New Nemo ride- TOTALLY LAME!

[queenmum2]

Sounds like it's still better than the Monsters Inc ride at DL...... (Which, yes, is also just supposed to be a cute ride and is good on that level. I'm just still bitter over seeing the lines get ridiculously long 2 days in a row, so we got to it early one day, still stood in line forever, and wound up with a cute ride. )

THAT is how I felt about Pooh's Honeypots in the MK -- I thought it was WAY much ado about nothing. It probably didn't help that they squished the four of us in one honeypot. We're not large people and one of us was 3 years old...but we felt cramped and it is such a short ride.

That said, I'll probably take the family on it again this time -- split into two pots, perhaps...and see if I have a different perspective on it. Plus, I have to look for Mr. Toad handing the deed over to Pooh.

I'm looking forward to NEMO, though. I'm glad it opened in time for our trip...TOMORROW . It has GOT to be better than the LS was in 2003.

Tracie

 

[epcotfan]

So you want to shoot at Nemo?

 

[sPaRkLeSpAz]

Awww!! It sounds like it would be soo cute though!! [=

 

[GEM]

And, see, that's the thing. Everyone has vastly different opinions. I absolutely HATE the Buzz ride - although I love that character. To me, it's nothing but some painted cardboard cut-outs and blacklights. BORING!

AS are the majority of all the rides in Fantasy land.

But the difference, to me, I guess, is that there's no story or anything on Buzz. The focus is on shooting the targets and scoring points, which has no interest for me at all. (I hate video games, etc.) So, that particular ride doesn't do it for me, although lots of people like it.

Anyway, my point was that different things appeal to different guests.

 

[Dan Murphy]

.....different things appeal to different guests.

I am going to write that one down. Words of wisdom from a smart teacher.

 

[StephSparrow]

Dont listen to this.

The ride is beautiful. The technology is amazing. The fish are so crisp and clear, they must be using plasma screens.

Different strokes for different folks.

I have (crappy) video of the ride here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEXlZ_OJvmY

Excuse some of the dialog, we had just finished sampling a lot of tasty wine AND drinking around the world.

We had fun.

And we rode nemo about 8 times throughout the day.

 

[kupperman]

Dont listen to this.

The ride is beautiful. The technology is amazing. The fish are so crisp and clear, they must be using plasma screens.

Different strokes for different folks.

I have (crappy) video of the ride here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEXlZ_OJvmY

Excuse some of the dialog, we had just finished sampling a lot of tasty wine AND drinking around the world.

We had fun.

And we rode nemo about 8 times throughout the day.

Thanks for the video link StephSparrow! And I thought the commentary was funny!

 

[NancyIL]

As someone who avoided The Living Seas for years until I saw Turtle Talk with Crush - I thought the Nemo ride was very cute. But hey - I also liked the Monsters, Inc. ride at Disneyland!

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

I'm bustin' at the seams to try it out next week

 

[°O°Joe]

But the difference, to me, I guess, is that there's no story or anything on Buzz. The focus is on shooting the targets and scoring points, which has no interest for me at all. (I hate video games, etc.) So, that particular ride doesn't do it for me, although lots of people like it.

Anyway, my point was that different things appeal to different guests.

GEM - I don't love the Buzz ride either... I don't know why - everyone else loves it... but it just doesn't do it for me. I LOVE all the Fantasyland dark rides though. It just doesn't seem like there is any story to Buzz to me...

 

[deltachi8]

I'm sorry you didn't like it but I'm going to think positive and give it a try anyway.

Best advice you can give someone!

Good post.

 

[Lucky82061]

hmmm.. expedition everest.. meets buzz lightyear... meets nemo? So your clam mobile is journeying into the deepest darkest see in search of nemo who ran away from his father. Along the way you meet the sharks and start a harrowing 60 mph journey to avoid them all the while fending them off with your undersea blasters.

lol cute or not... it's nice to have something in the living sea's now... can't wait to atleast try it next time

 

[Tigger2252]

I'm looking forward to seeing it next week. I agree with some of the other posters that said Epcot needed something to appeal to younger guests. The best thing about Disney is that there is something to appeal to every age group. I don't expect to get a rush out of Nemo, any more than when I go through the Hundred Acre Woods in my honeypot. But, I love Tigger so I go bouncin'. My children love Stitch--my dh and I, not so much. And as popular as Buzz Lightyear is with some, we don't care for it and don't go out of our way to ride it. If I'm looking for thrills at Epcot I'll go see Gary on M:S.

 

[blondeheroine]

THAT is how I felt about Pooh's Honeypots in the MK -- I thought it was WAY much ado about nothing.

That was me as well. I was so disappointed in the Pooh ride. I'm sure part of that had to do with missing Toad which was an imaginative ride that relied on being creative and almost kitschy instead of on merchandise sales. That being said, I still expected more from Pooh. Compared to the other dark rides in FL, for it being new, it seemed very lackluster.

And I'm seriously not jaded (at least I don't think so). My heart still swells when I soar over Wendy's bedroom and over nighttime London in Peter Pan's Flight.

That being said, I'm looking forward to Nemo, but certainly not expecting to have my pants blown off (after all, that'd get me kicked out of the park ).

 

[famsen]

For the life of me, I can not understand all the hoopla over the Buzz Lightyear ride at MK. I have really tried to get into it. I ride it every time I go to MK but I find it really lame.
My husband loves it and takes his laser blasting very seriously and racks up tons of points each time while I sit there pondering the mysteries of life.

 

[S.Poppins]

Dont listen to this.

The ride is beautiful. The technology is amazing. The fish are so crisp and clear, they must be using plasma screens.

Different strokes for different folks.

I have (crappy) video of the ride here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEXlZ_OJvmY

Excuse some of the dialog, we had just finished sampling a lot of tasty wine AND drinking around the world.

We had fun.

And we rode nemo about 8 times throughout the day.

In this video you are like walking in the dark for almost 3 minutes! Is the queue that long!

 

[Twende]

I also have questions about the dark at the start of this attraction. We have a 2 members of our party who do not see well in the dark and we try to avoid these areas.

For example in the haunted Mansion we enter directly on to the moving sidewalk so to avoid that dark section right before you get on the doom buggies. Is there a way to do this on this attraction?

Also if I understand this correctly ...this is the new entrance into the Living Seas? Is there another way into the Living Seas if you do not want to ride this attraction?

 

[PamNC]

but we go in 27 days! Personally, I think we SHOULD expect every single attraction to be up to Expedition Everest's standards. I don't mean in the sense of being a thrill ride, but I don't like, as another poster put it, these easily recycled attrractions passing as updates. Not up to Disney's standard...or the original standard of Walt.

However, I will reserve judgement until I ride the thing!

PamNC

 

[MonkeyPants]

For the life of me, I can not understand all the hoopla over the Buzz Lightyear ride at MK. I have really tried to get into it. I ride it every time I go to MK but I find it really lame.
My husband loves it and takes his laser blasting very seriously and racks up tons of points each time while I sit there pondering the mysteries of life.

Buzz never thrilled me much either, til this last trip, my sister and I got very competitive and ended up doing the ride like 6 times (she only won the 1st time...after that I destroyed her every time) I love the characters and while storywise its nothing, for the current gen being raised on video games it does have strong appeal. Nemo didnt do much for me, but I'll give it another go when I go back in Jan.

 

[Mike Bartenhagen]

We just got back and 11 of us from 4 to 64 rode Nemo and none of us were that impressed, maybe we were just expecting more but no one came out excited to ride again.

Mike