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Seven Dwarfs Mine Train POV:

[youtubevid]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JZYrllbtz4[/youtubevid]

It is pretty much the exact same, but is a bit more 'on it's own' than the Florida version. I also think the theming is a bit more spread out, especially at the end with the hut scene.
 
Not overly impressed by that take on Buzz Lightyear..

I'm not excited at all by the exterior of Tron. I think it's probably the poorest example of a Disney coaster aesthetically during the day. It just looks a bit.... Merlin?
 
Amazing aerial of the park
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There's the chance to sit down.
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Wandering Moon Teahouse
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Hope that's not the queue line... looks kind of boring :(
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Not when Kali River Rapids exists!
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Stone animals!
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It's Q'aráq!
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Pink Panther said:
Having difficulty mounting? :wink: There's the chance to sit down.
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Now that is an awesome idea! Have always thought these coasters are potentially quite limiting for people with mobility difficulties so this would make so much easier for them to ride! Well done Disney for this!
 
Disney don't seem to get on with large scale animatronics.

Roaring Rapids looks great though, so much better than AK's Kali river rapids.
 
Yeah, that animatronic has been dead a LONG time. It broke during the construction phase and they can't seem to fix it without something else happening, shame.
 
That dead animatronic Jesus.

I don't think they look that great? They look fab from off-ride but there's not actually a lot to them and the themeing is all just kind of, rock trenches?

They don't look as fab as Grizzly River Run <3
 
Lofty said:
Yeah, that animatronic has been dead a LONG time. It broke during the construction phase and they can't seem to fix it without something else happening, shame.
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Grizzly River Run does look the best though. Rapids are not what Disney have been successful at, but there's no reason for them not to be. As the raft moves quickly you don't need elaborate scenes like you get in Splash Mountain, just fun, varying and sometimes amusing 'scenes' (Popeye at IoA do these much better). Rapids get the most laughter on theme park attractions, so they should use that notion and build on it to create a much more compelling attraction, one that is more than just travelling through a rocky river.
 
Pink Panther said:
Lofty said:
Yeah, that animatronic has been dead a LONG time. It broke during the construction phase and they can't seem to fix it without something else happening, shame.
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Grizzly River Run does look the best though. Rapids are not what Disney have been successful at, but there's no reason for them not to be. As the raft moves quickly you don't need elaborate scenes like you get in Splash Mountain, just fun, varying and sometimes amusing 'scenes' (Popeye at IoA do these much better). Rapids get the most laughter on theme park attractions, so they should use that notion and build on it to create a much more compelling attraction, one that is more than just travelling through a rocky river.
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I think one issue is that immersion is much, much harder with Rapids. On the Rapids, your focus is almost entirely on whether or not you will get wet, and the fun comes from who does get the most wet. On Splash, your focus is on the story and that is easier with a log since you aren't facing your friends but, instead, the characters. If Splash Mt was a Rapids ride, it wouldn't work since your focus can never be entirely on the story or characters. I think this is why Popeye is such a great Rapids ride. It has a general story and some stakes but all the environments that further the plot also get you wet. But still, the focus remains getting the riders soaked. I think Roaring Rapids biggest flaw is that it doesn't really know what it wants to be. It seems to set up a story and try to do that, but it's mostly just Rapids and getting wet. It never really picks an environment to immerse you in (like GRR) or a story to immerse you in (like Splash). The monster part seems oddly out of place since the rest of it lacks any real threat other than "you will get soaked". Perhaps the queue and land would set me up better for the whole Dino thing, but I feel like it was put in their pretty awkwardly. Floating away slowly from this huge and intimidating animatronic just doesn't mesh.
 
Miscarriage of a ride ah haha

Those rope courses are so not-in-an-American-Disney-park.

But it looks amazing I wanna go.
 
The park opened today! Fortunately, I don't think it was that busy at all and the wait times were much lower than the 'preview days'

Unfortunately...
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I'm really disappointed in Disney. They've had to make quite a few budget cuts:

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The queue times are generally a lot higher now. Soarin, Tron and Roaring Rapids* are getting the longest waits (2+ hours) followed by the mine train.

*Might be because it's closed more than it's open.
 
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