Indy in CA also uses quite a bit.
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Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
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Indy in CA also uses quite a bit.
Wasn’t there some issue at Everest where they used to use fog to hide the track switch but had to turn it off because it kept triggering sensors?
TrainsOfDisney
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Yes. My understanding was it was related to the fact they were using a water mist. If you had ridden the attraction with the fog you would know the huge difference fog can make! Not seeing the track switch and falling through the fog and out of the mountain was an incredible effect.
Steph15251
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I miss that part with the ride,but imo I do not think great rides need all these special effects to make them great.
lebeau
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Everest was a great ride when all the effects were working. Currently, it's a very good ride.
Indeed. Being water based it was starting to corrode sensors.
yensidtlaw1969
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It does surprise me that THAT effect was never replaced with an LNO2 or Fog version. That seemed reasonable enough to expect.
TrainsOfDisney
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It seems reasonable to fix the 1 AA in a major attraction as well. (Nobody is counting the bird on a stick as an AA are they?)
yensidtlaw1969
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You’d have thunk.
(I saw the bird work in October, surprisingly . . . I’ll check it out again this week and report back.)
TrainsOfDisney
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The tricky thing about rise is there are so many moving parts. With Everest, as long as the coaster parts work the ride works. The bird, yeti, fog, etc. can all be broken and the ride still works.
With rise you’ve got a lot of moving parts. Tower of terror does too but there are basically 2 rides in the building so you can at least operate at half capacity.
Add in all of the pre-show rooms that have lots of moving parts as well and goodness that’s a lot of maintenance.
With rise you’ve got a lot of moving parts. Tower of terror does too but there are basically 2 rides in the building so you can at least operate at half capacity.
Add in all of the pre-show rooms that have lots of moving parts as well and goodness that’s a lot of maintenance.
Steph15251
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I was talking rides in general splash mountain is a great ride and has no special effects
Aside from all the effects. And all the animatronics. And the environment.
Steph15251
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And the animatronics and environment is what makes splash so great imo it is the best flume ride out there.
Movielover
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Slight competition there with a fully functioning Jurassic Park River Adventure but yes I agree!
Steph15251
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Jurassic park is a great ride ,but imo not better then splash mountain,I almost fell out of Jurassic Park.
ChrisFL
Premium Member
the bird on a stick is back? That might be the cheesiest effect ever on an otherwise serious ride
Beamsplitter
Member
It's the projectors.
Imagine setting off a tiny puff of smoke in a movie theater. The projectors light becomes visible for a LONG time. With all the projection mapping, there would be no way to use smoke/haze effects without revealing all the projectors and making the images murky.
Spiderman and Transformers (projection rides) have controlled blasts of cryo fog that are kept well away from the projectors (basically in fan controlled hallways). Both are designed to cascade down and dissipate like a waterfall.
Small C02 puffs could be used - but the expense and upkeep could be problematic. All day and all night - tons of C02 tanks replace constantly. Would they need to pump fresh oxygen into the show building? Expensive.
TrainsOfDisney
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Yes... a simple effect like c02 “cryo” that used to be included in attractions such as muppets 3d and spaceship earth is now too expensive for the “most expensive attraction ever built”
TrainsOfDisney
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Any recent ride reports? Is the pre-show and ride experience still going well?
gerarar
Premium Member
From the other thread, the preshows were down the first hour or two today, but they still chose to run the ride.