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Indiana Jones Adventure refurbishment
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SplashJacket
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HOLY
LANDED IN LA LAST NIGHT
SO HYPE
Was disappointed I wasn’t gonna get to do Indy, but we’re with some friends who’ve never done it so was really disappointed for them, but now SO HYPE
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WE WERE JUMPING
So excited!
Will ride tomorrow!
LANDED IN LA LAST NIGHT
SO HYPE
Was disappointed I wasn’t gonna get to do Indy, but we’re with some friends who’ve never done it so was really disappointed for them, but now SO HYPE
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WE WERE JUMPING
So excited!
Will ride tomorrow!
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I think they're gonna do it after Big Thunder reopens on the 13th. Matterhorn has no date to reopen yet, and they're at the point they need to pull the trigger asap if they want a 2024 open
waltography
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Let us know what your friends think! I love first timer reactions.
mickEblu
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Same here. It’s what keeps DL so fresh for me. Been going with a lot of first timers post pandemic and it’s a lot of fun.
Kind of off topic but I was telling my wife the other day how certain trips are awesome and others I feel like I’m just burnt out on Disneyland. Some days just have the right flow. Like I always say if I don’t go to NOS during the day while the sun is shining I don’t really feel like I went to Disneyland. Something feels like it’s missing. Then in my case how well the kids are behaved is a big X factor. Long story short, some days I leave the park and ask “this is what I choose for fun?”
Figments Friend
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Looking forward to some reviews of what the Show looks like now after the refurb.
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SuddenStorm
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If one doesn't ride Splash 5 or so times, did they even go to Disneyland?
SuddenStorm
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This might be a case where tempering our expectations is necessary. I'd love to think it'll open up tomorrow with every effect (minus the ice) working, proper dialogue options restored, and vehicle randomization restored- and the full preshow.
But I wonder if they're just gonna have the boulder and snake working with a few fog machines fixed up.
mickEblu
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Can’t wait to see what, if anything, they’ve fixed up. Definitely the snake at least, right? With the images of the new one out behind the building?
I’d love to see the Chamber of Destiny effect work properly again but maybe I’m just dreaming at this point.
I’m guessing just the snake and boulder.
DavidDL
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I’ll take what I can get at this point. Those two are arguably more important to the show than bringing the chamber doors back into A mode.
That said, they absolutely should bring those doors back into A mode. One of the coolest things I ever got to do during my time as a CM was an after hours tour of Indy. They allowed us to all stand in the center of the Chamber of Destiny as the walls moved forward and back around us. It was awesome.
Here is a full report from the Orange County Register on the refurbishment.
“Disneyland cleaned every skull, mummy and snake during a three-month refurbishment of Indiana Jones Adventure that refreshed the classic dark ride without disturbing any of the beloved rubble and debris in the crumbling Temple of the Forbidden Eye.
The Indiana Jones Adventure attraction will reopen on Friday, March 17 after an extensive renovation by the Disneyland operations and facility services teams along with Walt Disney Imagineering.
I got to ride Indiana Jones Adventure a few times on Thursday, March 16 before the attraction reopened to the public and found my favorite Disneyland ride fully restored to its glory days.
Indiana Jones Adventure feels brand new once again just like when the thrill ride first opened in 1995. The Indy attraction that visitors and cast members alike have been missing for so long is finally back again.
Imagineering “plussed up” the ride with two new digital effects scenes designed to demonstrate the power of Mara, the antagonist deity within the Temple of the Forbidden Eye at the center of the story unfolding in the attraction.
“Our additions to Indiana Jones Adventure add touches of new magic that enhance its already established storyline,” Imagineering executive creative director Kim Irvine said in a statement released by Disneyland. “Mara taunts guests even further with a powerful, electric-like energy and frenetic apparitions. This force of Mara turns a possible passageway escape into a rubble of dust.”
No new storylines were introduced into the Disneyland attraction from the upcoming “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” film debuting in theaters in June.
The Indy refurbishment teams cleaned and painted the projection surfaces throughout the attraction and refreshed the scenic elements throughout the extensive queue.
Every skull was individually cleaned and all 40 mummies were refreshed. Video projectors were refocused and lighting fixtures were replaced. The large audio-animatronic snake and rolling ball in the finale have been repaired.
Digital projections throughout the attraction are much sharper, brighter and more colorful. All of the black light scenes have been touched up and relit.
Projections that haven’t worked for years or were too degraded to see are now visible and more vibrant — on the doors as riders enter the temple, behind the doors Indy holds shut, on Mara’s face that we aren’t supposed to look at and on a scrim screen with a screaming demon in the bridge room.
The exterior queue has been re-landscaped, the interior queue has been repainted and the bamboo supports in the queue tunnels have been replaced. Interactive elements in the queue like the rope in the well that visitors can pull are working again.
A few effects that fans remember from the early days of the attraction are likely never coming back. The rotating trio of doors that determined the fate of riders at the beginning of the attraction still don’t shift back and forth like they once did — proving too problematic to be worth the trouble.”
www.ocregister.com
“Disneyland cleaned every skull, mummy and snake during a three-month refurbishment of Indiana Jones Adventure that refreshed the classic dark ride without disturbing any of the beloved rubble and debris in the crumbling Temple of the Forbidden Eye.
The Indiana Jones Adventure attraction will reopen on Friday, March 17 after an extensive renovation by the Disneyland operations and facility services teams along with Walt Disney Imagineering.
I got to ride Indiana Jones Adventure a few times on Thursday, March 16 before the attraction reopened to the public and found my favorite Disneyland ride fully restored to its glory days.
Indiana Jones Adventure feels brand new once again just like when the thrill ride first opened in 1995. The Indy attraction that visitors and cast members alike have been missing for so long is finally back again.
Imagineering “plussed up” the ride with two new digital effects scenes designed to demonstrate the power of Mara, the antagonist deity within the Temple of the Forbidden Eye at the center of the story unfolding in the attraction.
“Our additions to Indiana Jones Adventure add touches of new magic that enhance its already established storyline,” Imagineering executive creative director Kim Irvine said in a statement released by Disneyland. “Mara taunts guests even further with a powerful, electric-like energy and frenetic apparitions. This force of Mara turns a possible passageway escape into a rubble of dust.”
No new storylines were introduced into the Disneyland attraction from the upcoming “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” film debuting in theaters in June.
The Indy refurbishment teams cleaned and painted the projection surfaces throughout the attraction and refreshed the scenic elements throughout the extensive queue.
Every skull was individually cleaned and all 40 mummies were refreshed. Video projectors were refocused and lighting fixtures were replaced. The large audio-animatronic snake and rolling ball in the finale have been repaired.
Digital projections throughout the attraction are much sharper, brighter and more colorful. All of the black light scenes have been touched up and relit.
Projections that haven’t worked for years or were too degraded to see are now visible and more vibrant — on the doors as riders enter the temple, behind the doors Indy holds shut, on Mara’s face that we aren’t supposed to look at and on a scrim screen with a screaming demon in the bridge room.
The exterior queue has been re-landscaped, the interior queue has been repainted and the bamboo supports in the queue tunnels have been replaced. Interactive elements in the queue like the rope in the well that visitors can pull are working again.
A few effects that fans remember from the early days of the attraction are likely never coming back. The rotating trio of doors that determined the fate of riders at the beginning of the attraction still don’t shift back and forth like they once did — proving too problematic to be worth the trouble.”
Disneyland cleans every skull, mummy and snake in Indiana Jones Adventure refurbishment
Review: Walt Disney Imagineering adds ‘touches of new magic’ with two new projection scenes in the classic Adventureland dark ride.
www.ocregister.com
SuddenStorm
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It's been in B mode for the last year or two.
Disney Analyst
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Sounds great! Rat scene is gone, dark tunnels have stuff now, and updates to first Indy scene.
“This includes an update to the opening sequence where Indy is bracing himself against the door. Instead of a generic curtain backlit with colored lights, the background of the open door is a projection with streaks of lightning flowing from it.”
“The other significant change is in the dark hallway sequence. Instead of going through multiple rooms of just pitch black, there is a new frenetic apparition effect that turns a potential exit from the temple into rubble. This means that the rarely working rat scene is no more, and we’re thrilled to see this change.”
SuddenStorm
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Uh, the only two things from the early days that fans shouldn't expect back are the original safety video (it was redone at some point in the 2000's), and the falling ice.
The rotating doors ran until 2014ish, so almost 20 years. That's hardly from the early days and I don't think it's unreasonable for fans to want them back.
CaptinEO
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The door effect and the swinging bridge are the things I wanted them to bring back. Hopefully the bridge works at least.
Edit: Ratchat confirmed both these effects were not repaired.
Glad they gave the ride some TLC. I'm really curious how the new Snake and new scenes look. The rat projections never looked good to be honest.
Edit: Ratchat confirmed both these effects were not repaired.
Glad they gave the ride some TLC. I'm really curious how the new Snake and new scenes look. The rat projections never looked good to be honest.
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BasiltheBatLord
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I doubt the door effect is ever coming back, the projections accomplish the same story objective even if the doors no longer physically move.
Interesting that the ill-fated rat projection was finally axed. Hopefully the new scene is cool, although part of me would have liked to have seen the DisneySea version there.
The Micechat article also mentions that "every interactive feature in the queue was fixed", I wonder if that includes the collapsing ceiling?
Interesting that the ill-fated rat projection was finally axed. Hopefully the new scene is cool, although part of me would have liked to have seen the DisneySea version there.
The Micechat article also mentions that "every interactive feature in the queue was fixed", I wonder if that includes the collapsing ceiling?
PiratesMansion
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Honestly, I would be fine with them just making the opening scene/Mara just one nice static scene a la Tokyo. They don't even need to re-imagineer it-they could straight up copy the TDS version and it'd work.
The doors and Mara effects in any incarnation has always struck me as tacky, shallow, and insubstantial, with hype far disproportionate to its actual quality.
They'll probably never do it because it would be decried as cheap and most people that aren't me really like the multiple opening variations bit, but I'd probably register it as an improvement.
For all the things written about the doors/projections/etc, it's never struck me as being anything particularly impressive or noteworthy.
The doors and Mara effects in any incarnation has always struck me as tacky, shallow, and insubstantial, with hype far disproportionate to its actual quality.
They'll probably never do it because it would be decried as cheap and most people that aren't me really like the multiple opening variations bit, but I'd probably register it as an improvement.
For all the things written about the doors/projections/etc, it's never struck me as being anything particularly impressive or noteworthy.