WED Purist
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Did anyone see the video on the local news (Chanel 6 in Olrlando?) last night of a flyover of the site?
Did anyone see the video on the local news (Chanel 6 in Olrlando?) last night of a flyover of the site?
I tried about 14 different websites in addition to general web searches with no luck.yeah if anyone sees this please link
Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse.I would hope that all this up and down the staircase stuff is heavily themed, for one. Does anyone else think it's a bit odd that Disney would have it's frequently stroller and ECV equipped audience mounting multiple stairwells to get to an attraction? I can't get my mind around it. Even if there are elevators . . .
I can get the idea of 'climbing the rocks to get to the Banshees' in concept--and it wouldn't bother me to do so, but I am interested to see how they deal with it.
What other Disney attractions require a lot of stairs? Hmm. A little at Splash Mountain, a little at Big Thunder . . . what else?
I would hope that all this up and down the staircase stuff is heavily themed, for one. Does anyone else think it's a bit odd that Disney would have it's frequently stroller and ECV equipped audience mounting multiple stairwells to get to an attraction? I can't get my mind around it. Even if there are elevators . . .
I can get the idea of 'climbing the rocks to get to the Banshees' in concept--and it wouldn't bother me to do so, but I am interested to see how they deal with it.
What other Disney attractions require a lot of stairs? Hmm. A little at Splash Mountain, a little at Big Thunder . . . what else?
E-ticket queue is above a portion of the C-ticket boat ride. Boat ride is at grade (ground level) with a 2-story-ish tall show building. Queue is above that.
Since that portion of the queue is flat, I'm assuming it ramps up through the mountain on the outside of the building, or at least north of the extent of these plans.
Queue for E-ticket enters that show building around the "3rd floor" height. From there, guests are distributed up and down to the various boarding levels of the simulator ride.
And from everything I've been able to tell, guests exit the simulator ride via multi-story staircases (which can be seen at the quadrants of the building). There is no evidence of long down ramps, but there are elevators for those who are not ambulatory.
Sort of like the Aladdin show at DCA.
Here's my interpretation of the floorplan. The general flow is that all of the theaters will load on a single level, the same as the queue.
The merge point is to the right of the dark-gray "box". This leads down a hallway to some kind of central chamber. From there you'll be sent into one of four briefing rooms (think the distribution point at Mission Space). These briefing rooms are the four rooms between the central area and the ride chamber.
From the briefing room, you'll enter the ride chamber single-file one row at a time through the single door (that goes through a kind of vestibule) leading from the preshow room to the ride chamber.
The ride system loads at queue level, though since it's on the 2nd or 3rd floor there's a "pit" under the ride vehicle as it's sitting at the load/unload level. The ride vehicle will then pivot to a vertical position in front of the screen. At the end of the ride, the riders will exit through the single door opposite from where they entered. This will put the riders leaving the top two theaters in the blueprint to leave the building directly through the two sets of double-doors at the very top of the blueprint.
But the riders from the lower two theaters will have to go down (or up) a set of stairs, cross straight through the center of the building and back up/down to the regular level of everything else to exit using the stairways on either side of the previously-mentioned double-doors and exit with the other theaters.
Presumably anyone with a wheelchair or mobility issues will be routed to the upper two theaters so that they can avoid the stairs.
-Rob
I would hope that all this up and down the staircase stuff is heavily themed, for one. Does anyone else think it's a bit odd that Disney would have it's frequently stroller and ECV equipped audience mounting multiple stairwells to get to an attraction? I can't get my mind around it. Even if there are elevators . . .
I can get the idea of 'climbing the rocks to get to the Banshees' in concept--and it wouldn't bother me to do so, but I am interested to see how they deal with it.
What other Disney attractions require a lot of stairs? Hmm. A little at Splash Mountain, a little at Big Thunder . . . what else?
So you are thinking that this is a ride system that will load on a single level, not multiple levels as has been speculated?
After seeing this and the building layout, this is what I've been presuming the ride system will be based on.
Going for a bit of armchair Imagineering for a moment and running with the Back to the Future/Simpsons loading style, you could theoretically build a false ceiling, perhaps a front wall, to encapsulate the ride seats when it's in the load/unload position. This would hide the fact that you're in a theater with a giant screen, something that doesn't really work with Soarin, where you see that there's a huge ride structure above you and the screen up in front of you.
Now imagine if you're loading into these seats in some kind of room, not really knowing what you're about to do, the room goes dark, in the darkness the ceiling and front wall disappear, you feel the movement of the seats and suddenly you're flying...
-Rob
The other possibility that has been discussed around here is that it would be this ride system:
http://www.vekoma.com/index.php/specialities-and-attractions/panoramic-flight-simulator
personally I would prefer this system to the other one that's being talked aboutThe other possibility that has been discussed around here is that it would be this ride system:
http://www.vekoma.com/index.php/specialities-and-attractions/panoramic-flight-simulator
After seeing this and the building layout, this is what I've been presuming the ride system will be based on.
Going for a bit of armchair Imagineering for a moment and running with the Back to the Future/Simpsons loading style, you could theoretically build a false ceiling, perhaps a front wall, to encapsulate the ride seats when it's in the load/unload position. This would hide the fact that you're in a theater with a giant screen, something that doesn't really work with Soarin, where you see that there's a huge ride structure above you and the screen up in front of you.
Now imagine if you're loading into these seats in some kind of room, not really knowing what you're about to do, the room goes dark, in the darkness the ceiling and front wall disappear, you feel the movement of the seats and suddenly you're flying...
-Rob
The other possibility that has been discussed around here is that it would be this ride system:
http://www.vekoma.com/index.php/specialities-and-attractions/panoramic-flight-simulator
I guess that's also a possibility, though looking over the plans with my bf who's an architect he didn't see that there was enough space for compliant ramps. *Maybe* in the long stretch between the Merge room and the central area.
-Rob
There's plenty of room for the necessary ramping to each of the three load levels.
Quick question... I had never noticed before that the boat ride portion actual has the wording "C Ticket Showbox" on it. Is the term C Ticket actually a real term that would be used on real plans or was that added by fans/posters after the fact?
I always assumed that the letter ticket thing was just an unofficial designation placed on rides by fans (using the old ticket model as a guideline). I would find it very surprising if real Disney engineers would ever put that kind of term on paper. Not trying to cast any sort of aspersions on the legitimacy of this artwork or anything. Just really curious about it and very surprised that they would do that. Any insight that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.
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