DHS Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

KingdomofDreams

KingdomofDreams

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MansionButler84 said:
That is my understanding of the situation as well. Be prepared to wait! I do wonder if they’ll bring back XEMH to give resort guests a leg-up. It’s been considered but they are upset they’re spending so much in September and October when it’s not needed. In December I bet it will be needed.

If the ride can open at 6 am daily.
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I certainly hope they offer something beyond what is currently on the calendar for December. Right now it shows only one hour once a week.
 
HauntedMansionFLA

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SWGalaxysEdge said:
I'm actually hearing more about CA being behind. They are using some of their resources to help get WDW get ready for 12/5 or 12/14 or whatever the date might be. I have not anything "bad" about CA like I used to hear. WDW has been fairly quiet which I am guessing is on purpose. Like someone else said, Happy Face to the public, Sad Face behind closed doors.

I did say it a big ago, but CA is still working on converting the ride cars - adding the ADA doors in the front. Last week it was 28 cars left to do (out of 38)
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Didn’t Scott Trowbridge think of the ADA compliance??
 
SWGalaxysEdge

SWGalaxysEdge

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HauntedMansionFLA said:
Didn’t Scott Trowbridge think of the ADA compliance??
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...doesn't sound like anyone did. From what I understand, the vehicles are not "off the shelf" and were custom designed/built.
My best guess is that whoever signed off on the design, assumed that ADA/Disabled folks could just xfer through the small door. Not the case and the Imagineers, who apparently have no disabled experience, had to engineer a way to covert a pocket sliding door, to a swinging door that (1) would not pinch the guest transferring (2) be wide enough and low enough to allow them [ADA riders] safe entry/exit and (3) still close securely so no one falls out. I joked they should just add handrails to the back of the ride vehicle and let ADA riders hang on.
This isn't "the" delay but it is "a" delay at both parks. CA has it figured out and is working on it - WDW, I have no idea. The 2 parks don't even share information with each other it seems.
 
SWGalaxysEdge

SWGalaxysEdge

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Did you notice...? In the picture Josh D'amaro posted on Thursday, you can see a couple of things. Noticed the circled items.

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britain

britain

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SWGalaxysEdge said:
Did you notice...? In the picture Josh D'amaro posted on Thursday, you can see a couple of things. Noticed the circled items.

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So, mentally stitching all that together... It's a big room, but it's not THAT big.
It's not Universe of Energy loading theater big. It's not Florida Space Mountain with the lights on big.

It's not even Cauldron of Bubbling Doom (Indy) big.
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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SWGalaxysEdge said:
...doesn't sound like anyone did. From what I understand, the vehicles are not "off the shelf" and were custom designed/built.
My best guess is that whoever signed off on the design, assumed that ADA/Disabled folks could just xfer through the small door. Not the case and the Imagineers, who apparently have no disabled experience, had to engineer a way to covert a pocket sliding door, to a swinging door that (1) would not pinch the guest transferring (2) be wide enough and low enough to allow them [ADA riders] safe entry/exit and (3) still close securely so no one falls out. I joked they should just add handrails to the back of the ride vehicle and let ADA riders hang on.
This isn't "the" delay but it is "a" delay at both parks. CA has it figured out and is working on it - WDW, I have no idea. The 2 parks don't even share information with each other it seems.
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I still don’t understand why they think EVERY car needs to be modified.

Modify 4. It’s acceptable elsewhere. Take the five-minute walk to Toy Story Mania and count how many ADA cars there are (this isn’t directed at you but rather WDI, who won’t read it). The lack of a separate ADA station is baffling, too. How does everyone at Imagineering suffer from Dory-level memory loss and 17-year old boy communication skills?
 
SWGalaxysEdge

SWGalaxysEdge

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britain said:
So, mentally stitching all that together... It's a big room, but it's not THAT big.
It's not Universe of Energy loading theater big. It's not Florida Space Mountain with the lights on big.

It's not even Cauldron of Bubbling Doom (Indy) big.
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it really isn't as big as they make it out to be. Maybe with the right lighting and the fact they move you along and don;t give you a chance to figure out the scale...See image.

The yellow outline is the entire hangar room space.
The blue it the ITS shuttle.
You still got the 50 troopers (white area) and other "decorations" on there to take up space.

Its big but not as big as one might assume a Star Destroyer hangar ought to be.
Red line is your path out of the ITS to the hallway to the prisoner area to load.

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SWGalaxysEdge

SWGalaxysEdge

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_caleb said:
I’m assuming the room with AT-ATs will be really big.
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I just updated my page with that (did you ask there too?)- I updated my graphic.
The 2 square shapes inside the light blue box are the elevators that raise the vehicles up to the second floor.
Added a construction image to help see the size, as well. In this 2nd image you can see the shaft area on the far right.
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Rteetz

Rteetz

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SWGalaxysEdge said:
...doesn't sound like anyone did. From what I understand, the vehicles are not "off the shelf" and were custom designed/built.
My best guess is that whoever signed off on the design, assumed that ADA/Disabled folks could just xfer through the small door. Not the case and the Imagineers, who apparently have no disabled experience, had to engineer a way to covert a pocket sliding door, to a swinging door that (1) would not pinch the guest transferring (2) be wide enough and low enough to allow them [ADA riders] safe entry/exit and (3) still close securely so no one falls out. I joked they should just add handrails to the back of the ride vehicle and let ADA riders hang on.
This isn't "the" delay but it is "a" delay at both parks. CA has it figured out and is working on it - WDW, I have no idea. The 2 parks don't even share information with each other it seems.
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This is just so weird to me. I saw the ride vehicle and sat in it at Celebration. It didn't seem any more of "squeeze" or anything than say Dinosaur or Kilimanjaro Safari's vehicles.
 
SWGalaxysEdge

SWGalaxysEdge

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Rteetz said:
This is just so weird to me. I saw the ride vehicle and sat in it at Celebration. It didn't seem any more of "squeeze" or anything than say Dinosaur or Kilimanjaro Safari's vehicles.
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right, but the door slides into the vehicle to open. Not ADA compliant - they require ADA riders to xfer and they need to able to put their chair right next to it, and xfer to the seat. some people can;t use their legs at all for many reasons so it has to be pretty much a seamless transition.

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Dan Deesnee

Dan Deesnee

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Can anyone that has information on this comment on how thrilling this ride is going to be? As far as Disney goes I would put Everest and rockin roller coaster near the top. I know this is a very different kind of ride obviously. It seems to have elements of tower of terror, Star tours, and a traditional dark ride. I'm just wondering if it will have the thrills to make people want to ride it over and over again or if it's more just story-based with very little in the way of thrills.

Not saying a ride can't have good re-ride ability without thrills. Just more curious than anything.
 

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