Originally Posted By brotherdave Thanks for that insight, TDLFAN. I guess I never got to see it rotate as it was supposed to. It must have caused problems from Day 1!
Originally Posted By a1stav GMR is possibly the best ride in the park. It does need a MAJOR referb! The Alien bit could have been really good but it falls flat, so go ahead and replace it with another sci-fi/horror scene. The Tarzan movies were great, but the scene in the ride is blah, replace it with a "Clowns" of the movies scene (Marx Bros., Bob Hope, Chaplin, Ect.)
Originally Posted By jmuboy The GMR is a fantastic Disney dark ride. A ral thorough update could mkae this ride shine again. But sadly, the same can be said for many rides that have fallen into disrepair around WDW!
Originally Posted By Kane22 Talk about major referb! The GMR use to be one of my favorites at MGM but since last time I went, let me count the ride had 2 technacial difficulties & one wasn't so bad I was stuck at the Mary Poppens room for like 15 sec. & the other was really bad maybe at least 7 min. stuck in the Wizard of Oz scene. So then I asked a CM if the ride was going through referbishment soon & his words were... NOT ANY TIME SOON! Boy was I mad at that & not only did the ride stop twice some of the AA's weren't working at all....One of the aliens that are suppose to pop right out didn't, one of the ganster waiting outside a door just stood there & the CM said nothing about that little scene & the ganster car pulled up slow! But then months later me searching online finding out all these different info. about the GMR & one was it was going to close for a Villians attraction & the other was that there going to take out the Alien scene & replace it with a POTC scene. Not too much in favor for a POTC scene but I rather see another Sci-Fi scene like Star Wars. Where maybe Darth Vader fights Luke or Anakin Skywalker fights Obi-Wan like in part 3. So whatever happens to the GMR you won't be seeing me on it until gets the right care for a referb!
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I was just wondering...you do know that the ride always stops in the Wizard of Oz room to watch the show don't you? I believe it is timed to stop at the same time as the gangster or western scene along with Indiana Jones part, in the next set of trams behind you. Otherwise eventually they would catch up with each other.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Does anyone know how many sets of vehicles can operate in the Great Movie Ride at one time? I'm guessing eight, but I could be wrong. Also, there are 5 planned stops total for the ride vehicles during the course of the ride, I believe, which helps in spacing out the vehicles... 1) Load/Unload Area 2)a. Gangster Alley or b. Western Town (depends on which set of vehicles you ride in) 3) Forbidden Temple 4) Munchkinland 5) Movie collage
Originally Posted By danyoung Forbidden Temple? Is that the Indy scene? I don't think the vehicles stop there.
Originally Posted By danyoung Ahhh, my bad. I was envisioning the wrong thing. Of course you're correct, brotherdave. It might also interest folks to know that at several of those stop scenes, the vehicle actually plugs itself in to recharge. Just sit in the back on the left and you'll hear the buzz of the charging transformer.
Originally Posted By mstaft I was just on this three weeks ago. That would have been a cool geeky thing to notice. Kane22- I think it does stop here- our cowboy got out to steal the jewel and was "evaporated" and replaced by the lasy driver we had at the start of the ride...
Originally Posted By Kane22 I know but I thought you guys were talking about when the guests see the Indy AA. My mistake!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Neither. It was expensive to replace and fix the engine since the weight of the prop caused the enine to overheat and quit. They may have been able to get a better engine to power the set... but I guess budget costs won in the end, as is so much the case with WDW now a days.>> Just look at Everest to see the trend continue. I can see a scenario where it's 90 degrees in the snow cave and the Yeti is constantly in disco mode.
Originally Posted By jmuboy God, lets hope that WDW isn't that bad (and it's pretty bad already) that they would let one of their premiere AA's like the Yeti sit broken for extended periods of time.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I assume that your stop in the Mary Poppins area was to let the group in the gangster scene finish up before you went in. There is nothing worse than seeing the group before you to let you know that you are on a ride and not in a movie. The last time I was on it, we stopped in front of the Casablanca plane scene for at least five minutes. I think we were just running a little ahead, but the scene kept playing over and over, and it isn't that great to begin with, so it got old really fast.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie and an important scene from the movie, but there just isn't that much to look at in the scene. There's a couple AA's, a plane, a little building (I think), a backdrop and a scrim. It captures the feel of the scene, but it isn't like the Munchkinland scene where you could spend hours finding new things in it.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ok- that explains it better to me, I'll buy that...but I'd rather get stuck there than let's say in Alien which has more show - but whose time has truly passed
Originally Posted By mstaft Except the Indy attraction (at least the jeep ride) can stand alone apart from the movie.
