Race Through NY Starring Jimmy Fallon

[Nick]

That's where I'm lost.

Show audiences are raked/tiered so entering from the second floor makes sense to me, but where it goes from there is where I'm confused.

Seating, show set... show set pulls away and reveals screen... and, we move?

Are we buckled in at all?

It could still be tiered seating even on a second level and then the ride system would utilize first story space as well when in motion.

 

[Joel]

It could still be tiered seating even on a second level and then the ride system would utilize first story space as well when in motion.

Ya i'm guessing the "big reveal" happens after everyone is loaded, the show starts in the tonight show theater on the second floor, something happens and the theater drops into motion from the second floor down to the first, then utilizes both floors for full motion

 

[epcyclopedia]

If it moves more than a jiggle it'll need restraints.

How does that work in any sort of realistic tonightshow theater?

 

[JoeCamel]

If it moves more than a jiggle it'll need restraints.

How does that work in any sort of realistic tonightshow theater?

Jimmy says "Strap in, we're going for a ride!"

 

[epcyclopedia]

Restraints must be checked. So having it part of the show itself is not feasible.

 

[epcyclopedia]

There are two attractions I can think of that require guests to sit down and follow instructions while show timing is playing out.

Carousel of Progress and Universe of Energy. Both require the theater to remain seated.

Neither succeeds and both regularly e-stop due to guests not following instructions.

So they highlight how you can't just tell guests to buckle up and how you most certainly can't do it with show time code running.

 

[WAJAS]

There are two attractions I can think of that require guests to sit down and follow instructions while show timing is playing out.

Carousel of Progress and Universe of Energy. Both require the theater to remain seated.

Neither succeeds and both regularly e-stop due to guests not following instructions.

So they highlight how you can't just tell guests to buckle up and how you most certainly can't do it with show time code running.

The great movie ride as well, but that's basically the same technology as UoE.

 

[Nick]

Restraints must be checked. So having it part of the show itself is not feasible.

Exactly, there will have to be a restraint.

At some point you have to have a little suspension of disbelief, though. I mean, you paid to get into a theme park and you walked through turnstiles to get in. You know you aren't in NYC. Why do they have to strap me in on Gringotts? They certainly didn't do that in the movie.

You can't have everything be 100% authentic/realistic in a theme park environment. Theme parks are extremely fake when you really break it all down, it's just about having a good time in a themed environment at the core of things.

 

[WAJAS]

Exactly, there will have to be a restraint.

At some point you have to have a little suspension of belief, though. I mean, you paid to get into a theme park and you walked through turnstiles to get in. You know you aren't in NYC. Why do they have to strap me in on Gringotts? They certainly didn't do that in the movie.

You can't have everything be 100% authentic/realistic in a theme park environment. Theme parks are extremely fake when you really break it all down, it's just about having a good time in a themed environment at the core of things.

Agreed. If your experience is ruined because you can see Space Mountain from Big Thunder, then you don't understand how to enjoy a theme park. Suspension of disbelief is always necessary. Ignorance truly is bliss at a theme park.

 

[epcyclopedia]

So..

Exposition hallway, you're going to a show taping.. enter from back of tiered seating and file on down and fill in.

Show starts, something happens, Jimmy is like "buckle up" and the attendants check all the restraints in record time and off you go?

Even the LED indicator system on vaccum seatbelts in things like Star Tours require the operator to check each person visually because people can't be trusted. People constantly sit on the belts under their butts instead of over their laps. The indicator says it's buckled, not that it's being worn properly. It's why Test Track has you pull straps.

So maybe the premise is we're a test audience and Jimmy is strapping us in so we don't run away. So we'd load and strap and then beginnshow. That I could live with.

But I know they're not going to begin the main show and then pause to buckle everyone up.

 

[Nico]

Why does their need to be a premise for restraints?

 

[Nick]

Why does their need to be a premise for restraints?

There doesn't. He's overthinking it. It'll be like any other ride where they put the restraint down and then the ride starts.

 

[shiekra38]

There doesn't. He's overthinking it. It'll be like any other ride where they put the restraint down and then the ride starts.

It really dosen't matter....although, this would be the ride to have a couple of jokes about it

 

[Nick]

It really dosen't matter....although, this would be the ride to have a couple of jokes about it

I think Simpsons has that covered

 

[Disneyhead]

I would imagine the load in/restraint check will be a lot like Star Tours. Except, I think that you will enter from the bottom of the theater and go up to the seats. The infrastructure that operates the theater will be hidden from view on the first floor. The screen will probably be hidden behind a giant burgundy curtain like an old theater palace.

You'll enter, buckle up, put on your glasses, the house lights go down, the roots start playing, the curtain goes up, and from the audience perspective you at the tonight show.

I'm wondering after the start of the show if it will consistently stay a static wide shot or will they start cutting in shots that look more like what you see on TV like the 2 shot with Jimmy at his desk and the guest in the chair?

 

[Jwhee]

I think that each row will have lap bars. Or individual lap bars per seat, not seat belts like Star Tours.

How I always imagined it was that you start off sitting in a physical version of the tonight show theater, then the ride lifts up into a screen or the tomight show set goes down into the floor.

 

[Nick]

I think that each row will have lap bars. Or individual lap bars per seat, not seat belts like Star Tours.

How I always imagined it was that you start off sitting in a physical version of the tonight show theater, then the ride lifts up into a screen or the tomight show set goes down into the floor.

I've been thinking lap bars too lately, but I guess we'll have to see.

 

[Joel]

I would imagine the load in/restraint check will be a lot like Star Tours. Except, I think that you will enter from the bottom of the theater and go up to the seats. The infrastructure that operates the theater will be hidden from view on the first floor. The screen will probably be hidden behind a giant burgundy curtain like an old theater palace.

You'll enter, buckle up, put on your glasses, the house lights go down, the roots start playing, the curtain goes up, and from the audience perspective you at the tonight show.

I'm wondering after the start of the show if it will consistently stay a static wide shot or will they start cutting in shots that look more like what you see on TV like the 2 shot with Jimmy at his desk and the guest in the chair?

I believe they already confirmed you're entering from the second floor

source: a link a dozen or so posts back (sorry, lazy morning)

 

[Disneyhead]

I believe they already confirmed you're entering from the second floor

source: a link a dozen or so posts back (sorry, lazy morning)

Entering from the second floor doesn't necessarily mean that you you will be entering from the top of the theater and then moving down to the seats.

 

[WAJAS]

Entering from the second floor doesn't necessarily mean that you you will be entering from the top of the theater and then moving down to the seats.

The second floor seems to be below midway up the building.