney California Adventure needed: a D-Ticket attraction geared toward moms with young children." It was nice of them to build this ride for me and my kids!
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance You're right. I can totally see you saying something like that.
Originally Posted By oc_dean On the LA Times review: "I found the pace of the clam-shell vehicles to be particularly plodding on preview rides during the attraction’s test-and-adjust phase. Hopefully the speed will pick up when the ride officially opens Friday." Oh sure .... 5 and 1/2 minutes isn't short enough on a ride that is "rushed" already with a rushed storyline, with only 5 scenes (Scuttle does not count - He sets up the story - an "intro"). If this writer is expecting "ToT" pacing .. then writing a story on L.M. was tainted from the word - go. Anybody who has ridden all of Disney's omnimover experiences (Adventure Thru Inner Space, H.M., Buzz, Horizons, World of Motion, Living Seas SeaCabs, Journey into Imagination, Space Ship Earth, If you Had Wings) ... should know ... this IS the pace you do for an OMNIMOVER attraction.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt He also states that there are some dead spots Dean, so I think he means that in general the pacing of the show is off a bit.
Originally Posted By ilovefunthings I felt the actual mechanical pace of the ride to be up to typical Omnimover standards. I just felt the show itself not to be immersive enough, the set pieces feeling like I truly was "riding" down the aisles of Toys R Us. Now, l am sure this will spark even more debate, however, for me, the FINDING NEMO ride at Epcot is a solid representation of a great q, a great ride that tells a simple story, and, a very clever use of FILM blended into an existing aquarium. A much greater ride experience, FOR ME, than TLM (and, I even prefer Epcot's Nemo over Disneyland Subs as the ride overall just flows better and the wait is much less). The Nemo ride does a great job of making you feel like you are "UNDER THE SEA" and, it contains one of the best made for ride songs ever in the history of Disney (The very catchy BIG BLUE WORLD. I wonder why the Nemo Subs ride at Disneyland did not end with this song and a big final extravaganza of every major Nemo character?) BTW, post 130 is NOT Bananas!
Originally Posted By ilovefunthings Oh, heres a link to the Epcot Nemo ride. A tad dark in spots, though, you'll get an idea if u haven't ridden it (love to see some Q video. It's a solid Q that TLM should in the future at least aspire to) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctehvUWcrBw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...hvUWcrBw</a>
Originally Posted By SafariRob Now that the ride is offically open and pleanty of people have had a chance to experience it, let me ask this: Does Disney pay homage to the site's former attraction in any way? They do it a lot and I have not heard anyone mention it...although I might have skimmed over a few of the previous 132 posts and missed it.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt That's a good question. I did notice in photos that the loading area is done in a Spanish Colonial Revival style, which is very Californian circa the 1920s. And there's the Palace of Fine Arts Rotunda that remains of course, but I've yet to see anything that references the film Golden Dreams directly.
Originally Posted By ilovefunthings And I hear of a specific homage to INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET. In the UNDER THE SEA sequence? Where will this be? Yes, I will ride again, as I have an out of town friend who wants to ride this and Star Tours (I am not saying anything to the friend about how I feel about this ride. I do not like to pre spoil.)
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<A total letdown I do not have the desire to ride ever again.>> <<Yes, I will ride again, as I have an out of town friend who wants to ride this>> Hopefully, you will be more objective in your second ride through. Or is it your tenth?
Originally Posted By ilovefunthings Post 137, BANANAS! LOL! No CrapShoot, fortunately, only once. And when I exited, line was only 10 minutes and I had zero desire to ride again. Only need one ride through to be able to give a my personal point of view, though, thanks for try to read the thoughts within my own mind!
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones I felt the same way about Star Tours 3D Though it boasts multiple ride experiences, I had no desire to experience them. The Little Mermaid Ride, however, is a truly three dimensional experience.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<thanks for try to read the thoughts within my own mind!>> Yeah, well, I drew a blank.
