News Soarin’ Over California Returns!

SuddenStorm

SuddenStorm

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Rich T said:
Demolishing Country Bears to build the park's worst C-ticket dark ride. Fantasmic crowd control disasters. Cutting back on maintenance to the point where people die. Letting the Rocket Rods tracks rot in public. Not spending the money to make Rocket Rods right in the first place. Videopolis. Light Magic. Spending a ton of money to combine 2 Autopias into 1 monstrous Autopia that isn't as much fun as either of the originals. The new bobsleds. No shade in Toontown. Turning the Penny Arcade into a shop. The bad use of the Carousel Theater. Going from 4 animatronic stage shows to 2. Haunted Mansion Holiday for 1/3 of the year. Space Mtn. overlays. Using the Lincoln theater to promo movies. Using Muppetvision to promo movies. Using the Magic Eye theater to promo movies. Overpricing everything. Firing live entertainment. I feel like I'm on 100,000 Pyramid.
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Let's also add the closure of the motorboat cruise with no replacement.
The loss of Cascade Peak.
The loss of the Skyway with no replacement.
The addition of Constance to the Mansion.
The horrific maintenance seen throughout the resort. Even the newly rebuilt Big Thunder's finale effects are sporadic and often not functioning... 5 years later! And that leaves out Splash, Mansion, Indy
The attempted addition of merchandise to the Cinema.
The garish and overdone Castle overlays that have caused significant damage to the structure.
Moving the Astro Orbitor to the front of the land.
Closing Fort Wilderness.
Bastardizing Fantasmic.
The loss of the keel boats.
Not running Paint the Night when there's no reason not too.
The changes made to pirates both in '06, and '18. The '97 ones don't bother me too much.
Project Curb, planter, and bench removal.
The many many removals Toontown has endured.
The loss of unique shops in New Orleans Square- specifically the One of a Kind shop.
Shortened park hours (why isn't the park open till 1 am anymore?) despite ever increasing admission prices.
 
Model3 McQueen

Model3 McQueen

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shortstop said:
I don’t actually hate it. I think it’s still great fun. However, it lacks that indescribable “it factor” that makes SoC so special.
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Rich T said:
Okay, now I'm doubling down on my SotW love: Not only should they keep that film, but they should make the seats look like flying Small World boats and change the soundtrack to an ABBA tribute band singing It's a Small World for the entire ride!
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BRUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHH(s)

lol
 
Rich T

Rich T

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SuddenStorm said:
...Shortened park hours (why isn't the park open till 1 am anymore?) despite ever increasing admission prices.
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I'm trying to think like a Disney exec to get an answer....
It's becaaaaaussse....
Tired guests don't shop. They just sit around enjoying the beautiful park. Buncha deadbeats! :D
 
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GrizzlyAdams

Active Member
Rich T said:
Demolishing Country Bears to build the park's worst C-ticket dark ride. Fantasmic crowd control disasters. Cutting back on maintenance to the point where people die. Letting the Rocket Rods tracks rot in public. Not spending the money to make Rocket Rods right in the first place. Videopolis. Light Magic. Spending a ton of money to combine 2 Autopias into 1 monstrous Autopia that isn't as much fun as either of the originals. The new bobsleds. No shade in Toontown. Turning the Penny Arcade into a shop. The bad use of the Carousel Theater. Going from 4 animatronic stage shows to 2. Haunted Mansion Holiday for 1/3 of the year. Space Mtn. overlays. Using the Lincoln theater to promo movies. Using Muppetvision to promo movies. Using the Magic Eye theater to promo movies. Overpricing everything. Firing live entertainment. I feel like I'm on 100,000 Pyramid.
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Well said. Disney apologist be damned to hell! They could and should do better, but it would require executives at the top to love theme parks and respect people, not love money and not think twice about people
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

Premium Member
SuddenStorm said:
Shortened park hours (why isn't the park open till 1 am anymore?) despite ever increasing admission prices.
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This one I don't think has anything to do with Disney. I think this is an Anaheim thing. I vaguely remember it being part of the master resort plan to limit hours. I could be wrong, but that is what I remember.
 
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wowsmom

Active Member
I just got home from a quick trip to DCA to ride Soarin. The standby line outside was very short but the FP line now has switchbacks.

I was talking to one of the CMs running the ride and he said there had been a LOT of people contacting Disney about wanting it to stay longer. He also said the person who designed the original (Mark Somers? not sure) was there yesterday riding it and was telling him the reason the World version has slanting issues is because they filmed things too slowly and also filmed things that were too tall. Thought that was interesting.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

Premium Member
wowsmom said:
I just got home from a quick trip to DCA to ride Soarin. The standby line outside was very short but the FP line now has switchbacks.

I was talking to one of the CMs running the ride and he said there had been a LOT of people contacting Disney about wanting it to stay longer. He also said the person who designed the original (Mark Somers? not sure) was there yesterday riding it and was telling him the reason the World version has slanting issues is because they filmed things too slowly and also filmed things that were too tall. Thought that was interesting.
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Interesting, makes you wonder if they consider refilming to correct it for a future update.
 
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fctiger

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shortstop said:
I was going to say the same thing. DL’s hours blow WDW park hours out of the water.
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No MK park, excuse me, ANY DIsney park anywhere are open as long as DL is. TDL usually closes at 10 p.m. in the high season. SDL and HKDL around 9 p.m. the latest. HKDL closes at 8 p.m. most of the year. And none of these have extra morning hours. TDL opens at 8, thats the earliest for everyone. And DL is the only park that opens to midnight in high season every freaking night.

Its crazy to think it use to close at 1 a.m. (well MS still stays open until then). But yes, its pretty crazy if you are a hotel guest you can be in that park as early as 7 a.m. and don't leave it until 1 a.m. most nights in the summer.
 

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