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Maybe we can get FL and the orange grove scent back!
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↩ replying to wdwmagicNow we need some CMs to tell us what they think and tell us how many curving sky scrapers to expect.
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↩ replying to ToTBellHopSlightly-bent lighthouses is the best they can do.
But honestly - If there is no CGI in this one? I'll take it.
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I totally didn't realize this was death of soarin' over the world.. I thought this was a temp 250th thing.
Here's praying they got ppl involved that understood why Soarin' actually worked! And if they can do CM previews so quickly, why bother with the prolonged shutdown? I know they have the 26th as a opening date for basically everything.. but seems Disney should know how long this really should take and it's nadda?
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↩ replying to flynnibusI was thinking that too. My only thought is maybe 1 or 2 of the theaters needed some extra work so they are using the time to work with limited capacity needs?
Otherwise I agree… it doesn’t make sense to be closed when it’s a day to day change
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All three screens were running last week alternating but always using 1 or 2 at a time, they often run on two so screen maintenance is unlikey the reason as they can do that almost whenever they want already.
Saw a fair few confused people in the land this morning though not realising it was closed. No signage outside the land to tell people either which probably makes CMs lives harder, there was an army of them lined up outside soarin fielding questions from people.
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↩ replying to flynnibusWhere are you seeing that? Everything I’ve seen indicates it’s temporary.
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↩ replying to Marc Davis FanThey will determine what to show based upon guest reviews. The ability to show a different movie during select intervals (eg a festival) is appealing. We will see that happen rather than different films on different screens.
AFAIK this is initially a 1-year run, subject to extension. I suspect it will last longer. It’s not cheap to make a new film.
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↩ replying to ToTBellHopI, for one, look forward to: Soarin' Over Wineries!
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I guess I'm out of the loop these days, but when in hell was Soarin' unpopular. It started out as two theaters and is at three now because it was so popular and even then there was a wait time in the queue. I saw the bend in the Eiffel Tower but I still enjoyed the ride and the scenery. I like the first one a little bit better, but don't we always have an internal need to not see anything change.
It is the ride and the set up that is fun, what we are looking at, although important (we wouldn't want Soarin' over landfills), but California and The World were both fun. I understand that depending on the direction we are looking at it from determines how a 2D is seen. Not a big deal, I always knew from the beginning that I wasn't really flying and that what I was looking at was a 2D film on a rounded screen and in spite that it was one of my favorites. I've used more Fastpasses on that then any other attraction, close second would be Spaceship Earth.
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↩ replying to Marc Davis FanJust based on @wdwmagic 's wording in the article about last ride...
if I'm wrong, ok. It just doesn't seem clear from Disney at all.
The subject matter makes way more sense for DLR and FW I think.. and if they internally see the flaws in over the world.. this is a great way to bury your mistakes.
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↩ replying to flynnibusOriginal Soarin' had its own photographical flaws, too: Camera not always pointing in the direction of the camera (dizzying... which Around the World also does). Sudden fast forward. Graininess from the film technology at the time.
Let's see if 250 can avoid the issues its previous two iterations had.