The Future of Fast and Furious: Supercharged

[TheCodeMan95]

This still makes me curious if this means we could see an expanded HHN house in the F&F queue. Obviously they'd have to start building it in the summer, but if the ride is closed for all of HHN - they won't need the space.

 

[SpatulaShack]

Can they use the 2 months downtime to reprogram the ride to just entirely bypass the party hologram sequence? This is one of the only rides to ever exist that would benefit from an entire scene just being turned off and mothballed completely. Would save them a few bucks not having to constantly maintain the truck lift mechanism and they could put those savings toward 3D returning to Kong. If they're in the business of cutting costs (and corners) why not cut the stuff that sucks instead of the stuff that's good?

 

[Cwoolboy]

Got to do the full experience recently (before I only got to do the ride during HHN, this time I got to do both pre-shows and the ride). I still don’t hate it, but I definitely don’t love it (let’s say I’m lukewarm). I feel so bad for the team members stuck doing the pre-shows as they really have nothing to work off of or with. That said, they both really made the two pre-shows a lot of fun. You could tell they both really tried. I got a guy playing Pat and a girl playing Jaime. Pat said Pat is short for Party All the Time, made a joke about how he wished this was happening during HHN, called out my Jurassic Park shirt (“Wait, you actually went to that park? How did you survive?!” When I told him it was luck, he said “You heard that folks, luck”.). He moon-walked across his stage/platform, did a mean “The Rock” impression, and complained about how the characters on the screen kept ignoring him. Jaime had some great jokes about how Taj and the others on the screen went from calling us family to civilians (She basically called them liars), and commented how they were basically delivering us into the open arms of the FBI and how we were all going to federal prison. The ride itself is still not great, but feels close to a perfect encapsulation of the films: Big, stupid, dumb, toothless, few thrills, but oddly fun. I still LOVE the party busses with no liquor. In a way, I’d compare this attraction to riding a stupid, dumb, silly B movie. For myself, I’d say it’s worth one ride-thru each trip so long as the wait isn’t long.

 

[GA-MBIT]

The TM's working the preshows really do make the ride entirely. It's such a strange thing to see them make fun of the whole ride, IP, and intended preshow, and while doing so be way more entertaining than anything the actual attraction can offer. Shoutout to them, and shoutout to Universal for not letting pride get in the way of allowing these TM's that amount of freedom with the scene. I feel like there is totally a scenario where they ended up forcing the TM's back onto the original, intended preshow script out of embarassment. I feel like Disney would never allow something this freeform and self-critical, no matter how big of a flop a ride turns out.

 

[TheUniC6]

The TM's working the preshows really do make the ride entirely. It's such a strange thing to see them make fun of the whole ride, IP, and intended preshow, and while doing so be way more entertaining than anything the actual attraction can offer. Shoutout to them, and shoutout to Universal for not letting pride get in the way of allowing these TM's that amount of freedom with the scene. I feel like there is totally a scenario where they ended up forcing the TM's back onto the original, intended preshow script out of embarassment. I feel like Disney would never allow something this freeform and self-critical, no matter how big of a flop a ride turns out.

Sounds like they are making the best of a bad situation until they can put this ride out of its misery. While there doesn't appear to be any plans to close Supercharged now, hopefully once that rumored F&F HRRR replacement comes online Universal reconsiders and closes down Supercharged ASAP.

 

[GA-MBIT]

Sounds like they are making the best of a bad situation until they can put this ride out of its misery. While there doesn't appear to be any plans to close Supercharged now, hopefully once that rumored F&F HRRR replacement comes online Universal reconsiders and closes down Supercharged ASAP.

That's the hope. At the very least, a few more years of operation and a second, inevitably more successful ride based on the IP opening up will probably help some of the penny-pinchers up top feel more comfortable approving any demolition plans we'd like to see happen here.

 

[IzzyB]

The TM's working the preshows really do make the ride entirely. It's such a strange thing to see them make fun of the whole ride, IP, and intended preshow, and while doing so be way more entertaining than anything the actual attraction can offer. Shoutout to them, and shoutout to Universal for not letting pride get in the way of allowing these TM's that amount of freedom with the scene. I feel like there is totally a scenario where they ended up forcing the TM's back onto the original, intended preshow script out of embarassment. I feel like Disney would never allow something this freeform and self-critical, no matter how big of a flop a ride turns out.

Agreed, the pre-show is the best part and it is because they are allowed to do those things.

 

[ultimateforce]

The Jungle Cruise is adlibbed.

 

[Alicia]

The Jungle Cruise is adlibbed.

The Jungle Cruise is not supposed to be adlibbed. Each scene has 3 to 5 jokes to select from, and the overall ride has mandatory dialogue that must be said between jokes. You’re not *supposed* to go off script, and when I was a skipper they would claim managers some times sit behind the show scenes and listen to boats as they pass to ensure you stick to approved jokes and mandatory dialogue.

But of course, we all veered off script. Some more than others. But that’s technically against the rules.

 

[GA-MBIT]

I'll also bring up that the Skipper's don't often aggressively dunk on the Jungle Cruise, or outright say "this sucks", at least not anywhere near the extent that the FnF TM's do. The Jungle Cruise is a classic that might allow for the CM's to rib the ride a bit here or there, but FnF TM's go for the ride's jugular pretty often.

 

[Alicia]

I'll also bring up that the Skipper's don't often aggressively dunk on the Jungle Cruise, or outright say "this sucks", at least not anywhere near the extent that the FnF TM's do. The Jungle Cruise is a classic that might allow for the CM's to rib the ride a bit here or there, but FnF TM's go for the ride's jugular pretty often.

Tej: “I got this, Pat”
TM: “Why am I here?”

I laugh every time.

 

[OLSinFLA]

The Jungle Cruise is adlibbed.

Actually its mostly scripted -- they've gotten a lot tighter on ad libs since I worked there in the 70s (I'd say about 80% of my spiel was ad libbed - but thats because I talk fast and there was a lot of dead air between places on the script). On the bright side, I got Phyllis Diller laughing and Dick Nunis said I was the funniest he'd ever heard.

 

[FrankSinatra]

Actually its mostly scripted -- they've gotten a lot tighter on ad libs since I worked there in the 70s (I'd say about 80% of my spiel was ad libbed - but thats because I talk fast and there was a lot of dead air between places on the script). On the bright side, I got Phyllis Diller laughing and Dick Nunis said I was the funniest he'd ever heard.

I’d love to hear more about this on a Disney podcast. If they haven’t already, somebody should have you on for an interview!

 

[Alicia]

Actually its mostly scripted -- they've gotten a lot tighter on ad libs since I worked there in the 70s (I'd say about 80% of my spiel was ad libbed - but thats because I talk fast and there was a lot of dead air between places on the script). On the bright side, I got Phyllis Diller laughing and Dick Nunis said I was the funniest he'd ever heard.

That’s amazing. I did do boats where I’d say every approved joke for each scene, which meant talking fast to get them all in. But this was the 90s so I tried not to ad lib as to not get in trouble

 

[UNIrd]

....... I miss Jaws.

 

[OLSinFLA]

That’s amazing. I did do boats where I’d say every approved joke for each scene, which meant talking fast to get them all in. But this was the 90s so I tried not to ad lib as to not get in trouble

I was probably best known for closing with "Now, please step your watch, head your lower and have a nice day here in Walt Kingdom's Magic Disney". I said it completely normally and people would often get halfway up the exit and they'd suddenly stop and go "huh?"