just curious are there any lands at WDW or Universal for that matter where you did it once and called a career LOL?
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It's interesting. It certainly feel like it's Animal Kingdom. Certain choices in Satuli still feel odd. The audio of animals is hard to hear over the water and background noise in general - i'd prefer a musical score with rich tones. It feels noisy but quiet because of that lack of musicality. Canteen seems to have gotten its own music now though. It's very much about wandering around with lots of crisscrossing paths. Places to sit, small walls, etc..
Get a FP for FOP when possible, bring first timers to see the boat ride and maybe do it if the line is short - FOP is new defacto headliner for AK.
Well.. He's not a great actor, that's for sure. That part where it cut out and goes ion standby... you spend a lot of time just waiting. I assume it's to allow flexibility in loading and such, but you spend a long time in a small room with just the pixelated outlines of the people riding with you to look at.
The queue for FOP is looooooooong. Like gives FJ a run for its money on length. First you're outside and have to get up the mountain a level or so. You'll see in pics you go from the arch to up above a waterfall on the show building mountain bits.
Then it's lots of Navii caves, which eventually go into the mining installation, which is then overgrown with glowing plants (and there is a LOT of that too - like whole Star Tour queue series of ramps in length and plus some in just that section) and THEN you enter the modern science base, see the lab, and then a sort of explanatory video is visible in the queue and then you begin being sorted.
Several rows of ramps go up a floor - that feeds the 2nd and 3rd floor vehicles. A series of matching ramps goes down, that's the first level of the ride. You'll see it in the pics, but that area is pretty huge. Like Soarin but with multiple single file ramps up and down.
Fastpass skips some of the caves (but runs right next to the standby outdoor queue), skips most of the mining queue, all of the overgrown mining queue, nearly all of the new labs (including the floating navii and sample critters.) Fastpass meets up right the ramps up and down.
Those leads to a landing with doors, A1 A2, B1 B2, C1 C2, etc.. They pull from the lines to assign to the doors. Each door leads to the "stand on a spot and gets talked to about the process and then decontamination and then wait for a while" room. That, as you've seen in videos, goes to the "have courage" video room, and then finally you go down a little hall and two sections (they make a V, you can see the other riders in the other section if you look over) and load.
It's long. You get off and then go down all those switchbacks down the ramp until you pop out in Windtraders.
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Seuss Landing (IOA). Storybook Circus (MK), Grizzly Peak (DCA), A Bug's Land (DCA), Kidzone (USO). Its not that uncommon if stuff in it doesn't interest you.
If you can handle FJ's simulated drops in the screen sections you'll be ok. But there are a lot of them. It's certainly more intense than Soarin. It's not really the same as something like Star Tours because that vehicle moves forward and back and tilts and while it does "drop" it's never that straight on down type drop that gives you tummy butterflies the way FOP and FJ do.
Ok, since there are a crap ton of photos to go through and i dont want to make this forum impossible to load, i'll use this hosting site i found and if we want to discuss something particular we can pull and post the image.
So I'll break it up into galleries!
Pongu Pongu:
Satuli:
Flight of Passage Exterior Queue:
So I'll break it up into galleries!
Pongu Pongu:
Satuli:
Flight of Passage Exterior Queue:
Flight of Passage Navi Caves:
Mining Company Areas (Bypassed by Fastpass)
Modern ACE Labs (Standby Only)
Mining Company Areas (Bypassed by Fastpass)
Modern ACE Labs (Standby Only)
Flight of Passage Navi Caves:
Mining Company Areas (Bypassed by Fastpass)
Modern ACE Labs (Standby Only)
So if you FP, you do not get to see the Navi in the tube? Just want to get 100% clarification on that.
Modern ACE Labs (FP Only)
Merge/Load/Preshows
Exit Ramp
Merge/Load/Preshows
Exit Ramp
Correct. He is the far side of the room from the windows that can see into the lab from FP so you wouldnt even know to look to see him.
Glow Stuff:
A ton of exterior shots around the land!
First 15:
Next 15:
Next 15:
Final Set:
If you find something you don't understand in there, let me know. I did some quick cutting of the fat with blurry pics and other things not worth looking at, but i'm sure there's some that slipped by. You'll also notice i didnt take many photos of the boat ride. I intended to get back there before the end of the day but that didnt happen, but there's not much to see. It's a much smaller queue than FOP, like a woven/thatched roof and a little bit of the caves and ACE stuff before you hop on, and then it spits you out into the middle of the land.
A ton of exterior shots around the land!
First 15:
Next 15:
Next 15:
Final Set:
If you find something you don't understand in there, let me know. I did some quick cutting of the fat with blurry pics and other things not worth looking at, but i'm sure there's some that slipped by. You'll also notice i didnt take many photos of the boat ride. I intended to get back there before the end of the day but that didnt happen, but there's not much to see. It's a much smaller queue than FOP, like a woven/thatched roof and a little bit of the caves and ACE stuff before you hop on, and then it spits you out into the middle of the land.
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Sorry- it is a beloved classic. Disney moms all over the globe adore it. If it weren't, then why would Disney play it during all their dance parties I ask? Exactly. It's basically Mozart of the 1990s.
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Thanks for your impressions, although I'm surprised at your grade with all the complaints. Sounded more like a B- review.
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Question to @epcyclopedia @darkridelover and anyone else who's been on it yet: where did you guys sit for FOP?
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It's really well done but it's Soarin' 2.0. Maybe 3.0! You fly through landscapes and seascapes with wind blowing in your face. You smell scents. There's nothing else to call it. The experience is very similar. The ride is MUCH MORE INTENSE though. I got dizzy towards the end.
I will finish my comments with this, it's an A+ ride. I was smiling and laughing from ear to ear the whole time. And get ready for that WAVE, it's a special moment. It's a home run for Disney Screenz attractions. The level of themeing in the standby queue surpasses Gringotts/Hogwarts in my book. So much detail. It's a shame you miss all of it in the Fastpass line. That being said, there's no story really. I don't think it matters though. I would put it in my TOP 10 but not TOP 5.
The ride tower does move up and down to simulate the forces during flight.
Best place to sit is on the second level close to the center of the tower, not necessarily the very end chair.
Best place to sit is on the second level close to the center of the tower, not necessarily the very end chair.
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