That 16 hour day thing is just so..... 2000. Time for visitors to ratchet down those expectations.Speaking of time travel, I have a comment about the time this ride opens each morning.
Disneyland's off-season is quickly coming to an end. For the past four days the park has opened at 8am and closed at 11pm or Midnight, in a ramp up to the much busier Presidents Day vacation week that starts this Friday. Disneyland will open at 8am for 10 days in a row from Friday the 14th thru Monday the 24th.
But this past weekend they had four consecutive days when the ride just can't open on time, and usually opens an hour late around 9am. It's best day was Saturday when it managed an 8:40am opening, it's worst was yesterday when it didn't open until 9:10am. This morning it opened at 8:55am, and has currently been closed for the past three hours.
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They are already closing the ride down hours before Disneyland officially closes for the night, and yet they still can't get the ride turned around and ready to open at 8am. Presidents Day week will be busy as I mentioned, and then two weeks later they start Spring Break when Disneyland will be open 8am to Midnight basically for a month straight.
Knowing this now, the whole Boarding Group concept now makes much more sense, as TDA obviously knew they were about to open a failing turkey of a ride system and they had to manage the mess in an entirely new way.
But how much longer do we think it will be like this? Does it get better in a few months, or a few years?
I would think this level of functionality and availability in a very expensive new E Ticket, designed for a theme park routinely open 16 hours per day, would be unacceptable and people would lose their jobs over this. But maybe all the high paid execs in Glendale are just patting each other on the back and chuckling at the idiot tourists and idiot theme park operators they suckered yet again?
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Disneyland's Rise Of The Resistance - Reviews, Criticism, Deep Thoughts
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RobWDW1971
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You saw their lack of respect for "ops people" in the WDI documentary when she was talking about telling them what the Falcon was going to do - stupid operators, what do they know?Speaking of time travel, I have a comment about the time this ride opens each morning.
Disneyland's off-season is quickly coming to an end. For the past four days the park has opened at 8am and closed at 11pm or Midnight, in a ramp up to the much busier Presidents Day vacation week that starts this Friday. Disneyland will open at 8am for 10 days in a row from Friday the 14th thru Monday the 24th.
But this past weekend they had four consecutive days when the ride just can't open on time, and usually opens an hour late around 9am. It's best day was Saturday when it managed an 8:40am opening, it's worst was yesterday when it didn't open until 9:10am. This morning it opened at 8:55am, and has currently been closed for the past three hours.
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They are already closing the ride down hours before Disneyland officially closes for the night, and yet they still can't get the ride turned around and ready to open at 8am. Presidents Day week will be busy as I mentioned, and then two weeks later they start Spring Break when Disneyland will be open 8am to Midnight basically for a month straight.
Knowing this now, the whole Boarding Group concept now makes much more sense, as TDA obviously knew they were about to open a failing turkey of a ride system and they had to manage the mess in an entirely new way.
But how much longer do we think it will be like this? Does it get better in a few months, or a few years?
I would think this level of functionality and availability in a very expensive new E Ticket, designed for a theme park routinely open 16 hours per day, would be unacceptable and people would lose their jobs over this. But maybe all the high paid execs in Glendale are just patting each other on the back and chuckling at the idiot tourists and idiot theme park operators they suckered yet again?
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What a mess. Nothing is going well for Rise of Resistance and Galaxy's Edge. I suppose they are making their money nonetheless, but how much more could they have made with a Star Wars Land that people actually wanted and fully functional rides. I'll pass on visiting Disneyland for awhile. Maybe next January. What's another year of waiting? Avengers Campus will open. I'll be delightfully disappointed again.
Phroobar
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It will just cost more next year.
flynnibus
Premium Member
Please re read what I wrote...
“We’re coming from disney’s Most ambitious physical indoor environment ever done in terms of real, tactile things, full 360 environments...”
I wasn’t referri to the attraction as a whole... or what is the best or most thrilling or things beyond what I wrote. “Most ambitious physical indoor environment ever done in terms of real, tactile things, full 360 environments”
Fans dissect attractions left and right and try to justify how “disney” something is by these traits they expect of attractions... or usually by what they are missing (like in the case of tsmm). No matter how fun it may be for some... it’s just not “disney” to them or not good enough because it fails in these picked tenants. They hold these traits as currency in what is disney. And in the physical space/set world... this is a pinnacle... yet the reference to what is almost assuredly be some video heavy ride as what they hope will be better... I just can’t help but do a double take on.
Splash still very much has fixed pov sets that happen to frequently be on both sides of the ride path but is still mostly “view from this position” designs... with open tops... set lighting all around... and a big honking water flume in the middle. Pirates and rsr both are similar.
TrainsOfDisney
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I don’t remember much visible show lighting in splash. It’s mostly hidden in tree branches. And there is visible show lighting in Rise in the Kylo scene.
I read what you wrote, I disagree with it.
Californian Elitist
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Correct. I said I hope I’m more impressed by the ride...when it actually opens.
Literally no one has talked about how much “funner” the Avengers ride is because it’s not open.
Stop generalizing purist fans. The likelihood of me enjoying the Avengers ride as much as I enjoy classics such as Pirates and Mansion doesn’t exist at all. So for that reason, I simply want to be entertained. I’m not going to be extra critical. I went in with the same mindset with Rise and found it to be a fun, but okay ride. I wasn’t very impressed. So yeah, hoping the Avengers ride will entertain me more... When it opens.
mickEblu
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It’s really not that complex. Something Can be ambitious or can be the pinnacle Of whatever category you want but if Spiderman ends up being more fun and repeatable than ROTR oh well. This isn’t anything new. I would wager most people have more fun on TSMM than POTC on any given day. So what? Those same people would probably acknowledge that POTC is the better attraction. In the end I’m glad that we have a variety of attractions. I don’t want a park full of simulators or shooters no matter how fun and repeatable they are.
It’s also a matter of known vs the unknown. We know what GE is. We don’t know what Marvel Land will be but the odds are it’s rides will be more fun and the land will have more energy based off what we know. Unless they cut everything out again of course.
flynnibus
Premium Member
All you have to do is look up vs at the flat sightlines to the ground sets in nearly every scene and see the tops of the back of the sets and of course the rigging behind the vines used to obscure the ceiling. And don't look back after you've passed scene (pirates is the same).. and don't look opposite a show scene...
Splash is very much your typical field of view set design... built based on the rider's line of focus. I already mentioned there are show lights seen in RoTR... but the environments are still 360 way beyond anything in splash or others before it.
Well when you try to bring up stuff completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.. how can anyone tell.
Curious Constance
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I’m assuming Marvel will be worse than Star Wars, but advanced, integrated, 360 sets aren’t gonna go nearly as far as they should and would with me if the ride was also something I found to be fun and based on something I had an even remote interest in.
I’m not going to be sitting on the ride with a bored/angry look on my face the whole time, but I can almost guarantee I won’t be longing to repeat it over and over.
I can see myself sitting on Spider-Man with a bored and angry look though.
I’m not going to be sitting on the ride with a bored/angry look on my face the whole time, but I can almost guarantee I won’t be longing to repeat it over and over.
I can see myself sitting on Spider-Man with a bored and angry look though.
mickEblu
Well-Known Member
So - we've all agreed Mission Breakout is a super fun attraction now, right?
Not as fun as TOT but sure. I mean it still goes up and down right?
DarkMetroid567
Well-Known Member
This is where your argument is failing though. You're trying to prove something you literally cannot prove. The more people voice their disagreements, the worse it gets.
So - we've all agreed Mission Breakout is a super fun attraction now, right?
Weirdly enough, yes. A large majority of my friends prefer Mission Breakout to DCA Tower of Terror, including those who were angry to see ToT go, and even here its rep seems to have gone on up.
Californian Elitist
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A better and clearer way of wording it, in my opinion, is “...hope for the Avengers ride to be a better experience...”
My point is Rise didn’t deliver enough for me. Hopefully I will be more entertained by the Avengers ride.
Californian Elitist
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That’s what it seems like, for sure.
Californian Elitist
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So - we've all agreed Mission Breakout is a super fun attraction now, right?
I don’t think any of us have denied the ride is still fun. However, the placement is all wrong. That’s been a consistent gripe, as well as the fact that it’s a re-skin of what was once a more thematically-appropriate ride.
George Lucas on a Bench
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Unless it's closed for the rest of the day.