News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

[lazyboy97o]

Why would they change the theme? Tron is awesome imo. Also I dont think the ride would have fit in the apce where the main street theater was supposed to go at all. Its not nearly big enough for the ride building

And there wasn’t enough room at Disneyland for a 300’ diameter Space Mountain…

 

[Patcheslee]

No, you do not. It is a fairly standard seat.

Sidecar is standard, motorbike side you straddle.

 

[Patcheslee]

Yep. Which isn't anywhere close to feeling like you're on an actual motorcycle...like this.



Start at 1:31 if the time-stamp doesn't work.

The riders legs are clearly sticking out behind them as they lean forward to grasp the handlebar.

So we're comparing different motorcycle styles. Harley VS Japanese style.

 

[ImperfectPixie]

So we're comparing different motorcycle styles. Harley VS Japanese style.

Not really. A Harley doesn't have a chair for a seat. Nor do your feet rest flat on a "floor".

 

[ToTBellHop]

Sidecar is standard, motorbike side you straddle.

No you don’t. You sit in a chair. Also, this thread is now red-flagged. Any time in life I’ve found myself in a situation where someone is straddling anything, a lap bar would have been impossible.

 

[G00fyDad]

No you don’t. You sit in a chair. Also, this thread is now red-flagged. Any time in life I’ve found myself in a situation where someone is straddling anything, a lap bar would have been impossible.

Red-flagged??

 

[UNCgolf]

Or I think more what people are getting at is that they could have altered the design.

Yes, this is what I meant. I could have been clearer in the original comment.

 

[Casper Gutman]

If WDW is so determined to drag-and-drop copies of rides into the parks, why can’t we get Shanghai’s Pirates, or Tokyo’s Monsters or Sinbad, or Mystic Manor? How did we get saddled with the two least exciting carbon copies possible? I mean, that doesn’t even seem like a cost-cutting issue!

 

[celluloid]

If WDW is so determined to drag-and-drop copies of rides into the parks, why can’t we get Shanghai’s Pirates, or Tokyo’s Monsters or Sinbad, or Mystic Manor? How did we get saddled with the two least exciting carbon copies possible? I mean, that doesn’t even seem like a cost-cutting issue!

It is because coasters cost a lot less and Rat's media was done. Both having a balance of outside IP and low cost to build.

If only we could have gotten a Mystic Manor but themed for Animal Kingdom's mythical animals.

 

[jaxonp]

This is information I didn't necessarily ask for but cool, I guess?

Same.

 

[lazyboy97o]

It is because coasters cost a lot less and Rat's media was done. Both having a balance of outside IP and low cost to build.

If only we could have gotten a Mystic Manor but themed for Animal Kingdom's mythical animals.

Coasters should cost a lot less. They’d don’t at Disney.

 

[Touchdown]

On Hagrid's:

• You are in a regular seat designed for a humans rear end, not a banana shaped seat found on motorbikes.
• You sit upright. Your back is up against a vertical seat-back. You are not leaning forward.
• As you enter the bike your leg has to lift up no more than a foot high to 'straddle' whatever box-thing that is on the floor keeping your feet separated. You are not straddling a motorbike, nor a motobike seat. You can still knock your knees together, which you can't do if you're straddling a motorbike.
• Your feet go flat onto a floor that is parallel to the ground. They are not up on pedals, nor are they tucked behind you as if you were leaning forward on a racing motorbike.
• There is a lap bar to keep you in. That would be impossible if you straddling a motorbike.

Proof:

You straddle a seat and know my knees can’t touch, while I recognize Tron is different, Hagrids motorcycle simulation is no different then FoP or a Disk-O. In all you have zero side support, stand erect and have a restraint in front and behind you with you feet flat on the floor. If Hagrids isn’t a motorcycle style seat neither is FoP, and everyone I know refers to FoP as a motorcycle type seat.

 

[J4546]

well to be fair the canopy used in tron lightcycle is a complicated engineering marvel.

 

[JoeCamel]

well to be fair the canopy used in tron lightcycle is a complicated engineering marvel.

@lazyboy97o

 

[celluloid]

Coasters should cost a lot less. They’d don’t at Disney.

They cost less than dark rides at Disney.

 

[ImperfectPixie]

You straddle a seat and know my knees can’t touch, while I recognize Tron is different, Hagrids motorcycle simulation is no different then FoP or a Disk-O. In all you have zero side support, stand erect and have a restraint in front and behind you with you feet flat on the floor. If Hagrids isn’t a motorcycle style seat neither is FoP, and everyone I know refers to FoP as a motorcycle type seat.

FoP is closer to TRON than it is to Hagrid's...it's sort of a cross between the two. On FoP, you're sitting with one leg on each side of a bike-style seat, not in a chair, which brings it close to TRON's vehicles, but you are still sitting in a pretty upright position, which is similar to Hagrid's. Hagrid's ride cars may look similar to a motorcycle, but from the video posted upthread, Hagrid's does NOT have motorcycle seats.

 

[MisterPenguin]

How did we get saddled with the two least exciting carbon copies possible?

Don't you mean 'straddled'?

 

[ToTBellHop]

Don't you mean 'straddled'?

The pandemic has left Chapek straddled with debt but soon he will be back in the straddle again.

 

[Communicora]

The pandemic has left Chapek straddled with debt but soon he will be back in the straddle again.

Blocked and reported for putting that image in my mind.

 

[JoeCamel]

Blocked and reported for putting that image in my mind.

Are you straddleing block AND report?