progroupie
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WHAT, DISNEY SPENDING MONEY ON AN E TICKET RIDE? Surely you jest..
I highly doubt the subs could be considered an E-ticket nowadays even if they had been updated.
WHAT, DISNEY SPENDING MONEY ON AN E TICKET RIDE? Surely you jest..
Tokyo's version would fit better in EPCOT's Living Seas pavilion.The TDS version would be a great fit and big boost for Animal Kingdom.
Should they?
Yes.
Will they?
Not likely.
The reason why it closed was simple, it didn’t draw an audience. It was a walk-on for many years. People that did ride the attraction generally only rode it once because it was not a pleasant experience.
Unless my memory is going - I really can't think of a "water" or boat ride being built in the last couple decades. They seem to have movied away from that for whatever reason. I miss 20kL, and would love to see something similar, but I don't see anything like that being built now.
Was Splash Mountain the last water ride built (outside the water parks)? It's 100 degrees here today...my mind isn't working.
Kali River Rapids?
But... NO, 20,000 LuTS should not return... It's dated and archaic
I don't think that the story of this ride is at all dated and archaic - it is a CLASSIC! To say that would put the upcoming Seven Dwarfs Mine Coaster on the same peg, as well as Dumbo, Peter Pan, Tom Sawyer Island, well I could go on.
I do not believe those of us wanting to see it return want it to be identical to its original structure. We'd love to see some of the old ride concept mixed in with new imagineering and technology. A water ride that is submersive is something we do not have in any of the WDW parks.
Nemo is a pre-show to The Living Seas pavillion. Basically you ride past the front of an aquarium in omnimover cars where they project some pretty cool characters to look like they are swimming in the water. In the end it is a short skit and compared to the old Hydrolators it pales in comparison but goes along with the dumbing down of Epcot just fine I guess for most.
Oh yeah and...
Hydrolators are a distant memory. People do not want to be edutained anymore I guess. We are happier being moutbreathing tourists than trying to learn while being entertained. The other side of the coin is that technology moves so quickly that it is hard to stay ahead of the curve so they have decided rather than trying that they would just use heaping spoonfulls of pixie dust instead. Many who experienced Epcot in the early to mid 90's hearken back to that as the golden age of EPCOT, myself included.
The worst thing about 20K closing was how LONG it took to replace it. Almost 20 YEARS (!) from the time the ride closed to the public until New Fantasyland finished construction with the Seven Dwarf's Mine Train. That's really sad when you stop to think about it. Also sad when you think about the fact that the restoration of the submarines at DLR happened at more or less the same time as 20K being drained and demolished. Too bad the left and right hands didn't work together.
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