No, according to a castmember I talked to yesterday they forgot to do something during the refurb on echo. They finished a month or so early and needed to do “one last thing”. Also, it wasn’t a motor refurbishment. It was 100% computer stuff. Apparently the ride computer system needed a complete overhaul (from another ToT castmember).
Although echo is currently testing rn, so it looks like it was a 1 or 2 day thing… hmm…
Did you ask about any of the show effect issues to the CM?
I didn’t, but after hearing cast members talk about echo being down yesterday, they seem pretty fed up with management. The one I spoke to made it seem like management just does whatever, doesn’t tell them, and then leaves them to deal with it.
From what I was told in January, they will remain running the modified sequences until they get brand new motors built. Rebuilt/refurbished motors are too risky for them.
I rode Echo after it had been closed for a couple of weeks (I think for a motor replacement) and it seemed more intense than Foxtrot to me.
Yes, the motor for Echo was replaced in November last year but it was only a rebuilt motor. I specifically asked because of that and the coordinator told me that the rebuilt motor on Echo would (potentially) still not be able to handle the original Tower4 profiles.
This isn’t necessarily true. A live stream today shown it still exactly the same as my last post. Sure, the VVC speakers are relatively loud, but the drop shaft speakers are still on the quiet side. Compare that to 2018 where the drop shaft speakers used to be very loud.
Profile 4 is the only profile that I felt reached the max speed and stayed there for a moment before slowing down again, since its the only one currently that drops the full length. Profile 1(Fear Every Drop) could of also before it got modified but I haven't experienced it before it got modified.
This is a combination of it being slightly bright but the main issue is that it is displaying in greyscale.
This isn't really the case, or at least from July 13th(latest stream where someone rode ToT, however the preshow still had lighting on dim), the speakers were all over the place. The ones closest to the show shafts are more quiet, and are more louder towards the drop shaft. Not only that, but the BGM/SFX and narration/extra SFX/BGM track for the 5D were slightly out of sync from each other. This was more noticeable on Foxtrot side, though I am unsure if this is just because the BGM track became much more louder at the starfield doors, because before, you would mainly only hear the narration track at the starfield doors while the main BGM track would sound distant.
It depends when "before" is, but on Foxtrot side, (again at least from July 13th) the drop shaft speakers are MIA. Even then on Echo side, the drop shaft speakers are still somewhat quiet. The main way to tell is if you hear the lightning strike SFX entering into the drop shaft, that only plays from the drop shaft speakers.
A retheme is very unlikely at the moment for the Florida ToT. I would expect the Paris Tower to be rethemed first before I would worry about the DHS Tower, but there is many more reasons that it would be more difficult than the DCA Tower:Now that they tore down the TOT billboard, should the title of this thread be changed to, "Tower of Terror re theme watch"
