Originally posted by RobFL
Sometimes you are the biggest bunch of pompus windbags I have ever encountered.
You make broad statements based wholely on your opinion and try to present it as fact.
First off, not a single one of you is a designer or a CFO of any major themed design company, so for you to make statements about prices and thrift is ridiculous. You have no basis for your statements, and to just point something out.. Hulk was created by B&M, the biggest of the big names in coasters. Additionally, it was specially designed for the park. Then, proving you wrong again, it uses a launch system unlike any other in the world designed specifically for it. It even has its own generators so that Orlando doesn't brown out every time it launches. Yet, to you, it's cheap.
Why are coasters in plain sight? Perhaps because the general public does not consider it to be an eyesore. Most people want to watch roller coasters zooming about, even the nonriders. People take pictures by the hundreds every day of the visible sections of a coaster. People enjoy it. Why take it away because you don't think it fits thematicly?
Who are you to say what is proper for theme? Have you studied theme in terms of architectural and enviromental design? Themed design is so much more than "you should never see the ride track" just as much as photography is more than "always center the subject" and art is more than "always use paint."
As a matter of fact, in all three of those statements, it is consdiered by the artists to be limitting and at times entirely the wrong direction to take. If you have a ride system that will leave the guest intrigued by its function, then why not showcase it? Why not paint it dazzling colors and have it careen through the landscape around the guest engrossing them?
Perhaps because your theme is one of pleasentry and warm fuzzy slow moving clouds. Then, perhaps you ought not. In the case of the Hulk, the area is ment to be loud and boisterous, full of chaos, fast moving, intense. It fits perfectly.
Now.. moving to the subject of "nothing to do besides rides." How hard did you look? I spent the day there last weekend and only did three attractions in the entire park and got a full day of it. No, I did not wait in any long lines either.
I went on Cat in the Hat, then proceeded to wander through "If I ran the zoo," past the Zax bypass, listened to a whispermaphone about Truffula Trees, sun bathed on the Sneech Beach, and made sure to toss a few coins in a fishes mouth at McEllegiots pool - a refreshing surprise.
Then, I ventured into Poseidons Fury. Afterward, I wandered about Mythos and examined the statues and the lakeside view, got myself a drink at the Enchanted oak's Alchemy Bar (non aalcoholic for those wondering), saw Merlin running about, talked shop with blacksmith, tried to flip a rat into a cauldron, and then got a palm reading while my best friend bought herself a headdress.
Oh, then we went to Jurassic Park. We watched the splash down of the River Adventure breifly, not riding, and then explored the Discovery Center, detoured to pet a real live Triceratops, and then spent over an hour and a half in Camp Jurassic climbing rope bridges, exploring dark amber mine caves, and just mindlessly wandering about taking it all in.
I feel a bit long winded.. but I'm not embellishing and merely stating each item as encountered. There's obviously more than enough to do at each.
There's still two Islands left to explore, which I did, but I have a feeling you never gave them a chance.
-Rob