Hard to tell from video, but you also straddle the vehicle at the one in SeaWorld. It is designed to look like a jet ski.
Wave Breaker is a rather traditional seat and lap bar seat with a little bit of body work between your feet. Nothing like TRON’s primary seating configuration.
It didn’t. The strong success of the parks, including EPCOT Center, is what kept Walt Disney Productions profitable.
The park bills it as a family coaster, with a height requirement of 48". It is, however, much less intense than their other two coasters- Great White, a B&M invert, and Steel Eel, a B&M hyper. Sea World Orlando could do with something similar, as all their proper coasters, while excellent, are very intense.
Even during construction, Walt Disney Productions was profitable largely due to the profits generated by Disneyland and Walt Disney World. The losses were at the movie studio.
It isn't. On a bike coaster you're bent at the waist, and lot of your weight is still borne by your seat and legs, and some by your arms. On flying coasters, at least with B&M and Vekoma's designs, your back is straight, and almost all your weight is taken up by the chest harness. In practice, comfort and visibility on bike coasters is far worse than on flyers, and the almost all the appeal is in the gimmick of "riding a bike". This is a big part of the reason why parks have been very slow to adopt bike coasters.
You're probably right but I do remember reading that building EC almost bankrupted WDP.
That and simultaneously designing TDL. The OLC paid for it, but WED and WDP had to stump up money upfront.
What do you mean by stump up money upfront? I thought OLC paid WED to design TDL
You can’t be both profitable and bunkrupt. The company acquired debt to finance the project and made arrangements like the Tishman hotel deal, but Walt Disney Productions continued to be profitable. Saul Steinberg attempted a hostile takeover in 1984 but EPCOT Center was still profitable. The undervaluing of the company came from the losses at the studio.
