News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member

A look inside the TRON merchandise store​


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OOooohhh...

So *that's* the difference between a Launch *Bay* and a Launch *Depot*!!
 

Surferboy567

Well-Known Member
Just wrote this ride today for the first time. Absolutely loved the ride, we got the second to last row of lightcycles. As someone who was definitely worried about this ride’s intensity it was extremely fun.

The initial preshow room was a well executed effect. The launch room while you are on the top as the lightcycle’s launch was awesome I wish it was a longer room though as you walk by quickly.

The lightcycles themselves I believe are what make this ride special. The awkward position they put you in help the ride feel more intense. The back restraints lowered onto your back are identity discs and react with the other lights on the lightcycle.

The launch took me aback of how fast it felt and I immediately felt it when it started. Once you get into the building while short it was satisfying. I never felt the length of the ride was a negative. This is mostly because once you enter the gravity building you move pretty quick thoughout the scenes (besides one or two brake runs). Daft Punk’s score as well as some new remixes really work for this ride’s soundtrack. The scenes in the gravity building involve some cool tricks with mirror’s and screens. The identity discs on your back also react to some of the Lightcycle movements.

I am a big fan of the concept of these new Disney coasters when you are launched to the top of the building and get to see the gravity building below you. We also rode Guardians again today and it had a similar effect. I am also a big fan of the IP so that definitely helped the IP as well.

It’s worth noting that we rode this as the park opened, we were not able to see this ride’s nighttime lighting.

Overall, I am not sure if TRON is a better coaster then Guardians as I like the unqiue aspects and layout of Guardians but TRON is a very close second. I would like to ride TRON once again to pick up on more details.
 
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Tuvalu

Premium Member
Just wrote this ride today for the first time. Absolutely loved the ride, we got the second to last row of lightcycles. As someone who was definitely worried about this ride’s intensity it was extremely fun.

The initial preshow room was a well executed effect. The launch room while you are on the top as the lightcycle’s launch was awesome I wish it was a longer room though as you walk by quickly.

The lightcycles themselves I believe are what make this ride special. The awkward position they put you in help the ride feel more intense. The back restraints lowered onto your back are identity discs and react with the other lights on the lightcycle.

The launch took me aback of how fast it felt and I immediately felt it when it started. Once you get into the building while short it was satisfying. I never felt the length of the ride was a negative. This is mostly because once you enter the gravity building you move pretty quick thoughout the scenes (besides one or two brake runs). Daft Punk’s score as well as some new remixes really work for this ride’s soundtrack. The scenes in the gravity building involve some cool tricks with mirror’s and screens. The identity discs on your back also react to some of the Lightcycle movements.

I am a big fan of the concept of these new Disney coasters when you are launched to the top of the building and get to see the gravity building below you. We also rode Guardians again today and it had a similar effect. I am also a big fan of the IP so that definitely helped the IP as well.

It’s worth noting that we rode this as the park opened, we were not able to see this ride’s nighttime lighting.

Overall, I am not sure if TRON is a better coaster then Guardians as I like the unqiue aspects and layout of Guardians but TRON is a very close second. I would like to ride TRON once again to pick up on more details.
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As someone who has ridden at night (first) then morning, there really is no appreciable difference in the brief time spent outside under the canopy. (BTW the lights are always on, your eyes have difficulty discerning them in daylight.)
 

doctornick

Well-Known Member
Guardians is pants. This is good, but far too short.

What happened to long experiences with Disney attractions ?
I totally agree that they need to build some longer rides. And there’s certainly an argument that Tron is too short. But there’s no way that a ride this “intense” (for a Disney park) would work out beyond maybe another 30-90 seconds of coaster time.
 

SilentWindODoom

Well-Known Member
It could be 3 hours long and he’d say it’s too short.

Yeah. He's the Russian Bot of this board. After seeing it a number of times I finally decided to look at his post history and it's all just running in to say derisive or divisive (but generally ignorant either way) things and then not respond until the next time except for a surprisingly serious discussion on the physics of farts a few dozen pages back.
 

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