News Round Up

[lockedoutlogic]

I LOVE KRR. I think it is a blast and it is great on a hot day!!

Honestly...it's a terrible ride. Once in 99...never again.

 

[bmalonef45]

Honestly...it's a terrible ride. Once in 99...never again.

I would have to agree. This is one of the few times I think that other parks with a similar ride have done better. KRR seems way too short, I don't mind the conservationist story but with the long waits, its just too short to justify.

 

[minnie mum]

Honestly...it's a terrible ride. Once in 99...never again.

I agree as well. No comparison to Grizzly River Rapids, which we can happily ride over and over again. I don't know what the AK Imagineers were thinking.

 

[MomtoDisneytrips]

Our family loves the ride!

 

[Eoghann]

I would have to agree. This is one of the few times I think that other parks with a similar ride have done better. KRR seems way too short, I don't mind the conservationist story but with the long waits, its just too short to justify.

Too short I'll agree with, but I enjoy it so not terrible in my book.

Then again, I don't stand in lines more than 30 minutes long for anything pretty much ever so my expectation levels may be different.

 

[rteetz]

The Pirates refurb didn't fix the issues with the boats taking on water but there is a plan in place to do so and it won't be done during another refurb so the fix will take time.

 

[nelsonj3]

For anyone who is interested, the Germany Miniature Train Refurb is done, and I took a short video of it last night.

 

[circus4u]

Ta-Nehisi Coates to author 'Black Panther' Marvel comic

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/22/new...b_homepage_deskrecommended_pool&iid=obnetwork

 

[rteetz]

Minnie is now meeting in a different place at DHS

http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2015/09/new-minnie-mouse-greeting-area-at.html

 

[rteetz]

Victoria and Alberts expanded menu

http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2015/09/grand-floridian-resort-expanded.html

 

[rteetz]

Complimentary popcorn during movie under the stars at Pop century and contemporary for limited time test

http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2015/09/complimentary-popcorn-available-at.html

 

[rteetz]

The massive DLP restoration continues

http://micechat.com/111421-signs-of-sign-renovations-at-disneyland-paris/

 

[rteetz]

Comcast has acquired majority stake in universal Japan

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...pay-1-5-billion-for-51-of-japanese-theme-park

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I agree as well. No comparison to Grizzly River Rapids, which we can happily ride over and over again. I don't know what the AK Imagineers were thinking.

I do...

"Get a water ride out into an ungodly hot park cheap and easy...doesn't really matter what it's like when you have people paying $40 a day to get In on average in park hoppers..."

Those park hoppers are "slightly more expensive" now.

 

[rteetz]

I do...

"Get a water ride out into an ungodly hot park cheap and easy...doesn't really matter what it's like when you have people paying $40 a day to get In on average in park hoppers..."

Those park hoppers are "slightly more expensive" now.

Well it wasn't what the imagineers wanted anyways but Eisner said here's the money your getting and that's it. The original plan was for a much longer more involved raft ride called tiger river run.

 

[Lee Matthews]

Complimentary popcorn during movie under the stars at Pop century and contemporary for limited time test

http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2015/09/complimentary-popcorn-available-at.html

Hope this takes off. On my resort days, i plan to catch a 'movie under the stars' and free popcorn for those resort guests is a nice perk

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Hope this takes off. On my resort days, i plan to catch a 'movie under the stars' and free popcorn for those resort guests is a nice perk

How could they possibly support this?

Popcorn ain't free and that $700 plus tax for a tower room at contemporary just doesn't stretch that far.

 

[rteetz]

How could they possibly support this?

Popcorn ain't free and that $700 plus tax for a tower room at contemporary just doesn't stretch that far.

Maybe it's part of the new pop secret deal

 

[skier_pete]

I do...

"Get a water ride out into an ungodly hot park cheap and easy...doesn't really matter what it's like when you have people paying $40 a day to get In on average in park hoppers..."

Those park hoppers are "slightly more expensive" now.

The thing is - KRR isn't at all "cheap". The themeing of the queue is extensive, the ride load area and the hill clearly take some space. The "clearing cutting" scene at the top is expansive and detailed. (Though I generally don't agree with you about him - it IS the epitome of the problem with Joe Rohde - in that it is so interested in themeing it misses the point.

The problem is they almost completely missed out on what is fun about a river raft ride like that. One big hill and a soaking for half the boat can be fun, but what's fun about the best of these types of ride is moving fast along the rapids, and the constant threat of getting wet while maybe only getting mildly wet. Waterfalls and geysers along the way. The big hill IS good (as long as you don't mind getting soaked) but that's ALL there is. Our local amusement park (Darien Lake) has a raft ride that is IMHO 10x better than Kali, and there isn't a single big drop on it, but you are constantly moving / spinning / and being threatened to get wet. (And you often do.) It's so much more fun than KRR.

It's just the opposite of my favorite WDW ride, which is Splash Mountain. In that ride, Disney took a ride which in my view is deadly dull at your standard amusement park and who's only purpose is to drop you down a hill and get you wet, and turned it into 5 minutes of fun that also happens to have a big drop that gets you wet. Heck, Teamboat Spring at Blizzard Beach does this better than KRR does.

I get how people can like KRR - the single drop IS good and usually leaves everyone in the boat smiling, but it just in my view isn't enough to make a good ride. I wonder if anyone out there prefers KRR to GRR at Disneyland. I would be interested to talk to anyone that thinks Kali is a better ride.

But to someone else's point, they would never devote anything to "fixing" this ride. It had an hour + wait when I was there. It would cost in excess of $100 million to make it "good" and it fixing it wouldn't drive anyone to the park. For myself, there's enough elsewhere at AK that appeals to me that we either just skip it or occasionally FP it.

 

[Spacedog1975]

Victoria and Alberts expanded menu

http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2015/09/grand-floridian-resort-expanded.html

I'm certain that I would enjoy this if I could justify the spend.
One day I do want to do the Chef Table, though.