Disneyland Resort

[Allen The Actor]

It hasn't even started construction yet But hey, how do you think we all felt when our Transformers was getting constructed?! That took forever....

 

[William]

It sure did pay off though!

 

[Allen The Actor]

You guys....the new Mara projection mapping effects are AMAZING in person. The new voice is HORRIBLE, but the actual new Mara effects are brilliant and creepy!

 

[William]

You guys....the new Mara projection mapping effects are AMAZING in person. The new voice is HORRIBLE, but the actual new Mara effects are brilliant and creepy!

Haven't been to Disney in a couple of months! I've been curious as to what it's like in person, I'm guessing videos don't do it a justice.

 

[Allen The Actor]

I thought it was great on video, but it does NOT do it justice!!!! So excellent in person! Amazing addition!

 

[William]

Speaking of Indy, I've been wondering this forever: Y'know how there are 3 paths you can go down at the beginning of the ride? Well that obviously means 3 Mara statues, and 3 Indy-holding-the-door encounters. Would that also mean there are 3 enormous rooms that house the skeletons, bugs, snakes, bridges, etc? Or do the jeeps all drive into the same room somehow?

 

[Allen The Actor]

Haha no buddy, it's all one room! It's all an illusion that there are three rooms, and it's a brilliant illusion. It's one track and one room with Mara, but there are three doors and walls that rotate with the ceiling to simulate that there are three active rooms. The room and doors rotate so that the track will look like it leads to other rooms, which are just empty doors until it rotates in front of the track. If they built the ride three times, it would be inconceivably big and impracticable.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/gubF0TmdHBs?feature=oembedYou can kinda see how the rooms and doors rotate in this video.

 

[William]

That's so cool! I also didn't know about the ending with the effect where Indy's hanging on the rope. Thanks!

 

[Allen The Actor]

Mhmm! No prob! Indiana Jones uses AMAZING illusion effects in the beginning and ending. Like, when they work, they're flawless.

 

[RyanTTD]

This video gives a better idea on how the door effect on Indy works. 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/E2fZB-SIFak?feature=oembed

Very effective. Most people still have no clue that its the same door every ride.

 

[William]

Wow!! That makes so much more sense now. Haha. Thanks guys!!

 

[Red Carpet]

I think Disney and Universal are close to evenly matched when it comes to the quality of attractions. But Disney blows Universal out of the water when quantity of attractions. At Universal I end up riding just about everything half way through the day. At Disney, there is so much to do I can't do it all in one day. It makes me want to come back to do what missed the previous time.

 

[Jon Fu]

I think Disney and Universal are close to evenly matched when it comes to the quality of attractions. But Disney blows Universal out of the water when quantity of attractions. At Universal I end up riding just about everything half way through the day. At Disney, there is so much to do I can't do it all in one day. It makes me want to come back to do what missed the previous time.

No argument there. Hollywood's attraction count has always been extremely weak compared to Disneyland, but I think this park is an exception rather than a trend when it comes to Universal as a whole.

Universal Orlando Resort, Universal Studios Japan and even Universal Studios Singapore both require more than one day to do everything, and they resemble Disney more than they do Universal Studios Hollywood.

It's odd, but Hollywood deals with very unique constraints when it comes to operating its theme park. Some make the comparison between Universal Studios Hollywood and the adjacent Warner Brother studios, and that might apply here. After all, Universal comes ahead when you start comparing the ticket price for both tours. 

 

[Alexshow.]

This is the new stretching room effect for HMH!

http://youtu.be/Eq4wIX2vkmY

 

[William]

The only new effect is the animated Jack Skellington bit, right? I didn't notice anything strikingly different with the paintings themselves..

 

[Allen The Actor]

^ there's an animated Zero that flies from portrait to portrait. They also apparently added 13 new hidden surprises that we should be on the looko for! I love the new animated Jack bit

 

[William]

Right, but there isn't anything new with the stretching portraits, correct?

 

[Allen The Actor]

Oh the stretching ones? No, I don't believe so.

Can't wait to find the other surprises though!

 

[William]

I'm refraining from watching videos of the actual ride experience to keep most of it a surprise.

 

[smoaT]

What an amazing video!! I didn't know that last part... it blew mi mind... just amazing. By the way, can anyone find the other 4 vids?