News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

WDWFREAK53

WDWFREAK53

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Bocabear said:
We currently have a tunnel on the railroad that is just completely blank... As a matter of fact, most of the train ride is through backstage areas lacking any sort of show scenes... We really need the entire Train route dressed properly...the fact that you can see backstage roads and buildings from the train give me no hope they would do something in the tunnel...
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Part of me thinks that the tunnel is more to prevent the steam from rising into the area....moreso than to hide the old steam engine out of view.
 
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easyrowrdw

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doctornick said:
I think that is more of a dark blue, but who knows...

Also, the show building seems to have some sort of "texture" to it like little squares (sort of a checkerboard pattern). If they decorate the outside, might help it to not be an eyesore - though OTOH might make it more obvious to see.
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There's that giant box everyone has been talking about. I realize now that it was "hiding" in the original; I guess I thought it was the lake. They couldn't have come up with something more creative from a shape/design standpoint?
 
gerarar

gerarar

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So after taking another look, I noticed something missing from the new concept art. If we take a look at the original initial concept art, there was a TRON decorative building and accessible area behind it (outlined in white). You would enter on a side pathway beneath the PeopleMover track (blue arrow). I'm not sure if the area beyond the little building would be backstage or something.
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In the new concept art, this area and building is missing. Again besides the train tunnel, there's a bunch of trees/shrubs in place, so it may as well be a placeover. But regardless, the building (arcade or gift shop?) may have been cut already from the budget.
Just my observation, so who knows..
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DCLcruiser

DCLcruiser

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gerarar said:
So after taking another look, I noticed something missing from the new concept art. If we take a look at the original initial concept art, there was a TRON decorative building and accessible area behind it (outlined in white). You would enter on a side pathway beneath the PeopleMover track (blue arrow). I'm not sure if the area beyond the little building would be backstage or something.
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In the new concept art, this area and building is missing. Again besides the train tunnel, there's a bunch of trees/shrubs in place, so it may as well be a placeover. But regardless, the building (arcade or gift shop?) may have been cut already from the budget.
Just my observation, so who knows..
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What building? The original artwork shows shrubs and walking paths. I think it's an optical illusion.
 
Disone

Disone

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gerarar said:
While everyone's focusing on EPCOT, I compared the new Tron concept art from it's initial reveal to now.
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Some things I noticed:
- No more huge TRON signage at top of canopy. Now just a small logo/sign with some plants. (Bottom of new concept art)
- Railroad will be going under the canopy, but in a tunnel! I would imagine the tunnel to have some type of projections or screens, along with narration.
- Instead of a staircase (or escalators), we now have an elevated walkway going above the path to Storybook Circus, which then leads further inside the canopy and to the new entrance for TRON. You can tell that this pathway will wind under the canopy and back towards the front.
- The new concept art now also contains the showbuilding, which will seemed to be unthemed, sadly.
- Also not sure if it's just the scope of the new concept art, but the Speedway is not shown. Could be deliberate as covered by shrubs/trees as he future of it will be announced soon or at later date.

Also this will seem to be the logo for the ride, along with it's official name: Tron Lightcycle Run
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I absolutely knew they were going to have to put the train in a tunnel. Otherwise the smoke from the Smoke Stacks would have stained the white canopies over time. I know most of the time the steam engines smoke is not very visible but it IS there and that part of the railroad is where the engines are working the hardest as they pulled the trains uphill and it would have stained those white canopies. I like almost everything else about the redesigned artwork except for the exposure of the main show building. As someone has already suggested perhaps they will put some tron like siding on the building to help it blend in with the canopy? I hope so. Just the same I would have rather had the canopy still hide the show building all together.
 
brihow

brihow

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Disone said:
I like almost everything else about the redesigned artwork except for the exposure of the main show building. As someone has already suggested perhaps they will put some tron like siding on the building to help it blend in with the canopy? I hope so. Just the same I would have rather had the canopy still hide the show building all together.
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The artwork is also from a very high perspective. On the ground I think we'll only see a little bit of it and only from certain angles.
 
gerarar

gerarar

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DCLcruiser said:
What building? The original artwork shows shrubs and walking paths. I think it's an optical illusion.
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brihow said:
Building outlined in black. That is 100% not representing the water, as seen to the right of the building.
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I was actually referring to this (outlined in red). I thought and looked like it was a small building, either a gift shop, arcade, etc., considering there seems to be an entrance underneath the PeopleMover.
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lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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brihow said:
The artwork is also from a very high perspective. On the ground I think we'll only see a little bit of it and only from certain angles.
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The building and canopy have already been built once before. We know for a fact that the canopy does not hide the gravity box.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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brihow said:
I never said it would hide it completely. I said we would see much less of it on the ground than a birds eye view. Please read carefully.
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How much it will be seen from the ground is already known. The art should not be some surprise or point of doubt. This is a known entity.
 
gerarar

gerarar

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JohnD said:
Um. What do you call this?
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At the time I thought that was part of the lake you see in the background towards the right. The shade and colors match. I kinda want to say that Disney intentionally downplayed the size and scope of the showbuilding here, making it easily missable. I missed it after staring it for so long, whoops 😛
In the new concept art, the actual scope/size of the showbuilding is more realistic, hence my reactions above.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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jaklgreen said:
I don't know why anyone would put any stock into a concept art picture. They rarely look exactly like what the finished product is going to look like. The artist has a bit of artistic license in creating them. I wouldn't be nit picking it to death.
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The artist is very likely drawing on top of a view created by an accurate digital model. This is also an existing design, so there’s no point in taking artistic license to make things worse.
 
Slowjack

Slowjack

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doctornick said:
Very minor quibble, but I think it would be better without the colon, i.e. "Tron Lightcycle Run"
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On the sign, Lightcycle Run is a subtitle, so a colon is standard English when writing it on one line. Also note on the sign that it's Lightcycle / Run. Because a slash is a cool computer punctuation, I guess?
 

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