Just had more random thaughts on how this great ride could be greater. Now we all know they couldnt create animtronics- too big, too complicated, etc etc. However, I dont see how it would be difficult to have parts of the physical sets move.
For example, in just about every scene, you see containment barrels as part of the physical sets. & in one of the screen scenes, the RV crashes into some barrels that almost get knocked over. It would be so much cooler if they created that effect using the REAL barrels, as in you seem to crash into them & either almost knock them over, or knock them over completely.
Same thing with the helicopters in the second scene. 1 helicopter is real, the other is part of the screen. It wouldve been cool if 1 of the robots either throws an object towards it or gets knocked into the real helicopter, & it moves, or even better, flys toward your RV, kind of like the train coming at you in Disaster. Man, it gives me goosebumps just thinking about an effect like that, which would probably be possible using Kuka arm type of technology. If they had stuff like this, it would be like "Spiderman the Ride what???" & there wouldnt be any questioning that TF hands down beats Spiderman.
So while there is less sets in TF than Spiderman, they couldve made up for it by actually having more moving parts in the set. In Spiderman, there's the moving ladder that Spidey jumps on, the garbage truck, the levitating Staue of Liberty Head, the levitating shipping crate, the green laser that comes OUT of the screen & projecting onto props, the real fire ball, the collapsing building, & so on. In TF, I dont recall any "real" moving parts, & only 1 real physical effect, the fake fire ball. Oh, & some strobe lights & fog.
So who knows, hopefully something like this would be possible for a future refurb/upgrade, but will just dream about it in the mean time. Its almost tempting to make a video mock up of the possibilities.
So dont get me wrong, I do love this new ride, & if I didnt care about it, I wouldnt be thinking about it in such depth. Come to think of it, there is no other ride that gets my imagination buzzing like this one does. I'll be there next Sat at 8 to get in as many rides as possible!
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