Originally Posted By disneywatcher >> And I'd like to see a modest redesign the cars themselves, with the goal of opening them up. << A bit of acrophobia struck me when I was in one of the Wheel's cars. As it rolled forward on its own due to the effect of gravity, the thought of the semi-circular track somehow breaking apart -- due to rust or an earthquake -- did make me shudder.
Originally Posted By LOVE-DCA >>If you look at the placement of the projection screens for WOC they are pretty much in the way of any kind of sizable walkway out over the water in that location. I'm kind of opposed to filling of the bay with pedestrian bridges and other visual << YES..i knew that !
Originally Posted By gadzuux Umm yeah - I knew that. But that doesn't address any of the concerns that I mentioned in my post - that the ride is all stop and start, and that the buckets themselves have so much metal encasing around them that I feel like a hampster in a cage. And maybe they do one full revolution after loading - sometimes - because they didn't the one time I went on it. Which truthfully wasn't so much of a problem because by the time we got back to the unload we were more than ready to get off. But still, it seems like the wheel could make one full rotation in about a minute, so it wouldn't increase the wait time all that much for the people in the queue.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance I didn't get a full revolution after loading too. I got on, then first time around I got off, and it was loading and unloading the whole time.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I ride the Fun Wheel a lot (in the non-swinging red car) and I find it always makes a full trip after loading. Maybe you hit it on an "off" day...
Originally Posted By Manfried I saw this revised "attraction" two days ago and though it has some nice Disney theming around and on it now, it is still what it was, a cheap carnie ride.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <And maybe they do one full revolution after loading - sometimes - because they didn't the one time I went on it.> Every time we've done it, it has. It's supposed to. If it didn't the time you went on it, that was a mistake. <But still, it seems like the wheel could make one full rotation in about a minute, so it wouldn't increase the wait time all that much for the people in the queue.> Yeah, once it gets going, it moves pretty well. So I've always thought it should do TWO full revolutions before starting the load process again. It wouldn't add THAT much time to the load, and would increase the "value" of your ride by quite a bit. But there's no question that the line moves glacially slow, so I guess that idea would be a non-starter.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo Rode them yesterday. The improvements are nice, but it's still basically the same ride. It's definitely not light years better than it was before.
Originally Posted By LOVE-DCA yeah i have gotten a full rotation also! in the non swinging cars of course.
