Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 It's really hard to get a true sense of immersion, since we're looking at a something filtered through a camera phone, a projector, a laptop screen, and also created as a CGI mockup. From what was shown, it does look very slow...except the race at the end. The dark ride portions seem...kind of boring actually. I don't know what I was expecting, but more action, I guess. This is still not a real indicator of the true ride experience though, so I will withhold judgement.
Originally Posted By SuperDry The challenge I see in a combined slow/inside/dark and fast/outside/thrill attraction is how to balance all of the elements to get great re-rideability. I don't know what the expected hourly capacity is, but I assume that it will be large, perhaps twice as large as TestTrack, considering the dual tracks and assuming all other things being equal. This means that it has the potential of something that serves a great many of the daily park guests, many of which multiple times. I think that most of us enjoy going on Space Mountain, BTMRR, HM, and POTC multiple times in a day (or at least a couple) if the lines aren't too long. Splash is mostly a dark ride with a few thrills, but the nature of the dark ride and slow elements isn't one that gets on my nerves - that is, I'd be perfectly happy riding it 2-3 times in a day. I'm not so sure I'd say the same thing about TestTrack. The highly-defined narrative of the inside portion of the ride would get tiring if you rode it several times a day, and I don't know that the outside speed test portion is enough to wait in line for multiple times. So, I will be interested to see how this aspect of RSR turns out.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I think you hit it on the head. The more Splash-like it is, in terms of integrating a slow (but imminently repeatable) main section, coupled with some thrills, the better it will be. The ride technology may be next-gen Test Track, but the STORY should be more Splash-like.
Originally Posted By tashajilek Doug, i agree with you on Potter. I was expecting so much more from all of the buzz i heard and was really disappointed. I don't think a ride that is half simulator can compare to a real attraction like Indy, Splash, Everest etc. I would rather go on TT multiple times over FJ.
Originally Posted By TP2000 The YouTube video has been removed by the user. I figured that would happen. Seriously, why does WDI make these sorts of boneheaded decisions? Whoever approved this video presentation in front of a bunch of silly college kids needs to be re-assigned from the Cars Land project to picking new hallway carpet for Disney's Hilton Head DVC Resort.
Originally Posted By tashajilek ^^^ Well if i went on FJ more than twice in the same day i would probably lose my lunch. The only other ride that made me fell like that was Mission space.
Originally Posted By danyoung >Seriously, why does WDI make these sorts of boneheaded decisions?< Seems to me there's nothing boneheaded about it. They knew the video would leak, they were watching for it, and they shut it down shortly after it appeared. In the meantime there's HUGE buzz online about this, which is good for Disney.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 Yeah, I think it was pretty obvious it was Mongello'ed. Something this big doesn't just "leak".
Originally Posted By TP2000 I can never get behind the conspiracy theories on this sort of stuff. The kid that posted it is a young college kid, apparently goes to Depauw out in Indiana, and was privy to a WDI engineering presentation eight months ago on a spring LA field trip with a bunch of Belgian exchange students. You can't make up that kind of elabaorate backstory and ticking time bomb of an iPhone video waiting to be uploaded for eight months if you tried. What I think happened is exactly what appears to have happened. Depauw undergrad on a Belgian exhange student trip to SoCal gets a WDI preview to college kids on Cars Land. Depauw undergrad slyly tapes the video with his iPhone and then gets around to posting it on his YouTube account, where it sits for a week simply titled "Cars Land Ride" until a Disney geek combing the Internet finds it two days ago and it's linked on a dozen or so major fan websites within hours. WDI sees it, as they obviously have people casually surfing the net on their lunch break like any office in America, and they freak out and sick Disney Legal on the kid who then yanks the video. I really don't think there were any black helicopters or dramatically lit conference rooms full of scheming marketing geniuses used in this incident.
Originally Posted By TP2000 And for what it's worth from the other YouTube videos this kid still has posted, the Belgian exchange students looked like they had a great time. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOyaKf4JV5A&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...=related</a>
Originally Posted By berol Not by Disney, but I've seen planned leaks before. The newest I saw was a twitter account that had tweets made to look like someone had hacked the account. I wondered for a few days why it kept going until the light dawned. I'm amazed that I haven't seen product placement in a lolcats pic.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 #30 is that rarest of all things around here sometimes; a reasoned, calm, logical post. Really, guys, try the decaf.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "nd they freak out and sick Disney Legal on the kid who then yanks the video." I doubt they "freaked out". There's a lot of area between "planned leak" & "freak out".
Originally Posted By danyoung I'm not even saying that there was any type of a planned leak. It's going to get out - that's just the nature of our iphone enabled world these days. But just by shutting it down Disney is getting lots of online publicity, and there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "I doubt they "freaked out". There's a lot of area between "planned leak" & "freak out"." Indeed. When you are spending $500 million on a new land, NOTHING is being left to chance!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Something obviously was. See post 30, still the most logical explanation.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 One thing that bothers me about the inside portions from that video. It appears it's supposed to be nighttime in there. That always bothers me when there are things like that, especially when you board in the bright daylight then shoot back out into it at the end. For a really cohesive total ride experience, it's best ridden at night. I don't know why they can't have lighting for both day and night depending on the actual time of day. Pirates and Haunted Mansion work with this, because, well, you are contained inside the entire time. So, you suspend disbelief and are possibly transported in time to someplace where it's night. Splash Mountain gets away with indoor/outdoor portions because it's not really night in there, it's just...dark. The only part that might be defineable is the Zippadee Lady sequence, where it looks like sunset. Still, even that is vague... Radiator Springs Racers seems to have a definite evening lighting scheme going on in there. It's going to be rough when you burst out of the dark portion into blazing sunlight...
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?<< Anthony Wiener disagrees.
