SplashJacket
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Only similar show building inclusion is RRC.
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Only similar show building inclusion is RRC.
Patcheslee
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Anyone else excited to see the path to Barnstormer back?
James Alucobond
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It kind of doesn’t make much visual sense without the show building in this case. It’d look like a path to nowhere.
Also, it’s still surrounded by imaginary forests of trees I wish were actually there, so the fantasy yet lives!
Transparency!
No Name
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It’s highly visible from the ride itself and paneled/painted to look like it’s not hidden. The coaster plainly goes into the building. Of course they included it. They’ve been including far more questionable ones like all of old Fantasyland (oh and all of the examples above).
SplashJacket
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To be fair, Star Tour's building size is greatly diminished here. Hard to showcase that something is there if you just include the trees out front.
The Land is less of the barren showbuilding and more a showcase of thematic components.
RRC is by far the most unnecessary inclusion, there's zero reason to include it on the map.
As for Tron, as @egg said above, it's hard not to include something so heavily featured in the park. If you don't include the building, what do you include?
Invent some fictional structure? Replace the building with trees and just leave the canopy? Not a perfect design choice (for the map makers). An overbearing show building on the project's overall visual composition should've been rectified far earlier in the design process.
JohnD
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splah
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dont have a problem with the show building on the map, but the scale is wrong. the whole complex is too big
They could make it look like a space port.
Here's the spot from Good Morning America today. The clip also gives a glimpse inside the refurbished Tomorrowland Launch Depot (formerly known as Tomorrowland Light & Power Co.), which includes a first look at the "TRON Identity Program" where you can create your own customized program figure.
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Reservations will be available for the TRON Identity Program. Reservations are set to open March 21 for arrivals beginning April 4.
Prepare to enter the Grid through a Grid Digitization Portal located in Tomorrowland Launch Depot. Once inside, you will be able to create an action figure, or Program, that looks and sounds just like you.
As a User, you will go through the customization process. Image Capture will scan your facial features. Then, you’ll select your helmet and body configuration. Will your Program be an Enforcer or a Combatant? A Scout or a Heavy Sentry? The choice is yours. Also, don’t forget to select a team color. Finally, you’ll visit Command Input, where you will record 6 lines of dialogue in your own voice.
Please allow 20 minutes to make your selections. Once all of your choices have been made, your Program will be ready for retrieval within 60 minutes. Be aware that purchase of your Program is required.
Important Details
Prepare to enter the Grid through a Grid Digitization Portal located in Tomorrowland Launch Depot. Once inside, you will be able to create an action figure, or Program, that looks and sounds just like you.
As a User, you will go through the customization process. Image Capture will scan your facial features. Then, you’ll select your helmet and body configuration. Will your Program be an Enforcer or a Combatant? A Scout or a Heavy Sentry? The choice is yours. Also, don’t forget to select a team color. Finally, you’ll visit Command Input, where you will record 6 lines of dialogue in your own voice.
Please allow 20 minutes to make your selections. Once all of your choices have been made, your Program will be ready for retrieval within 60 minutes. Be aware that purchase of your Program is required.
Important Details
- Payment will be due upon arrival at the location
- One action figure per User per experience
- Packaging included
- Additional customizable items can be purchased at Tomorrowland Launch Depot
- Recommended age is 5 years and older
- The experience area is limited to the User and one Guest—at least one person in the party must be age 14 or older
- Guest of the User may not customize their figure when accompanying the builder
- Customizable action figures are nonrefundable and are not eligible for Annual Passholder (or other) discounts
- This experience is separate from TRON Lightcycle / Run. The purchase of a TRON Identity Program does not include admission or priority access to the TRON Lightcycle / Run attraction.
FutureCEO
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So… Savi’s Version 2, with less universal appeal. Will they price it similarly?
Not sure who they’re aiming for with this.
Not sure who they’re aiming for with this.
Furiated!
New Member
Less appeal? Way more appeal for me. I did the all the Star Wars ones they had at Star Wars Weekends over the years. I never did the Avatar one because while I like the movie and love the ride, I never cared about having a Navi figure of me (plus IMO the figures barely looked like the people they scanned). This? Having myself in a Tron outfit with a light cycle I can put myself on? I already have the reservation date added to my calendar.
MrPromey
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Feels more like the "Create Your Own Avatar Action Figure" which end up looking nothing like any of the people who buy them.
Here's a fun little segment on how that goes by someone who documented their experience - apparently the "scanning" is BS.
Hopefully they do a better job of it with these.
trainplane3
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Very similar gimmicks to the old Tron Legacy Deluxe figures except now with some lights on the legs.
Also:
The similarities are way too close to be a coincidence.
I did not say "less appeal". I said "less universal appeal". They're going to run out of hardcore Tron fans willing to shell out the money to travel to the park (unless there's a huge number of hardcore Tron fans in Orlando or within a 4-5 hour drive), jump through their park reservations hoops, pay to get into the park, and then pay for an action figure more quickly then they realize.
MrPromey
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I'll admit when I first saw the thumbnail on the front page, I thought they were sealing pleather body suits and my brain just spiraled.
Compared to that, these toys seem pretty mild but still, it's weird the level of merchandising they're ratcheting up for an attraction based on an IP I don't think most millennials on down care much about.
Given the nature of the ride, the IP isn't really that important to the experience so I've no doubt the ride will be a hit but I'm wondering who's excited about these