| I spoke to an email pal at Imagineering the other week. Indiana Jones
will be a ride, with a long walk-through area (the queing area is open
now, and I plan on checking that part of it out this Friday). It is
supposed to have some major effects in it. Will share more info as it
becomes available.
tom
P.S. Please don't SHOUT.
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| I just visted DL last Thursday and was fortunate enough to ride on the
Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye ride (before it broke
down for the day).
My first impression is to take those warnings about not riding the ride
if you have a bad back. I generally ignore the warnings because my back
isn't that bad, but I was hurting when I came out of this ride.
There is quite a long queuing area inside the temple before the ride
starts. Probably the longest of any of the rides at DL. There is a lot
of detail on the walls and as you go thru, but since we got there first
thing in the morning on a Thursday, we pretty much walked right through
it to the ride itself and missed a lot of the detail. You get into a
12(?) person "jeep" type of container, 4 per row and off you go. The
part that's bad on the back is when you go over the "rocks" in the road
(lots of bumping from side to side) and some of the sharp turns and
drops. I had a hard time reaching any handhold as I was seated at the
"steering wheel" and being relatively short (5'4") I had to lean
forward to reach a handhold. You have seatbelts, similar to Star Tours,
but they don't hold you that well.
There are some good effects, especially going over the molten river and
avoiding the giant "boulder" from rolling over you. Most of the scenes
are from the IJ movies themselves, with a hologram looking something
like Harrison Ford showing up now and then to help "guide" you through
the Temple. I liked the effects of the spiders even though they were
probably the most simplistic. The ride lasts probably 3 minutes,
although it seems longer. I can't remember a lot of the details because
so much was happening at once and I was hanging on for my life!
We did come to an unplanned stop 3/4 of the way through the ride, but
it restarted ok. Apparently there are still some bugs in the systems
and it seems to break down at least once a day. We tried to ride again
later in the afternoon but it was closed for at least 3 hours so we
gave up.
Once side note - the Jungle Cruise has been modified slightly to
incorporate the IJ ride, mostly in the queuing area and when you go by
the Temple at the beginning of the ride. (This was probably done awhile
ago but I haven't been to DL in several years).
There is an art exhibit going on in the gallery above the Pirates of
the Carribean ride which has some original drawings for the plans of
the IJ ride and also some older artwork for DL itself and Euro-Disney.
It was pretty interesting to see how things have changed.
My advice, go first thing in the morning before the lines get too long
and the systems break down.
Debbie
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