The last Suspended Ride they built was a couple years ago, the Jurassic Flyer at Universal Beijing, a Mack Powered coaster. (Earlier there was Puss in Boot's Giant Journey which opened in 2015.)
The Future of Lost Continent (Poseidon Fury closing May 9)
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The last Suspended Ride they built was a couple years ago, the Jurassic Flyer at Universal Beijing, a Mack Powered coaster. (Earlier there was Puss in Boot's Giant Journey which opened in 2015.)
Eh. I think dramatic effects lose a lot of their umph if we just passively coast by them
Only to a certain extent. And Nintendo has their priorities. I don’t think “ground breaking ride system” is one of them
That is exactly why the "Disney Style" of storytelling is not my current preference. I was blown away with it when I was 8 in '71 when I first went to WDW. Not so much 50 years later.
And just a question, shouldn't we expect the headlining Zelda attraction to be "interactive"?
I really want to see this ride happen, but yeah, from a technical point of view it definitely seems like a nightmare, and add to that how water rides in general are already finicky tech-wise...so perhaps ideal would be an indoor boat ride with some dry coaster elements, a la SeaWorld's JTA.
So for Zelda or any hypothetical attraction that comes next, would it be possible the the Sinbad arena gets razed and gets combined with the plot of PF to make a large scale ride? And for what it's worth, back in Feb 2021 (some point after all trackless rides at the time were scrapped) Universal filed a patent that would allow a ride vehicle to be guided by infrared light. Might this be a way to avoid some of the downtime that can plague Disney's trackless rides which use pucks and computer positioning?
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bro idk this is just fanmade blue skying under the guise of speculation. not even universal exactly knows what theyre doing with this area yet.
its like saying they could work with spacex and their reusable rocket technology to make a ride that literally takes guests into space and see the moon
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I would be surprised if they finally closed down poseidon's fury without knowing their basically gonna due with the area
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I mean, this wouldn't be the first time they closed down a show venue without any replacements. I'd bet PF is up at least till 2024 but hopefully I'm wrong
Perhaps it’s just me but I’d rather the interactive stay with the land itself while the ride itself is more story driven like Gringotts or Minjstry.
Have Power Up Bands themed to Sheikah abilities, with the Bowser Jr game more like a mix of that and a escape room themed to a dungeon.
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I think if they make power-up bands for a Zelda land, they're very likely to be character based like the Mario ones. Link, Zelda, and the 4 champions from BoTW are the most likely imo, assuming it's based on that game specifically.
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Disagree, as Mario Kart with AR, and DK being a new ride system also, appear groundbreaking to me.
Though DK is a new ride system, I don't think it is anything that iwill be prone to irregular downtime, as it really is just a regular coaster in principle. As for MK, isn't the ride system just a busbar type? So basically the most likely downtime here would be for show elements. That said, I would love to see what Uni could do with Oceaneering's trackless system.
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Mario Kart is MiB and DK is a launched coaster.
I thought of this as well, but Shanghai Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean re-defined that a "passive" attraction can be just as exciting as an exciting motion-based attraction. I don't care for the ride system, I just don't want to be jostled scene to scene with the same setup as every other Universal ride lol
The problem with "action-based" stories like Universal is that every single Universal ride is similar to one another. Something goes wrong, you are thrown up in the air, you are in danger of crashing into the ground before being saved, etc.
Universal obviously knows what they are replacing this with! Name me one example where Universal closed something without a replacement and left it abandoned...
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I feel like this deeply simplifies their concepts and abilities.
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But thats their ride systems. You don’t need flashy ride systems with complex mechanisms of conveyance.
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It’s not the Scoop. It’s not made by Dynamic and is not set up like a Scoop. That’s why I asked the rhetorical question “what is a scoop”? Is it a moving motion platform? Made by Dynamic only?
