The ride switching from trackless to omnimover:
- Downgrade in ride experience
If UC really cared more about capacity override experience, why would DreamWorks theater have less seats than Shrek did? I think they care about experience more than capacity to some degree. If this were Disney, there's no way they would even consider letting them do the 180 degree screen for the experience if it meant less seats in the theater. Capacity is important but I think they realize you can only take that so far if it hinders the experience.
While you may have been privy to info that we don't know, the ride isn't even built yet. And we all know a lot of things can change during the planning and even construction stages.
How do you know plans haven't been adjusted to accommodate an omnimover system (which, also isn't even 100% verified that it's an omnimover yet as well as far as I know--just more speculation)?
I can't quite believe you're so judgemental about a ride that doesn't even yet exist. It seems you're lamenting the loss of a concept that, while maybe great, could also be replaced by something just as great. Or, maybe it will bomb. But either way, I'll wait to ride it myself first before deciding.
It's just like Ghostbusters 3. You get excited for a new Ghostbusters movie and that the original cast is returning; then, stuff happens and then hear that they're going to remake it, scrap the original cast, and replace them with the least funniest women in Hollywood. If you were a Ghostbusters fan, would you be excited for that?
Now take this ride. All of the insiders on here hyped this ride up like the second coming claiming it was going to be one of the best dark rides around and potentially UC's magnum opus. I got to see the floor plans that would verify that. Then it supposedly becomes a slow omnimover eliminating all of the cool stuff they could've done with the trackless.
I realize I have come across as some angry old scrooge behind a computer screen, but
if this is true, can anybody see why I would be very disappointed? If Battle Escape at SWGE got cut down to an omnimover, would you be excited? Although if this turns out to be a really great ride despite the downgrade, I will gladly eat crow. But still, it would be a missed opportunity.
For now, I'm still holding out hope that this is still going to be a trackless. After all, Chris did say a few pages back that an ice skating rink company will be working on the building/flooring.
