News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

mysto

mysto

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nickys said:
With the last preview date being the 12th of March and the opening date not until 4th April, what are they going to in the 3 weeks in between?

More preview dates to be announced?
Soft opening? That hasn’t happened with a new ride for quite a while.

Any guesses / info? 🙅‍♀️
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VIP is my guess, club33 plus VIP tours, board members and their families. Anyone who's anyone. Rhianna or similar. A soft opening after they've had their way with it would fit.

DCBaker said:
Appears a snack stand is going into the spot that had been left empty -

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Imagine the steady stream of hot kids running from the 4 hour queue to get a slushy then back into line. This thing is going to make Disney's quarterly revenue singlehandedly.
 
SilentWindODoom

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ToTBellHop said:
Ever since I was a boy, I’ve always dreamed of peeing in the Grid.
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I feel like that would be go very badly.

lewisc said:
Magic Mobile won't open your hotel room. My guess is the lockers have the same issue


DME can unlock your hotel room using Bluetooth. I guess Disney doesn't think it's worth the expense to set it up.
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With the app unlocking your door, it's tied into your room number and the next lock is 30 or so feet away. Can bluetooth only unlock one locker without touching the dozens within a couple feet and keep connected to unlock the singular one you picked on the other side?
 
Coaster Lover

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celluloid said:
Nope, those ones on thunder are also blocks. The video also explains this. One of Big thunder's quirks is it does in fact have block brakes uphill. If these are activated, the ride has to power down and the trains winched over their next momentum point on the course.
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I stand corrected... that is very odd design and something I don't think you'll find on any other coaster. Still, even counting those "safety brake" blocks, Space still has a substantially greater number of blocks (though it also runs a substantially greater number of trains).
 
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lewisc

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SilentWindODoom said:
I feel like that would be go very badly.



With the app unlocking your door, it's tied into your room number and the next lock is 30 or so feet away. Can bluetooth only unlock one locker without touching the dozens within a couple feet and keep connected to unlock the singular one you picked on the other side?
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It could. Your phone is paired with your earbuds. Without touching dozens of other BT devices in range.

I have no idea if Disney IT is up to the challenge or how much it would cost.
 
SilentWindODoom

SilentWindODoom

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lewisc said:
It could. Your phone is paired with your earbuds. Without touching dozens of other BT devices in range.

I have no idea if Disney IT is up to the challenge or how much it would cost.
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Your earbuds are paired after you sit with them, select that device from a series of pairable devices, and then go about the world with the link. Not you going to 50-or-so pairable devices you don't know. I suppose you could set it up to pair and then choose one of the lockers, but that takes extra time and can be used to exploit innocents.
 
MagicHappens1971

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egg said:
At the very least, I think your phone should keep track of the locker number you’re using in case you forget it.
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For sure. I once had a locker at universal and my ticket wouldn’t reopen it, I had no idea what number it was, and my phone was in the locker. It took over an hour to find my stuff
 
Movielover

Movielover

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Hawg G said:
That would be something, since zero Tron theming was used in the ride.
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Hawg G said:
That would be something, since zero Tron theming was used in the ride.
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Hawg G said:
That would be something, since zero Tron theming was used in the ride.
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Hawg G said:
That would be something, since zero Tron theming was used in the ride.
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Hawg G said:
That would be something, since zero Tron theming was used in the ride.
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Hawg G said:
That would be something, since zero Tron theming was used in the ride.
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"0" :rolleyes:
 
etc98

etc98

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SilentWindODoom said:
I feel like that would be go very badly.



With the app unlocking your door, it's tied into your room number and the next lock is 30 or so feet away. Can bluetooth only unlock one locker without touching the dozens within a couple feet and keep connected to unlock the singular one you picked on the other side?
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I could be wrong, but I don’t think MagicMobile uses Bluetooth, at least on iPhones. It uses RFID, which is a much shorter range technology that requires you to be basically touching the reader for it to register. It’s also the exact same technology that the MagicBand uses. So I don’t think it would have a problem.

If it was an issue with the number of scanners or how close together they were, they could have also done it like Universal though, where there is one scanner for a group of lockers, and when you scan it it opens the specific locker associated with your ticket
 
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skiir97

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etc98 said:
I could be wrong, but I don’t think MagicMobile uses Bluetooth, at least on iPhones. It uses RFID, which is a much shorter range technology that requires you to be basically touching the reader for it to register. It’s also the exact same technology that the MagicBand uses. So I don’t think it would have a problem.

If it was an issue with the number of scanners or how close together they were, they could have also done it like Universal though, where there is one scanner for a group of lockers, and when you scan it it opens the specific locker associated with your ticket
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I think MagicMobile does use Bluetooth. I thought it used RFID but when I tried to open my room door with my phone, I had to enable Bluetooth and use the app; I couldn't use my MagicMobile pass in Apple Wallet.
 
Ayla

Ayla

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etc98 said:
I could be wrong, but I don’t think MagicMobile uses Bluetooth, at least on iPhones. It uses RFID, which is a much shorter range technology that requires you to be basically touching the reader for it to register. It’s also the exact same technology that the MagicBand uses. So I don’t think it would have a problem.

If it was an issue with the number of scanners or how close together they were, they could have also done it like Universal though, where there is one scanner for a group of lockers, and when you scan it it opens the specific locker associated with your ticket
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It uses bluetooth to open your resort door, just like all the other hotels that have digital keys.
 
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Hawg G

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UNCgolf

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egg said:
Does anyone know where this picture was taken from? It’s the best view of the two together that I’ve seen. Also, has Space Mountain’s lighting routine been changed to sort of match Tron’s?
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I think it has to be from the Swiss Family Treehouse. The angle is right and that's the only place I can think of where you would be elevated enough for a photo like that.
 

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