flynnibus
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Hopefully that doesn't mean we we Disney 2015 style plans
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Rumor MK Space Mountain REVISED in AT SOME POINT? (One track? side-by-side seating?)
- Thread starter Disgruntled Walt
- Start date
Space Mountain 2008 was to get
New track same layout
New track support system
New RCS
Silent lifts
New cars with onboard audio (tested on site by taping speakers to an existing car and it worked despite the seat layout)
Main lift new show scene
New speed ramp scenes
Refreshed queue displays
Proper exterior lighting package
James Alucobond
Well-Known Member
While I’m sure PeopleMover could use mechanical help, from a show perspective, it really just needs the couple of remaining ‘94 displays replaced. It seems like it would be exceptionally simple to enhance. The rest of it should naturally improve as the associated attractions and shops it passes through are themselves improved.
deWild
Well-Known Member
What if it was a hybrid between DLP’s coaster (outside/inside) and WDW (indoor dark)? It could duel in the daylight and whip you every which way in the darkYou need to *see* the other coaster!
You’d think. But again they’ve been sat on that one for at least a decade. And just gave the station complex an ugly paint job.
Notes from Neverland
Well-Known Member
Gosh those updates sound good. If only. Rode it a couple times this past week for the first time since last year and it feels more overdue for some TLC than ever.
Stupido
Well-Known Member
I think Tron's placement next door and it being both indoor/outdoor and "dueling" (even if you're dueling your own reflection), would make it a hard sell for Space Mountain to have the same exact elements. Space needs to feel like its own special thing, even if it's sitting next to a modern day replacement to Space Mountain, and there's an even more advanced version a monorail ride away. I think it's more of a complex problem to solve for than a lot of people realize.
trainplane3
Well-Known Member
Is the current music, "Mount Bop", the music that was supposed to be played in the vehicle itself?
HakunaMatata89
Premium Member
I’d love if in some of the inside spaces they would put models of past attractions and keep the Epcot model and use the mover as a tribute to the days of yesteryear
HMF
Well-Known Member
The timing felt right seventeen years ago but I digress.
HMF
Well-Known Member
Ironically, while it is obviously way too early to really get a sense of the direction the parks will go under the new regime. I am actually feeling cautiously optimistic for the first time in well over a decade based on what I have been seeing with the recent refurbishments. (I am not counting ROA as that was clearly Iger's final vanity project.) Still too early to really get a sense of the future direction, positive or negative of course. I am sure Martin knows far more in that department than I do, of course.
HMF
Well-Known Member
Didn't we end up getting the exterior lighting package at some point anyway?
HMF
Well-Known Member
We literally have historical precedent as to why trying to force the Paris conceit onto the American parks is not such a good idea.
They tested with the Anaheim version. That’s more in sync with track layouts as opposed to the off board looping version.
Coaster Lover
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
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My only (possible) counter to that is that with Cars Land and Villians both opening (allegedly) within a couple years of each other and right next to each other, Disney may want something on the opposite side of the park to help counterbalance the crowds and a refreshed Space Mountain could help. Though that is likely just my wishful thinking hoping it's done sooner rather than later.
bmr1591
Well-Known Member
I can’t imagine Disney doesn’t want this finished by the time Villains opens and sparks larger crowds. Bring it down while crowds are lower.
MickeyMania26
Well-Known Member
Its just cast in a blue spotlight now I think?.... They have been doing this everywhere and personally not a fan. Tiana's broccoli nest looks awful in this same flood light,,,The new studios courtyard,,(but there it seems to blend fairly well and goes with the blue hat) just been noticing they have been doing this, to me anyway cheap trend a lot. Must everything be cast in a blue flood light? I'm being nitpicky I know, it's just they use to do better than that. I could go off topic and add same goes for all the orange show lighting they have been shoving into Epcot's attractions.... but back to Space.
Biggest pet peeve is the Seas pavilion. Living Seas had an amazing intricate lighting package. Now it’s just flood lit like a parking lot.