aparisi2274
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Ok, but why? What is the significance of that figure? Was it in the OG Haunted Mansion at DL 60yrs ago?
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Ok, but why? What is the significance of that figure? Was it in the OG Haunted Mansion at DL 60yrs ago?
Jailer of Hope
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Well the Haunted Mansion is only about 45 years old but yeah, Hatbox Ghost was there when it opened. It only lasted a few months because the illusion didn't really work out.
I was, yeah. Only thing that really got "ruined" were fireworks last night and Haunted Mansion being closed, but yeah... Colder and more showery than Vancouver has been for the past week, SMH.
Oh well. Was still in DISNEYLAND! Everything was wonderful, and now the post-Disney depression is setting in. :'(
aparisi2274
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gotcha! That's cool.
Funny thing is, even after he was gone they still used him on all the merchandise.
Edit: I saw him! He looks fantastic in person. The effect is flawless.
My only problem is that he's the most technologically advanced thing in there at the moment so there's a big difference between him and everything else in terms of quality, kinda like the new Mara overlay in Indiana Jones. But that's a nitpick. I'm happy to have him back.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Goldrusher
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Gotta love a nice queue...
The ride itself is one of these motion simulator things...
The Forbidden Caves, Bobbejaanland
new this year
The ride itself is one of these motion simulator things...
The Forbidden Caves, Bobbejaanland
new this year
bucknuticus
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Reminds me of the the queue for the old tomb raider ride at kings island
SpacePirate Ridley
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It reminds me a little of Temple of the forbidden Eye queue.
So the ride system is the same as the King Kong part at the tram of Universal Hollywood?
So the ride system is the same as the King Kong part at the tram of Universal Hollywood?
I wish that ride was put back up to fully functioning order. That ceiling trap in the queue hasn't worked properly in a long time.
aparisi2274
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has anyone seen these new shots from Reign of Kong at IOA... The entrance to the ride building is going to be amazing...
(Edit: I did not snap these, I came across them on twitter)
(Edit: I did not snap these, I came across them on twitter)
That looks fantastic so far! It'll be good to see it all finished.has anyone seen these new shots from Reign of Kong at IOA... The entrance to the ride building is going to be amazing...
(Edit: I did not snap these, I came across them on twitter)
Universal is on a roll.
Probably Kings island's only real outstanding queue. Then it died
EDIT: eh I'll give some props to flight of fear
The Xtortionist
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So good ol' Hatetofly (leaked Kong and others) tweeted about Nintendo, suggesting that the expansion will have a focus on interactivity. This could be really interesting, since interactive rides really haven't been explored too much in theme parks. There's the odd shooter attraction here and there, but the guest's influence on the experience is generally pretty minimal. I wonder how far Universal can push this idea? It could be the next huge innovation in ride technology.
Gunstarheroes
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This guy comes off like kind of a tool, but did he "leak" Kong, or did he start saying it when everyone basically knew about it?
Forgot to comment on him, but aww...wish I could have seen him in person. He looks awesome ;_;
Also, wanted to share my new acquisition that I got on my trip.
I'm the happiest nerd ever
The Xtortionist
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He leaked it out of left field. Also leaked Kang and Kodos as a spinner when most people thought it was going to be a ferris wheel.
Lee Chaolan
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Rougarou is now open at Cedar Point. Supposed to be a lot more fun now that the seat types have changed. Hoping to check it out soon.
has anyone seen these new shots from Reign of Kong at IOA... The entrance to the ride building is going to be amazing...
(Edit: I did not snap these, I came across them on twitter)
Looks a bit out of place on a bright sunny day, but fantastic all the same. Old Kong was amazing to me as a kid, can't wait to ride the new one.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Probably needs more vegetation covering it so it looks like its in the middle of a jungle. The entrance looks really cool.
Cant wait to see wait the make in the future with Nintendo. I would love to see Peach's castle.
I would rather see Zelda's castle, or Bowser's. All right next to Hogwarts.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Its very likely they got Nintendo rights becuase they are looking for the Disney audience that right now they dont have.
With a castle of princesses similar to disney's/minnie they are catering that crowd. Wouldnt surpise me a huge use of something like
And next to hogwarts theres 0 space. Would make sense something like Peach's castle just beside the lagoon at toon's lagoon.
Zoso
It's been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.
I expect a huge improvement over Mantis.
They also installed softer OTS restraints on Maverick, the same kind Intimidator 305 has. The old Maverick restraints were really uncomfortable for me, so I'm really happy about this.
King Kong is gonna be really dope. Scheduled for next year?
Hope you had a great time despite the rainy weather. Been odd out here lately.
The Xtortionist
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Summer 2016
Freyjadour
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Bulldoze Toon Lagoon, it's nothing but trash.
Baron von Loathsome
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I find it bizarre that there's still a Dudley Do-Right ride operating at a world-famous theme park in 2015.
Never been to Florida, though, so my opinion isn't worth much.
Lee Chaolan
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Good news for both. Maverick's become far more uncomfortable lately.
The Xtortionist
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Dudley and Popeye are great mang
Nintendo is going in Kidzone according to everything I'm reading on forums.
I did! Disneyland is always a good time. Even if it was pouring, slap a poncho on and go for it!
SpacePirate Ridley
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People who have some in sight at Universal or just opinions like me saying Toon Lagoon.
I wouldnt take much consideration to them until its all said at done.
I think kidszone is a TERRIBLE choice because of space and theming type (city facades do not work well with Nintendo, and thats what that park is about, even on the simpsons and harry potter USF zones).
But thats my opinion, if at the end is kidszone, I dont know how they are going to shoehorn it there.
Jag
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No you are correct. The rides are fine, but the pop references are about 60 years out of date.
My son does love his Dagwood sandwich though.
Never looked at this one too closely.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Would universal hard fanboys be angry about tearing down toon lagoon to put Nintendo?
Its not like Toon Lagoon and Marvel Land have excellent theming that portray their franchises. In fact everything looks really tacky, like RCT2-RCT3 I dont know how to theme kind of tacky.
Its not like Toon Lagoon and Marvel Land have excellent theming that portray their franchises. In fact everything looks really tacky, like RCT2-RCT3 I dont know how to theme kind of tacky.
They were throwing around the idea on Parkscope that in the case of it coming to Kidszone that either MIB and/or ET could go to make room. It would still be a tight fit though.
The Xtortionist
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Someone did the math and Kidzone is already big enough to to hold the Gringotts show building plus more. And it's right next to a massive expansion plot that can use as much of as they want.
Regarding theming, 99% of the land will be bulldozed, so it'll basically be from scratch.
SpacePirate Ridley
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So opinions then.
For me, it less about the space, and more about how USF is designed compared to Islands of Adventure. As I said before USF has a very tight design, as its only uses studio or cities facades. Even with things like the old Jaws ride, it was themed areound Amity. The Simpsons? Springfield. Harry Potter? London. Kidszone? studio facades, etc...
Sinceresly, what would you do with Nintendo. Kyoto? Crappy idea, as you dont think Kyoto when you think about Nintendo characters.
The only thing that wold really work there, would be a nintendo expansion (apart from the land used in IoA) using the Pokemon franchise, where you can easily theme it to one of the Pokemon cities, with a pokecenter, a gym, a professor's lab...
Thats or Earthbound, and im pretty sure we are never going to see Earthbound at Universal lol
In IoA you can put castles, buildings with strange forms and sizes, forests, rivers and lakes... Is something were Nitendo works better.
Of course kidszone is in a worse state that toon lagoon and needs a rehab ASAP (and thats why I think most of the opinions are putting it there), but I dont think is where the first Nitendo zone will work best.
For all what we know I could be wrong (as its my opionion only)at the end and Universal decided to do something strange with kidszone to make it a Nitendo zone, but I really hope thats not the case.
The Xtortionist
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And IoA only uses properties based on printed media, so Nintendo wouldn't fit there either (though Kong is already breaking that trend). At some point, theme has to give a little bit.
SpacePirate Ridley
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I knew about this, but the problem that i have is that it doesnt translate to what the theming in the park looks (apart from the tackiness of Toon Lagoon and Marvel Island). And as you said, it was already broken with Kong so they dont seem to give a shit about that now (and good for them, because it was clearly restricting them).
When I was talking about the not liking it in kidszone, it was more about the feel of both parks, than any background rules they had. Like for example USF were clearly movie studios (even the city parts), and from some years know you can see that much of them are not city studio backdrops but recreations of real ones were the characters would live.
For me feel of the surroundings is MUCH more important than some arbitrary rules (as someone who wanted to be an imagineer, and always thinking about how theming could work on parks, reading tons of books and the like). Thats why I much prefer Nintendo to be on IoA than USF.
SpacePirate Ridley
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So I just found in another thread Iwata talking about the Universal partership. There was some mention in other threads in gaming of it probably not going to be a big thing (siix flags wii thing, the anime timed "rides" at Universal Japan...), of course we have talked here about Toon Lagoon or kidszone probably being viable spaces, but I didnt know this was going to be a really serious parternship for both companies until I read what iwata said. Maybe some of you already read it somewhere, but for me its new, as the PR didnt explain much.
This thing is certainly not and Springfield type of expansion, this is more akin to the JK Rowling's talks with Universal and a Harry Potter type of expansion thing for Universal parks.
They have already Universal's ride designers and Nintendo's creative people in talks, and long term basis type of expansion, this is going to be HUGE.
I can see Miyamoto being the reluctant guy until he entered Hogwarts and rode the ride. Probably his imagination was flying right at that moment. As a creative person, when I ride those rides or enter theme parks, thats usually what happens to me.
Satoru Iwata said:
This thing is certainly not and Springfield type of expansion, this is more akin to the JK Rowling's talks with Universal and a Harry Potter type of expansion thing for Universal parks.
They have already Universal's ride designers and Nintendo's creative people in talks, and long term basis type of expansion, this is going to be HUGE.
I can see Miyamoto being the reluctant guy until he entered Hogwarts and rode the ride. Probably his imagination was flying right at that moment. As a creative person, when I ride those rides or enter theme parks, thats usually what happens to me.
Shanghai Disneyland is starting to take shape a bit more:
http://www.themeparx.com/shanghai-disneyland/
http://www.themeparx.com/shanghai-disneyland/
It'll be good to see what they come up with together.
Goldrusher
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Certainly better than Disco Yeti...
SpacePirate Ridley
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Im pretty excited now that I read that, hoping something really cool comes out of it.
I made some years ago for an animation university project an hypothetical Nintendo Land build by Disney.
https://vimeo.com/24506373
Watching it now is not as good as I remember it lol. And some of the things would not happen on a million years (Onett or Fire Emblem, but it was never gonna happen project so why not go all out). Still some cool ideas there like the Luigi's Mansion interactive ride.
I really like it. Matterhorn was one of the rides that was in refurbishement when I went some years ago, so I was pretty sad I couldnt go on it. Saw some videos and photos of the old yeti and this looks really good.
The lift hill animation idea is really cool and looks amazing and scary.
The broken bobsled was there before? becuase that was a really nice touch, having the disneyland logo and all that. I love "rides that go wrong" theming.
The Xtortionist
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Apparently Universal Japan's Forbidden Journey is getting upgraded to 3D tomorrow. I can't even.
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