20K homage in Mermaid

[ExtinctJenn]

Front planter is in shape of the Horizon's building too!
http://goo.gl/maps/nfVf

I'm so glad you posted that because I've told people that before and was argued with.

 

[Captain Neo]

From the comments section:

"LOVE the nod to 20k!! one of my favorite rides. But i watched Little Mermaid on repeat as a kid… so i can’t wait to take part of this journey under the sea. and i can’t wait to have a whole new experianced for MY kids (when we have them)"

This reads like a plant

 

[Buried20KLeague]

I agree--it'll have long lines for awhile (when it is the only new thing at WDW). But it won't always be the newest thing at WDW and I think it will end up overshadowed with short lines after a few years. It's no Haunted Mansion but it does have a similar hourly capacity, so once it is no longer new, I would expect shorter lines than the HM has--10-15 minutes at most for much of the year.

The Mine Ride, on the other hand, has a novelty (it's arguably a unique coaster that is also kid friendly) that should maintain popularity long-term.

You're forgetting about FP+, which will artifically inflate wait times for nearly all attractions, even high capacity rides that should never be plagued with being added to the system.

This ride (and many others) will have longer lines because of FP+, basically, forever.

 

[montyz81]

I'm so glad you posted that because I've told people that before and was argued with.

My question is, what tribute to WOM will exist when TT 2.0 opens in the winter? I really hope that the initial idea for WOM will come to fruition in this redo... In the last 30 years, the transportation pavilion has seen the original idea completed through 2 different ride systems.. now they need to bring it all together in this 2.0 redo. Original idea included a slow AA type ride with a fast outside track.

 

[Uncle Lupe]

Is any information available to the ambiance of the line? With the water features will we hear crashing waves outside? I know about Scuttles scavenger hunt. Will we hear movie inspired music, bubbling water and underwater sounds or nothing at all inside?

 

[Pixiedustmaker]

The line for Mermaid at DCA is routinely walk on. Yes, the animatronics are great but for some reason, this was a one and done for me. Hopefully the lines are long so it takes people away from other good stuff in the park.

Mermaid is not like PIrates, or HM, which sort of become a trip staple for some guests going to Disneyland. The animatronics are supposedly more advanced, (though a lot of the animatronics added to Pirates in Disneyland look great), but they are right in your face as they got cheap and didn't build a big enough show-building.You can see Ariel's different "parts" the eyelids and such, and so it ruins the effect. It's like they want you to judge the ride on just the animatronics, which are something like two feet away from you, and forget that they bungled the atmosphere of the ride.

The ride props are meant to be used in a dark ride, yet they don't use dark ride lighting, but lighting like Smal World . . . if you used this type of lighting in Peter Pan everything would look fake.

Don't get me wrong, I like the film, and it could have become an E-Ticket, but they went cheap with it in certain integral areas of ride development. The Kiss the Girl scene could be good, but its copied right from the film but there isn't enough room for a lot of "trees", the fish and water looks 100% fake because they move so slow, and annoyingly, Eric and Ariel animatronics move really slow and the lighting on them is 100% wrong in that it doesn't look cute and romantic like the scene in the film, more of the "We want credit for this expensive animatronic, forget that everything else looks fake in this ride."

Some of the scenes look like they ran out of money. They literally re-used animatronics from earlier in the ride in the finale and it looks horrible as they are dancing the exact same way from the "Under the Sea" scene, yet the music is different! They apparently didn't have enough money for more than one Ursula animatronic, so they used a tiny paper cut of Urusla that is eight inches tall and supposedly is her being destroyed, but really you hardly notice it and look like she is just wiggling about!

Horrible.

 

[mouse_luv]

I love when Disney hides little details like this.