Some people just can't handle the truth, especially if your life revolves around a certain unhealthy obsession... The last thing you want to hear is the truth about something you think is perfect... Flaws??? They can't handle the truth of hearing about flaws... And yes, this goes for both Disney obsessed fans and Uni obsessed fans...
Not really, I understand a figure like Urlsa needs to ave that huge range of motion, but at the same time, two of the figures in the 7DMT we have seen are doing a task - pulling a rope and using a pick on a rock... they are not meant to do more than that. And they are not simple rocking back and forth on a pivot. There is complex motion in what they are doing.
I would not need to "complain" about the figures had people on these boards and Disney themselves not lied about how "amazing" they were. As Martin said, the figures look good. But not complex or nearly as good as people are claiming (the detail is again coming from a video screen and the surrounding figures don't move much). Nor are they what should be acceptable for the ridiculous pricetag and construction period this ride has commanded. It's absolutely absurd to make claims that these are the best AA's they've ever created. Their physical motions are again outdone by Disney's AA's from the 1960's, let alone immensely more advanced rides like Splash Mountain or Sinbad. And you generally see well less than 20 seconds of the scenes in those rides as well.
It doesn't. But not everything that isn't the greatest thing ever has to be claimed as such by users on this forum and Disney. Nor do such non-greatest things ever have to cost so much and take so long to build. We were told to expect the greatest thing ever, and even now after seeing them Disney is still trying to make claims that they're some sort of achievement they've never made before...
Complex motion today is beyond just a pivot and recognizing something as not being complex is not a "bash." You yourself are admitting they are not "THE GREATEST THING EVER" and that is what is being recognized by acknowledging the realities of these figures and the scope of this attraction. Nobody who has been following the good information ever expected an E-Ticket but many have been calling out those who are over selling.
I really hope they don't become the new thing. The charm of dark rides, especially the ones at Disneyland, is their simplicity and strength of composition. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is almost entirely flats and still loads of fun. The small dark rides don't need overly animated faces that are entirely different from the simplicity of everything else. I think the obsession with the big features are part of why The Little Mermaid faltered.
To each his own, even though I see very little of "big features" in the little mermaid, in fact most of those figures remind me of many of the old dark rides. Especially in the under the sea room. From what everyone is saying it seems like something along this line of technology is going to be used for the Queen of hearts in alice in wonderland once it opens up. I just think there is a warmth to these projections that static figures or cutouts can't really compare with.
I think Ariel, Ursula and the size of "Under the Sea" are the big features. They're supposed to be impressive and grand, but then you go right to a static figure spinning.
They are indeed the highlights of that attraction, ursula in particular. But the dwarves themselves to me are animated in a way that is superior to Ariel's plasticity. But you have a good point, makes no sense to have such articulated figures and then go into a scene where everything is sort of lifeless. It would have been far nicer if all of the figures in the under the sea room were just as expressive as their film counterparts, but that would require a budget that would never get approved in todays day and age. But I think the dwarves and lumiere do offer something that many of the old static figures couldn't, which is why I think they belong in dark rides.
I never was on the E-Ticket band wagon... It's not. It's a kid's ride in Fantasyland that parents can enjoy with them. (Admission, I have three kids between 9-7 -- that includes twins), so yeah, this is in my demographic.)
How does you attacking people for NOT being impressed by a ride amount to anything more than what you're harping on others for doing?
I do agree it is an opinion, but I think you misunderstood the "people like you" part. I don't think he meant that you were acting like an insider who claimed to know they were brilliant. I believe he means that they are nice figures but not the second coming like some people are acting. Again, that is a matter of opinion, not truth. One of you may have more background info on the technology and advancement of AAs, so one of your opinions may be more justified, but it is all just a clash of opinion, possibly backed up by facts on either side.
