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Avatar Flight of Passage vs The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man
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Both rides are incredible and use the absolute best in screen, 3D, and sensory effects. Which is the better ride?
Disstevefan1
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Love both attractions and when it came out, I considered Spider-Man the best attraction in central Florida. I now consider FOP the best attraction in central Florida.
Flight of Passage is a really nice simulator with pretty visuals. Still, it's just a simulator with pretty visuals. I'll take the hybrid dark ride any day. It just has more going for it. Although I will say FoP has a much better queue. I still wish they had refurbished Spider-Man's queue during the upgrade to 4K.
Tom Morrow
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This one's really tough. I suppose I would maybe give the slight edge to Flight of Passage for its very unique focus on being a transcendent, beautiful experience while Spider-Man does the more standard chaos/you're being attacked thing. Flight of Passage also has one of the best queues in the world, vs. Spiderman's which is rather drab and cheap.
lightningtap347
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Flight of Passage loses it's luster after multiple rides. Spider-Man is more dynamic and physical, and I enjoy it more.
Spiderman.
A dark ride ultimately will win even with a simulator being the best a simulator can be, it is ultimately a motion-based simulator.
Spiderman did what great simulators did before like Back to the Future and what Flight of Passage does and gave it better blinders with a focus of it being a dark ride too.
Also, 40-inch height requirement for being more accessible, more practical effects in ride and much better capacity makes it a win.
A dark ride ultimately will win even with a simulator being the best a simulator can be, it is ultimately a motion-based simulator.
Spiderman did what great simulators did before like Back to the Future and what Flight of Passage does and gave it better blinders with a focus of it being a dark ride too.
Also, 40-inch height requirement for being more accessible, more practical effects in ride and much better capacity makes it a win.
cheezbat
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Spider man hands down. For something that’s over 23 years old, it still sits as a technological marvel (see what I did there?) and utilizes not only screens and motion vehicles, but practical effects, fire, 3-d, and is just plain fun. FoP is fun, but I’d take a full dark ride over a simulator any day.
WDWFREAK53
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This is a tough one but I'm going with Spider-Man...but only based on the actual ride itself. Everything else goes to Flight of Passage.
OG Runner
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I do not believe it is cut and dry, as some people here do. I do believe the edge goes to Flight of Passage though. It feels more realistic.
The spots during the ride that you land for a moment and feel your banshee breathing brings it to a higher level. Spider-Man though a
great ride is pretty much the same as Transformers. There is nothing else like Flight of Passage. Just as an aside I feel the same way about
Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. The unique ride system makes is an exceptional experience.
The spots during the ride that you land for a moment and feel your banshee breathing brings it to a higher level. Spider-Man though a
great ride is pretty much the same as Transformers. There is nothing else like Flight of Passage. Just as an aside I feel the same way about
Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. The unique ride system makes is an exceptional experience.
WDWFREAK53
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You're correct...but Transformers isn't close to Flight of Passage IMO...Spider-Man is on par.
Transformers is too chaotic with a really subpar storyline and lack of physical sets.
It's not fair to Flight of Passage to just call it a screen-based simulator even though at it's core, that's all it is. The ride system is paired perfectly to the story being told. It truly is a beautiful attraction.
LittleMerman
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FOP is the best ride I've ever been on. Spider-Man is fun but there's no comparison to me.
OG Runner
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I have to disagree. I went to WDW in January of this year. It was my girlfriends favorite and we actually
even paid the extra on Genie+ to ride it a few times. You can experience different things just by looking
around during the ride. On Spiderman you are in a "cart" experiencing the ride. On FOP you feel like you
are riding a Banshee.
Tom Morrow
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Though I voted for FOP I do have to agree that it does lose some of it's wow factor after a few rides. The first time I rode it it felt like an amazing out-of-body experience. After five or so rides it now just feels like another simulator. A top notch one, but I would say Spider-Man has more re-rideability due to moving through physical environments while creating physical horizontal movement.
But when trying to imagine my first ride on both, FOP is the clear winner for me. It subverts theme park ride tropes and expectations in a way that almost no other ride has. From the use of an IP without even remotely feeling like marketing for the existing film, to the ridiculously beautiful and epic queue that is tranquil and feels like a long trek on another planet, to the ride experience which is almost completely devoid of theme park tropes such as things going wrong or getting attacked (a creature attacks you for like 5 seconds). Or the halfway point where you pause in the cave for an incredibly beautiful moment of peace. Or the end where your avatar link is severed and you smash cut from this beautiful other-worldly sunset and fanfare back to the cold, sterile lab equipment hearing nothing but silence and beeping. It's all absolutely masterfully done.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man = there's bad guys, and they're attacking you.
But when trying to imagine my first ride on both, FOP is the clear winner for me. It subverts theme park ride tropes and expectations in a way that almost no other ride has. From the use of an IP without even remotely feeling like marketing for the existing film, to the ridiculously beautiful and epic queue that is tranquil and feels like a long trek on another planet, to the ride experience which is almost completely devoid of theme park tropes such as things going wrong or getting attacked (a creature attacks you for like 5 seconds). Or the halfway point where you pause in the cave for an incredibly beautiful moment of peace. Or the end where your avatar link is severed and you smash cut from this beautiful other-worldly sunset and fanfare back to the cold, sterile lab equipment hearing nothing but silence and beeping. It's all absolutely masterfully done.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man = there's bad guys, and they're attacking you.
BubbaisSleep
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While this shouldn't change one's opinion on what's better, I think it's a considerable mention how Spiderman was ahead of it's time and a huge technological advancement for theme park rides. It wasn't an easy ride to build at the time. I can't believe this ride is over 20 years old and holds up so well and even much better than newer Spiderman rides recently developed.
FOP is simply amazing and probably the best screen-based simulator in the world. The picture is so clear and perfect, I miss the ride quite often being on the west coast. Also that queue is so beautiful, I don't mind waiting in that line.
FOP is simply amazing and probably the best screen-based simulator in the world. The picture is so clear and perfect, I miss the ride quite often being on the west coast. Also that queue is so beautiful, I don't mind waiting in that line.
SpectreJordan
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FOP is a lot of fun but I definitely think it’s overrated. It’s just sort of the next step in the evolution of Soarin’ IMO. It either needed some thrills or some physical sets to truly wow me.
Spider-Man gets the advantage because it has some real sets. I wish there was a way to update the story though. The voice acting & Hydro-Man/Scream need to go.
Spider-Man gets the advantage because it has some real sets. I wish there was a way to update the story though. The voice acting & Hydro-Man/Scream need to go.
WDWFREAK53
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IMO, where FoP fails is the "flying on a banshee."
The movements and visuals definitely give you the sensation, but if we are to be linked with our Avatar, wouldn't we actually see our banshee? Our POV is through the banshee's eyes rather than being through the banshee rider's eyes. I know it's a nit-picky thing but it's one issue I've had with it since my first ride.
Does anybody else feel this way?
The movements and visuals definitely give you the sensation, but if we are to be linked with our Avatar, wouldn't we actually see our banshee? Our POV is through the banshee's eyes rather than being through the banshee rider's eyes. I know it's a nit-picky thing but it's one issue I've had with it since my first ride.
Does anybody else feel this way?