Disneyland Resort (DL, DLR, DCA) Discussion Thread

[Chrisrad]

Thank you for doing the update David, it was great and funny!! If I had a real camera, id do one every week, but I don't haha. And Spot the Spears game was great! I found her every time!!

 

Im really happy this whole thing will be done in a few months, its been a long time with these construction walls.

 

What construction walls?

[ILoveRides]

Man, look at the Main Street crowd.. wow. What day were you there?

 

We were there on Sunday. It was really crowded.

[COASTER FREAK 11]

I'm interested in what they are going to do to the with the exposed frame work on the backside of the rock work. Anyone know?

 

They are finishing the backside facing the Pier as what appears to be a sea side cliff. Here is a pic of the whole wall

 

Backside of Carsland facing Paradise Pier

 

As for the side facing the street, I have no clue. I assume they will enclose it all with a flat beige wall matching the rock colors.

[donkeyman18]

Awsome trip report I FAIL at spot the spears but cars land looks great by the way do you like ghost galaxy?

[WFChris]

Was there on Monday...just wanted to add an FYI that we saw Screamin' testing....hooray! There will finally be something to ride besides Tower!

[DJeXeL]

^The guests always have the best looks on their faces when it's testing and we tell them It's not open.

[Wes]

Awesome stuff! Thanks!

[RoCo]

That Cars Land rockwork is truly about as sexy and come-hither as rockwork gets. I still haven't seen the two movies, but I am so ready for RSR.

 

Also, Ghost Galaxy RULES. Not un-scary! Neat new soundtrack! Recommended!

[XYZ]

Is it me or is California Screamin's loop smaller?

[Chrisrad]

^ Looking back at the picture, it does appear that way, but I'm assuming it's simply an optical illusion.

[coasterfreak101]

^^The loop never really filled the sun behind it. It does if you look at it at the right angle, mostly from along the "boardwalk" section of Paradise Pier if I remember correctly.

[COASTER FREAK 11]

Is it me or is California Screamin's loop smaller?

 

LOL, its the same size. The loop already pulled a lot of G's, making it smaller would make that even more intense!

[coasterfreak101]

So is the trim before the loop and the block before the airtime hills still just as heavy as it was when they made those changes? I rode last June and this past January, and I honestly don't remember feeling them at all - and I usually pick up on the light B&M hyper trims if they're grabbing. I just hear how much better the ride was before, so I'm wondering how much of a difference they really make?

[DJeXeL]

The trim before the loop can't be felt as much as the one before the bunny hills.

[Wes]

To me, the trims have felt lighter in recent years. Although I haven't ridden it since the loop incident.

[DJeXeL]

^^^They are magnetic so if you ride later in the day when they're warmer they'll be less effective so you'll feel them less. Either way they don't really detract from the ride for me.

[coasterfreak101]

To me, the trims have felt lighter in recent years. Although I haven't ridden it since the loop incident.

 

That's what I was looking for - when the trims were first installed, I saw a lot of people complaining about how they neutered the ride. So I was just wondering about it, because my ride didn't feel neutered at all!

[window]

I'm interested in what they are going to do to the with the exposed frame work on the backside of the rock work. Anyone know?

 

Fingers crossed they don't do an 'Everest' with it....

[COASTER FREAK 11]

^I just posted this picture on the previous page. It will not be like the backside of Everest, it will be fully formed rock work.

 

I'm interested in what they are going to do to the with the exposed frame work on the backside of the rock work. Anyone know?

 

They are finishing the backside facing the Pier as what appears to be a sea side cliff. Here is a pic of the whole wall

 

 

As for the side facing the street, I have no clue. I assume they will enclose it all with a flat beige wall matching the rock colors.

 

Here is another one showing that the wall will have depth:

 

 

It will be fully formed like the rest of the rock work.

[gisco]

Good, Glad to see it is not going to be just a flat wall.

[COASTER FREAK 11]

It originally was going to be a flat wall...

[coasterfreak101]

^Was it really? It's one thing for them to flatten the backside of Everest (it's really only visible from one of the parks' entrance roads, IIRC?) but thank god they didn't go that way here. That would've ruined every view from Paradise Pier you can get!

[Nibbler]

*insert Jungle cruise backside of water joke replaced with rock wall here*

[ahecht]

It originally was going to be a flat wall...

 

[citation needed]

 

Even Al Lutz (who is by no means a reliable source, but who loves to find any excuse to slam Disney for being cheap) never claimed that. And Jim Disney, who usually doesn't make wild claims, said they were in the plan from the beginning.

[COASTER FREAK 11]

Jim is correct. Basically, the design team handed the rock work over to the engineers, who made it all work. The engineers (not being designers) made it a flat wall, thinking to wouldn't be seen from the park. When the designers got a hold of it again they said no, so the wall was redone with real rock work. So Jim is correct, but the wall was an afterthought, not apart of the original design. As for citing my sources, I'm not going to. I know people in the company and I've heard this several times. It was decided a log time ago to do the wall correctly, it just wasn't part of the original final draft of the project.

 

And if you read what Jim said in the update you linked, it fits with what I said.

Edited October 14, 2011 by COASTER FREAK 11