Brad Bishop
Well-Known Member
I really don’t like how it’s going to be angled in relation to the park in the MK. In Shanghai, it faces directly at the park. It calls to you from the hub. From 300 yards away (or whatever it is) the light show is incredible and impressive.
Here, it’s almost turned sideways. Like it’s down an alley.
It won’t be the same kind of impressive show unless you’re behind SM facing it directly... and from there it can almost be too close to take it in.
I said something positive about it's placement and hoping the Imagineers do a good job early on in this thread.
The more I think about it the more I think:
- It's just poorly placed. It'd be like placing Splash Mountain right next to the Matterhorn or Space Mountain right next to the Matterhorn and then everyone being excited with, "Oh! New ride!," because they've all be ride-starved for 20+ years.
- As with you, the angle is wrong. This coaster should be something that is seen, not stuck back in a weird little corner at an odd angle.
It really feels like someone in a WDW meeting said, "We need something big and new for the 50th!," and someone else chimed in, "We could put in a Tron coaster - we've already built it once, just build it a gain - cost savings!," and then they just looked for a place to stick it in the MK. It really doesn't feel like it's had more thought than that.
The other thing that sucks is that I remember Space Mountain being lit up like a white jewel on the horizon when it was first built. You'd see the castle, and then glowing off to the right, Space Mountain, and it was exciting. You'd think that they could capture that again with the LEDs but they haven't. It's "lit" but dimly lit.