spacemt354
Chili's
1:16 - the original minions
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice Season 4: Homecoming Edition - Discussion Thread
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1:16 - the original minions
Suchomimus
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spacemt354
Chili's
Yes this was the one i was thinking of!! Thanks!
mickeyfan5534
Well-Known Member
This looks like the concept art for what the Sorcerer’s Hat COULD have been (aka a really cool Animation redo)
spacemt354
Chili's
Apprentice 1 is now departing (well really Apprentice 4)
spacemt354
Chili's
Here's a retro-imagineering question just as a conversation starter...
If Rocket Rods has a proper budget to redo the Peoplemover track instead of reusing it and causing its demise, do you think this attraction would still be around today? Would it have been as lukewarm of a reception? Or, would you have even done it in the first place?
If Rocket Rods has a proper budget to redo the Peoplemover track instead of reusing it and causing its demise, do you think this attraction would still be around today? Would it have been as lukewarm of a reception? Or, would you have even done it in the first place?
AceAstro
Well-Known Member
I would have done it but executed it better. I would have definitely included banked turns and build up the season supports at the minimum.
spacemt354
Chili's
Banked turns would have been cool over the Autopia and through the monorail...it'd feel like a flying car or something!
Voxel
President of Progress City
The core issue goes beyond just the way the track was built, there were severe structural issues with the buildings and supports under those speeds. So to build the attraction properly with high speeds would have required a possible rebuild or restructuring of most of the buildings in Tomorrowland. I think they would have been better with a Tron based People mover or something slower with more displays.
D Hulk
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The Rocket Rods were pointless and dumb. I rode ‘em. Beyond genuine technical issues (and they’d’ve never’ve built ‘em if it wasn’t a cheapjack replacement), they removed Tomorrowland’s unwinding relaxation attraction. Without the PeopleMover to soak in the whole land and add life everywhere, I kind of detest spending time over there now. I’ll just drop in for my next FastPass, then vanish back to the west side or the DCA bars. A profoundly misguided attraction conceptually, technically, operationally. Plus their dumb queue wasted the entirety of what’s now the (higher capacity) Buzz Lightyear show building. Good riddance!
The simultaneous ground level relocation of the Astro Orbiter is similarly angrifying, also ruining what made the original ride special and really futzing up crowd control patterns in the process.
Grrrrr!!!
The simultaneous ground level relocation of the Astro Orbiter is similarly angrifying, also ruining what made the original ride special and really futzing up crowd control patterns in the process.
Grrrrr!!!
spacemt354
Chili's
Honestly it could go all the way back to the Discoveryland overlay -- I would have started with that and never done this...
I get what they were going for to 'timepiece' tomorrowland so to speak so it doesn't go out of style as easily, but a more retro aesthetic could have produced a more retro peoplemover system and stopped Rocket Rods from ever being an idea.
I get what they were going for to 'timepiece' tomorrowland so to speak so it doesn't go out of style as easily, but a more retro aesthetic could have produced a more retro peoplemover system and stopped Rocket Rods from ever being an idea.
spacemt354
Chili's
Completely off the Rocket Rods topic but another defunct attraction - did anyone ever have the opportunity to ride this?
D Hulk
Well-Known Member
Nope. I’ve been on Banshee though, which is excellent
!Got to do Maverick a month before they shuttered it. Planning to get out there again this summer for Steel Vengeance.
spacemt354
Chili's
Here's it with the loop
AceAstro
Well-Known Member
Very true. I think part of the reason that WDW's Tomorrowland is so successful is you see movement everywhere. Between the Astro Orbitor, PeopleMover, and Speedway there is movement everywhere.The Rocket Rods were pointless and dumb. I rode ‘em. Beyond genuine technical issues (and they’d’ve never’ve built ‘em if it wasn’t a cheapjack replacement), they removed Tomorrowland’s unwinding relaxation attraction. Without the PeopleMover to soak in the whole land and add life everywhere, I kind of detest spending time over there now. I’ll just drop in for my next FastPass, then vanish back to the west side or the DCA bars. A profoundly misguided attraction conceptually, technically, operationally. Plus their dumb queue wasted the entirety of what’s now the (higher capacity) Buzz Lightyear show building. Good riddance!
The simultaneous ground level relocation of the Astro Orbiter is similarly angrifying, also ruining what made the original ride special and really futzing up crowd control patterns in the process.
Grrrrr!!!
After you get past the Astro Orbitor in DLR, there is no movement in Tomorrowland as you can't really see the subs or Autopia.
spacemt354
Chili's
Nice!Nope. I’ve been on Banshee though, which is excellent
Got to do Maverick a month before they shuttered it. Planning to get out there again this summer for Steel Vengeance.
The best wooden coaster I've probably been on was El Toro, and that's dwarfed in length compared to Beast/Son of Beast so I was curious haha
Suchomimus
Well-Known Member
Grrrrr!!!
D Hulk
Well-Known Member
Beast is excellent; the best wooden I’ve been on. Long, wild, with a footprint the size of DLR.
Outside of Ohio I don’t (yet) have any experience with the great coasters of the eastern U.S. Presently I’m planning a summer road trip for Indiana, Pennsylvania and the Ohioan promised land.
Suchomimus
Well-Known Member
I’d be Cagney Carination angry if Disney decided to close the TTA Peoplemover and replaced with some new ride that they played Iike it was bigger and faster and cooler when it was in reality, a pandering waste of space and an overall bad experience.The Rocket Rods were pointless and dumb. I rode ‘em. Beyond genuine technical issues (and they’d’ve never’ve built ‘em if it wasn’t a cheapjack replacement), they removed Tomorrowland’s unwinding relaxation attraction. Without the PeopleMover to soak in the whole land and add life everywhere, I kind of detest spending time over there now. I’ll just drop in for my next FastPass, then vanish back to the west side or the DCA bars. A profoundly misguided attraction conceptually, technically, operationally. Plus their dumb queue wasted the entirety of what’s now the (higher capacity) Buzz Lightyear show building. Good riddance!
The simultaneous ground level relocation of the Astro Orbiter is similarly angrifying, also ruining what made the original ride special and really futzing up crowd control patterns in the process.
Grrrrr!!!