I'm guessing physical sets between parking you in front of screens. It sounds like it has a lot of potential. Hopefully the sets are better than Potters.
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Spider-Man Ride Patent for DLR
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I'm guessing physical sets between parking you in front of screens. It sounds like it has a lot of potential. Hopefully the sets are better than Potters.
britain
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Yeah I think this is to Peter Pan what Splash Mountain is to Pirates. More thrilling, but not a puke machine.
This cool stuff! Not sure if it will see the light of day, but I'm glad to see WDI has been trying to think of ways to do Spider-Man in a uniquely different way than IOA does.
Show building will have to be pretty tall if you want guests to feel that their feet are high above the city streets AND the ride mechanism goes way above them too.
Hatbox Ghostbuster
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Now we just have to wait and see if this actually becomes anything haha.
Nice comparison with Splash/ Pirates. I hope it gets built. It would add some nice variety to the current resort attraction roster. The last overhead track ride was built in 1955 so they are overdue.
britain
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Sure, but why not Adventureland? (If we aren't getting Fire Mountain or Moana, I'm really gunning for a good addition for that spot!)
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Deleted member 107043
Yeah but you hate everything lol.
BTW did you change your name from something else recently? Your name looks new but it feels like you ve been around.
TROR
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That's not true. I love thematic consistency.
No but I used to frequent MiceChat under a different username so that might be what you're thinking of?
Hatbox Ghostbuster
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Andrew C
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Practical Pig
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This looks like it could be a lot of fun, and a unique motion experience. The patent drawing of a track layout (which I know is not a ride blueprint) suggests physical sets and screens. There's that curved wall in the drawing at the point labeled V3. But really, with todays tech, the entire ride could be projection or LED display surfaces with, oh maybe Doc Octopus causing mayhem and destruction all around while we narrowly escape the rubble of crumbling buildings. As a for instance.
The floor could be screenz too.
The floor could be screenz too.
britain
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This looks like it could be a lot of fun, and a unique motion experience. The patent drawing of a track layout (which I know is not a ride blueprint) suggests physical sets and screens. There's that curved wall in the drawing at the point labeled V3. But really, with todays tech, the entire ride could be projection or LED display surfaces with, oh maybe Doc Octopus causing mayhem and destruction all around while we narrowly escape the rubble of crumbling buildings. As a for instance.
The floor could be screenz too.
Maybe. I don't think that's likely given the constant swinging would change the guests perspective and thereby giveaway the screens as being flat surfaces closer to you than the 'street'. Unlike other screen attractions that simulate 3D without glasses (GotG, FJ) I don't think your exact position here is preprogrammed and controlled. If the swinging arm is at all determined by guest weight, then that is +1 for slight randomness to the experience, but it is -1 for eyeball perspective tricking with screens.
Hmm... unless... Are we almost at the point where they could track the guest's position and render the images of distant city streets in real time?
Practical Pig
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I do appreciate the issues with guest's relative perspective.
As far as tracking goes, I don't see a difficulty. The position of the arm they are riding would be a knowable factor without having to track the humans on it. But here's an article about a windowless jet in the development stage now, that will use large displays covering the fuselage and includes passenger tracking tech to know where to deliver customized content to the displays. In the included video, the bit about the tracking begins at 1:14.
http://mashable.com/2014/08/15/windowless-airplane/#YOnwYsMvJZq2
As far as tracking goes, I don't see a difficulty. The position of the arm they are riding would be a knowable factor without having to track the humans on it. But here's an article about a windowless jet in the development stage now, that will use large displays covering the fuselage and includes passenger tracking tech to know where to deliver customized content to the displays. In the included video, the bit about the tracking begins at 1:14.
http://mashable.com/2014/08/15/windowless-airplane/#YOnwYsMvJZq2
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But...don't you want the webs coming RIGHT AT YOU!!!
Lol good point
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I was kind of joking.
I love thematic consistency too, but Disney is rarely thematically consistent.
No I haven't spent a lot of time on the micechat forums the last few years.
George Lucas on a Bench
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What we really need to know is will there be a Spider-Man themed pizza restaurant? They could call it "Pizza Time".