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Winnie the Pooh Ride
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imagineer boy
Well-Known Member
Man, I'm just dying to see the competed queue. It all looks so great so far.
Neverland
Active Member
It was the same on Monday. It was closed for a few hours, but I didn't hear any work being done. I think it was just a matter of the ride being 101.
From Orlando Theme Parks News:
Controls on the column? I wonder what they are for:
For anybody else wondering, the amber light is the signal 25 (fire) alert, so the greeter knows if there is a signal 25 inside the ride, and the green box is the FLIK scanner. As for the black panel, I don't know, but I'll know in a few days... The new wait time sign has to be manually changed by the CM out front, so the black panel might possibly have the FLIK time on it somewhere, so the CM knows what time to change the sign to.
FutureWorld1982
Well-Known Member
Thanks for the info!
I was not very sure why they put all that stuff over there, as there's nothing "technological" in that part of the queue....
We'll see next week, when it reopens! And thanks again for the explanation!
raven
Well-Known Member
From the hub today:
"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh attraction and Hundred Acre Goods shop are now open as enhancements continue. Beginning Thanksgiving week, young guests will start their adventure through the Hundred Acre Wood by jumping with Tigger, crawling through Eeyore’s house and playing in Rabbit’s garden before they board the attraction. And there’s more magic to come, with additional playful elements debuting throughout the next month.
These enhancements will have a temporary impact on FastPass distribution which will not be available until the enhanced queue opens."
"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh attraction and Hundred Acre Goods shop are now open as enhancements continue. Beginning Thanksgiving week, young guests will start their adventure through the Hundred Acre Wood by jumping with Tigger, crawling through Eeyore’s house and playing in Rabbit’s garden before they board the attraction. And there’s more magic to come, with additional playful elements debuting throughout the next month.
These enhancements will have a temporary impact on FastPass distribution which will not be available until the enhanced queue opens."
Magenta Panther
Well-Known Member
Oh, that looks gorgeous! Richly detailed and full of clever little touches. Bravo to the crew that's putting it together! That's definitely more like it!
JimboJones123
Well-Known Member
We rode tonight. A few notes.
1. This attraction NEVER needs fastpass again. Worked brilliant without it today. The small line we did have felt like walk on. The line moves very quick when not being toggled
2. It really is the 100 acre wood. Pavement changes when you enter the line. The mini wall is cute. Most was still tarped off, but it does feel like its own little land there.
3. The wooden stick fencing as you load looks exactly like it came straight out of the cartoon.
4. Were some audio problems for the first 1/3 of the ride, but the ride may turn into a letdown after experiencing such a perfect exterior.
Cannot wait for the tarps to drop.
Poohland is looking great.
1. This attraction NEVER needs fastpass again. Worked brilliant without it today. The small line we did have felt like walk on. The line moves very quick when not being toggled
2. It really is the 100 acre wood. Pavement changes when you enter the line. The mini wall is cute. Most was still tarped off, but it does feel like its own little land there.
3. The wooden stick fencing as you load looks exactly like it came straight out of the cartoon.
4. Were some audio problems for the first 1/3 of the ride, but the ride may turn into a letdown after experiencing such a perfect exterior.
Cannot wait for the tarps to drop.
Poohland is looking great.
Timon
Well-Known Member
That black box has an XLR connector on it, so my first guess is intercom with white buttons to talk to other ride stations or PA microphone.
sshindel
The Epcot Manifesto
I was thinking about that recently. I don't think I'd ever want to do a fastpass once this opens. Theme up the queue so it has a lot going on and I'd probalby rather go through the line to experience all the theming than skip it for Fastpass. Maybe once all the nextGen queues are all out (what 10 years from now?), Fastpass will either go away, or more people will opt out to queue up and go through the normal lines.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
I still see a need for Fastpass--for repeat riders, like most of us. Next Gen queues are cool, but I doubt I'll want to play the games involved every time I queue up (for the same reason people here have become bored with the "game" on the Spaceship Earth descent), so Fastpass will still be nice. As an example, the Tower of Terror queue is incredible, but I've seen it many times, so I don't refuse to use Fastpass just because the queue is immersive.
Do the games on Soarin' deter you from using Fastpass? No queue line can make me wait more than an hour for a ride.
sshindel
The Epcot Manifesto
Ahhh, see, Soarin' kind of bores me anyway, so I wouln't wait more than 10 minutes for it, Fastpass or no. I'm in the vast minority though on that one. I didn't even know that there were games in the queue on Soarin' as I've only done it via Fastpass, and even then I think I've skipped it on my last few trips.
I know that there are many very, very, shall we say, spirited discussions on this board about the plusses and minuses of Fastpass and if they help/hurt the wait times across the board. I will leave that to the side for now as I know that conversation has been done to death here. My thought was more along the lines of wondering if the interactive queues would dwindle down the number of Fastpass users until either the Fastpass is used only by the more "repeat customer" types, or until they kind of fade away all together based on some some of the arguments we've seen on the use of Fastpass.
Personally, I use them because I'm an impatient person at heart. My daughter though, while impatient, would probably much rather spend the time "playing" in the queue, if it is truly as immersive as they make it out to be. Once the interactive queue is installed, I'm sure that skipping the queue might not be an option for us, if what they have in the queue make it an entire "experience".
That is until she gets old enough to want to skip it and only ride Space Mountain 100 times in a row...
aka_emilicious
Well-Known Member
That's exactly what it is. It let's the greeter talk to load and unload. When everything is up and running there will be a phone attached. They have one At small world inside a panel
RSoxNo1
Well-Known Member
If Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey can't do it, than I don't think any queue can.
Now I know this is a fanboys dream, but back to the Winnie the Pooh ride itself. It's been establishe that Snow White is being removed. That should leave enough room in the combined building for a larger attraction - bringing Pooh's Hunny Hunt over to Disney World would be a more than welcome addition to the Fantasyland expansion.
The thought process is that Snow White will ultimately be repurposes as a similar scope dark ride utilizing the same track system after a permanent home for Princesses/Fairies is established, but I think adding a Family E-Ticket in place of two C-tickets is preferable in a park that shouldn't have the capacity issues in a few years.