Maintenance and Upkeep

[Goofyernmost]

Regarding DHS:

GMR looked great the last time I rode. Star Tours 3D generally looks and sounds great and still brand new. Rock 'n' Roller Coaster looks and sounds much better than it did a few years ago. For a while the onboard audio was weak and would cut in and out. Now it always sounds very loud and powerful. Toy Story Midway Mania generally looks and sounds fine. Muppets actually looked better the last time I watched it than ever before.

The oddball at DHS is Tower of Terror, which is unfortunately the flagship attraction. It's show quality has been bad for years. As mentioned before, the audio is terrible in many areas and lots of very simple effects are broken or look bad.

Funny thing...I have ridden RcRC a number of times and even though I know the music plays through out the ride, I, honestly, have never really heard it. To much going on so I guess even though my ears pick up the sound, my brain is someplace else. I probably would have noticed it if they were playing small world, so maybe that just means that the music completely fits the moment.

 

[wolf359]

Funny thing...I have ridden RcRC a number of times and even though I know the music plays through out the ride, I, honestly, have never really heard it. To much going on so I guess even though my ears pick up the sound, my brain is someplace else. I probably would have noticed it if they were playing small world, so maybe that just means that the music completely fits the moment.

Same here. My brain registers which song is playing, but after launch I'm just too locked into enjoying the rest of the ride to focus on the music.. Maybe it just isn't loud enough, but honestly, I find many sound levels generally too loud at Disney World, so for if the music on Rn'RC isn't earsplittingly loud that's fine with me.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Maybe it just isn't loud enough, but honestly, I find many sound levels generally too loud at Disney World, so for if the music on Rn'RC isn't earsplittingly loud that's fine with me.

Really? audio at.WDW is, on average, significantly quieter than Universal or even Disneyland, often to the point where it isn't loud enough to be effective.

 

[Yert3]

Really? audio at.WDW is, on average, significantly quieter than Universal or even Disneyland, often to the point where it isn't loud enough to be effective.

I agree.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Really? audio at.WDW is, on average, significantly quieter than Universal or even Disneyland, often to the point where it isn't loud enough to be effective.

I agree.

What??

 

[Yert3]

What??

Go on Splash Mountain. When talking with a normal inside voice, you overpower all music and character speech. If I didn't know the all the lyrics and script by heart, I would have no idea what anyone would be saying because the volume is so low. If it where up to me, I'd have it so loud I couldn't hear my own thoughts.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Tower of Terror, as mentioned earlier, has many sections (since there are four different "ride paths" and two pre-show rooms) that are the same. People quietly talking is enough to overpower the show audio.

But then you have rides like Dinosaur, Test Track 2.0, and Star Tours 3D that sound great. The inconsistency is annoying.

 

[irmonkey]

My family just got back home from WDW today and one of the things that I noticed was the massive amount of construction walls everywhere. None of it was that obtrusive, but it definitely gave the feeling that Disney bit off more than it could chew when it comes to upkeep and construction this fall.