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Skull Island: Reign of Kong from construction to opening
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BubbaQuest
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I haven't seen the blueprints, but looking at the Orlando building it does look surprising like a long 3d tunnel building just like the Hollywood version except you enter from the side.
I like the Hollywood version so I'm not too worried about that, but am wondering if most of the plussing is going to happen in the large queue building.
I like the Hollywood version so I'm not too worried about that, but am wondering if most of the plussing is going to happen in the large queue building.
RonnieHare
Member
Stop talking rubbish, you ain't seen nothing.
GLaDOS
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Okay, pal.
GLaDOS
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According to Mike West it's 5 minutes and 50 seconds. So even longer than that.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-hill/everythings-big-about-uni_b_8488140.html
BubbaQuest
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If the tunnel section is only 90 seconds, I could easily see the following layout....
While one RV is in the tunnel, one RV is waiting outside the tunnel for 90 seconds listening to onboard audio from Kate your tour guide. Another RV is waiting outside the doors for 90 seconds doing some kind of chant to "make the doors open". And then there is a 90 second encounter with Kong after the tunnel. That would be a 6 minute ride even though 3 minutes of it is just sitting in the RV waiting to get in the tunnel. (Think Minions Mayhem pre-show, or Fast and Furious disco room).
I'm not trying to slam the ride. The pictures alone make me want to book a trip, but I don't want to get my hopes up thinking this is some kind of Indiana Jones Adventure when the building layout does not appear to be anywhere near large enough to house something like that.
GLaDOS
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There's the issue. If you're expecting an IJA attraction, yea, you're gonna be disappointed.
This is much more than "Enter the temple, watch 360 show, see Kong, leave" however. Each scene entails more than that.
lazyboy97o
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Universal also touted Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey as a 45 minute attraction. Just the difference between cycle time and ride time can beef up numbers.
GLaDOS
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Source?
JoeCamel
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It certainly could be that Niles was asked to play it down to reduce unrealistic expectations. If UC was concerned that the building excitement was going to lead to disappointment when it opens they might be willing to step in and dampen it now. As others have posted it is better to under promise and over deliver than the other way around. That is a lot of what happened at Gringotts. That is still an amazing ride just not what the crowds expected. The queue is half the ride and this may have some of the same things working in it.
RonnieHare
Member
Use Niles to dampen down expectations?! Stop talking nonsense.
JoeCamel
Well-Known Member
Its OK, he was just talking out his a** and is now walking it back. Not calculated at all just trying to look like something he is not.
Sooooo...... What was your username before this account anyway?
Wikkler
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JoeCamel
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Thanks - makes sense
A foolish mortal
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At Hollywood Studios, the ride vehicle seem to be longer in length, because it is a small tram (double the length maybe?). Looking at concept art for Kong, this ride vehicle is shorter (?)... I dont really expect it to be just a long 360 screen tunnel.. maybe smaller ones in different scenes which is cool, but not a long tunnel considering the smaller vehicles... Thats just my thought 
JoeCamel
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At Hollywood Studios, the ride vehicle seem to be longer in length, because it is a small tram (double the length maybe?). Looking at concept art for Kong, this ride vehicle is shorter (?)... I dont really expect it to be just a long 360 screen tunnel.. maybe smaller ones in different scenes which is cool, but not a long tunnel considering the smaller vehicles... Thats just my thought
The vehicle is 72 seats. probably 12 long x 6 wide in IOA
A foolish mortal
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Wait.. is that for Hollywood or Orlando? Also what is the other? Do you know?
A foolish mortal
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Cause isn't the tram at Hollywood 180 seats? 6 seats at each row - 8 rows on each car (except the front car which has 6 rows) and 4 connected cars. So 180 seats.. So if orlando is 72 seats thats less than half of the tram.. Im expecting more of the Kilimanjaro Safari vehicle size, so i dont expect a 360 screen tunnel this time.
I could understand not wanting to go into an attraction with inflated expectations, but trying to convince yourself that it will suck? That's a new one.
BTW, Robert Niles isn't the end-all-be-all of park reporters. People give him information they probably shouldn't, and then he often misinterprets it. I don't doubt what he's seen, but I'm not convinced by what he says.
72 seats is the rumored number for Orlando. There will be a 3D tunnel, but there's obviously no reason for it to be as long.
Personally, I would've gone with much smaller vehicles and just added more practical dark ride scenes. But someone in Uni Creative is averse to those. It would've made the rumored GMR-ish element less feasible, but I'm kinda meh on that idea anyway.
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