lazyboy97o
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And he said the statistic is not current.
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Star Tours 2: Official confirmation - kinda
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jt04
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If anything the number had gone down because of the condition of the ride. It was nearly unrideable toward the end. I ride RnRC nearly every visit. In that same time period (ten years) I rode SM once. I'm sure I'm not the only person who quit riding SM.
Disneyfan1981
Active Member
That is what I meant, my apologies for the mistype. I have to agree that the statistic cannot be accurate. Even if every person got onto Space over and over and over again I do not think it would equate consistent wait times of almost two hours. On my last trip in April and even then on the trip I took in July, it was 90 minutes or more and we hit up MK almost everyday.
Something isn't adding up.
jt04
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Even with two tracks, SM's capacity is not overwhelming. Perhaps an insider has more up to date stats. Because "wait time" is not the best metric to go by. Different rides have different capacities and it does not measure repeat ridership. I know when I was young I rode SM repeatedly if the line was reasonable.
The Conundrum
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Might want to check who the author of the Eddie Sotto thread was buddy
The third was tolerable but it was nowhere NEAR the original trilogy. There's too much goofyness and plot holes in ROTS. Plus diagloue like:
Anakin Skywalker: You are so… beautiful.
Senator Amidala: It’s only because I’m so in love.
Anakin Skywalker: No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.
jt04
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I knew that would get you. :lol:
jt04
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Oh I do after thinking about it. And Eddie Sotto would certainly know something like that.
_Scar
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Unless he actually works at Space Mountain or is directly relate to it, I doubt he has the actual figures.
imagineer boy
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I agree, the prequels do have their flaws but I actually enjoy them. I don't think they're near as bad as some make them out to be IMHO. :shrug: Countless other franchises have suffered far worse in the sequal department.
jt04
Well-Known Member
The real test will be how they are received by future generations who watch the movies in order and never see them as "prequels". That will be incredibly interesting to me.
ttalovebug
Active Member
I agree also. Now looking back they are not even close to the orignals, but the prequels started coming out when I was ten. I thought they were so cool, and that's what got me into Star Wars in the first place. So in my book, they are OK. Jar-Jar aside, of course. :lol:
So I don't generally agree with JT but I just did some math.
IF my assumptions are wrong I expect to be blasted.
58 thousand guests a day
3 guests per rocket
so
58000/5 = 11,600 guests if 1 in five
11,600/3 = 3867 rockets needed to give 1/5 of the visitors a ride on SM
3867/14 hrs = 276 rockets per hour assuming park open from 9-midnight
276/60 min = 4.6 launches per min
sounds like 1 in 5 may be pretty close :shrug:
CaptainMichael
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I'd put the prequels up against RotJ. That movie is a mess. The rescue of Han from Jabba's Palace is cool, followed by a final visit with Yoda which is really cool, and then it all falls apart with Endor IMO. I find myself fast forwarding through all of the Ewok/Endor scenes and stopping at scenes where Luke confronts the Emperor and Vader. The latter scenes are brilliant and pure Star Wars. I actually could have done with more of that and less teddy bears fighting Stormtroopers and Chicken Walkers.
The music, the mood, the dialogue, and the acting between Luke, the Emperor, and Vader is $$$. It's funny how Vader can show emotion through his mask...you can see the conflict he's feeling.
_Scar
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Really? You could SEE his emotion through the mask? You aren't overanalyzing this? lol.
TalkingHead
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It's actually a maximum of 6 guests per rocket. How does that change the numbers?
CaptainMichael
Well-Known Member
No I'm not. There are clearly moments where the viewer is meant to see that Vader is conflicted. The camera focuses on him and he's in pensive type pose. It humanizes what had previously been a scary looking "machine". You can feel that there's still a person in there somewhere who is being reminded of who he is/was.
I think you may have been reading my post too literally.
The Conundrum
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ROTJ is far better than the prequels. The prequel trilogy was the complete inverse of Star Wars. The chief problems with the prequels are:
-CGI abuse
-Sloppy editing
-Really really horrible cringe worthy dialogue/acting in several scenes
-massive plot inconsistencies with the original trilogy
-Storyline was not coherent. It felt like each film was disconnected and Lucas came up with half an idea and just left it like that and the big highlight, The Clone Wars, isn't even depicted in the prequels at all! The end of Episode 2 shows that the War is about to begin and then Episode 3 opens and its like "ok gang we got count dooku the wars over!". Its just all over the place.