News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

[SplashJacket]

Launch coasters usually are much shorter timewise due to cutting out the slow clanking up a hill. The attraction is riding a coaster in a bike position.

Generally, coasters are measured with "prime ride time," so you'd only start the clock once the ride goes off the lift hill. But yes, overall ride time is generally lower.

 

[bhg469]

Launch coasters usually are much shorter timewise due to cutting out the slow clanking up a hill. The attraction is riding a coaster in a bike position.

If only there were a bike coaster with launches and has a ton of theming and had the same time has a really respectable 3:00 ride time. And a pretty great queue to boot..

 

[MisterPenguin]

If only there were a bike coaster with launches and has a ton of theming and had the same time has a really respectable 3:00 ride time. And a pretty great queue to boot..

It'd probably be ruined by having only half the vehicles in the cycle position...

 

[Pancho]

kinda crazy that we're waiting over 5 years for a cloned coaster with a minute long ride time. I'm already wondering what the next new coaster/ride will be.

 

[bhg469]

It'd probably be ruined by having only half the vehicles in the cycle position...

My wife begs to differ. She's terrified even looking at the bike position. Having the extra sense of safety that the side car provides means she will re ride it. Meanwhile I'll gladly take the biker seat.

 

[bhg469]

kinda crazy that we're waiting over 5 years for a cloned coaster with a minute long ride time. I'm already wondering what the next new coaster/ride will be.

So are the imagineers!! I doubt they have anything really good in the works right now.

 

[MisterPenguin]

My wife begs to differ. She's terrified even looking at the bike position. Having the extra sense of safety that the side car provides means she will re ride it. Meanwhile I'll gladly take the biker seat.

As was mentioned above, the whole point of this rather not-long coaster is the bike position. It's training wheels for Hagrid's.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Coasters are set out to accomplish different things and Guardians being a mile-long indoor coaster that rotates is unlike anything else.

Seven dwarves mine train is also unique in that it “swings” - that doesn’t make it better than Big Thunder.

What makes rewind better as a coaster than rock n rollercoaster? (Legit question I haven’t been on it yet)

 

[Club Cooloholic]

My wife begs to differ. She's terrified even looking at the bike position. Having the extra sense of safety that the side car provides means she will re ride it. Meanwhile I'll gladly take the biker seat.

Totally agree, my daughter didn't want to sit on the bike, she preferred the sidecar. If the bikes pivoted a little on Tron it would be cooler alas it's not all that amazing once you experience it.
My final thought, Shanghai Disney...the WHOLE park, was build in 5 years, and yet this Tron coaster alone is creeping towards that timeline. Im kinda tired of hearing about its "progress", its funny because I barely heard the same buzz for Cosmic Rewind and it's a MUCH better ride.

 

[Casper Gutman]

Honestly, just go in surprised. What do you have to lose?

Spoiler: If you want a brief spoiler though...

FWIW it's a controlled rotation and not remotely comparable to SDMT's not really present swinging. Comparisons to Crush's Coaster's random spinning in Paris were also made but CR is equally different. RNRC is also a simple off-the-shelf coaster in a box which is fun don't get me wrong, but also not comparable.

The scale of CR is also astronomical with the track well over a mile long. The Gravity Building alone is over 2x the volume of Spaceship Earth and it is fully used with even some sets but mostly massive (I mean massive) projections along the walls.

No inversions, but it's easily the best coaster Disney has built and like Hagrid's, it wouldn't benefit from them for what it sets out to do. The rotational motion is also used to make curves more intense in such a unique way in addition to the novelty of turning sideways or flipping the direction of travel. There is absolutely nothing like it and it's definitely a groundbreaking attraction. Even the pacing is phenomenal.

Cosmic Rewind is just as much an "off-the-shelf coaster in a box" as RnRC - its literally a pre-existing concept Disney bought from Vekoma, which also designed the coaster. Experts can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe a version of the tech is already in use in Phantasialand.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Cosmic Rewind is just as much an "off-the-shelf coaster in a box" as RnRC - its literally a pre-existing concept Disney bought from Vekoma, which also designed the coaster. Experts can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe a version of the tech is already in use in Phantasialand.

Cosmic Rewind is not an off-the-shelf coaster. Rock-N-Rollercoaster uses a layout that Vekoma offered for sale to others and was built once outside of a Disney park. Cosmic Rewind’s layout is unique and custom designed for the project.

The rotation technology is based on technology Vekoma developed for their latest version of the flying coaster, and did conceive of it being used for storytelling, it was not sold as a flying or seated coaster.

 

[Casper Gutman]

Cosmos Rewind is not an off-the-shelf coaster. Rock-N-Rollercoaster uses a layout that Vekoma offered for sale to others and was built once outside of a Disney park. Cosmic Rewind’s layout is unique and custom designed for the project.

The rotation technology is based on technology Vekoma developed for their latest version of the flying coaster, and did conceive of it being used for storytelling, it was not sold as a flying or seated coaster.

I'm happy to be corrected. Out of curiosity, where was the RnRC design used outside of a Disney park?

 

[lazyboy97o]

I'm happy to be corrected. Out of curiosity, where was the RnRC design used outside of a Disney park?

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[SplashJacket]

I'm happy to be corrected. Out of curiosity, where was the RnRC design used outside of a Disney park?

It’s a pretty mediocre coaster by all accounts. In contrast, place VelociCoaster in a field or parking lot and it’s still one of the world’s best.

 

[J4546]

new pics from biorecontruct twitter show some interesting lighting detail in train tunnel going under tron, looks like it will be themed a bit
it would be cool although almost certainly not happening, if they made the windows in the tunnel look out into a diorama scene of a futuristic city or something instead of what looks to be a view of support beams and such

 

[Disney Glimpses]

I'm assuming the bar lights are E-lights and the metal devices installed above are the themed lighting? Anyone have any other interpretation?

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

I'm assuming the bar lights are E-lights and the metal devices installed above are the themed lighting? Anyone have any other interpretation?

I think those bars might be something else like sprinklers.

Also... I wasn’t expecting this tunnel to have windows! Interesting.

 

[danlb_2000]

I'm assuming the bar lights are E-lights and the metal devices installed above are the themed lighting? Anyone have any other interpretation?

That was my thought also.

 

[MagicHappens1971]

I’ve noticed that several articles have referred to this attraction as Tron Lightcycle/Run instead of Tron Lightcycle Power Run. Has the name or stylization of the name been changed?

 

[lazyboy97o]

I’ve noticed that several articles have referred to this attraction as Tron Lightcycle/Run instead of Tron Lightcycle Power Run. Has the name or stylization of the name been changed?

Different names for different locations. People just used the Shanghai name as a placeholder.