Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Lotion-View-1434.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Lotion: Big Thunder Mountain Interactive Queue</b></a> Pictures and video from the elements of Big Thunder Mountain's new interactive queue that are now in-place.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It looks like this redo (or at least a lot of the stuff shown in the first few pages of photos) leaves the area looking somewhat like an Applebees. I've also noticed this with some of their semi-recent shop redos on DL's Main Street. They add a bunch of props from an old era, but it still feels like they've been added in a very contemporary way. I'm also not sure how I feel about transitioning the mine from abandoned, to being actively used. It certainly changes the ride's backstory a lot. Many of the new signs also look more like they're from the 1920's/30's than the ride's original 1870's/80's theme. The concept behind the canaries is cute, but I don't like how cartoony they look. I'd much prefer they looked like real birds, to fit in the real world setting of Frontierland (Splash Mountain excluded) Does anybody know if they're planning to install any of these 'additions' to DL's ride during it's current 10 month overhaul?
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 LOL, Ferret, you said it pretty well. I hadn't thought "Applebee's", but it's appropriate. I also noticed how anachronistic some of the posters and props looked. I wonder if it's the same team who just finished with Grizzly Gulch at Hong Kong Disneyland? It seems very similar to what they did there, considering that area is supposed to be active as well. It sure does change the Big Thunder story a lot to have it an active mine...
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Well, it's either supposed to be themed as a working mine, or it isn't. I'm not sure what all that stuff is doing sitting on a shelf above the queue structure. Seems like it wouldn't really be there in 'reality' And when you add a box of explosives that reads 'Lytum & Hyde' I really don't 'get' it.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "It looks like this redo (or at least a lot of the stuff shown in the first few pages of photos) leaves the area looking somewhat like an Applebees." That's pretty much how I would describe the entire state of Florida, so I guess the look is appropriate.
Originally Posted By TP2000 They turned the Thunder queue into an Applebee's. BWAHAHA! I love it. Sadly, it's true. But aside from the Applebee's "themeing" throughout, I can't help but think most of this stuff will be broken and beat to heck within 90 days. They'll probably put up a fight and try and keep it fixed and fixed a third time through at least this first summer, but by next fall the sad state of WDW maintenance will finally engulf all of these toys and they'll be broken and turned off for good. Applebee's. HA!
Originally Posted By tonyanton ...and eventually removed and the "classic" BTMR will be announced as returning! :]
Originally Posted By sjhym333 I find the whole interactive queue thing interesting. FP was supposed to help keep people off lines but the standby lines have gotten so long and slow moving that we now need interactive queues to keep people entertained. It will be interesting to see what happens when the new system comes online.
Originally Posted By phruby Personally I wish they would just keep the interactive queues they already have working correctly. How long as the clasping ceiling in the Indiana Jones queue been broken?
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <How long as the clasping ceiling in the Indiana Jones queue been broken? > 1998?
