Ok, you know your desperate when your looking for rumours..
Its sad, but I love it.
FIrst off : NO MENTION OF THE B&M FLYER or whatever.
Ok, my first question:
Are they going to do anything with the Triceratops Encounter? I know that this attraction is not a target for replacement (its barely 3 years old) but the recent renaming to Triceratops Discovery Trails has me wondering.
I posted this message on another website:
First off, I love the fact IOA is trying their best to do something different. No other park lets you get up this close to animatronics.
BUT, there is a problem with the attraction. The Triceratops, no matter how realistic you make it act, is, well, animatronic.
The advertisements for IOA when it opened showed a Triceratops running at break neck speed and catching a frisbee. While this commercial is gone from public memory, the idea underneath it is stil there. People want to see this thing dance. The average theme park goer, who knows nothing of theme parks, how they're run, and how they're staffed, doesn't care if they created a Tric that can realistically "breath", snort, even vomit! A lot of people who shuffle through the attraction don't stop to "smell the roses". Once they realize this thing won't charge the little fence, they leave. The little kids like it though. They're pretty convinced. Their parents want to drag them to JP River Adventure. If they could find a way to make this a show instead of a ride, maybe small stadiums of 50 or so, and give 5 minute presentations where the Tric (in large grass or behind some fencing) runs realistically, kicks the fence or bucks like a bull, maybe they'd be able to suspend there disbelief a bit.
Granted, you'd catch on about the grass blocking the view of the mechanics, but the adults would be a little more interested.
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I read alot of good reviews, but I never thought this attraction lived up to its potential. It may be "hokey" to some (they have a staff member trying his best to supend our belief that this thing is mechanical) and its really directed at kids, but if animatronics are thrilling people just next door at JP river adventure, theres just something more you could do with it.
Second: Are there any plans to update the River Adventure? The ride needs more animatronics, maybe some Raptor tails in the grass near the Raptor pen? How bout the Ultrasaur lagoon? The Ultra Lagoon is huge, yet has 3 dinosaurs taking up minimum space.
I know they added a small "III" scratch in the "water drainage facility" or whatever its called as a reference to the 3rd film, and added a Spinosaur photo shoot area near the bridge, but are they thinking of adding stuff? Its a cool attraction, but its missing something.
Its sad, but I love it.
FIrst off : NO MENTION OF THE B&M FLYER or whatever.
Ok, my first question:
Are they going to do anything with the Triceratops Encounter? I know that this attraction is not a target for replacement (its barely 3 years old) but the recent renaming to Triceratops Discovery Trails has me wondering.
I posted this message on another website:
First off, I love the fact IOA is trying their best to do something different. No other park lets you get up this close to animatronics.
BUT, there is a problem with the attraction. The Triceratops, no matter how realistic you make it act, is, well, animatronic.
The advertisements for IOA when it opened showed a Triceratops running at break neck speed and catching a frisbee. While this commercial is gone from public memory, the idea underneath it is stil there. People want to see this thing dance. The average theme park goer, who knows nothing of theme parks, how they're run, and how they're staffed, doesn't care if they created a Tric that can realistically "breath", snort, even vomit! A lot of people who shuffle through the attraction don't stop to "smell the roses". Once they realize this thing won't charge the little fence, they leave. The little kids like it though. They're pretty convinced. Their parents want to drag them to JP River Adventure. If they could find a way to make this a show instead of a ride, maybe small stadiums of 50 or so, and give 5 minute presentations where the Tric (in large grass or behind some fencing) runs realistically, kicks the fence or bucks like a bull, maybe they'd be able to suspend there disbelief a bit.
Granted, you'd catch on about the grass blocking the view of the mechanics, but the adults would be a little more interested.
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I read alot of good reviews, but I never thought this attraction lived up to its potential. It may be "hokey" to some (they have a staff member trying his best to supend our belief that this thing is mechanical) and its really directed at kids, but if animatronics are thrilling people just next door at JP river adventure, theres just something more you could do with it.
Second: Are there any plans to update the River Adventure? The ride needs more animatronics, maybe some Raptor tails in the grass near the Raptor pen? How bout the Ultrasaur lagoon? The Ultra Lagoon is huge, yet has 3 dinosaurs taking up minimum space.
I know they added a small "III" scratch in the "water drainage facility" or whatever its called as a reference to the 3rd film, and added a Spinosaur photo shoot area near the bridge, but are they thinking of adding stuff? Its a cool attraction, but its missing something.
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