News Coco Boat Ride Coming to Disney California Adventure

Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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mickEblu said:
Lol so its not lookin good bruh
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We've had this discussion before, so not sure why you're so discouraged now when before you still had hope for it being longer. Its not like anything changed, heck its still the same location. So why giving up now on a potentially longer ride experience?
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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Disney Irish said:
We've had this discussion before, so not sure why you're so discouraged now when before you still had hope for it being longer. Its not like anything changed, heck its still the same location. So why giving up now on a potentially longer ride experience?
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I don't know. Maybe Im in a less optimistic mood today. Of course I always hope for it being longer but 7 minutes sounds like a best case scenario to me.
 
Too Many Hats

Too Many Hats

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I love El Rio del Tiempo (ahem, Gran Fiesta Tour). I'd be thrilled to get something of that scope into DCA.

I'm setting my expectations very, very low. No drop, 3.5 minutes, a few scenes with lazy staging and AAs that just stand there talking to the boats as they float by. A breezy way to kill 20 minutes at DCA and get some air conditioning in a very unshaded corner of the park. Anything more and I'll be very pleased.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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Professortango1 said:
I know it isn't going to happen, but I'd love if the drop sent us out into the bay briefly before sending us back under the pier and into the show building.
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Really? To what benefit? The pier already has a ton of kinetic energy. I think that would be kind of intrusive / world breaking.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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Too Many Hats said:
I love El Rio del Tiempo (ahem, Gran Fiesta Tour). I'd be thrilled to get something of that scope into DCA.

I'm setting my expectations very, very low. No drop, 3.5 minutes, a few scenes with lazy staging and AAs that just stand there talking to the boats as they float by. A breezy way to kill 20 minutes at DCA and get some air conditioning in a very unshaded corner of the park. Anything more and I'll be very pleased.
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Oh man you re more pessimistic than me but I wouldn't be surprised. I'm hoping for 5+ minutes. One drop (and it'll probably be no bigger than POTC's second drop) if we even get one. Cool effects and at least some scale/ staging on the level of HK's Frozen.
 
Professortango1

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mickEblu said:
Maybe if the land was themed to Santa Cecilia and not Disney’s Pixarfied take on a seaside amusement park.
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Nope, its fine. The ride appears to be a part of Pixar Pier, meaning we are entering a Mexican-style courtyard and queue space in the midst of this seaside amusement park. So splashing down into a spectacular view of that seaside park would be fantastic. Especially if (none of this is going to happen anyway) they kept the ride operating during World of Color.

Now, if we were not supposed to be exiting the land of the dead when viewing the bay, I would totally agree with you, as the pier would break that concept. But starting at the pier and splashing back to the pier is a-ok with me!
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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Professortango1 said:
Nope, its fine. The ride appears to be a part of Pixar Pier, meaning we are entering a Mexican-style courtyard and queue space in the midst of this seaside amusement park. So splashing down into a spectacular view of that seaside park would be fantastic. Especially if (none of this is going to happen anyway) they kept the ride operating during World of Color.

Now, if we were not supposed to be exiting the land of the dead when viewing the bay, I would totally agree with you, as the pier would break that concept. But starting at the pier and splashing back to the pier is a-ok with me!
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Im going to have to Nope your Nope. I think from a psychological standpoint there is a big difference between the load/ unload zones and the middle of a ride. Of course we’re talking about immersive dark rides here. Not fantasyland level attractions. I also think attraction entrances and marquees are kind of exempt for practical purposes. Like just imagine on POTC we dropped into New Orleans square after the first drop and went back inside to the caverns. Wouldn’t really work. The pier isn’t there because they want it to be part of the story. The pier and coaster are there because they have no choice and as far as I can tell that Mexican looking entrance really doesn’t have a whole lot to do with the pier other than whatever backstory they might shove down our throat.
 
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MistaDee

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Professortango1 said:
Nope, its fine. The ride appears to be a part of Pixar Pier, meaning we are entering a Mexican-style courtyard and queue space in the midst of this seaside amusement park. So splashing down into a spectacular view of that seaside park would be fantastic. Especially if (none of this is going to happen anyway) they kept the ride operating during World of Color.

Now, if we were not supposed to be exiting the land of the dead when viewing the bay, I would totally agree with you, as the pier would break that concept. But starting at the pier and splashing back to the pier is a-ok with me!
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I'd generally love for the water in Paradise Bay to feel more active and natural, if there was some sense of the watershed flowing down from grizzly peak briefly into campus/sokyo/radiator springs before meeting the sea in Paradise Bay then that would feel more cohesive and less like a giant dead steampunk blimp has deflated on the water

Without knowing the story specifics, I like the idea of having a final splashdown to return us to the land of the living, that way not breaking the immersion from earlier in the showbuilding
 
Professortango1

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mickEblu said:
Im going to have to Nope your Nope. I think from a psychological standpoint there is a big difference between the load/ unload zones and the middle of a ride. Of course we’re talking about immersive dark rides here. Not fantasyland level attractions. I also think attraction entrances and marquees are kind of exempt for practical purposes. Like just imagine on POTC we dropped into New Orleans square after the first drop and went back inside to the caverns. Wouldn’t really work. The pier isn’t there because they want it to be part of the story. The pier and coaster are there because they have no choice and as far as I can tell that Mexican looking entrance really doesn’t have a whole lot to do with the pier other than whatever backstory they might shove down our throat.
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I think you're looking at the drop occuring like a Pirates whereas I'm thinking a long the lines of Splash's final.frop.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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Professortango1 said:
I think you're looking at the drop occuring like a Pirates whereas I'm thinking a long the lines of Splash's final.frop.
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Oh I didn’t realize you meant the very end. I was thinking about Splash earlier after your original post but the setting of the ROA and Splash are harmonious and it’s so quick I’d say the majority of guests don’t even notice they re in the ROA for a quick second. I also believe with Splash that it was a necessity as opposed to Coco where it would be a creative choice. At DCA you’d be dropping out of the Land of Dead and next to the Pixar Pal Around and ugly pipes sticking out of the water ? I don’t think that works. If Pixar Pier was lacking in kinetic energy I might entertain it. I just don’t see what the upside would be here. Certainly not budget friendly. I feel like that money would be better allocated going towards show enhancing elements.
 
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