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DHS Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
- Thread starter The Grand Inquisitor
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Purduevian
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My big fear with the plastic dividers is the potential of loosing some of the preshows... As I understood it, the preshows in their limited capacity are pretty close to the ride in it's limited capacity... If we can double the ride capacity (2 parties per vehicle) how do we get 14 groups into the 2 pre shows and 4 groups into the interrogation room?
Magic Feather
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I have a personal theory that RotR is intentionally getting the flimsy plastic so that in case anyone’s head leans back in the first row and hits it, it isn’t too hard.
During the Simulator drop sequence, when the pod slows after the fall, it tilts people back, usually making people lean back. Better to lean back into Saran Wrap+ than hard plexiglass.
_caleb
Well-Known Member
Did not realize this! That would make perfect sense! (It also sounds like maybe they should have included headrests?)
Movielover
Well-Known Member
Wow, I have to say those look awful! I would hate to sit in the second row with these things.
Magic Feather
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It's a brief enough moment that isn't whiplash inducing to where a headrest would be unnecessary (and block row 2's view). It's a similar situation to Hagrid's spike where, if they would hold people in that position, they would definitely need a headrest, but since it's brief they don't need it.
Maybe the soft vinyl was just proof of concept or a trial for plexiglass?
SWGalaxys_Edge
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I checked on Batuu West yesterday - No plexi in the cars or unload station.
SWGalaxys_Edge
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Well, people I know, have been working on the ride cars but not necessarily the whole "ride bugs" thing. Its hard to duplicate when you don't have guests "wear and tear" on the system. The ride is never going to be 100% with so many moving parts. people just need to get over it. That's why Disney has the "...no guarantee to ride" disclaimer. Even with a boarding group.
gerarar
Premium Member
Interesting. The door to escape pods still closes with its sound effect. We can conclude from this that the background soundtrack and door closing is tied together in one system, probably synced to the vehicles themselves. While Fin’s audio and Kylo’s, along with the battle raging outside, the physical props like the AA, ceiling raising/lowering, wind effect, and lighting is a whole another system
Simply put,
System A:
- Fin’s “abandon ship” audio spiel
- Kylo’s “there’s no escape” audio spiel
- Screens showing battle raging outside star destroyer
- Sound effects of battle outside windows
- Kylo AA
- Ceiling props that lift and fall, along with secondary ceiling prop and tube prop
- Metal sheet props that “fly away”
- Audio queue of ship crashing into star destroyer
- Wind effect
- Lighting to illuminate scene once Kylo turns you around and pulls you in
- Background instrumental soundtrack
- Door to escape pods closing on you
- Sound effect of said door closing
Also, once the vehicles go past the reopened door to the escape pods, everything functions as normal. Soundtrack, audio cues, lighting, etc. work as planned!
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180º
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Interestingly, this is not B-mode. In B-mode, the ride vehicles point you right at the window, where Kylo Ren's TIE Silencer appears on screen. His dialogue remains. Like in A-mode, a downed TIE fighter interrupts/crashes into him. B-mode removes the Kylo AA and the other moving props, including wind effects.
What's shown in this video looks more like what happens when a scene doesn't reset in time, à la Indiana Jones Adventure boulder scene or Kilimanjaro Safaris collapsing bridge. I wonder if the ride's programming has been updated to allow this to happen without triggering a fault, in order to reduce downtime?
gerarar
Premium Member
Ah I didn’t mean to insist that this was a B-mode. This was just a fault of the ride computer and that it didn’t recognize the ride vehicles were present. There was a full POV of this happening to MMRR recently where none of the scenes activated, but each RV functioned and moved through each scene as normal, however everything stayed dormant.
180º
Well-Known Member
Oh yes, I remember that video! It makes sense to allow the ride to keep cycling, so there’s less of a chance for an evacuation. I wonder if there’s a way for the attraction to eventually “right” itself while still operating, or if a full shutdown and restart is required to get those scenes up and running again.
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
Well-Known Member
Do you have a link for the actual video?
gerarar
Premium Member
The ride-through itself didn’t actually show said vehicle with the plastic barrier. It was just at unload (hence screenshot) where it was shown since the vehicles were stacked.
But here anyways:
gerarar
Premium Member
A full breakdown at the AT-AT room! In this POV you can see many of the physical props resetting, including the boxes with blaster damage, Fin animatronic, blaster gun, etc. all with lights on.
What's interesting is that maintenance people are already on the scene right away (thru the backdoor), as if they're just sitting/waiting backstage for an E-stop to happen. So the issue here is probably indeed the elevators given where they are placed and respond to.
Near the end, they walk through the tunnel in the dancing/disco room which leads to the unload section. Most breakdown videos end before this point, but the person recording this risked it all! Anyways, very interesting stuff backstage and many of the walls are still themed despite no guests gets to see this area on-ride.
What's interesting is that maintenance people are already on the scene right away (thru the backdoor), as if they're just sitting/waiting backstage for an E-stop to happen. So the issue here is probably indeed the elevators given where they are placed and respond to.
Near the end, they walk through the tunnel in the dancing/disco room which leads to the unload section. Most breakdown videos end before this point, but the person recording this risked it all! Anyways, very interesting stuff backstage and many of the walls are still themed despite no guests gets to see this area on-ride.
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