Agreed. On my last trip, every area of AK was crowded...except for Dinoland. Everyone was just using it as a walkway to Dinosaur and that was about it. The carnival game section was a ghost town. I'm really hoping Dinoland gets replaced soon - it needs something new and more exciting to attract people.
I agree as well as long as they don't get rid o Dinosaur! I love that herky jerky ride and queue so much!
I think at the very least if Dinoland was to be replaced with another theme, Dinosaur will get a retheme rather than torn down and replaced with something completely new. I like the ride, but on my last trip I noticed that a decent chunk of the effects and animatronics were not working. It gave me Indiana Jones in Disneyland vibes. I wish Disney would take time to fix their rides rather than leaving them to degrade over time
It's gotten a bit better with the new lands opening, but I've always thought HS suffered from a layout issue where people would go to one section and get "stuck" there. Sunset Boulevard still has this feel to it where you think people are just caught there.
Oh that's a shame to hear. It's my "go to nostalgia" ride when I'm in AK. But it's also a lot of fun for what it is mainly because it feels dangerous...not dangerous on purpose but dangerous like "is this supposed to be like this?" lolI think at the very least if Dinoland was to be replaced with another theme, Dinosaur will get a retheme rather than torn down and replaced with something completely new. I like the ride, but on my last trip I noticed that a decent chunk of the effects and animatronics were not working. It gave me Indiana Jones in Disneyland vibes. I wish Disney would take time to fix their rides rather than leaving them to degrade over time
I do worry about the current trend in Disney attractions though. The complaint about Universal in the past has been the abundance of screen based/simulator attractions. Currently, Disney seems to be building a lot of those and Universal seems to be going the opposite direction. That's one of the things that has attracted us to Universal recently. Generally physical sets/ride systems>screens/simulators. Especially for someone like me who gets motion sickness. I can't even ride Rat. It made me more disoriented and nauseous than any other Disney or Universal ride I've been on. I'm really nervous for Guardians.
Maybe not simulators but Disney is building more rides that heavily rely on screens. Smuggler's Run, Ratatouille, Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway and Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind are all screen focused. Meanwhile at Universal, Velocicoaster, Hagrid's and Secret Life of Pets in Hollywood have little to no usage of screens. Judging from the footage of the Mario Kart ride in Universal Japan, that will be a screen based experience as well but that's a unique case due to it being an augmented reality ride rather than just another simulator.
High agree. I saw all the hype for Remy and MMRR and went to see the ride videos and was sooo underwhelmed. Smuggler's and RotR are good examples imo of screens being used to enhance instead of the attraction relying on them completely, or the Shanghai PotC. Even FoP looks underwhelming to me but maybe that one is best in person.
If you don't suffer from motion sickness you probably wouldn't understand. However, even my husband who doesn't understands what we're talking about and even he gets tired of screen ride after ride. For years Universal has gotten a huge smack talk about repetitive screens, sometimes the complaint being lack of imagination given so much reliance on screens and it's just lazy (these were complaints for years) but it's also hard for people who have motion sickness because it severely cuts down on the amount of rides they can do thus it narrows the interest level. Now with Disney having more and more rides they are getting where people with motion sickness is a chief complaint and people are wondering where did the imagination go and is it just laziness on Disney's part.
Flight of Passage is better in person. When I say screen ride, I don't mean to say screens = bad. It's just that a lot of these screen based rides are very underwhelming in execution. Flight of Passage is great. It's basically an enhanced version of Soarin. Rise also does a great job at using screens to better tell the story in ways that were impossible with physical sets. Ratatouille is fine IMO but not the best use of the trackless ride system. The worst of the recent screen rides is in my opinion Runaway Railway. It feels so....empty. Like it's missing something to give it that WOW factor.
Yes it is a roller coaster with only giant screens to look at throughout the ride. It's not a simulator but it's more like riding Space Mountain with screens. IMO not the best coaster in terms of theming. Hagrid's is way better in comparison theming wise.
If the repetition is what triggers the motion sickness (and I don't know, as you correctly surmised, I don't get sick), then I do understand, but if the "screen-based" ride is poorly done, it will essentially be that kind of repetition. I'm thinking of how Fast & Furious, Simpsons, and Kong are essentially just a box of screens with people sitting in the middle, and they're pretty terrible. Flight of Passage, Smuggler's Run, Mickey and Minnie's, and even the two Harry Potter indoor attractions (I don't want to put all the criticism/praise in exclusively the same buckets) are anything but repetitive, while still being heavily screen based. Bad rides are bad rides. There are just as many set based rides that make people sick, and that's to be expected.
It's what the ride is made out of itself, the screens and the motions together that causes motion sickness for some they can handle a few and others it's one ride and that's it.
