Epcot: Skies Pavilion

[DarkMeasures]

I posted a thread of this before saying a certain ride would go to replace the Tommorowland Skyway station.

This lead me to doodle to RCT and made me come up with this concept:

Location: Between Imagination and the Land.

When you first enter this pavilion, a series of small open aired buildings are setting around. (Looks awfully alot like the Skyway station)

Behind these small buildings are two purple towers extending 400 feet into the sky.

Once you pass these small buildings, a fairly large building lies in back. (A little bigger than Rock n' Roller Coaster's sound stage.)

Inside here, people will find various interactive structures on the history of flight. This is basically the only thing kids can do here.

Ride 1: Sky Fall
Type: Custom Launched Free Fall ride.
The hight does not really matter for this ride and the ride could do pretty well at 199 feet, but it would look pretty awsome being 400 feet tall.

The Ride's entrance is in the skyway like entrance of the pavilion. The ride's line will go through various exhibits on the history of skydiving and other extreme air sports. The line also talks about extreme g forces felt on various airplane flights.
This ride is two giant 400 foot towers standing gloriously next to each other. On these towers are giant 32 passenger cars. Each seat is circler in design and attached to a rather interesting device. Once, the passengers are loaded, the cars fly up 400 feet in the air where the passengers do a complete flip in chairs and then face 90 degrees strait down. The ride then shoots at an even faster speed strait down when then the car rotates 180 degrees making the people face strait up, the car launches back up and te people do a couple for flips. Riders will go up the tower 3 timesbefore the ride is over.

Ride 2: Air Force (Sponsored by the U.S. Air Force)
Type: B&M launched enclosed flying coaster.

This ride is loacted in the main building of the pavilion. Here people go through a Airforce base where you are getting ready for a mission over a foreign city. Mission, do a quick spy flight over an enemy city. Riders then board the specially designed flying coaster cars which no matter how hard you try, you can not see the other cars so it feels like you are flying your car. Once riders depart, the train hits the runway of an aircraft carrier, it is here where people feel an intense 0-60 mph launch. Once in the city, the cars get shot by enemy fire and all hell breaks loose.

Ride 3: Dream Flight (not that tommorowland version)
Type: A ride very similiar to Soarin over California.

People, will get to see what the flight of the future may become as they fly over various cities on Earth, space and even Mars.



Sounds cool? I believe the pavilion could save epcot itself even if Mission Space was never built.

What do you people feel about this?

 

[imagineer boy]

Very good. I actually was thinking about an idea like this for a while now. I think the idea for a flight pavillion is a better idea than a weather pavillion. By the way, what does a launching, spinning car up a high tower have to do with the flight theme?

 

[FigmentDream]

Well the flying coaster sounds pretty neat but I don't think that being shot at by enemy fire really belongs in Epcot or anything about war for that matter, Epcot in part is supposed to be about romanticized global harmony.

Why not just make it something about flying in general cut out the military part, like a new type of commercial plane more similar to hang gliding for scenic purposes is being tested and the guests are the first testers and so on.....

I really don't see how Sky Fall fits into at theme park, it seem like something Six Flags would do theming wise, two large visible towers? ect.....

Also while the ride system I must admit is very innovative I think the intensity may be something more than what the typical Disney crowd can handle, and while I am a major supporter of adding thrill to Disney, I think the question needs to be asked, it this ride will simulate sky diving, how many guests would really want to go sky diving or experience something in verisimilitude?

If you really want to put something like this in, make it to a lesser intensity scale enclose the towers and make the ride system seem not existent or part of the theme and have screens on the wall to make it look like breathtaking scenery, but again logically if they are skydiving why do the go back up? Maybe you could make it some sort of new anti-gravity X-Sport where you wear some sort of anti-gravity device (the restraints) and have sort of targeting goal which you could make an interactive element of the ride.

Dreamflight sounds good

On another note, I would disagree that thrill alone would save Epcot, which I believe you were implying, I would contend that quality and awe will bring back Epcot will a dash of thrill here and there, just to balance out the overall ride diversity of the park.

 

[DarkMeasures]

Well for Skyfall I said the ride could also be at 199 feet and still work and if it is at that hight, there wont be much of a veiw obstruction. The main theming for Skyfall is the fact that it is supposed to simulate the fun of skydiving while maintaining a high capacity compared to Slingshot at Old Town.

Now, the flying coaster. Multiple things can be used for theming here. The war thing is just a suggestion but theming can go light very easily.

 

[rzalaskus]

Between Imagination! and Land?

Do you know a secret we don't know. To my knowlege, there is no space between them for a pavilion. This can be verified by looking at an areial map on mapquest.com. However, there IS space between Land and Living Seas.

 

[DarkMeasures]

There is room between Imagination and the Land. That is the location that the Great Movie Ride was going to be built. But since my idea for the skies pavilion would take much more room than the Great Movie Ride would, I guess you might be right.