Triceratops Spin to oen soon

ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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They are saying Spring 2002, which usually means march or april. However, rides opening then are usually in soft opening by late january/early feb, so I'm hopeful that I'll be one of the first guests to ride it (like Kali River Rapids and Test Track the second time it opened. I also was one of the first to try out fastpass. It was on Countdown to Extinction...they didn't have the booths up and running yet, they were just handing out tickets to see how people liked the system)
Kyle
 
mickeyfan

mickeyfan

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December 15, TriceraTop Spin at Disney’s Animal Kingdom® Theme Park. – Don’t miss the scheduled opening of our newest attraction (date subject to change.)

Notice the remark in parens!! Seems like lately everything is "subject to change"!!
:rolleyes:

But, I still want to go and see it!! I guess I am still a kid at heart, I love Dumbo and Aladdin!!:sohappy: :sohappy:
 
JAY-ROD

JAY-ROD

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Originally posted by mickeyfan
December 15, TriceraTop Spin at Disney’s Animal Kingdom® Theme Park. – Don’t miss the scheduled opening of our newest attraction (date subject to change.)

Notice the remark in parens!! Seems like lately everything is "subject to change"!!
:rolleyes:

But, I still want to go and see it!! I guess I am still a kid at heart, I love Dumbo and Aladdin!!:sohappy: :sohappy:
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Hey you forgot to add that you love me!:( Or do you?:confused:
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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It's a spinning wild mouse roller coaster. Wild mouse coasters are small in size (compact) and are usually like...45-50 feet tall. I've seen two concept drawings of the ride (both of which are pretty bad if you ask me), and one seems to show a single track while the other shows a duel track. I would prefer the duel track, as that would be extremely conducive to Fastpass (like Space Mountain...one track for stand-by, one for Fastpass. Regardless, the "trains" are single cars which usually seat 4 people. The company that is making the coaster generally has the four people next to each other, which seems pretty painful to me...you'll see why when I describe the track, but I think it would hurt your ribs and shoulder. One concept drawing made it look like the peeps would sit in chairs set about a central wheel, which I thought would include controls that allow you to decide when the car spins. I have not heard any more about that though. I think having the chairs that way would be much less painful...I could give a physics lesson on centripetal forces, but you get the idea. Anyway, these coasters feature sharp, quick, unbanked turns (that make the car spin if riders have no control of the spinning) and short, steep drops. These rides can be rather painful...let's hope disney doesn't screw up and hurt us...The height restriction on the ride is, in my mind, prohibitively high for their "target" audience with Dino-Rama...48"...remember all the complaints disney got when Countdown to Extinction was 52"? I'll bet they will see much the same. The only way I could see solving the problem would be to go from lap bars (which allow small kids to slip out around the turns) to full shoulder harnasses (much like the steel looping coasters). They also have these new harnasses for looping coasters that you can find on Six Flag's Mr. Freeze. I have not seen them, but apparently they are only lap bars yet they keep you in the train through loops. Again...I'm not sure how they work, but they may be a possibility. My personal idea would be having padded lap bars for each individual that go through their legs and form a T. Unlike Space Mountain's bar, though, at the outer edges, they curve down to the rider's side and snap in next to him...that's three locks...seems enough for me. There ya go!! Hope it makes at least a LITTLE sense!

Kyle
 
Goofster

Goofster

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I heard a while back that Disney people were up here in Pittsburgh at Kennywood Amusement Park to check out the Exterminator-A first of it's kind spinning wild mouse coaster. I think Reverchon built it, I'm not sure who is building Disney's.
Anyway, on the Exterminator, the 4 people sit next to eachother. I would prefer this over the 4 people on outsides. These single row cars would definately be themed better and would be more fun. I don't think the cars are painful, especially if disney keeps things under relative control. The ride is loads of fun, and hopefully disney will do as well with the concept.:D
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Um...I was thinking of a similar ride, the Tilt-a-Whirl, where you are next to other people and the car spins...that's painful to me. If you want the centripetal force/uniform circular motion lesson...it's obvious, but...when a car starts spinning, your body tends to NOT want to spin with it (Newton said a body at rest tends to stay at rest). So...here's what happens. You have four people lined up, and let's say the car spins clockwise with a starting point around 6 o'clock. Everyone flies counterclockwise as it starts moving, so...the person on the far right slams into the side of the car, the next person slams into him, and the person slams into him, and the last person slams into the fourth. That's three people grinding the poor guy on the right into the wall. Sounds painful to me. If the car didn't have any walls, then it wouldn't be a problem. The concept art w/ these made them look..kinda like UFOs, although I'm sure that's not what they were supposed to be...
 
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Smee

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Earlier this year , WDW engineers went to Kennywood park outside Pittsburgh to check out the indoor wildmouse coaster installed there in 2000. Disney reportedly was buying 2 of them to be themed accordingly. The K-Wood version is called "Exterminator" and the story line is riding through an old factory infested with vermin while exterminators try to kill all the rats.

The cars spin for about half of the ride, the occupants do not control the spinning. The layout is very close to a traditional "wild mouse" although not as high. The cars at K-Wood seat 4 across and I think there are 7 or 8 cars, the ride is mostly in the dark with special lighting effects. This would seem like a low capacity ride for WDW so it would seem possible they purchased 2 in order to have a reasonable rider throughput (the one at K-Wood frequently has long lines and waits).

The ride can be a little rough, you are spinning while going up and down hills, not for the weak of stomach.

I'm sure Disney would do a great job on the scenery, it should be a good ride. I would expect a minimum height of 44" if not 48", depending on the speed.
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Disney has already posted a height limit of 48" on its website. Disney originally advertised that guests would be able to determine when it spins. My thought is perhaps they have a system of lights...Imagineers determine when it's okay to spin. The lights are labelled in intensity from 1 to 5. It says "if you spin now, it will be this intense". Then there is a big red button. If you push it when one of these lights illuminates, you spin. Therefore, you could control exactly how intense the ride was, which would greatly expand the target audience. Perhaps you could even have it like Horizons where everybody votes and it's kinda democratic. That's how I would design the ride, but it would involve a computer in every car, which may be too costly for disney tastes...
 
ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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The exterminator looks like a kewl ride...seems well themed. This only shows that disney can certainly make an innovative ride out of this, it just depends on how much money Eisner is willing to shovel out...Oh...what I could do w/ just $5,000,000 for a roller coaster like this...but...I'm sure the Imagineers have tons of ideas anyway..again...it's the money.
 

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