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News Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Historical Construction/Impressions
- Thread starter BrianLo
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Keep in mind that both FoP and Spider-Man have a scene (FoP actually has many of them) in which you are plummeting to the ground. People scream. And yet, the actual motion of the ride is super tame. If all the lights were up in a white room, you would think by the motion of the ride that it was for toddlers. It was the illusion of falling that made people scream. Thrilling doesn't have to be actual drops or high speed.
And all thanks to screenz!
And all thanks to screenz!
TROR
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Indiana Jones makes you feel like you're going backwards while remaining perfectly still. Screens a cop out of what practical effects can do far more impressively.
George Lucas on a Bench
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The freefall in Spider-Man is incredible. Frankly, the moving building walls alongside the car and the 3D images on the screen combined with the motion of the SCOOP is more impressive than an awkard scene of a spinning ball with a mannequin dangling above the car. Sorry, Disney!
People must be screaming and losing their spit at the illusion of *going backwards*!!
TROR
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Point wasn't that Indy was more thrilling for it, point was that those kinds of illusions don't require screens.
George Lucas on a Bench
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Spider-Man was bringing a funny book to life, not some Spielbergian adventure movie with a guy shooting Nazis and lowering into a pit of snakes. It made total sense to go with 3D screens and combine them with real elements and a state of the art ride system. Sadly, it paved the way for a bunch of crappy imitators, but everything that's groundbreaking and great does that.
britain
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Yes - and a catchy song helps too!
Ismael Flores
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friends just came back from Florida and they said the Na vi river ride for them was terrible dissapointment.
they said they kept expecting something unexpected to happen but the ride was over before they knew it.
the group consisted if children from 3 years to the grabdparents in their late 60’s. and they all dis not care for it.
its such a shame that they sisnt go bigger with that ride
Ummmm, I literally didn't know that illusion was supposed to make you feel like you were going backwards. I thought the vehicle was stalled and the boulder is rolling towards you.
Edit: Ok I watched a video just to see what the heck I was misremembering, I see it's not meant to be a lot of backwards movement, just like a few meters.
I'm a big physical environment proponent, but sadly I don't think I've ever seen a physical trick that has impressed my brain enough that my stomach lurches like Shanghai's Pirates, Flight or Passage or Spiderman. Of course physical environments can usually actually move you through the environment. Which trumps both.
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dweezil78
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Ummmm, I literally didn't know that illusion was supposed to make you feel like you were going backwards. I thought the vehicle was stalled and the boulder is rolling towards you.
It doesn't always work, that's probably why... But it's a clever workaround because the vehicles can not backup. Instead of making the car move backwards, they simply pull the tunnel away from you.
Kram Sacul
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Okay stop this nonsense. The boulder scene in Indy and the city sequence from the Spiderman ride are both brilliantly done. No Mission: Budget Cuts there.
Incomudro
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You can make that argument for any ride or attraction.
Regardless, Disney is going for something that's as full on immersive as they have ever done.
A coaster wouldn't allow for that.
dweezil78
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It’s a beautiful, atmospheric chill ride dripping with detail from top to bottom— the type you may have seen in early EPCOT.
The issue, however, is that it is too short and the ridiculous wait times set up unobtainable expectations. It is FP-only in my mind. If you walk on, there’s far less reason to be disappointed.
Phroobar
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Space Mountain is immersive. The new Forbidden Forest coaster at Universal will have indoor sets.
Incomudro
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Neither of these things fit what Disney is going for in Star Wars.
Incomudro
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I haven't been on Navi, but if I didn't know what I already know - I can tell you that I would expect more.
Not more thrill.
I completely get that it is a slow, calm, river journey.
But more visuals, certainly more animatronics.
I would go into the ride expecting that some of those bizarre animals would pop up.
To come across the Shaman as the sole animatronic at the end of the ride would leave me thinking - that was it?
Phroobar
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Dog fight over the Death Star. Endor speeder bike ride with show scenes.
Incomudro
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You don't seem to get it.
Phroobar
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A coaster can be very immersive. You just need to get out of the Disney mindset. See Revenge of the Mummy, Big Bad Wolf, Expedition Everest, Escape from Gringotts to name a few. Disney could easily make a Star Wars immersive coaster.