Did anyone catch the explosion affect that is now apart of Big Thunder out in Disneyland? Any ideas if they will bring this to WDW? and why it wasn't apart of the big refurb last year?
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New Disneyland Big Thunder effects will they come to WDW?
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wdwfan4ver
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You have to look at TDO's history when it comes to upgrades on why New Disneyland Big Thunder Effects wasn't part of the refurbishment. TDO turned the chance to upgrade Fantasmic. TDO is the reason Space Mountain's refurbishment wasn't done properly. My point is TDO is tight with money on certain things and the explosion affect would be considered an upgrade.
I don't see the explosion affect going to WDW at this point. Right now Mymagic plus is getting more expensive day by day and that means less money to be spent on projects thanks to Burbank. The other problem is the other big projects that are happening at this point and the affects have to be low on priority at this point.
I don't see the explosion affect going to WDW at this point. Right now Mymagic plus is getting more expensive day by day and that means less money to be spent on projects thanks to Burbank. The other problem is the other big projects that are happening at this point and the affects have to be low on priority at this point.
CheekBoys
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Cmdr_Crimson
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Let's just wait and see how long those effects are still going...Giving the history of "Special Effects" for attractions they don't seem to linger too long..
My Case in point..
My Case in point..
JimboJones123
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Apart?
I hate grammar police, but this error makes it sounds like the new update is broken already. And it was typed wrong twice.
I hate grammar police, but this error makes it sounds like the new update is broken already. And it was typed wrong twice.
JimboJones123
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Additional staffing alone for MM+ is costing more than half a million dollars a week.
Sped2424
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WOAH now that would make that scene SO MUCH BETTER at our version.
lazyboy97o
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Given all of the other attractions that have yet to receive the same sort of updates present in Disneyland counterparts, I would not except these effects any time soon.
Tom Morrow
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That's amazing and that needs to happen here. I feel like that, plus the queue enhancements, and minus the bats on strings, brings BTMRR into this century of E ticket rides.
sponono88
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Here is a better look at the new effects except in this video the fog didn't activate. Still, it shows the awesome detail in the lighting and projections. As Raven mentioned below, this was recorded during very early soft openings so not all the effects were ready.
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Californian Elitist
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Yes, since the ride hasn't officially opened back up, yet, they sometimes leave some of the effects off, as we see in this video.
javy2004
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just more proof solidifying my stance on disneyland resort being the better resort. park hopping is literally a hop, many of the classic fantasyland attractions still stand there, and everything just seems to be more well executed. Its probably why EPCOT has become my favorite WDW park. Most of the stuff there is unique to the park, while most of the others have a Disneyworld equivalent
stevehousse
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Wow I really like the changes to the ride! Can't wait to go next year!
janoimagine
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Those are some pretty simple, but pretty sweet, effects ... can WDW please have? Very well done.
kylewr86
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I remember something a while back about Disneyland wanting to add things to existing rides to get ready for the upcoming 60th anniversary. It is possible this is one of those pluses they talked about. I would love to see this in WDW but not gonna hold my breath. The rock slide still doesn't work. 
MerlinTheGoat
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Unless you've heard something to confirm anything of the sort happening at WDW, sadly I see little reason to hold out any hope WDW will end up getting these effects anytime soon (if ever). These effects for what it's worth despite looking really great, actually do look rather simple to install and keep running. Looks like a mixture of fiber optics, projection mapping as well as some simple smoke effects (though I don't know what they had to do to the lift physically to make these work). The smoke effect logically would probably be the first thing to break at WDW if we got these upgrades (and would likely stay broken given the trends), and then followed by a gradual but swift degradation of the projection quality like Davy/Blackbeard in POTC. But it still doesn't look that difficult to install or even to maintain if your park's management is even remotely competent (and yes we all know TDO isn't). I actually love this effect, it's what I consider a very reasonable substitute for the loss of the shaking walls in the original and would finally bring the ride up to proper show standards again. A mandatory one in fact as the current state of the third lift hill at WDW is not even remotely what could be considered show ready. They are clearly never going to restore the shaking rock walls (and they're probably happy to have the flimsy excuse of "safety reasons" to validate their incompetence), so this is the least they should do to provide a reasonable compromise. What is there now is not acceptable by any stretch.
But as I said, I see little to no reason to get any hopes up unless you've heard something to say otherwise. With few exceptions, WDW has a great number of rides that are still missing even basic additional effects or other improvements long since implemented at Disneyland and other Disney parks. Just look at the difference between Peter Pan's Flight, they've had decades to bring WDW's up to spec with the Disneyland (or DLP) version and have not done so (and Disneyland was rumored some months ago to be getting a refurb to add even more effects to Peter Pan in time for the 60th, perhaps adding even more fiber optics like at DLP). And they even had plenty of time to upgrade Peter Pan before TDO and TWDC completely abandoned all their care about WDW (PPF along with the entirety of Fantasyland needed a rebuilding/facade upgrade even in the 80's and 90's like DL received in '83 and much of the land even now still isn't up to that standard). In other rides at WDW that haven't received necessary upgrades, Space Mountain is another (and as you and others have said, it was absurdly close to getting the attention it direly needs back in '09 before the budget was mutilated). Then the lack of a fountain when they restored the Tiki Room. It took the promise of additional capacity to enable the addition of simple fountains to Dumbo.