Sorry.. 35 seconds of ride, my bad! When I said literally, I was speaking about the literal presense of a trailer for the ride, not the exact length, that was only based off of my memory, which was obviously off by 5 seconds.
Anyway, in regards to your other "facts" about the 7DMT, I am a pre-med student, and on the first day of Biology class we learned about the steps of writing a scientific research paper. As any good scientist knows, a fact can only be justified if it is cited by a credible source. If you don't cite well-known sources to support your facts, then those "facts" you claim to be true aren't really supported by any evidence other than your own. To say that the track is not going to to be long is not a fact, that is a prediction based on what you have seen. And what you think is long and what someone else thinks is long might be two different things. I'm not saying that 7DMT is going to be the length of Everest, nor am I disagreeing that the track won't be long. All I'm saying is that "fact" can be up to an individual's interpretation. In addition, the reduced track and cutting out of shows scenes may be true, but those plans you talk about were never announced to the public with concept art and so on. Just like people are doubting Avatar because they haven't seen concept art yet, I'm doubting that expansive ride you are taking about, because I didn't see any concept art. Not saying that you're lying, but these are not facts if there is no credible evidence to back it up other than what people claim to be true. Where is the concept art? I haven't seen it. You talk about it, others do too, but I have to take what you are saying with a grain of salt knowing that there may have been those big plans in the past, but the only public announcements from disney regarding the FLE was the M&G + Pixie Hollow plan, as well as the plan that is being constructed today.
Oh man...first, since you apparently really want to go there...hey, that's great your pre-med...I'm a third year medical student who started rotations this past month. I'm not saying that makes me better than you by saying that. I'm just saying, please don't talk down to me like I don't know about the scientific method. I've actually made your same arguement towards many of the people who say "Disney is doing great things" and they are going to do this project and this project and this project all in the next five years or so, blah blah blah. But then there is absolutely nothing to support those statements...not from news sources, not from Insiders. Nothing.
The track is not going to be that long. You may think that's open to interpretation and thats fine. But there are maps out there with the scale of the track on it. There is also the picutre of the building and also video of the bulding...it's frame is up. Now the whole track isn't going into the building, yes, I know, but again, the building can be reasonably taken as the scale of the project. That's logic.
You can doubt what the scale of the project is, that's fine. But it doesn't change the fact that the tract was reuced by about 30% or that originally planned show scenes were removed. I'm not pulling these things out of my butt. Heck, on my own, of course I don't have much credibility to spout off these facts...I don't work for Disney. I'm not an Insider. BUT, Lee, who has a ton of credibility on this board, even from the people who think disney can do know wrong, along with the others who work for/with/are invovled in disney have all stated these FACTS numerous times. Now you don't have to take their word, and all things should be taken with a little grain of salt, but again, they are privy to a lot more info and are considered trustworthy by many and have proved that they are trustworthy many times over.
And I don't doubt Avatar because I haven't seen concept art...though it has been a year and you'd think we'd seen something by now. But again, that's not why I doubt the project. I doubt it because again, many people who would actually be in the know and have proven their credibility have said it could be doubtful it's happening or at least to expect a probably scaled down project (again, a probably really reasoable inference considering that is what TDO does on every project in recent years).
And yes, of course you can make educated guesses, that's what a hypothesis is for in a scientific research paper. I've made educated guesses as well. I don't think 7D going to be BTMR and nor would I want that. What would be the point another long mine train ride that would be similar in length to a classic mine train ride that is already in the park? I don't know how that would work. My hypothesis is that 7D is going to fall somewhere in between BTM and Barnstormer, leaning more towards BTM, which is not far off from what others have said. I think that is great for the MK. Now they would have a kiddie coaster (Barnstormer), a medium sized coaster (7D), a full length coaster (BTM), a flume ride (Splash), and a full on thrill coaster (Space Mountain). They would have covered all the bases, and i think that is a good thing.
You seem to think I think 7DTR is going to be terrible. I don't actually think that. I've never actually said that ever. I think the whole of NFE could be better ceratinly though. Again, I don't just want half of Disney's potential, I'd like to see their full potential (ie, what they actually could have done with the original budget. You can be totally satisfied with that half potential...me, I hold Disney to a slightly higher standard than that. So sue me. I'm sure 7DMT will be nice but again, nice doesn't mean they reached anywhere towards what they could have. But that's all a moot point at this point in time. What we see is what we are going to get. And what I see based on all the infoormation presented to be so afar and there has been a lot more than just a 35 second trailer) that has allowed me to make an educated guess hasn't impressed me all that much
But in order to test that hypothesis and develop a conclusion, experiments have to be made (a la actually riding the attraction.) That was my point, and I thank you that you will reserve full judgement just for me.
I will do that. I'm reasonale and realize I can't pass full jedgement until I read the thing. But again, I'll keep making educated guess based on all the info.
