Antarctica - Empire of the Penguin

[Legolas813]

Antarctica was closed the entire day. One of the ride ops said it would be closed tomorrow as well for "maintenance."

Are you serious? How can any park justify a new ride being closed for more than an hour or two?

 

[Spideyfreak]

^And that's why you do soft openings.

 

[sierrak5]

^And that's why you do soft openings.

That's exactly what I said.

They had a nice themed sign that said Antarctica will not be operating today, but the penguin exhibit is open for viewing. The RVs were cycling when we went into the exhibit.

 

[shiekra38]

I'm curious if it is not operating because they are making changes to it, or if it is just broken down

 

[pastis9]

My 2 cents: good theming, difficulties with the merge point area, ride is too short and uninteresting, penguin viewing area is excellent. Th food court area has some good, different choices. Also the all day Coke Freestyle cup is located there and is a good value.

 

[Hatetofly]

I'm curious if it is not operating because they are making changes to it, or if it is just broken down

Changes and revisions are underway from what I've heard.

 

[OLSinFLA]

Rode it last night and there have def been changes. There's more narration explaining what your doing (That you're with Puck on the ice flow), and they seemed to have added more movement and more time in the 'cave' and added more scenery.

 

[TomTheRiddle]

I'll give it a week, maybe if the wait is low I'll do it again.

The ride was a failure and one of the biggest wastes of my time in theme park history. I regret waiting 3 hours.

 

[Milla4Prez66]

I wouldn't wait 3 hours for a ride I know is awesome, let alone something I've never been on like Antarctica.

 

[floridianer]

Just to add my 2ct after riding it in July... It was neat. Well done but the RIDE itself lacks a LOT... I bet there is a lot of potential with this ridesystem but how it is done right now it is not very inspiring!
Just nice sparcling lights and some turns doesn´t make a good ride.

I liked the penguins display though!

 

[Cupcakes]

Just to add my 2ct after riding it in July... It was neat. Well done but the RIDE itself lacks a LOT... I bet there is a lot of potential with this ridesystem but how it is done right now it is not very inspiring!
Just nice sparcling lights and some turns doesn´t make a good ride.

I liked the penguins display though!

That's probably the nicest review of this ride I've seen yet. :rofl:

 

[Legolas813]

After giving this ride some time to sink in and riding it multiple times, I have come to actually really enjoy the ride for what it is. I think my main gripe with dark rides recently is that they are relying more and more on screens instead of physical sets. I still favor older dark rides because of that very reason. Screens are okay in some circumstances, but only if they are done exceptionally well, and in this case they are done pretty poorly. The rooms before and after the screens are great, though, and is what would make me want to ride again.

 

[floridianer]

That's probably the nicest review of this ride I've seen yet. :rofl:

Thanks Well, to be honest I was the only one being nice about the ride!
Well, we were there July 18th and it was a 3 hour wait when we headed there the first time! (NO WAY!) After a storm we headed there again and it was 10 min. Even THAT was more than I would wait for it again...

Nothing wrong with the penguins or the rooms prior the ride. But come on, there HAS to be a better way to execute this ride
If I imagine what I had done if I waited 3 hours in line for THAT... Whow...

 

[frenzy88]

I'll give this a re ride in a year, but after my first ride, I'm not expecting much, and Im not waiting higher than say 30 minutes to do it.

 

[sierrak5]

This is how I imagine the Antarctica design process went.

Boss: Come up with an amazing new attraction Mr. Designer
Designer: I'll put it some amazing rockwork, a unique ride system, great sets to start the ride off...
Boss: The deadline has been cut, finish it by tomorrow!
Designer: Crap. I'll throw in these two screens in unthemed rooms, and then bam! Real penguins!

 

[Journey_On]

I saw Antarctica at a 15 minute wait in the afternoon, earlier this week - wow!

 

[Spideyfreak]

^Did you ride it?

 

[Journey_On]

Spideyfreak: Unfortunately, I wasn't able to.

 

[Capacity]

Its been at a a ten everytime I'm there.

 

[Hatetofly]

I bet the design a penguin cups get higher CS scores that Empire of the Penguin