Tokyo Disneyland Resort Expansion

[Supersnow84]

I also have to lean towards from the video that the sheer scale is likely to blow the others out of the water but HK’s seems to flow better and have the better story pacing

Like I said I’d rather do a wonky splash mountain than a perfect executed generic fantasyland dark ride so Tokyo will likely win out but considering Duffy put it as his best out of the 4 I am slightly worried for the overall quality of the 4 rides as a collective as this doesn’t seem like it’ll even end up in my top 3 of DisneySea rides

 

[tanc]

I feel like it's very difficult to base an opinion off a low quality video. I was one of the people who questioned beauty and the beast, but when I rode it in person, it is simply impossible to compare it to a video. I consider that BATB ride my new favorite modern attraction, it's just a masterpiece. I have a feeling it's the same thing with these attractions.

 

[Supersnow84]

BATB is a ride that I saw a video of and was blown away and then went on it and I was as blown away as I expected to be from the video

Same as mystic manor tbh

 

[waltography]

my biggest issue with the ride (from what I've seen) is the pacing. Why is let it go the length of three scenes. This part of the ride was beautifully done but doesn’t work well with the entirety of the ride. This is just one example of bad pacing

Agreed. Keeping my mind open to this whenever I make it over to Tokyo one of these days (hello from HKDL currently!), but I'm concerned OLC is spending the money in the wrong places with Fantasy Springs. A plethora of animatronics alone doesn't necessarily make a good ride, and here it's making a pretty weak scene breakdown only tolerable for me. (For the record, I've also been disappointed with BatB as well for this same reason, though at least BatB has the Transformation scene as a true wow moment.)

Frozen Ever After (HKDL version) feels a little better paced to me, surprisingly, since it keeps things moving forward at a relatively brisk pace. Wish there were a happy medium between FEA and FJ.

 

[22031029]

Agreed. Keeping my mind open to this whenever I make it over to Tokyo one of these days (hello from HKDL currently!), but I'm concerned OLC is spending the money in the wrong places with Fantasy Springs. A plethora of animatronics alone doesn't necessarily make a good ride, and here it's making a pretty weak scene breakdown only tolerable for me. (For the record, I've also been disappointed with BatB as well for this same reason, though at least BatB has the Transformation scene as a true wow moment.)

Frozen Ever After (HKDL version) feels a little better paced to me, surprisingly, since it keeps things moving forward at a relatively brisk pace. Wish there were a happy medium between FEA and FJ.

i honestly feel like both FEA and FJ do a pretty good job in reflecting the identities of the respective parks, HKDL's version is quaint, charming and intimate, while TDR is advanced, intricate and on a way larger scale.

 

[SplashJacket]

Spoiler: Wow moments

it doesn’t scream E-Ticket to me or have any WOW moments that I was really looking for as a step up compared to FEA.

Spoiler: Wow moments

How is seeing Elsa at the top of the mountain in a huge vista not a wow moment? Or her freezing the town? Or freezing Anna? Those are incredible moments. I agree some scenes (mainly the interior castle scenes) seem barren, but I don’t think the ride lacks wow-moments, and that’s even without the thawing scene being captured in either of the videos we have.

 

[WaluigiTime]

Looks like the ending for Frozen leaked somewhere?

Spoiler: Ending image

 

[22031029]

Spoiler: !HEAVY SPOILERS! (almost full ride POV- missing one scene)

 

[jaxonp]

Looks medium

 

[WaluigiTime]

Spoiler: !HEAVY SPOILERS! (almost full ride POV- missing one scene)

Glad to have my post outdated immediately

 

[22031029]

Glad to have my post outdated immediately

 

[Supersnow84]

The higher quality POV definitely makes me think my original point is slightly off

The new POV now makes me more lean towards the fact that the actual design of the show scenes is actually really good but almost like the ride vehicle is wrong

Like imagine if this was like a mystic manor

I know Disney is overdoing it with trackless dark rides but the forced nature of boxy show scenes on a boat ride compared to something like mystic manor I think is what’s sticking out as odd to me

 

[CalebS]

I see a couple very small drops, are there any drops at least pirates of the caribbean long?

 

[malice]

I don’t care to watch POVs until after I’ve ridden something but reading the discourse here is just as entertaining

 

[IMDREW]

We still havent seen the big drop right?

 

[ThemeParkTraveller]

The higher quality POV definitely makes me think my original point is slightly off

The new POV now makes me more lean towards the fact that the actual design of the show scenes is actually really good but almost like the ride vehicle is wrong

Like imagine if this was like a mystic manor

I know Disney is overdoing it with trackless dark rides but the forced nature of boxy show scenes on a boat ride compared to something like mystic manor I think is what’s sticking out as odd to me

I don't necessarily disagree, but there are cons to the trackless tech too. I like that these scenes feel intimate (each scene containing only one boat at a time) versus seeing a bunch of other ride vehicles in the same scene with you (and the large and empty floorspace this requires). And without an elevator like Rise, no elevation/terrain changes would be allowed, which is played to great effect here with the lift corresponding with riders ascending the mountain with Elsa.

 

[darkridenjoyer]

Having the three scenes to build up Let It Go is pretty smart honestly. If the ride system needed to be a boat to make that incline work, if the various song scenes prior to Let It Go needed to be shortened to give it more time, it was worth it overall. The only disappointing part of the Let It Go sequence is that there's a bit too much screenage in the palace proper, but the animation on the animatronic and the vocals from the JP Elsa are pretty great, a fine replacement for Idina Menzel.

 

[ThemeParkTraveller]

Having the three scenes to build up Let It Go is pretty smart honestly. If the ride system needed to be a boat to make that incline work, if the various song scenes prior to Let It Go needed to be shortened to give it more time, it was worth it overall. The only disappointing part of the Let It Go sequence is that there's a bit too much screenage in the palace proper, but the animation on the animatronic and the vocals from the JP Elsa are pretty great, a fine replacement for Idina Menzel.

I appreciate what they did here but at the same time, I can also see why some people think it feels barren with just one Elsa AA in each scene and the same snow/ice scenery everywhere. Then again, this is literally what the scenes looked like in the movie so not sure what else can be added.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

We still havent seen the big drop right?

I think that's the missing scene. Also do we know if the snow monster is on this one?

 

[WaluigiTime]

Tangled and Peter Pan videos are out there somewhere... but unfortunately I have no idea where.