Bruce Vaughn @ D23 on Universal Creative, Original rides, etc.

Fairybuzz

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BryceM said:
Actually, IOA can be considered literature based. Comic books, children's books, Harry Potter series, Jurassic Park series, mythology, and comic strips. Of course, two of the lands (Harry Potter and Jurassic Park) are based on the movie adaptations. But could you imagine the uproar if Universal didn't do this and took on their own visual adaptation of the books and made a land out of it?! Blasphemy. And the Pharos Lighthouse is designed after the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which I believe also functioned as a library(?). (Someone can correct me if I'm wrong)

And it's funny because only one Universal owned IP (Jurassic Park) is featured in IOA. Then Lost Continent and Port of Entry are original themed lands, and not based on an IP at all. The rest are all licensed from different companies (Marvel, Warner Bros., Jay Ward, Seuss Enterprises).

EDIT: The Lighthouse of Alexandria did not also function as a library, but the Great Library was located in Alexandria.
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Huh never thought about it like that but its true. (Cept for Dudly doo right though I may be wrong)
 
Fairybuzz

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@wedenterprises

Half right imo. The hybrid simulator thing imo is getting old.

on the other hand I thought the attitude puts him in a position that would make him seem really silly if the plans turn out to be lackluster. They start with something grand with all these things then keep chopping things off of it till you have a watered down version.
 
RSoxNo1

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Captain Neo said:
Some interesting observations:

When questioned about competing with Universal Creative (specifically Harry Potter and Transformers) Vaughn basically says "bring it on" and specifically name drops "Star Wars, Marvel and Avatar in addition to feature films" . Marty jumps in right away and says that Disney still has better service and customer care than Universal and is more "magical" (which caused the lifestylers and mommy bloggers to cheer).

When asked about resurecting old attractions Vaughn says "Disney parks aren't museums". He does also mention that when attendance is down at an attraction that does signal that they do need to refresh things (a possible hint for Imagination Pavillion)?
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This was our own @huntzilla with the question about using the DISH system to bring back old attractions.
 
Fairybuzz

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wedenterprises said:
well it depends on your definition of impressive, but Mission:Space had never been done before. Personally it's one of my favourite attractions even though I can only do it once a day.
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Mission space has been done before just not in that form. Its basically gravatron plus Challenger center. Cept less involved. I say it time and time again but why couldn't they just make it the ACTUAL mission instead of some lame training simulation? Mommy when I grow up I wanna TRAIN to be an astronaut in a fake simulator but never actually be one!
 
toolsnspools

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We seem to have slipped right past the most important part of Vaughn's answer to the Uni question. He mentions that when the satisfaction ratings fall low enough they can replace/upgrade the attraction. That was a huge hint for everyone listening: "Can you put your disgust into writing please?" Disney is a numbers driven large corporation. They don't ask every other person to fill out a survey without reason. It drives the direction of the company. The best way to get them to focus on WDW is to answer the surveys negatively and let them know how stale the parks are getting. No need to rant about how much Uni is doing. Simply state that it's been years since anything new has come to 3 of the 4 parks, and that you won't be coming back when the finally finish the mine train ride, if that's the only new thing to do.
 
Tom Morrow

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Fairybuzz said:
Mission space has been done before just not in that form. Its basically gravatron plus Challenger center. Cept less involved. I say it time and time again but why couldn't they just make it the ACTUAL mission instead of some lame training simulation? Mommy when I grow up I wanna TRAIN to be an astronaut in a fake simulator but never actually be one!
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Could be because due to the design of the centrifuge, its pretty impossible to theme the simulators to look like you're getting into an actual space shuttle.
 
lazyboy97o

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toolsnspools said:
We seem to have slipped right past the most important part of Vaughn's answer to the Uni question. He mentions that when the satisfaction ratings fall low enough they can replace/upgrade the attraction. That was a huge hint for everyone listening: "Can you put your disgust into writing please?" Disney is a numbers driven large corporation. They don't ask every other person to fill out a survey without reason. It drives the direction of the company. The best way to get them to focus on WDW is to answer the surveys negatively and let them know how stale the parks are getting. No need to rant about how much Uni is doing. Simply state that it's been years since anything new has come to 3 of the 4 parks, and that you won't be coming back when the finally finish the mine train ride, if that's the only new thing to do.
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Disney Research is well known for getting predetermined results.
 
TP2000

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HMF said:
Bruce Vaughn sounds quite arrogant.
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Well, yeah, he kinda does.

But I think some of that simply has to come with the territory. These are creative people, and the under-50 "creatives" of the 21st century are notoriously arrogant. They are hipper than you, and they go to the cool bars and restaurants three months before you do, and they know it.

But on the official Hipster Arrogance Scale of 1 to 10, Bruce Vaughn is only about a 4. He's got the cool linen sport coat with the thin lapels over the Ben Sherman shirt, but you can tell he is trying very hard to be nice to the superfans in the audience. Which is something someone at a 6 or above on the Hipster Arrogance Scale wouldn't bother doing. But Bruce was kind enough to go along with it, at least on that one August weekend in Anaheim, so you have to give him props for that.

Plus, Bruce Vaughn had this really, really old guy (Marty Sklar) sitting next to him wearing an uncool sport coat with much wider lapels who rambled into a semi-embarrassing story about "effeminate" male ballet dancers actually being kind of okay, so Bruce knows that automatically takes him down two full notches on the Hipster Totem Pole.

But he still went to a cool new restaurant that night that you won't know about for three more months. :cool:
 
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Fairybuzz

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Tom Morrow said:
Could be because due to the design of the centrifuge, its pretty impossible to theme the simulators to look like you're getting into an actual space shuttle.
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They coulda done it like an airplane loading thing.

Its still kinda dorky. I bet 97% of kids who ride it pretend its the actual mission anyway. The rest don't know whats going on
 
lazyboy97o

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Fairybuzz said:
They coulda done it like an airplane loading thing.

Its still kinda dorky. I bet 97% of kids who ride it pretend its the actual mission anyway. The rest don't know whats going on
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How does that deal with the large circular building? Or that your net physical movement is zero?
 
Fairybuzz

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lazyboy97o said:
How does that deal with the large circular building? Or that your net physical movement is zero?
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Simple you just press a loader up to the vehicle, so that it just loads right into the vehicle rather than letting you see anything else (the actual pod you sit in would have to be a different shape) then the loader retracts as the ride begins
 
Tom Morrow

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That's extremely complicated, especially considering there are 10 capsules per centrifuge.

I think most people do think its a "real" training mission and not a simulation of a training simulation. People also get confused because Gary Sinese says "Welcome to Mars!" at the end.
 

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