News Test Track to be reimagined

[DisneyRoy]

Please stop bickering. Thank you.

That's two threads in a row I've seen this.

 

[Rich Brownn]

Look at those show times.

How great would it be if Disney had a park like that now? Just full of attractions that lasted longer than 10 minutes.

It's one of the reasons EPCOT seems lacking in atractions . An area which once had nearly 90 minutes of rides and shows now has 12 minutes of rides.

 

[sedati]

It's one of the reasons EPCOT seems lacking in atractions . An area which once had nearly 90 minutes of rides and shows now has 12 minutes of rides.

Solution... have Test Track, Mission Space, and Cosmic Rewind all move at a snails pace like the old diorama attractions they replaced.

 

[C33Mom]

Solution... have Test Track, Mission Space, and Cosmic Rewind all move at a snails pace like the old diorama attractions they replaced.

Mission Space might actually get more riders that way. I’d try Cosmic Rewind and Test Track in slo-mo at least once.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

It's one of the reasons EPCOT seems lacking in atractions . An area which once had nearly 90 minutes of rides and shows now has 12 minutes of rides.

Twelve mins? SSE and LWTL alone are over 26 mins still.

 

[Rich Brownn]

Twelve mins? SSE and LWTL alone are over 26 mins still.

Notice I said area not the park. Sure SE remains but then once you get into the park... look where Energy (28+ minutes) Horizons (12+ minutes) and World of Motion (14 minutes) - replaced by GotG (6 minutes) Mission: Space and Test Track (each about 5 min). Or the other side - JII (12 min) replaced with 4 min ride, while LwTR remains, Food Rocks/Kitchen Cabaret (17 min) and Symbiosis (18 min) are now Soaring(5 min) and Awesome Planet (10 min). The Seas lost the pre-show, main show and hydrometers leaving just an expanded omnimover ride which is also a significant reduction. That doesn't even count the displays/activities in Communicore/Innoventions that are now a restaurant, a shop, and a dismal hall with a small stage outside.

 

[Casper Gutman]

The lack of PR material for this is intensely foreboding.

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

The lack of PR material for this is intensely foreboding.

I don't necessarily think it's a reflection of quality, but I do find it very concerning that we know essentially nothing for a project that was announced over a year ago and has been under construction for nearly four months now.

 

[UNCgolf]

I don't necessarily think it's a reflection of quality, but I do find it very concerning that we know essentially nothing for a project that was announced over a year ago and has been under construction for nearly four months now.

Isn't that the current MO, though?

I feel like we knew almost nothing about Tiana until it was close to opening.

 

[mightynine]

The lack of PR material for this is intensely foreboding.

My sources tell me cars will be featured.

 

[DarkMetroid567]

Tbh I hope they keep it up. I want to know nothing about this ride until it’s practically done.

 

[Chef idea Mickey`=]

I don't necessarily think it's a reflection of quality, but I do find it very concerning that we know essentially nothing for a project that was announced over a year ago and has been under construction for nearly four months now.

It's not like we didn't get not one concept art, I think the one concept art showing the interior shows enough of a sketch that it's going to be a new experience meanwhile it's the same attraction that we all love so and for a fact it's decided and changed every 10 years pretty much by contract you have trust since it's GM/Chevrolet that they know what they're doing. It's the only project where your comfortable.

 

[V_L_Raptor]

The lack of PR material for this is intensely foreboding.

We're too early in the process. PR material will only be made once they're ready to tell us how to feel about it.

 

[danlb_2000]

My sources tell me cars will be featured.

cars or Cars?

 

[Mickeynerd17]

I don't necessarily think it's a reflection of quality, but I do find it very concerning that we know essentially nothing for a project that was announced over a year ago and has been under construction for nearly four months now.

I wonder if its because there's no Disney IP inclusion in it. With Tiana we had all this backstory PR material, interviews, animatronics featured on insta, and more.

Since Test Track is holding on to its own theme, maybe management doesn't want to highlight it as much because its not promoting the latest movie. Idk, I'm just spitballing at this point but that's my headcanon for now.

 

[UNCgolf]

Easily. EPCOT suffered from too much of the same (omnimovers).

This is one of those things people say as though it's a self-evident fact, but I'm not sure the data backs it up. It was the only park they've ever built that was competitive with the Magic Kingdom, and it was at its most popular with that original omnimover heavy attraction lineup.

 

[Bocabear]

So there were Four big Omnimover attractions. The Seas Omnimover felt secondary to the whole experience...so it did not feel like "yet another Omnimover" the way it does now... The Hydrolators and the story setup were the main thing....and of course the tanks themselves.
I don't think the original iteration of the park was hurt by the amount of Omnimover systems at all...the attractions all told very different stories that were not related to each other...in very different ways...Suspended single row system for Horizons, More traditional Omnimovers in WOM, Spacehip Earth system did not turn towards the settings the way a traditional Omnimover does...so that felt completely different... Imagination stopped and started unlike a normal Omnimover... The idea that EPCOT suffered from these systems is silly... If EPCOT had retained and updated thes attractions over the years along with adding new pavilions and more attractions, the Festivals would have never even been necessary to bolster attendance... And we would be looking at a very different and probably the most amazing theme park in the world by now....

 

[Incomudro]

I certainly don't think Epcot suffered from too many OmniMover type rides back in the day.
I thought it was amazing.
I do believe however that it would have suffered in today's short attention span world had it remained like that.

 

[zipadee999]

I certainly don't think Epcot suffered from too many OmniMover type rides back in the day.
I thought it was amazing.
I do believe however that it would have suffered in today's short attention span world had it remained like that.

I agree that they would still need attractions like Soarin and even Cosmic Rewind to balance out the park, but I think there’s a reason why Haunted Mansion and even Pirates are still so popular. People love retro animatronic-heavy dark rides. However, if there was a park full of only those attractions, it may get a little old. MK and DL have attractions like Space and Big Thunder to balance things out. To me the ideal version of Epcot would have been if they kept the big four (Horizons, SSE, OG Imagination, and WoM, but then added attractions such as Soarin and Test Track alongside them in expansion pads

 

[SplashJacket]

It was never an excessive omnimover issue.

There was an insufficient diversity of rides.

You can have several omnimovers if you also have other attractions like coasters, indy/rise style attractions, and simulators