TheRickster

Something that has bugged me for decades about scooby and interactive shooters is that they aren't 100% ada friendly. If you're not able to hit the targets for some reason you literally miss out on a majority of the fun effects of the ride. I think this is better with the Disney ones that have the guns hard mounted (plus they break less from not being banged around) but it's still a matter of being able to hit the targets. But a lot of the big effects are even triggered in boo blasters instead of inconsequential things. If you don't have any hands or even the ability to hold your hand/arm steady, you literally can't experience Boo Blasters in it's intended way. I'd also argue the guns take away from story element, but I also recognize that kids love shooting the targets. I just don't feel they should be anything other than just a mini-side part of the ride and it's effects.

I miss chilivision.

That could be a good call. Not sure if it's the cause for the late opening, but that was def replaced not long ago.

I didn't know they had any pressed pennies for Nick properties.

How were the lines yesterday?

I think a Phantom Theater revival would be huge for the park and the area. I just hope they could mix technology and physical effects. It is worth a true budget. Seriously, people who've never been to Disney or have only been once are even obsessed with some of their rides like the Haunted Mansion. They're just super special and people love them. People would talk about a PT revival more than they talked about Orion, at least locally. If they want to keep the guns just turn them into "cameras" and act like you're there as a ghost hunter. lol Although I think the whole gun thing is really a dated distraction, and it's better without them. Once you put that interactive element in you're going to be compared to rides like TS Mania. But you can have a great creative ride without them that stands on it's own.

I'm still around Hope you're doing well. I've been off and on here, as well as quietly back to amusement park stuff since about 2018. Trying to get back to it after 2021 just wasn't much fun crowd wise.

It's not even a screw up, just an overzealous Thoosie.

Oh hi guys. Glad I wasn't the one to set the record straight here lol. I think FoF suffers from people not being able to tell how long the queue is, so more people consistently enter the line, then the awkward belts and harnesses (seriously the belt design means guests just sit on them and don't evne know they're there so you have to wait 10 seconds per guest that does this 6 guests at a 10 second average and you're now at a minute of dispatch time just in seatbelt alone), it is probably the hardest to second hardest ride for larger guests to fit in so you have hangups there too so you have some issues around that plus any loose article issues although I'm not sure of the current policy with that although anything that the guests can't take with them and is not in a locker will add to dispatch time/work as the load operator will have to take them and put them by the disability entrance/kiddie corral. It's just a popular ride too people love it and it's a consistent favorite amongst the GP.

I mean 90% of POVs are garbage anyway. They need to be mounted to the train or else it's just way to shaky anyway.

How have I never seen that video...

They want to boost Apple TV. Iger has said in his book if Jobs was alive longer, he could see Apple and Disney merging. Iger and Jobs were known friends.

That is a fact.

Might also be a barrier issue. With 4 wide rows you have a full barrier bs the staggered seating on DB.

If the employees can do it, you can do it for them. They don't have the luxury of just walking to a specified area/back to their cars/away from others to take theirs off. End of story.

I'm definitly in the train of viral load playing a big part which this would be a little like that. Only because person B would potentially be able to limit the amount of virus being shed. But it's really not a reason for the numbers going down. That would have been going along all the time. I think the numbers are down because we are testing sooner and people are receiving much more effective treatment, if even only managing the disease.

https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/facebook-posts-spread-unsupported-anonymous-claim-that-face-mask-use-caused-a-lung-infection-in-a-healthy-teenager/

We hungry.

I'm not sure about 04, but there are pics here dating it to 05. I have no clue why I was thinking it was only 2006.

Kickin' it all over town... The parade was only one year in 2006. It was really Paramount's doing as Cedar Fair bought the parks in May of that year. Goodluck on finding the music!

When it was rethemed from HB to Nickelodeon Central in 2006 the watermaze was cut down in size and re-themed to Spongebob. The entrance featured a small scale of Spongebob's pineapple house you walked through. I don't have more information to that other than it sits where the current flying scooters and adjoining area is now. The "Cystal Slime" soft-play/ball pit play area is where Runaway Reptar/whatever it's called now is currently. Not sure if it was used in the early Peanuts era or not.

Most testing is probably going to be programming the timing of brakes and general train control. Both for capacity and safety in a variety of conditions (empty trains, full trains, random seats filled and wet, cold, warm conditions etc.. Also stress testing the ride in general during this time.

The cameras not running could be requested by the contractors as well. They could have trade secrets to their methods, they could not want footage out there if something were to happen etc. There is a wide open list of reasons the park may have decided to turn the camera off, or that it be requested to be off.

Any updates on the availability of these?

I'm moving and have a ton of boxes for sale if anyone wants a model of Disaster Transport