Epek
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- Apr 6, 2013
http://www.slashfilm.com/luigis-flying-tires-ride-to-be-replaced/#more-256126
I should've titled it "changing"?
I should've titled it "changing"?
I love it, too! It's so fun, and I guess I'm lucky because I never seem to have a problem getting the tires going.
The article suggests another Luigi themed ride. The description sounds an awful lot like Mater's, though.
In that previous 2013 update we told you how DCA Cast Members leaving their shifts were surprised to find Imagineers at Luigi’s after the park closed testing remote controlled Guido characters. The remote controlled Guido forklifts acted as battering rams who would bash into the tires and help move them around the attraction. That idea continued to morph artistically at WDI....
The current plan is to apparently replace Luigi’s Flying Tires and its “Festival of the Flying Tires” backstory with a new attraction that “removes the need for the riders to steer their own vehicles.”
A fleet of 1950’s Fiat cars, ostensibly Luigi’s extended family visiting from the old country, will spin and twirl around the floor in a choreographed musical production number in the new ride tentatively called “Luigi’s Festival of the Dance”. The new ride will keep the existing tire showroom building and indoor queue, and use a version of the WiFi controlled system that guides autonomous vehicles through the Ratatouille ride at Disneyland Paris and Mystic Manor at Hong Kong Disneyland. The massive fans and deep basement that powered the Flying Tires ride system will be put into mothballs, while the new ride is built literally on its grave. If the aggressive schedule from WDI pans out, the new ride could be up and running by the Christmas season of 2015, just under a year from the time the Flying Tires closed.
Ooh that's a hard article to read! Cutting to the chase.....
I'm definitely someone that is resistant to change, but in my own personal opinion, that's got to be THE most stupid ride idea EVER.
With the tires, you lean forward. Just a bit! Not much. Then you STAY THERE. Once the tire starts moving, YOU can start moving. Just a touch to a side or the other, or back. Not big movements! Don't rock. Don't get frustrated. Just little movements.
Now, is that the greatest idea for a ride ever? No. But this change is worse. holy moly.
On the other hand, if they keep the flags and the lights and just the general prettiness of the area, that will be good.
I don't hate this ride, but we won't ride it more than once per trip (4-5 days). My son loves ramming other people, but most people just don't get it. So we ram them even more!!!!