- Jan 26, 2015
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....no, not even close to soft opening for guests, they're TESTING the animation and training the drivers.Does that mean soft opening for guests this week
Fast and Furious started testing quite a few weeks ago.Ryanthemeparks on twitter has said that F&F Supercharged has officially started Testing.
you win the Internet today, William.Let's take another look at the concept art:
Red: drones
Blue: flamethrower
Green: "turbocharged" truck?
Yellow: unfinished overpass?
Disaster uses a metro/subway-looking ride vehicle. If the tram itself isn't featured or referred to in the attraction, they could probably figure something out. Doing so, however, would likely require some reconfiguration of the first scene where the tram gets "supercharged".Besides, how would he ride vehicles work since ours is a tram? Would they use a tour bus or something?
Why is everyone thinking they're retrofitting it into that building?Nice catch William!
Also, I compared our F&F building to Florida's Disaster/Beetlejuice space. There's no way they can make it work with that space. The building is just too massive to fit in there. Even if they were able to "curve" the scene between the two main buildings, it still wouldn't fit, I don't think. Besides, how would he ride vehicles work since ours is a tram? Would they use a tour bus or something?
I love how everyone on Orlando United is desperately trying to insist that it's coming to Florida. Haha
I was thinking more towards the T23D building. Although the existing building is too small they could probably expand it behind the shops, and expand it into the backstage area between ET and Terminator and if they need more space there's always the possibility of tearing down Gardens of Allah. It would fit in better thematically speaking since it's the "Hollywood" land and the ride takes place in LA.Why is everyone thinking they're retrofitting it into that building?
I did some tooling around Google maps and compared buildings (F&F vs. our Earthquake and their Disaster building). There's no way they can cram it in there. While they could theoretically go into the backstage area for the main showbuilding, there are two things to consider: 1) It wouldn't be a tram animation. The vehicles would have to make a full circle back to the loading station. If they built it the same way as ours, they would have to add scenes to make it work (Which there isn't enough space for) or make the vehicles go backwards towards the station (Which isn't going to work capacity or story wise). 2) While they could readjust an Orlando version to go "full circle", there's one thing that's in the way: Hogwarts Express. I would imagine it would be very difficult to build a tunnel under that track just to go backstage.Disaster uses a metro/subway-looking ride vehicle. If the tram itself isn't featured or referred to in the attraction, they could probably figure something out. Doing so, however, would likely require some reconfiguration of the first scene where the tram gets "supercharged".
This is undoubtedly going to be an attraction that UOR will like to add to its roster.
Looked at Hollywood street/T2 and there's still not enough space to put it there. Besides Disaster and T2/Hollywood, Kidzone is the only possible location they could put it. Unless plans change, they probably want to use that space for Bikini Bottom or something family-oriented. Unless they put it in Kidzone, I think F&F will be ours to claim. Again, anything could happen (Look at Transformers), but I just don't see them getting it. At least, it wouldn't be an exact clone of ours but without the tram.I was thinking more towards the T23D building. Although the existing building is too small they could probably expand it behind the shops, and expand it into the backstage area between ET and Terminator and if they need more space there's always the possibility of tearing down Gardens of Allah. It would fit in better thematically speaking since it's the "Hollywood" land and the ride takes place in LA.
Couldn't they just put half of the ride on one floor and build the other half on a second floor? Plus the tour trams are really long, if orlando only uses one car then it could probably fit since the 360 screens would only need to be a fraction the size than the one in Hollywood.I did some tooling around Google maps and compared buildings (F&F vs. our Earthquake and their Disaster building). There's no way they can cram it in there. While they could theoretically go into the backstage area for the main showbuilding, there are two things to consider: 1) It wouldn't be a tram animation. The vehicles would have to make a full circle back to the loading station. If they built it the same way as ours, they would have to add scenes to make it work (Which there isn't enough space for) or make the vehicles go backwards towards the station (Which isn't going to work capacity or story wise). 2) While they could readjust an Orlando version to go "full circle", there's one thing that's in the way: Hogwarts Express. I would imagine it would be very difficult to build a tunnel under that track just to go backstage.
The only reason this rumor got any fuel was because it was originally anticipated as a glorified KK 360 or another mere animation like how Disaster is. Now we're learning that it's a full-blown mega attraction integrated on the tour and there's just not enough space in the Disaster venue to justify it.
Looked at Hollywood street/T2 and there's still not enough space to put it there. Besides Disaster and T2/Hollywood, Kidzone is the only possible location they could put it. Unless plans change, they probably want to use that space for Bikini Bottom or something family-oriented. Unless they put it in Kidzone, I think F&F will be ours to claim. Again, anything could happen (Look at Transformers), but I just don't see them getting it. At least, it wouldn't be an exact clone of ours but without the tram.
EDIT TO ADD: I also just realized something: This is the best motivation for guests to keep their glasses throughout the tour. Now they won't be tossing them all over the backlot.