News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

[TheMaxRebo]

Highly cringeworthy.

I can’t imagine anyone overly excited to work at this ride vs. others on property. It’s not like Tower of Terror or even Flight of Passage or whatnot where there’s a story to engage with, it’s a fun ride with some decorations but that’s really the extent of it.

I know some CM's that have worked opening teams of other attractions - seems exciting for them and a good memory, etc .... Maybe a little over the top but still, they applied for something new and got it, I can understand being excited

 

[JoeCamel]

I know some CM's that have worked opening teams of other attractions - seems exciting for them and a good memory, etc .... Maybe a little over the top but still, they applied for something new and got it, I can understand being excited

I don't have a problem with being excited but that spot looked like it was playing to 5 year olds

 

[JohnD]

There was some suggestion this area would be lockers, but they are indeed restrooms -

But it would need lockers, right? The closest Disney has to lockers is making you put your stuff in compartments on the back wall before riding FOP. That's because the experience is like getting on a bike which is what this ride is. I can't see you being able to carry your stuff with you while on this ride.

 

[ToTBellHop]

But it would need lockers, right? The closest Disney has to lockers is making you put your stuff in compartments on the back wall before riding FOP. That's because the experience is liking getting on a bike which is what this ride is. I can't see you being able to carry your stuff with you while on this ride.

Lockers are in the ride building in SDL. I presume we will see the same.

I wish everywhere would mimic the Velocicoaster system.

 

[JohnD]

Lockers are in the ride building in SDL. I presume we will see the same.

I wish everywhere would mimic the Velocicoaster system.

Thanks. I haven't been back to Uni since Veloci or Hagrid's was built. Please elaborate for those of us, like me, who don't know about the system.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Thanks. I haven't been back to Uni since Veloci or Hagrid's was built. Please elaborate for those of us, like me, who don't know about the system.

Velocicoaster has double sided lockers so they don’t mix people getting on the ride and people getting off the ride. You put your stuff in the front and retrieve it from the back.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Thanks. I haven't been back to Uni since Veloci or Hagrid's was built. Please elaborate for those of us, like me, who don't know about the system.

So you get in line with your stuff. Right before boarding, you go into a room with lockers followed by metal detectors. But the lockers have doors on both sides. They are set up like you are in the outside of a U. After the ride, you exit into the inside of the U and get your stuff from the other door. So you are away from your things for mere minutes, people entering and exiting don’t mix, and no one can use the lockers for a free 2 hour rental while they are elsewhere.

 

[azox]

New video of the entrance


I am wondering what the view from the main entrace for tron will be like (The view from the highest point on the walkway). I hope it doesn't just look like a view of backstage areas.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Gosh, it’s hard to think of a clearer addition-by-subtraction in magic kingdom than this awful awful awful power & light/store/old arcade building. Garish, blocks old and new great views, will be terrible for traffic flow. I guess it must have been marginally cheaper than a new, smaller gift shop at the TRON site so it stayed, but man do I hate this thing.

They simply did not have enough time to do that, given the tight timelines for getting Tron built and opened up.

Others' Space Mountain comments: Want to know when a good time to re-do Space would be? 2008. Not 2028.

 

[James Alucobond]

I am wondering what the view from the main entrace for tron will be like (The view from the highest point on the walkway). I hope it doesn't just look like a view of backstage areas.

They seem to be blocking most backstage views from the flyover. There's an elevated planter containing rows of evergreens that blocks the view toward the Speedway service building, and there's a set of currently empty planters to the left of the restroom building that will likely block most views of the retention pond and adjacent backstage areas. Beyond the restrooms, views of the show building are blocked by a large poured concrete wall, and it's likely that there will be a high wall on the right side of the path around where the railing currently ends that blocks views toward Space Mountain.

I'd be much more concerned about what things will look like from Storybook Circus. Views along the path to the attraction itself seem fairly considered.

 

[Bostb71]

Don’t you like this view? It’s even more magical when it’s lit at night.

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The current lights at night on the backside of the building are blinding. They're giant floodlamps covering those stairwells. The view from the Contemporary is horrible. When I first saw them I thought they had to be construction work lights, but there was no work going on in that area; it looks pretty permanent. Those lights are bright enough to light a stadium.

 

[mysto]

I am wondering what the view from the main entrace for tron will be like (The view from the highest point on the walkway). I hope it doesn't just look like a view of backstage areas.

The concept art offers some guidance:

 

[ToTBellHop]

The concept art offers some guidance:

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Ah. So the blue box is actually just a construction wall. We can look forward to the big reveal next year. Phew! Now we understand why it took 6 years.

 

[Patcheslee]

The concept art offers some guidance:

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They could double admission and I'd pay for that lol

 

[James Alucobond]

Looks like they might be starting stucco application really soon. They had the ground covered and taped off on the right side of the forecourt, and what looked like pallets of mix were on site, though it's hard to tell with stream quality.

 

[TQQQ]

They could double admission and I'd pay for that lol

I would pay $1000 per person per day if it was like that

 

[ULPO46]

The original plan had a futuristic looking entrance to Flynn’s Arcade. But the aesthetic would have made Tomorrowland look like Yesterdayland. Also the fact that the old arcade at Space Mountain serves as that attractions exit made it a little bit of a logistical nightmare to scrap those plans early on in the development of the copy from Shanghai.

 

[J4546]

IN shanghai, they have a lounge area building between where our bathroom building is and the main tron building, maybe later they can make an addition and put in some kind of lounge/arcade/something

 

[IMDREW]

Lockers are in the ride building in SDL. I presume we will see the same.

I wish everywhere would mimic the Velocicoaster system.

If I recall correctly, the lockers are not inside the ride building, but they are under the canopy.

 

[ToTBellHop]

If I recall correctly, the lockers are not inside the ride building, but they are under the canopy.

Hmmm…haven’t seen anything similar in ours, right?