Future Attractions Coming?

[FANTASMIC!]

I just heard that Tony Baxter annouced a brand-new ride system that lodes every 15 seconds! This might piont to the Indy ride! He actually said the same thing with Star Tours (first motion simulator) and The EMV's. I hope I didn't hear wrong because this ride system sounds (and was said to be) The biggset ride Technology Step in many decades!

 

[FANTASMIC!]

I find it interesting and rather perplexing that all speculation regarding a replacement of the Indy stunt show involves a copy of the California Indy ride. It is my understanding that this ride is based on the same track system as Dinosaur at AK to the point where guests with experience on both rides have suggested that it is the exact same track configuration, just with different scenery.

I have never ridden the California Indiana Jones ride -- but do have the Disneyland Paris Indiana Jones rollercoaster notched onto my ride card. The roller coaster is done completely in reverse with a loop. It is a rather violent ride that throws the rider around a lot. If the stunt show is to be replaced (and I see no reason for replacing it -- it is a completely different kind of stunt show than LMA) I would much rather see something like the ride from DLRP than DLCA.

Didn't you just say it's a violent ride? I have heard this and I'm nit the kind who wants to gets his butt kicked by a Coaster (It happened to me at Six Flags N.E on the Cyclone) I hope to be an Imagineer and I have a lot of trouble thinking up new ride systems. (I have only thought of one and a Half (half because I think the ride already exists)) I just hope 10 more years will at least give me a good idea . Sorry, I changed the subjet. But I'm afraid I disagree.

 

[All Aboard]

I just heard that Tony Baxter annouced a brand-new ride system that lodes every 15 seconds!

Not sure I'm following. Many attractions have dispatch intervals less than 15 seconds. Test track dispatches at 12 seconds, for example. This is accomplished by loading vehicles in batches, and dispatching one by one at a timed interval. Think Test Track, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, etc.

 

[SoCalKDG]

Not sure I'm following. Many attractions have dispatch intervals less than 15 seconds. Test track dispatches at 12 seconds, for example. This is accomplished by loading vehicles in batches, and dispatching one by one at a timed interval. Think Test Track, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, etc.

The complete article was about taking a tecnology that if used currently would be slow loading and turning it into a higher capacity ride.

While many don't like clones, if it insured a quality "E" for the DLR I'd share it with WDW as well. Would they be able to share developement budgets if they produced the ride for two parks?

On the subject of money, couldn't an Imagineer develope the next big thing while at the same time save money on it as well? I'd imagine part of their jobs would be taking new or existing technology and using it to save money on a new ride.

OK old guys, straighten me out here if I'm off base. (born in the 60's, but DD(3) and newborn in Sept. keeping me young).

 

[FuturePlanner007]

Well how many of you agree with this: Build a newer verson of the Indy Adventure Style ride from Disneyland,CA with newer theming and a completly different track design layout,or keep the Epic Stunt Spectacular?

 

[FANTASMIC!]

Well how many of you agree with this: Build a newer verson of the Indy Adventure Style ride from Disneyland,CA with newer theming and a completly different track design layout,or keep the Epic Stunt Spectacular?

I don't, sorry. Sreamscape (best update site) said that Disney is NOT closing the Indy show any time soon. I think an armegetton or 007 ride would be better.

 

[All Aboard]

Sreamscape (best update site)

And, we are basing this on...?

 

[wtg2000]

007 ride

<faints> This would be amazing, using Test Track or Indy technology or something better. My understanding is that MGM would not give Disney the rights to Bond, James Bond when they struck the deal for the studio back in the late 80s. However, with MGM being bought by SONY, who knows.

 

[SoCalKDG]

<faints> This would be amazing, using Test Track or Indy technology or something better. My understanding is that MGM would not give Disney the rights to Bond, James Bond when they struck the deal for the studio back in the late 80s. However, with MGM being bought by SONY, who knows.

They at least have the rights to use the music in the park. I remember hearing it a couple times last month. The other interesting thing is that the May 5 special party for the press(plus lucky winners) had a spy theme. Hmmm...... Shaken, not stirred. A Bond ride at DMGM would be amazing, even if they did screw it up completely.

 

[FANTASMIC!]

Yeah but if you put different theming and newer track layout,that's what Screamscape.com said a newer version of it then case closed."It's brand new"!!!! So I expect it to come for sure. Ya know you can have an e-ticket attraction with it also.

Not to quote this, but I just read on of (maybe your) posts on WDWMAGIC, but I think Everything ( Execpt when your actuallly looking at a confirmation sigh) should be taking with a grain of salt. Just don't flip out because of some small news. And about villian mountain. I don't think so. I just can't imagine going to a theme park like that in the future. Maybe one ride, but not a park. All rumors must have a basis, Brother Bear Soarin riuning the Showcase. Journey to the Center of the Earth, the give-away on the AK TV special of a computer lava monster. The iNdy ride doesn't really hace a basis (unless you count that MGM needs someting)

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

The iNdy ride doesn't really hace a basis (unless you count that MGM needs someting)

Good point.

The logic seems to go like this: The "Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!" has been around since 1989 and there's the new "Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show" and Disney-MGM now has two stunt shows and Disney-MGM has very few rides and Indy at Disneyland is a great ride therefore the Indy stunt show will be replaced by the Indy ride.

But there are major holes in this logic:

• The Indy Stunt Spectacular still packs 'em in.
• Even if Disney eventually decides to close the Indy Stunt Spectacular, there's no reason to tear down the huge 2,000-seat covered theater that could be used for a new show.
• Disney is on no hurry to build $100 million+ dark rides.
• Unlike the late 1980s, Disney now has a huge library of new Disney and Touchstone creative properties to draw upon, rather than paying George Lucas.
• Indiana Jones is no longer the hot property it once was; it means more to baby boomers and Gen Xers than to today' kids.

 

[wtg2000]

Disney-MGM now has two stunt shows

Agreed. And if you look at the original sketches for D-MGM (in the Imagineers book) it had two stunt shows. AK has two big musicals. Universal Hollywood always had two stunt shows (Western and Miami Vice/Waterworld - hey, it's been a long time since I've been).

 

[jimmybog]

Agreed. And if you look at the original sketches for D-MGM (in the Imagineers book) it had two stunt shows. AK has two big musicals. Universal Hollywood always had two stunt shows (Western and Miami Vice/Waterworld - hey, it's been a long time since I've been).

Yes Universal always had two shows buy nowadays it has none! I think the Western one shut down over two years ago. Not sure if they have any plans to replace it.

On another note regarding the proposed Indy ride at the Studios; the actual ride was originally planned to be constructed on land behind where the current Indy stunt show resides. Will be interesting to see what actually happens.

 

[TempleofForbEye]

I've heard some people say that DL's Indiana Jones ride is similiar if not identical to the layout of AK's Dinosaur ride. I have not been on the AK attraction, but I have heard only negative things about it and seen very little publicity of it after the initial opening.
If they are so similiar attractions, why is the DL Jones ride so popular and the AK so unpopular. I still wait in lines 2 hours long for Temple of the Forbidden Eye, and Disney has marketed it over here almost into the ground. Our entire Adventure land is centered around the Indy theme. If anyone has been on both, tell me where AK went wrong.

 

[FANTASMIC!]

I don't think anything went wrong! I and my mom liked the ride. And to continue the 20k thing I just recieved my DVC magizine and it said that the Imagineers don't have any plans for the space. At least not now. Not even a playground!

 

[maliboomer]

Just adressing the Brother Bear raft ride, its a lot like the debate to put RNRC at Californian Adventure on the West Coast, they already have a launched rollercoaster with an inversion, and WDW already hs a raft ride at DAK, so it wouldn't be very novel to have two.