Test Track 2.0

[ynnoj]

Man, I'm so pissed they pushed the opening of the refurb to November. This is shaping up nicely, would have been nice to ride when I visit in September.

 

[Andy]

Oh yeah forgot this was going on... :bored:

 

[ReelJustice]

Oh yeah forgot this was going on... :bored:

Well, when the Disney media machine only mentions Storybook Circus, it's easy to forget and get bored. Buy hey! Dueling Dumbos are twice as magical!

 

[shiekra38]

Well, when the Disney media machine only mentions Storybook Circus, it's easy to forget and get bored. Buy hey! Dueling Dumbos are twice as magical!

First there was Dueling Dragons..then there was....Dueling Dumbos!

I hate construction of indoor things..you can see nothing the whole time pretty much..I wish Disney was as Twitter-pic happy as Universal was with their tweets sometimes, pic of the inside please!

Keep in mind that Test Track is a refurb while FLE is a new thing..I imagine a campaign will launch after TT re-opens or a few weeks before

 

[Brian G.]

First there was Dueling Dragons..then there was....Dueling Dumbos!

I hate construction of indoor things..you can see nothing the whole time pretty much..I wish Disney was as Twitter-pic happy as Universal was with their tweets sometimes, pic of the inside please!

Keep in mind that Test Track is a refurb while FLE is a new thing..I imagine a campaign will launch after TT re-opens or a few weeks before

I'd call TT a lil more extensive than a refurb.

 

[shiekra38]

I'd call TT a lil more extensive than a refurb.

Does an extensive refurb work? kidding

I suppose the attraction will be quite extraordinary once it re-opens..you are right, definitely not just a refurb..revamp is probably the term I should have used?

 

[Vyrus]

Re-imagining is the wording I would use, because the ride will be comepletely redone. Same track, different ride.

 

[Dr. Emmett Brown]

Re-imagining is the wording I would use, because the ride will be comepletely redone. Same track, different ride.

Hopefully the break run will be refurbished. Roughest breaking system of just about any ride I've ever been on.

 

[jtsalien]

Soooo.....anybody heard anything about the most interesting project in WDW for the next half decade or so?

 

[Andy]

No unfortunately this is a project that we won't see a thing until it opens up for softs in November. Until then...:bored:

 

[JungleSkip]

No unfortunately this is a project that we won't see a thing until it opens up for softs in November. Until then...:bored:

They'll be lucky to have softs by then.

 

[Andy]

Oh just happen to find this,
http://www.epcyclopedia.com/2012/07...tion-behind-the-walls-at-test-track-in-epcot/

 

[ReelJustice]

Oh just happen to find this,
http://www.epcyclopedia.com/2012/07...tion-behind-the-walls-at-test-track-in-epcot/

Yep, so, nothing. Looks like it did 3 months ago.

 

[Andy]

Precisely. And were gonna be saying that in November as well but now it has glow sticks

 

[epcyclopedia]

Well, you can plainly see it has one less snake.. That's an improvement, right?

 

[jtsalien]

Precisely. And were gonna be saying that in November as well but now it has glow sticks

Well they can't make it any worse....

Or could they.... :stunned:

 

[ReelJustice]

Well, you can plainly see it has one less snake.. That's an improvement, right?

Always.

 

[epcyclopedia]

Well they can't make it any worse....

Or could they.... :stunned:

The creative team on the project...

a) was hand selected by GM against upper-level WDI's desires
b) has an original 80's Horizons project member heading it
c) has a talented young new "upcoming" WDI designer on point
d) has had its design team refer to the original ride as "riding through an empty warehouse" - with blatant disdain
e) all of the above

 

[jtsalien]

The creative team on the project...

a) was hand selected by GM against upper-level WDI's desires
b) has an original 80's Horizons project member heading it
c) has a talented young new "upcoming" WDI designer on point
d) has had its design team refer to the original ride as "riding through an empty warehouse" - with blatant disdain
e) all of the above

And I'm sure you could say just as many nice things about the original Test Track before it opened. As long as TDO casts a dark shadow on WDW, I'll look at the parks with a well deserved cynicism.

 

[epcyclopedia]

And I'm sure you could say just as many nice things about the original Test Track before it opened. As long as TDO casts a dark shadow on WDW, I'll look at the parks with a well deserved cynicism.

In context, yes - you could say many good thing about Test Track in 1997.. but you have to remember it was 1997. Horizons, JII, and SeaCabs were all open in Epcot and Spaceship Earth just got the Irons upgrade and Land was just overhauled. Test Track was a brand new and experimental ride system no one had ever heard of before and going to do things that were originally planned for the pavilion but cut due to budget constraints. Also, the World of Motion was, in fact, painfully boring. Of the original omni's it was the weakest and the saw the most dramatic decline in guest attendance. It used to out-pull Spaceship Earth, but then Spaceship Earth got fixed and it continued to decline. WoM opened to 8+ million guests a year and had dropped to ~6.5 million when it closed - a big drop. If you had to pick one to remove, that was going to be it.

GM did not make mistakes in their choices when they chose to change over to Test Track. Creatively WDI made some poor choices and it was done by the same man - the evil that is Orrin Shively. Don't know him? Look him up, he's responsible for most of the late 90's mistakes we attribute to Epcot's decline.