Originally Posted By LOVE-DCA ohh my bad i thought it was going to be a show.. i didn't realize it's a new ride...
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>So people are already whining and crying about the ride length of a ride not opening until 2011? I hate the Internet sometimes...<< Two of DL's ommimover rides (one from the past, one from the present) clock in, at a certain point. There's a lot of hype that is placing this new future ride as the end-all E Ticket. So, it's my guess it's going to be as immersive, taking guests on an elaborate journey ... that could take as long as HM, and ATIS are. What's so wrong about guessing the ride's length? If that's such a bone of contention .. then I can think of some 95% of other LP topics that rate with the same contention!
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt You need to take into account that Disney isn't the one saying that this is going to be an E ticket caliber attraction. I've questioned that assertion from the start since none of those claims were from official sources. Still, the possibility exists for this to be a full-on Disneyfied blow-your-socks-off experience, but I'm not holding my breath.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 What's so wrong about guessing the ride's length? If that's such a bone of contention .. then I can think of some 95% of other LP topics that rate with the same contention!<< Discussing it is fine, but complaining that the ride will only be 3 mins 30 seconds is a joke considering NOBODY except the imagineers know...
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: I totally agree, WilliamK99, duckling. If I spent so much time speculating about all my Saturday night dates--before giving anyone of them to prove themselves, first--I'd go completely out of my mind. Instead, I just hope for the best and when the truth is revealed, I make the most of it. Right Hans???
Originally Posted By pitapan16 Thanks OC Dean. =) No need to think to far out into why I'm curious about the ride length. I just like rides that are long and journey-like. Pirates, Haunted, Universe of Energy, Kilamanjaro, exc. Even rides like Indiana Jones (thouse relatively short) give you enough time to get into the story sense atleast the queue is long and all thematically fleshed-out.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Exactly Pitapan. The Disney theme park experience that I've grown to understand is exactly that. Experiences lasting long enough .... so our minds get a real chance to engross ourselves into the total experience. With Buzz clocking in at 5 minutes .. I think that's about as short as an omnimover should be. But in order to tell the story of Little Mermaid ... 5 minutes minimum should be it. Hopefully longer than that. But we'll see. I think what also helps are Pre-stories in attractions. That helps to make the experience more immersive. Such as the point of entering the Haunted Mansion foyer .. to the stretching gallery .. to the portrait corridor .. and finally the ride itself. HM is a total 10 minute attraction with the omnimover part 6 minutes. I'm really looking forward to more details in the Blue Sky Cellar at some point.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Just realized ... the Sea Cabs ride omnimover in The Living Seas pavilion in EPCOT was lengthened for the Finding Nemo attraction. There is a precedent to making attractions these days adequately long enough .. without truncating a ride.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Sorry .. edit: Truncating a story to fit a ride layout. Interestingly ... Snow White's Scary Adventure's shares this conundrum ...where the witch falls off a cliff .. and the ride is over. (Not quite enough room to finish the story correctly.) Not a problem at WDW's version of the ride. Where space is not an issue.
