What is the real point?

[Epcot is my fav]

What is the real point of the Triceratops Discovery Trail ?? I have travelled down this trial once and there is if i recall correctly one real big fake dino. Also why would there be express tickets for this attraction? i know this trail is geared towards kids but i think its a pointless waste of space. Any thougths?:brick:

 

[CAPTAIN HOOK]

Yep - its closed at the moment.

 

[mandib]

My sister loved it (she was 7). I just wanted to leave. She keeps asking if it's open again. The express pass makes no sense but who am I? lol

 

[Epcot is my fav]

wait its closed for good?

 

[Brooke]

i personally didn't care for it but i think it was nice for young kids or older people who couldn't or didn't want to go on rides.

 

[rocketman23]

It's aim is to display the capabilities of special effects. I always thought it was an impressive creature, but the whole trail thing took up too much space. Perhaps if the triceritops took up less space, people could appreciate the actual realism of it more instead of focusing on how much space it takes up.

 

[Michael72688]

That was the dumbest thing I have ever done in my life

 

[AndyMagic]

Originally posted by rocketman23
It's aim is to display the capabilities of special effects. I always thought it was an impressive creature, but the whole trail thing took up too much space. Perhaps if the triceritops took up less space, people could appreciate the actual realism of it more instead of focusing on how much space it takes up.

I couldn't have said it better myself. The ride was indeed built to show off Universal's abilities. Last I heard they were going to transport the dino to the River Adventure. If this is true, most of the dino's movements will not be seen cuz the boat will just travel right past it. The trail might be closed but the dino will pop up somewhere else eventually.

 

[pheneix]

The Trail might be opening up by Easter, and is most likely going to be open by Summer. There is starting to be a need for more attraction capacity at IOA, as evidenced by the recent decision to discontinue the staggered openings at IOA.

 

[MrPromey]

Originally posted by AndyMagic
I couldn't have said it better myself. The ride was indeed built to show off Universal's abilities. Last I heard they were going to transport the dino to the River Adventure. If this is true, most of the dino's movements will not be seen cuz the boat will just travel right past it. The trail might be closed but the dino will pop up somewhere else eventually.

I think that they greatly overestimated the appeal of an animatronic.

This is something that they could move to the side of the main walkway. As long as they were to give enough space, this could be something that they open the main doors to and allow people to walk up to (like a barn with the front doors open). I don’t really see a lot of people mobbing the front of it and my guess would be that the line I waited in when I went through the first and only time would have been nonexistent if people could have seen a glimpse of what they were waiting for at the back of the line. If they went this route, they could open the front doors when it is staffed and operating and close them with some sound effects running the rest of the time.

I think it is interesting enough to keep as itself so people can actually watch it but I don’t think it is something that most people consider worth waiting in line for.

 

[WDWFREAK53]

Originally posted by MrPromey
I think that they greatly overestimated the appeal of an animatronic.

This is something that they could move to the side of the main walkway. As long as they were to give enough space, this could be something that they open the main doors to and allow people to walk up to (like a barn with the front doors open). I don’t really see a lot of people mobbing the front of it and my guess would be that the line I waited in when I went through the first and only time would have been nonexistent if people could have seen a glimpse of what they were waiting for at the back of the line. If they went this route, they could open the front doors when it is staffed and operating and close them with some sound effects running the rest of the time.

I think it is interesting enough to keep as itself so people can actually watch it but I don’t think it is something that most people consider worth waiting in line for.

It might be put way in back to keep people from seeing it. Think about it...if it was out in a barn type thing where people just walking by could see it over and over again...don't you think that people would begin to say "Oh look...it's sneezing...AGAIN...oh look...it's going the bathroom...AGAIN" (Just a thought...but if you go down that large pathway, you get to it, and then move along...and don't bother walking back there in the same trip)

 

[MrPromey]

Originally posted by WDWFREAK53
It might be put way in back to keep people from seeing it. Think about it...if it was out in a barn type thing where people just walking by could see it over and over again...don't you think that people would begin to say "Oh look...it's sneezing...AGAIN...oh look...it's going the bathroom...AGAIN" (Just a thought...but if you go down that large pathway, you get to it, and then move along...and don't bother walking back there in the same trip)

Well, that all depends on how good it actually is. If it has enough unique sequences or is random in these sequences, it wouldn’t be much different from watching a live animal (like the Clydesdale horses in the Bush Garden’s stables)… This would effectively change it into something that more so adds to the theme of this part of the park from an attraction all to itself…

Another idea would before them to make it an “educational” show where the keeper comes out and talks about the dinosaur and gives off some interesting facts and does the urine sample and the whole routine… they could still make it an outdoor thing and just set it back a ways and some benches (sort of like the stage off to the side of Canada but a little nicer)