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So will it not spin much because it’ll have too many stress points and become a “maintenance nightmare”, or because there won’t be any show elements to actually face? The goalposts seem to be moving.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying the ride won’t disappoint or outright suck. I’m just saying that turning the cars to face whatever they put in there won’t be an issue at the speeds this thing will run.

Stress on a ring gear and motor driven pinion doesn’t know or care whether it’s on a coaster car or John Deere 60 mini-ex, provided the materials are properly spec'd and engineered. You stated that a rotation mechanism may be stressed to the point that it would be a maintenance problem. My...

While certainly not apples to apples, motors drive ring gears that spin the cab and arm of large excavators. No way those are under lots of stress, right? I don’t see why this would be that difficult with sensors in the track and computers to make sure the car is at a set rotational point when...

Pretty sure that pic was from some time around 2018.

Just a guess on my part, but some are probably tired of their tidbits getting picked up and reported without credit for every blogger to make a buck off of. Some seem to have lost interest in certain parks or resorts because Disney seems hell-bent on removing what made them special and have...

You get 10 prophet stars, because that’s almost exactly what happened. They just demolished the building instead of gutting it.

I’d rather be decamated or millimated, but that’s just me.

@Casper Gutman touched on it yesterday, but I’d love to see adjusted cost numbers for Splash and Big Thunder compared to GOTG. I’d go out on a limb and say it would be even more shocking than just hearing GOTG cost 450 mil. The inside of both buildings better blow guests socks off to explain...

Nessie’s country cousin.

I’m a fan of “lagoondoggle”.

I don’t even mind the edge lighting and there are a couple of instances where the arms work, but I think they’d be better just stationary and let the water nozzles and lights do all the movement. From certain angles they block a good portion of the Stargate as they aimlessly wave back and forth.

Finally broke down and watched the video of the show. Some cool tech going on, no doubt, but the barges should have been movable and the weird arm appendages seem like an afterthought. I’ll reserve final judgment on that side of the show until I see it in person this week. Pyro was ok, I guess...

Yep, still terrible.

I may have missed a bit here and there, but this project has seemed to manage to stay under wraps pretty well. We’ve had a pic of the ride vehicle and a deliberately ambiguous sketch of the ride path. Seems more would have leaked by now.

Agree. I also don’t follow the whole line that Disney charging for FP is bad for the guest experience, while Uni charging for FP is good for the guest experience. The two parks don’t compare in size or number of people. Basically……it ain’t that simple. Like I said earlier, I don’t disagree with...

I don’t disagree with a lot of that, but some of the Disney/Uni comparisons are apples to oranges or either contradictory. I’m just in for the comments.

Haven’t read the whole thread, so I’m probably the 100th person to say this, but, if so, it needs repeating…….Lightning Lane is the absolute dumbest name they could have possibly come up with. It’s awful.

Me: Quickly searches Amazon for several 55 gallon drums of “turd polish” and types in Epcot’s shipping address.

I don’t think Katrina was a 5 at landfall. Pretty sure I read only 4 have made landfall as a 5…..Labor Day, Camille, Andrew, and Michael. I could be wrong.