Indiana Jones Renovation (2020)

D.Silentu

D.Silentu

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DanielBB8 said:
3. Scarab beetle and rat projections don't work well enough. Often blurry.

5. Too many painted flats especially the mural after the snake and before the dark tunnel.
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General maintenance aside, on my laundry list of fixes these would be at the top. I think it strange how the bug projection was somehow sharper in the ride's early years, as we live in the age of high definition media. As for the painted flats, they've bothered me as long as I've been riding and are as bad as the Incredibles mannequins in my estimation. I've never really been concerned with the chamber doors not rotating because I feel the projections that replaced it were an even trade. What they ought to do is take out the original false doors and blank out the walls, so that closed doors could be projected on the sides of the room in varying configurations.

Ismael Flores said:
with all the new technology since the ride was built you would think that they can do some pretty cool stuff in some of those rooms that have broken effects.
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You are absolutely right and I really hope they have this in mind for the refurb. Just a few enhancements could make this classic feel cutting edge once again.
 
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THE 1HAPPY HAUNT

THE 1HAPPY HAUNT

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Yes!!! I Hope they restore it to its former glory. This is by bar the best ride Disney Imagineering has ever made and is probably the best ride on earth. I will always remember how awesome it was when it first opened. it is still great which is a testament to how solid of a ride it is, but its a shadow of what it once was even though it still kicks @ss.
 
Kram Sacul

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THE 1HAPPY HAUNT said:
Yes!!! I Hope they restore it to its former glory. This is by bar the best ride Disney Imagineering has ever made and is probably the best ride on earth. I will always remember how awesome it was when it first opened. it is still great which is a testament to how solid of a ride it is, but its a shadow of what it once was even though it still kicks @ss.
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And it has a ramp you can go up:

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Model3 McQueen

Model3 McQueen

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Kram Sacul said:
The original snake was much more menacing and actually lunged fast. Things eventually broke and we have the poor lethargic snake today. I think it’s been replaced like 3 times and has gotten slower and less scary with each model.
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The same could be said for the T-Rex at Jurassic Park (Uni) and the Carnotaurus at Dinosaur (AK). The yeti (AK) just doesn't move at all anymore.

I wonder if it's a common failure in the industry to maintain such impressive machinery?
 
truecoat

truecoat

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1LE McQueen said:
The same could be said for the T-Rex at Jurassic Park (Uni) and the Carnotaurus at Dinosaur (AK). The yeti (AK) just doesn't move at all anymore.

I wonder if it's a common failure in the industry to maintain such impressive machinery?
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After all these failures, you'd think the one thing at the top of the list in designing big, impressive animatronics and\or effects would be reliability.
 
BubbaQuest

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Mickeyboof said:
Does anyone have footage of the collapsing bridge effect?
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If you go to the 6:40 mark, it's a dark video but you can see the car moves halfway across the bridge, stalls, and then car drops a bit (via the car, not the bridge), and then takes off again. If I remember correctly now, the car just speed over the bridge.
 
Stevek

Stevek

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I really hope that go all out, fix many of the broken effects and upgrade to new tech throughout. Things have advanced so much since it's opening.

But who are we kidding. Maybe the boulder will work all the time and we should just be happy with that :banghead:
 
PiratesMansion

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Despite Disneyland's Indy being plagued with constant issues, broken effects, downtime, etc. somehow the near-copy in Tokyo works flawlessly every single time, with every effect working consistently.

Undoubtedly even if the DL version were to go down for a full year, there'd still be *something* that they just "didn't have time/money/technology/etc to get it to function correctly."
 
Jedi Stitch

Jedi Stitch

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The only problem with making January our go to time of the year is refurbishment. Great that is getting done, sucks is that I miss getting to do that on my trip.
 
D.Silentu

D.Silentu

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PiratesMansion said:
Despite Disneyland's Indy being plagued with constant issues, broken effects, downtime, etc. somehow the near-copy in Tokyo works flawlessly every single time, with every effect working consistently.
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Unfortunately so, but our attraction was the first version of that ride system and once it got to the third version in Tokyo they had time to work out many of the kinks.
 
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Homemade Imagineering

Homemade Imagineering

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I really hope they fix up some of the effects and animatronics for this amazing attraction. It really is my favorite ride at Disneyland next to the classics, and I got to ride it 3 times on my last visit and loved it every time as usual. I’m not sure if this makes much sense but this ride kind of gives me a universal studios Florida 90s vibe, because it was created around the same time as the universal studios Florida opening day attractions, and just like most of the opening day attractions at USF it was groundbreaking for its time.
 

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