Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt The worst one in my opinion was Rocket Rods. It made no sense at all.
Originally Posted By Socrates But can you imagine Pleasure Island without Merriweather Adam Pleasure? Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Originally Posted By Socrates BTW, I've never heard of a backstory for Soarin' Over California. Can someone please elucidate? Socrates "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
Originally Posted By dshyates Oh, you know, the whole experimental prototype hang glider premise. It was the entire justification/ reason for the existence of Condor Flats. They based the entire area around the convoluted nonsensical theme for Soarin'.
Originally Posted By jonvn You see, that is precisely what is wrong with back stories. Just say "Here's the desert area, and lots of flight stuff took place here." Then "here's a ride about flying over california." That's all you needed. It's all anyone gets, anyway.
Originally Posted By knoxvelour yeah I had no idea what the back story to Soarin' was and I still find it enjoyable
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster Back stories only work when they are simple and somewhat vague. To say that Midway Mania is about a character named Andy gettting a toy set about a midway AND all of us being shrunken down to play with toys under Andy's bed WHILE riding in a large vehicle that spins AND we're wearing 3-D glasses AND shooting at video screens...well it's completely ridiculous and smacks of ineptitude. Midway Mania may be a blast but its cumbersome back story can only detract from the fun--not to mention any sense of being in a Victorian pier.
Originally Posted By jonvn The reason it is so twisted is that they are trying to rationalize putting Toy Story characters in the pier, which don't belong. The backstory of the ride should be "Midway shooting gallery ride." Period. You go on a ride, you shoot stuff, it's themed to a midway, like on a pier. That's good enough of a back story. But they have to cram all this other stuff around, doing gyrations because the ride basically makes zero sense where it is as Toy Story does not belong on a pier. It's just inept. Really, simply inept. I don't know if it is the fault of WDI, or that they are desperately trying to make Disney-like attractions that have been handed down to be built by edict from a ignorant marketing department, or what. That's not for me to know. I just know what the final product is, as produced by the Walt Disney Company, and that's all I can judge it by.
Originally Posted By k_peek_2000 "Oh, you know, the whole experimental prototype hang glider premise." Did you just make that up? I've never in any of my years of visiting DCA, have ever seen a hint of that back story. And Soarin is my favorite ride.
Originally Posted By dshyates They still call it a "simulated Hang Glider" in the ride description. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/78jj9" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/78jj9</a>
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf Art, like truth, should be simple. Otherwise it is, for all intents and purposes, meaningless. The best attractions seem to be the ones without the cumbersome back stories - Space Mountain, Screamin', Matterhorn, etc. Of course, attractions based on movies rely on the movie as a back-story, but that doesn't really count. They don't need to force-feed you information to get you to understand the attraction.
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes WDI = Fine Art I think this says it all. <a href="http://imagineerebirth.blogspot.com/2007/10/you-dream-about-going-up-there.html" target="_blank">http://imagineerebirth.blogspo t.com/2007/10/you-dream-about-going-up-there.html</a>
Originally Posted By jonvn Well, there you have the perfect illustrative example of dumbing down. But, hey, they're spending a ton on this ride, and since that is the only criteria anyone seems to understand, it'll be just fabulous.
Originally Posted By TinksBestFriend ChurroMonster I think that fine art is whatever you want it to be. After all there is someone who walks around one of the finest art schools in the world with a dolphin on his head. And he does it on porpoise.
