George Lucas on a Bench
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Not into heavy metal?
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Avengers Campus - Reactions / Reviews
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Not into heavy metal?
BubbaisSleep
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Absolutely not true for the Michael jackson song they played. I had your opinion as well with the little bounces until my last ride. I forgot what song it was but it was MJ & the elevator went crazy for that song. Full drops & the ride felt even a little longer due to the chaos between big drops and little bounces.
Edit: did some research, it was the Jackson 5. That version is the absolute best!
SuddenStorm
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I Want You Back and Burning Love are my two favorites.
The drop profile for Born To Be Wild is far and away my least favorite and quickly becomes boring in my opinion.
This also dives into the issue of having some profiles that are far better than others, not every ride is the best it can be.
Professortango1
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Poorly executed. Usually it was met with people laughing. Same with the corny floating window followed by the doors slowly closing in silence.
Just saying, there's a reason TDS wanted the newer version of the attraction.
TrainsOfDisney
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I haven’t ridden Floridas tower in over a year but isn’t that when the voiceover starts? “You are about to see what lies beyond the fifth dimension..” that voiceover while moving forward into the darkness is one of my favorite parts of the attraction.
Rodj
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Wrong again. I created a special playlist containing many videos where the drop sequence starts immediately or close after Mark Silverman says the last word: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMFhecyKwIXOHf83zXT__AUhw1cdqnJuV
ToTBellHop
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He clearly has no idea what he’s talking about. The FL ToT has exquisite pacing when the audio aligns and effects work. Most guests prefer it greatly over the old DCA version.
George Lucas on a Bench
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In the original ride at MGM, you actually saw Rod Serling at the end. Why did they get rid of that?
Avengers Campus AKA the Tower of Terror thread.
Avengers Campus AKA the Tower of Terror thread.
Kram Sacul
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I like how just about everyone here got bored of talking about the lame Spider-Mania ride and would rather discuss the various Tower of Terrors.
As fun as Mission: Box Office is it can’t hold a candle to the amount of dread DCA’s ToT had. If only they had implemented more than one profile.
As fun as Mission: Box Office is it can’t hold a candle to the amount of dread DCA’s ToT had. If only they had implemented more than one profile.
George Lucas on a Bench
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I haven't fully written off Spider-Man, but my expectations are very low.
It was not an operational nightmare. Tower is actually pretty reliable and having worked there for years, the idea that somehow the AGV system was unreliable or caused a lot of downtimes (after the first few months) was nothing but Disney trying to explain away their decision to cut the budget (along with the necessity of smaller building footprints) on the newer versions.
Having said that, it is not the ride system that is at fault (boarding into an actual elevator IS much cooler than walking through an unthemed hallway and boarding into a ride vehicle that has to back up into a shaft), but rather the slapped together fifth dimension that should have been "plussed" during a refurb to make the effects far cooler than they currently are.
Lastly, once you pass the starfield doors, there is a bit of dialogue that plays (you are about to discover...) as the vehicle is pulling into the VVC (perhaps you've never paid attention). Silence is only there for a 4-5 seconds, which makes it quiet suspenseful.
Yes. The TZ IP wasn’t considered well known enough in Japanese culture.
Both versions of Breakout are fun, in a travelling fair drop tower kind of fun. But they do a disservice to the building, the ride system, and pale in comparison to the original theming.
As has been said earlier, the Orlando tower - when everything is maintained - was and still is a pinnacle of WDI. Including the ride system.
SuddenStorm
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The Spider Man ride will be better than Smuggler's Run.
Let's hope its better than Smuggler's Run, but expectations are extremely low. Im probably in the minority, but I kind of despise any rides with interactive elements. Buzz, Toy Story, SR, Monsters Inc in Tokyo are some of my least favorite rides, so I doubt ill like this one.
As for the tower discussion. WDW is still the GOAT (when properly working). The other, drop only versions always felt cheap, and without the 3rd dimension, kind of a waste of the TZ IP, imo. Mission Breakout was honestly one of the funnest experiences we have had in quite a while (we rode it 10 times in one day). Tokyo's is great, as it has an origina story and the theming is impeccable. Going to Paris studios in May for the first time (didnt go last time we went to DLP), but Im assuming it wont change my opinion.
As for the tower discussion. WDW is still the GOAT (when properly working). The other, drop only versions always felt cheap, and without the 3rd dimension, kind of a waste of the TZ IP, imo. Mission Breakout was honestly one of the funnest experiences we have had in quite a while (we rode it 10 times in one day). Tokyo's is great, as it has an origina story and the theming is impeccable. Going to Paris studios in May for the first time (didnt go last time we went to DLP), but Im assuming it wont change my opinion.
ToTBellHop
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You still see him...lots of WDW TOT “experts” in this thread...
Animaniac93-98
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Well technically ToT is a part of Avengers Campus.
Now imagine telling someone back when it opened in 2004 that the ride would become part of a Marvel Comics Land in less than 15 years, and be based on a bunch of characters they'd never heard of.
RobWDW1971
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And that the Guardians are being held hostage right in the middle of the Avengers training campus. Because....um....WDI.
Mission Breakout is going to look really weird next to Avengers Campus, as if they didn't think about the future of the park. The Avengers campus will have a more industrial aesthetic and modern, while Mission Breakout is just ugly.
Do yall think that they're goinf redo the façade of Mission Breakout?
Do yall think that they're goinf redo the façade of Mission Breakout?
mickEblu
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No but don’t forget the Avengers aren’t aware of the situation yet. In this Meta Avengers Campus that the Avengers set up in California Adventure they are not aware of the tower yet since it came out of nowhere (KABOOM). So the backstory for GOTG:MB in relationship to the rest of the land permanently takes place in the first 5 seconds of the tower landing. Before the Avengers look outside to hear what the noise was all about.
RobWDW1971
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I just can’t....
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