Actually, one of my best friends loves Twister. I don't see why really. It's interesting, but not amazing. I would much rather see that go than ET or Terminator.
Isn't that ("interesting, but not amazing") more or less the theme park standard? I mean, everyone loves WDW so much - after all, we are having this discussion on a board in what is essentially a WDW fanboy site - but how many things at the Magic Kingdom would you label as "amazing" over simply "interesting"? :shrug:
The thing that makes me a big Universal fan (I love Disney too), is that more and more of their attractions lean more toward
amazing rather than just
interesting.
Twister interests me for a couple of reasons, the least of which is that the movie
was pretty amazing at the time of its release.
First, the attraction isn't 3D or a virtual simulator. The wind funnel in front of you exists in reality. It's like a science center exhibit on some serious steroids. That's one thing that I miss about the classic attractions like Kong and Jaws; the
reality of the experience.
Second, I admire the creativity that went into replacing Ghostbusters while maintaining the original show building (soundstage). They even kept the balcony above the audience intact - it used to house the "ghost" animatronics for the pepper's ghost effect in Ghostbusters and now houses a huge semicircle of equally huge fans used to create the wind funnel. There's A LOT of space above the audience that they don't get to see that goes into creating the twister. So, although it's not reason enough to keep an attraction around, I do think that the engineers and creative team were quite clever with how they transformed Ghostbusters into Twister.