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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Trying to recall all of the incidents at Icon Park: The time they decided to use the wheel for a target-shooting game where you shot at targets around the property during the ride with a laser tag gun a month after Uvalde
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Maigius posted:Did Icon Park expand since 2015? I rode the Eye in that summer and the complex only contained the Eye, an aquarium, and a wax museum. Yeah that was phase one. They added the swing tower, the drop tower (that’s the one that kid fell out of and they’re removing) since then.
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The Paris version of the coaster is an Iron Man ride now, but I haven't been over yet so I have no idea how dramatic the retheming is. Apparently they also have Web Slingers there too, which I am moderately curious about. A couple hours on a train is way easier to take than flying to LA for that. I'm pretty sure Marvel retheming is impossible for DHS still though, unless something has drastically changed? Also it seems like after almost three years of dodging the rona everyone I know is down with something sniffly right now. Wash your hands and wear your masks, park goons.
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Luigi Thirty posted:The time they decided to use the wheel for a target-shooting game where you shot at targets around the property during the ride with a laser tag gun a month after Uvalde I actually don't get the complaints about this one. How was this any different than a laser tag place or the shooting gallery at the Magic Kingdom?
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I actually don't get the complaints about this one. How was this any different than a laser tag place or the shooting gallery at the Magic Kingdom? Laser tag is a two way street, and everyone participating has opted in. Shooting galleries do not involve muzzle sweeping random people as part of gameplay. I know the point isn't to shoot at them, but you're going to pass over them. Also, shooting galleries have been around for a long time and are generally part of the public consciousness, which matters for this sort of thing. I think the degree to which the wheel's target-shooting game is in poor taste is certainly arguable, but there are meaningful differences between it and these other two games.
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Boxman posted:Shooting galleries do not involve muzzle sweeping random people as part of gameplay. I know the point isn't to shoot at them, but you're going to pass over them. Also, shooting galleries have been around for a long time and are generally part of the public consciousness, which matters for this sort of thing. In other words, placing the targets in the real world instead of a fixated scene or range is what makes it in poor taste? I guess I kind of see it now.
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Putting people between gun and target without asking them is the problem.
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Arquinsiel posted:Also it seems like after almost three years of dodging the rona everyone I know is down with something sniffly right now. Wash your hands and wear your masks, park goons. I'm down with the rona right now. The whole house is. We all have our shots, but stupid people keep coughing on poo poo in public. It's gonna be a long winter.
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Tyler being a creep is old news. His victims ability to sue is a recent development that increases it's visibility
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It's really funny/depressing to see comments responding to the Rock N Roller refurb closure announcement saying poo poo like "Oh no, is Disney going to ruin this with WOKENESS too???  " Like just zero awareness of how Stephen Tyler is a longtime weird sex pest and licensing a ride based on a rock and roll band was a really stupid idea in the first place
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Re-theme it to a Josie and the Pussycats (2001) coaster.
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It's from the era where Disney was trying to be slightly edgier and more "adult" with its theme parks. They've dialed back on that quite a bit in the last decade. I also, for some reason, though Steven Tyler and Aerosmith were "clean" but I guess its probably safe to assume that any 70's and 80's rocker has done awful poo poo.
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chitoryu12 posted:There's a credible theory that while masking and quarantining helped protect us from COVID, it also made our bodies more vulnerable to many of the daily infections that we ordinarily suffer from with little to no consequence. All of the colds that we normally get are now kicking our asses harder. This stuff is pseudo-science that scientists are debunking. The reality is we never really did mask or quarantine in the US at any large scale. Scientists think it's actually that COVID just weakens your immune system. https://www.tpr.org/bioscience-medicine/2022-12-27/is-immunity-debt-or-immunity-theft-to-blame-for-childrens-respiratory-virus-spike Edit: of course there is a super easy way to not get a respiratory illness.
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JAWS: The Ride: Starring Led Zeppelin
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Hazo posted:JAWS: The Ride: Starring Led Zeppelin But when are we getting the Earth, Wind & Fire version of Haunted Mansion?
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Parklore's pitch for setting the coaster in The Twilight Zone isn't incredibly good, but I like it better than the Avengers Flight Force clone we'll probably end up with
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We have a giant big wheel where I live that's about 25% bigger than the Orlando Eye. Fire crews are trained on how to crawl all over the thing and conduct emergency exits. A stoppage sucks but it isn't "oh my god close it all shut it all down" bad.SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I guess its probably safe to assume that any 70's and 80's rocker has done awful poo poo. People keep saying Jon Bon Jovi could wipe the floor with New Jersey's politicians. SweetMercifulCrap! posted:It's from the era where Disney was trying to be slightly edgier and more "adult" with its theme parks. They've dialed back on that quite a bit in the last decade. I dunno if it's so much that as it is that era of Disney was also underwriting Lindsay Lohan going on benders and the Miley Cyrus "racy" Vanity Fair cover (that she says Disney forced her to apologize for but still stands by because it's just a teenager's back and people worry too much.) They were trying to appeal to teenagers in the way they did with Annette Funicello and the like in the 60s, and it kind of became a bit unraveled once TMZ came into existence and the realization that not only can you not control these people 24 hours a day, but now there's cameras everywhere at all times. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jan 2, 2023 |
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Boxman posted:Parklore's pitch for setting the coaster in The Twilight Zone isn't incredibly good, but I like it better than the Avengers Flight Force clone we'll probably end up with Just replace Aerosmith with the boy band from Turning Red and call it a day.
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JaneError posted:Just replace Aerosmith with the boy band from Turning Red and call it a day. oh god yes this please
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I'd actually like it to not have a "star". An idea I've had for a while is to make each coaster train get a specific soundtrack either by decade or by genre. The ride is of course pretty short so it would be hard to effectively cram in either into 90 seconds, but not impossible. The visuals during the ride could change to suit whatever soundtrack your coaster train has. "Rock 'n' Roller Coaster: Rockin' Through the Decades" or something.
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JaneError posted:Just replace Aerosmith with the boy band from Turning Red and call it a day. Oh gently caress that's a really good idea. I don't actually know how much room there is in the structure of the coaster but a giant physical red panda at the center of it would be amazing, even if it were static.
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Rock and roll covers of classic Disney songs would work.
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JaneError posted:Just replace Aerosmith with the boy band from Turning Red and call it a day. It's this or Powerline and I'm not sure I'd accept anything else.
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thatguyclint posted:It's this or Powerline and I'm not sure I'd accept anything else. I've heard Powerline being floated as a retheme idea but that's just about as obscure and outdated as Josie & The Pussycats.
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Yeah Powerline only happens if they have some grand plans for a new show or something
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There's part of me that would like R&RC to remain something that is not entirely dependent on all-ages Disney IP. The Turning Red idea isn't bad because those songs were written by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas. From a park management standpoint though the problem with this sort of idea is that it they want R&RC to be a ride kids feel okay skipping out on. Making it based on a popular recent cartoon is going to increase the amount of kids who either want to go on the ride despite not knowing their own vomit potential, or feel pressured to by other kids. Like personally if I had to use a cartoon I would redo it to Big Hero 6 and recreate that whole "put your 3D glasses on" scene where Baymax flies above the city amid all those balloons, but that's not likely to happen for those reasons. Probably the correct call would have been to do Guardians here instead of Epcot, but oh well! Whoever said Marvel is most likely right, and probably something like Venom or Deadpool. If the MCU could have hurried it up with the X-Men relaunch that would also have been fantastic. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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Night at bald mountain coaster
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Craptacular! posted:something like Venom or Deadpool. If the MCU could have hurried it up with the X-Men relaunch that would also have been fantastic. A Deadpool theme would be nuts. Has Disney ever had a ride with an age requirement, not just a height requirement? I dunno how you do Deadpool without making it family unfriendly, that being kinda the point of the character (or at least, of his presentation via Ryan Reynolds).
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The Disney cruise ship had ant man talking about going up thanos’ butt hole with captain marvel so I think it would be fine
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Grundulum posted:I dunno how you do Deadpool without making it family unfriendly, that being kinda the point of the character (or at least, of his presentation via Ryan Reynolds). Deadpool 2 was recut to fit a PG rating, but the character is more than he is in the MCU. It's like how Wolverine could chop people's limbs off but in most media usually doesn't.
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If we're going with wild and impossible wishlist retheming to old musical properties that kids will never heard of then I want my Macross 7 coaster and none of you can convince me that it wouldn't be the best use of it 
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thatguyclint posted:It's this or Powerline and I'm not sure I'd accept anything else. Replace all the Aerosmith music with the "Coo-Coo Cola" commercial theme from Rescue Rangers. Bottled in Pensacolaaaaa....!
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I also, for some reason, though Steven Tyler and Aerosmith were "clean" but I guess its probably safe to assume that any 70's and 80's rocker has done awful poo poo. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry were literally nicknamed the Toxic Twins for their violent drug abuse at the height of the band's fame.
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Don't forget that he was friendly with Epstein!
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:So I'm hospitalized, was a day away from death, have staph and mrsa attacking me, and am in the icu. If you're at the parks, I'd say be real careful with anything you touch. Yikes! Are you doing better? chitoryu12 posted:There's a credible theory that while masking and quarantining helped protect us from COVID, it also made our bodies more vulnerable to many of the daily infections that we ordinarily suffer from with little to no consequence. All of the colds that we normally get are now kicking our asses harder. I've heard this but it's never made any sense to me. It's "In order to not get sick, you've got to get sick more!" What kind of moon logic is that? Stay well, everyone! I've never stopped masking with high-quality respirators, haven't gotten any of these hell colds ya'll are talking about. Coasterphreak posted:I'm down with the rona right now. The whole house is. We all have our shots, but stupid people keep coughing on poo poo in public. It's airborne. It gets in the air just from normal breathing and spreads when people breathe it in. It doesn't need coughing to spread. And while the vaccines are protective against severe disease, they don't prevent infection and transmission. Preventing infection requires clean air and/or masks in addition to vaccines. Don't breathe other people's gross air. Advocate for clean air in public spaces. Getting awful colds several times a year doesn't have to be inevitable and we don't have to accept it. I've been watching Mr Morrow for months and he appears to never get the rona despite doing a ton of crowds, indoor dining, and cons. Dunno how he pulls it off. Maybe we all need beards and fedoras?
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Dren posted:I've heard this but it's never made any sense to me. It's "In order to not get sick, you've got to get sick more!" What kind of moon logic is that?
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Arquinsiel posted:It's the moon logic that vaccines operate on. It's just abstracted a level or two and doesn't really hold up too well. Vaccines don't make you sick though. (yes, yes you can feel bad for a day or two and there are very rare adverse events) Getting sick for a week or more in order to... not get sick for a week or more is just silly. Let me just carve out 4 weeks to get covid, flu, rsv and strep so I don't get sick for 4 weeks with covid, flu, rsv and strep.
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Dren posted:Yikes! Are you doing better? I'm still hospitalized but finally off all the IV poo poo for the moment and, if I'm lucky, might get to go home tomorrow. You can stick a croissant in my neck and tuck it away for later. One little spark, the streaming team, never gets sick either. They're always maskless everywhere and it blows my mind that they don't even really get the flu.
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Dren posted:Vaccines don't make you sick though. (yes, yes you can feel bad for a day or two and there are very rare adverse events)
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Dren posted:Maybe we all need beards and fedoras? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2G-TAmZG8&t=4s
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