Why was Countdown to Extinction changed to Dinosaur?

Chape19714

Chape19714

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Disney can change the hieghts as they wish, and it has little/no coorlation to ride changes, just the restraint system. Dinosaur has NOT been toned down....the 1st time is always the most shocking/roughest because you don't know what's coming. Look at ToT, if you get a new sequence, it's completely thrilling and rough, but if you get a programming 5-6 times in a row it becomes routine.

Also, in most WDW coasters, the wieght of the people in your car effect the ride, espically in primeval whirl and space mountain. Dinosaur is driven by motors the entire time, therefore leaving no minor varation to the ride experiance.
 
dxwwf3

dxwwf3

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Chape19714 said:
Dinosaur has NOT been toned down....the 1st time is always the most shocking/roughest because you don't know what's coming. Look at ToT, if you get a new sequence, it's completely thrilling and rough, but if you get a programming 5-6 times in a row it becomes routine.
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I completely agree with that, but I think those of us that think there were some minor alteration had ridden CTX many, many times before riding "Dinosaur". And as I said before, possibly adding some light gives the illusion of going slower than before. And if that's the case, that's fine. It still feels slower around the turns and going down the dips (Burping dino and under the flying dino that never works) than before the changeover.
 
Sped2424

Sped2424

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Chape19714 said:
Disney can change the hieghts as they wish, and it has little/no coorlation to ride changes, just the restraint system. Dinosaur has NOT been toned down....the 1st time is always the most shocking/roughest because you don't know what's coming. Look at ToT, if you get a new sequence, it's completely thrilling and rough, but if you get a programming 5-6 times in a row it becomes routine.

Also, in most WDW coasters, the wieght of the people in your car effect the ride, espically in primeval whirl and space mountain. Dinosaur is driven by motors the entire time, therefore leaving no minor varation to the ride experiance.
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Thank you, they set their limits and safety memory is a funny thing, we like to see the past in a much more hallowed light. But the height restriction being lowered does not automatically constitute that the ride itself was toned down.
 
TubaGeek

TubaGeek

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Sped2424 said:
Thank you, they set their limits and safety memory is a funny thing, we like to see the past in a much more hallowed light. But the height restriction being lowered does not automatically constitute that the ride itself was toned down.
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hull327

hull327

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The roughness of this ride is confusing to me. I rode it the first time and noticed that there were some bumps but nothing I felt was awful (nothing close to Space Mountain). My 7 year old daughter rode it without holding on because she was busy covering her eyes and ears and while she was slid back and forth some she wasn't all beat up. My wife gets off it and comments how that was a whole lot more rough than she anticipated?
 
DznyGrlSD

DznyGrlSD

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Yes
Itn't Dinosaur the same ride, track, vehicles as Indy at DL? If so, I rode Indy in may and thought the right was MUCH 'bumpier' than Dinosaur. *shrugs*
 

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