Disney Irish
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The rumors, as I recall, are that you enter that ship to walk into the inner Battle Escape queue. So you are literally boarding a ship to experience the attraction. All part of the immersion.....
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The rumors, as I recall, are that you enter that ship to walk into the inner Battle Escape queue. So you are literally boarding a ship to experience the attraction. All part of the immersion.....
HauntedMansionFLA
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Where does the hotel go?
Old Mouseketeer
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What I have heard is that when you board that ship you are actually boarding a freestanding cabin on a turntable. This is the rotunda we saw being built that goes into the ground. I'm guessing there are three cabins on hydraulic mounts, but that's conjecture on my part. (I'm basing that on the geometry and the idea that there is one cabin loading, one in transit, and one unloading.) Supposedly the story line is that you are boarding a resistance transport, you take off and are then caught in the tractor beam of a First Order Star Destroyer. When the hatch opens, you exit into the hanger bay we have seen a rendering of. We also saw it under construction with the curved frame for the portal into space. I think the idea is that you are now detained, queue through the ranks of stormtroopers and then board your droid-driven personnel carrier to continue your adventure trying to escape.
Take this all with a grain of salt. It's all my conjecture based on what I've read on the Interwebs--my best Bothan spies have all signed NDAs.
VJ
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No Bothans were harmed in the making of this post.
There are seven simulator pods on four turntables.
Disney Irish
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By inner queue I mean that you are going into the area where you will physically board whatever vehicle will be used in the first part of the attraction. So yeah that sort of aligns with what you are talking about. So we're on a similar thinking.
gorillaball
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You are speaking of Big Bird/ Falcon ride right? I believe he was speculating on battle escape.
Disney Irish
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Battle Escape has its own turntable where the guests will enter their vehicles, rumored to be trackless vehicles.
180º
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I take it you’re referring to Big Bird. We’re talking about the Alcatraz turntable.
Alcatraz’s turntable is part of the queue and doesn’t interface with the trackless ride vehicles, as far as we can tell. See Old Mouseketeer’s post above, or Martin Smith’s posts in the Florida thread. As far as we can speculate, guests will approach the rebel transport ship outdoors on Batuu. The ship conceals the entrance to the turntable. Once on board the “ship,” guests will feel like they’re flying into space and being picked up by a Star Destroyer. In reality, their cabin will have been rotated to face the inside of the attraction building. The door will open and guests will spill out into the Star Destroyer hangar, which is still part of the queue, according to our insiders. The load area is either in the hangar or beyond it, but not before it.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Either way, my original post was that the transport ship will take guests to the inner queue. So my statement still stands. How guests get into the other part of the attraction is still the mystery that we're all waiting for.
mickEblu
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Loving the sound of this Q and set up for the ride. Us being “detained and queuing through the ranks of storm troopers” is genius. Great way to play off the fact that we ll be prisoners in that Q for a lonnnnng time.
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George Lucas on a Bench
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I really don't like the concept for the ride. Star Tours may be a screen, but the limitless concept of just exploring the universe and encountering different characters is better than just being on a ship fighting storm troopers.
mickEblu
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That’s what the Falcon ride is for
Incomudro
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"just?"
I'm going to go out on a limb here and hazard a guess that the attraction will be more than just that.
JediMasterMatt
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It's relatively simple modern theme park 101 scenario: board transport on surface, take off, get pulled into the destroyer bay, exit transport into the clutches of the First Order, they process you into your LPS troop transport, adventure ensues...
Think of it as a modern day take on HM's stretching room to Doom Buggy. It's not much of an "inner queue" as it's not a great deal of time spent in this huge set.
It should be quite spectacular and I believe that everyone will agree the real ride starts with the transport up and not the LPS as it's going to be such a great reveal.
*sorry I haven't been posting much recently. Lot's of issues in the real world taking my attention. Heading to DLR at the end of the week and will get some news.
Disney Irish
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I understand the concept, yes the HM is a good analogy that everyone has been using. But just like the portrait hallway is the "inner queue" for HM, I look at it as the destroyer bay is the "inner queue" for Battle Escape.
I'm sorry if everyone misunderstood what I was saying.
mickEblu
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Except instead of a short walk down a hallway to your doom buggy like in HM, I imagine it will be a while until you actually get in your LPS vehicle after the reveal in the hangar. I’m very intrigued by the set up/ Q for this attraction but what will they do for the hour(?) in between the reveal and boarding your ride vehicle to make us feel like we re not just in line again? HM feels like the ride starts in the stretching room because from that point on there is nothing traditional about the “Q” and you go from the stretching room to your ride vehicle very quickly.
Or am I wrong and you board your LPS vehicle fairly soon after the reveal?