Pioneer Hall
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They wouldn't change the bars to all seatbelts because the price to change the elevators wouldn't be worth it.
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NEW Tower of Terror Drop Sequence...and more...
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TestTrack
Active Member
Originally posted by Tramp
...when I'm in the seat, the lap bar CAN'T be lowered fully cuz of my belly....my wife and daughter float about freely without a lapbar pinning them to the seat...and they LOVE it.
...the floating is one of the best things about the ride and gives you the sense of reality of an elevator freefalling. Seatbelts would diminish the sensation in my humble opinion.
Well technically if you wanted to simulate a real elevator freefall you wouldn't float out of your seat. The reason you do is because they pull the car FASTER than gravity. In a real elevator free fall you would feel lighter but not fly upwards. So To say they ruin the sense of a freefalling elevator would be wrong, they would however remove the FUN of falling.
Keysmickey
New Member
If I'm not mistaken ToT opened with seatbelts and grab bars but went to the lap bar shortly after opening...
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figmentmom
Well-Known Member
I've ridden in both the lap belt seat and the ones with the bar...how scary is the bar? Last time, my husband had to pry me off the lap bar!!! Of course, every time I'm at WDW, I swear I'm not gong to do the ToT, but I always do!
The Tower used to have a single seat belt for each row...but that was a while ago. They have the lap bars because you feel more "trapped" with one...they would never do anything to end the effect of flying out of your seat. They spent a lot of money to make this an extremely fast elevator ride as opposed to a freefall ride so that you WOULD fly out of your seat.
Spaceship Earth
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ToT shakes before it drops now?
What do you mean when you say it shakes before it drops, and it rolls forward before you drop a second time? Is this new? If so, how new? Also, is there anything new they added to the ride (drops, # of drops and such) since 1999) recently. Just wondering. Because I love that ride!:sohappy:
What do you mean when you say it shakes before it drops, and it rolls forward before you drop a second time? Is this new? If so, how new? Also, is there anything new they added to the ride (drops, # of drops and such) since 1999) recently. Just wondering. Because I love that ride!:sohappy:
Spaceship Earth
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Ok
So is this shankiing thing new? i mean has it been added since 1999 or....?
So is this shankiing thing new? i mean has it been added since 1999 or....?
DisneyFreak721
New Member
"I think they take your picture TWICE...and then choose the best one...if you notice there is more than one point where it flashes... " <--------Someone said this earlier
I think that all the other flashes of light are supposed to be lightning. Remember the Story: Lightning struck the building on Halloween night 1939 sending 5 unsuspecting victims.......and so on and so on and so on.
I think that all the other flashes of light are supposed to be lightning. Remember the Story: Lightning struck the building on Halloween night 1939 sending 5 unsuspecting victims.......and so on and so on and so on.
Tom Morrow
Well-Known Member
Actually, they do take your picture twice, (if it works right) but at 2 different parts of the ride. Theres the one you buy of course, and the one taken when lightning flashes in the corridor scene which shows up on the giant eyeball later.
lnsemsf
Well-Known Member
The first picture, the one that shows up on the eye, that hasnt worked in months, if not a year or more. It seems to have been replaced with 1 standard picture of a bunch of "terrified" people on the ride that is shown every time. I think it may be permanantly replaced with this picture, since it cant take them months to fix a camera.
Tom Morrow
Well-Known Member
Yeah I noticed that too in November when I showed up as a woman in a red shirt :lol:
WEDMagic
Member
yeah
yeah it hasnt flashed for the picture for the eye in that first scene for a long time. Someone earlier said that the TOT had a large seatbealt for all of the rows. I was there on opening day and it was a lap bar. only the seat in the dead center back has a seatbelt. I love being pushed down by motors with the combined torque of 275 corvette engines. Beats gravity anytime.
yeah it hasnt flashed for the picture for the eye in that first scene for a long time. Someone earlier said that the TOT had a large seatbealt for all of the rows. I was there on opening day and it was a lap bar. only the seat in the dead center back has a seatbelt. I love being pushed down by motors with the combined torque of 275 corvette engines. Beats gravity anytime.
GoofyMike29
New Member
I think I would like to stay with the lap bars, they are fun. And one time I had the pictured canelled for my entire car full of people because I took my shirt off for the camera.