| # | Author | Message |
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| Moon Waffle
Fri 9/28/2007 11:11a | With all the talk of big budgets, changes, and improvements all over the DLR, how is it possible that the old Peoplemover/Rocket Rods track continues to just SIT THERE and do nothing!?!?
I mean, it's coming up on a decade now, isn't it? This is turning into the subs part 2 - and I just can't see why this is so hard to do something about.
Is there still no word on anything new for the track that circles Tomorrowland? |
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| USCSurfer
Fri 9/28/2007 2:22p | I haven't heard anything about what they plan to do with that track system.
I always wondered about Sings in the same way. It's been gone a long time, and I know Innoventions is there now, taking up part of it.
But before I left the park, I'd have guests come up to me all the time and ask me where it was and why it wasn't still running. They'd say the same about Inner Space.
I know they were both dated, and I can understand that Star Tours was an upgrade over Inner Space, but sometimes it seems like if nothing is going to be put in there as a replacement for such long periods of time, why take the attraction out in the first place. Especially in the case of Sings. |
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| Jim in Merced CA
Fri 9/28/2007 4:44p | From what I know, 'America Sings' was suffering from low attendance, and the decision was made to just shutter it.
When it first opened, I thought it was great, all those AA figures, a new show to replace 'The Carousel of Progress' that we'd lost to Walt Disney World.
In hindsight, it was probably a good idea -- the videos I've watched of the attraction show that it would not have aged very well. |
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| labretbear
Fri 9/28/2007 5:37p | If they remove the Carousel Theatre/Innoventions for a future attraction, I tend to think reuse of the People Mover Rocket/Rods track might be up in the air literally and figuratively. |
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| 1DisneyNutt
Fri 9/28/2007 6:31p | I love the Carousel of Progess I wish they would bring it back! I know I am probably in the minority here but I really enjoy it. |
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| ChurroMonster
Mon 10/1/2007 1:32a | I hope you're in the minority. I don't think bringing old attractions back is the way to go. Having been on Nemo, I can't help but think that the money could have been spent on some kind of new experience. One ride on the new Subs was enough since it was similar enough to the old attraction to feel like almost the same experience.
However, a new experience of touring Tomorrowland on the PM track might be interesting as long as it is different enough from what came before it. |
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| aracuanbird
Mon 10/1/2007 3:13a | There's this dull murmur about the Astro Orbitor moving back on top of the old Peoplemover load building. Seems if that's the plan, all that work would need to take place before People were Moving on that elevated track again. |
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| Jim in Merced CA
Mon 10/1/2007 7:15a | Moving the Rocket Jets to the entrance of Tomorrowland was one of the weirdest design choices I've seen.
While I like the rockwork, and the re-design of the Rocket Jets, and the kenetic mobile in the middle, it just makes the entrance so busy and unnecessarily crowded.
I'd like to see them move it back. |
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| ChurroMonster
Tue 10/2/2007 3:13a | i'd like it removed altogether. |
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| bean
Tue 10/2/2007 10:51p | There are big plans being thrown around for tomorrowland. Nothing final or approved.
Bringing back the people mover just to bring it back makes no sense.
Like someone mentioned above, there are even thoughts of the innovention building coming down and the whoe area redesigned. By doing that that corner of the park would have plenty of space for more than one very well built attraction. The peoplemover track is attached to that building so anything that involves the peoplemover track must be planned apropriately to allow for future expansions and plans. |
