PeoplemoverMatt

Right because an individual corporation has absolutely no incentive to embellish their own figures. It's those sneaky third party industry-wide analysts you really have look out for.

Sure, and they could call it "Iron Perilous Plunge" maybe.

Abandoning all hope of it ever making any sort of chronological sense lessens the stress. Its predecessor had a similar flaw.

That looks pretty cool. What material are you using?

^ You're missing all the props set up in the Library that were seen in the Rod Serling Twilight Zone episodes. Almost everything in those rooms came from one episode or another.

Autopia has re-opened with its Honda sponsorship after a big refurb. It looks and rides great! Almost all the cars have been repainted and sparkle like they were brand new. The ride marquee has a fresh new logo. The queue and loading area have all been re-painted with the recent Tomorrowland blue-grey-white scheme. Didn't see any changes to the ride track itself. Still has the winding paths and the off-road section near Matterhorn. Opinions vary across the different versions of this ride found at the different Disney resorts around the world, but Disneyland's Autopia remains an entertaining & fun ride for families to enjoy together with the swerve of the kid behind the wheel. For what it is, this new refurb and sponsorship have Autopia looking very nice. IMO, it's a vast improvement from where the disaster of the '98 Tomorrowland and subsequent years of simply keeping the ride open had left it. Some photos from yesterday taken with my new Galaxy S7: New-looking marquee! Not many huge structural or procedural changes to Autopia's loading area, but it's all been repainted and freshened up like new. The electronic billboard works again, and shows an awesome retro-future transportation video montage. Looks like the content could have been taken from old Tomorrowland-centered episodes of the Disneyland TV series. Couldn't hear anything from it though. Love little touches like the "Autopia" on the spare tire shell on the back. Also notice the Honda license plate frame with clever plate number. There appears to be a "standard body" to the Autopia cars again, which is great. Here's the view of the car ahead. Remember, no bumping! Look Ma, I'm a Honda driver! The new hood ornament logo will confirm that. My shiny new red car really popped in the springtime afternoon sun. The stunning realism of their LA traffic effects never ceases to amaze me. Here's a new sponsor banner to stare at at the conclusion of your ride. Great to see Autopia now looking and running better than it has in quite a few years!

The neighborhoods outside of some shoddy parts of Canyon Country and old Newhall are much, MUCH nicer and safer than the usual clientele at SFMM would seem to indicate. SFMM is really sort of on an island being on the west side of I-5 and far enough away from any neighborhood to be considered separate from it. Most of SFMM's guests come north up I-5 from the more questionable areas to the south of the SCV, get off, go to the park, and get right back on to go home. Valencia itself consistently rates as one of the safest places to live in the USA.

Harrison Hightower pillages African villages storyline. You don't see the potential for bad optics there? Today's PC-crazed idiocracy would probably jump on it, especially if it came from Disney.

I could see possible accusations of racism if the Shriki storyline were brought to the USA. Too many terrible people with too much free time on their hands here. I'd be entertained by having Shriki, but it could cause problems.

Ahhhh my Springfield is on fire!

Didn't one of these floats catch fire once before?

Well if it helps your understanding of Florida's massive queue for Pan, that park doesn't have a Pinocchio or Mr. Toad ride nearby. Pan is also unique in that it's the only suspended dark ride. Why is that such an allure? *shrug* Kids like to think they're flying? Can't really do that just anywhere. The elevated carousels like Dumbo, Aladdin and Astro Orbitor are still popular as well.

Says who? It's perfectly coherent to suggest that SeaWorld's orcas can't be returned to the wild or else they will most likely die (fact), and that presenting these animals to the public is of enormous benefit to the cause of conservation. Both are absolutely true.

So you're saying Antarctica would not lose anything if one day SeaWorld decided to close the live penguin habitat and just have the dark ride? Good luck finding anyone who'd agree with that. As I recall, most people would prefer to skip the ride entirely if they could. I'm still trying to understand how it's "cruel" to have animals in enclosures like this as opposed to being out in the wild. Isn't nature the most cruel environment there is? When babies are born at SeaWorld, a baby penguin for example, that baby suddenly becomes one of the most well cared for baby penguins in the world. In the wild, that baby could be picked off by a predator. How is that not cruel? Now, by extension this argument says all animals could be put in captivity to prevent cruelty of nature, but of course that would be preposterous and impossible to actually do. This position of captivity = cruelty is equally preposterous in my opinion.

Again, by this logic, we may as well shut down all zoos and aquariums worldwide because captivity is evil and inhumane, and just educate future generations with TV and YouTube. Idiocracy here we come! I'm pretty sure anybody who visits SeaWorld or a zoo and sees an animal understands full well that, while they may be seeing a real giraffe, elephant, killer whale, etc... these captive specimens are not indicative of their counterparts in the wild. That's not the issue. The issue is even though we know the animals in the zoo don't behave like wild animals, for good reason, there's still a lot that can be learned from them, and the next generation can be inspired to care more and want to learn more about them just by seeing them live with their own eyes. TV/web videos are cold, distant, easily dismissed, generally a poor substitute for the real thing. Videos are better than nothing, but there's a HUGE difference between seeing these animals on a screen and seeing them live. Yes, children can be wowed and inspired in a stadium with thousands of people. It's a real shame that future generations now won't have that experience.

The problem is this logic can be applied to any aquarium anywhere in the world, and to zoos as well by extension. May as well shut them all down. This announcement by SeaWorld is a victory for dishonesty, for demagoguery, for propaganda, and the ignorance of future generations. Now nobody's going be able to make any real connection at all with killer whales and marine life without binoculars and a charter boat in a scant few regions of the world, or via the internet. Watching a YouTube video or educational film is no substitute for seeing the real thing with your own eyes, but I guess that's not important anymore. Guess the activists will be happy when killer whales' reputation reverts back to the days when they were feared and hunted.

It's a minor distinction.

Can't wait to see how quickly the devices are ruined by terrible people who think it's fun to destroy whatever they see. It's kind of a neat idea but it sounds like one of those things that looks good on paper but runs aground on the sharp rocks of practicality.

Yay I'm going to this in May! Can't wait to sample all that awesome food!

Signs on the ticket booths have gone electronic for the new dynamic pricing model implemented yesterday.

If the loading procedure is the same as Flying Tires was, I would hate to see FP on Roadsters. The capacity is already so small that the stand-by line would be pretty agonizingly slow.

Has the dirt awakened yet?

"Ignore Fat Tony's Hole" is quite likely the creepiest task I have ever sent Lisa on.

The DCA refurb's been done for a few years, but they've waited until now to bring this back. That tells me they've most likely done a great deal of evaluating how to use the post-refurb DCA. Wouldn't surprise me to see a pretty different-looking event, though I'd imagine places like stage 17 and 19 being used for this like they used to be.

With two tracks and two loading stations, Dragons also has the highest capacity of any of the coasters there, assuming both sides are running with 2 or more trains. It just depends on what kind of experience the park is looking to bring. Coasters are fun, but can also be intimidating to younger/less adventurous guests and much more difficult to create an immersive theme with than any version of dark ride. Universal wants to put their IP's center stage so it's not surprising to see them gravitate more towards dark rides. I find the best parks have a healthy balance of all sorts of different rides, as much as their general financial position will allow.