Re: WDW 11/20/03

"Rastus O'Ginga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 03:22:30 GMT, "Rob Cunning"
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> >"Rastus O'Ginga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> ><liberal snippage of a great TR>
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> >>  ToT went down as I arrived, so I hit RnR.  I still don't understand
> >> why Aerosmith is recording Walk This Way AGAIN!  But, hey, what do I
> >> know.  It is a super-strech-cheesy pre-show.  The ride was as usual.
> >> Surprisingly smooth Vekoma with bad music pumped into it.  By this
> >> time, ToT was up, and I was given the magic room key to carry to the
> >> boiler room.  Is it for checking the ride wait, or for signalling
> >> shift change?  I didn't think the ride was any different from the last
> >> incarnation, and still don't understand why the first shaft doesn't
> >> drop anymore.  To me, that was by far the best surprise, but it hasn't
> >> done that for many years.  I also REALLY miss the lap bars.  I liked
> >> the openness and air time they gave.
> >
> >I haven't been to WDW since November 2001 (where we encountered jam
packed,
> >early-closing parks, after apparently a month of completely deserted post
> >9/11 parks) and I remember being surprised that ToT had lap bars since I
> >knew it was going to drop.  What have they replaced them with?  OTSR's?
> >Oh...please...God...no.
> >
> >-Rob
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> No OTSRs, just an individual seatbelt for everyone, like the person in
> the middle of the back row has always had.  So, you don't get floatage
> anymore.  Quite a negative "improvement" in my eyes.
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> Rastus O'Ginga

Ah, OK.  I guess that would kind of kill the whole "Holy crap I might
actually fly out of this thing" feeling.  Several members of my family
didn't know about the drop (and being the nice person I am, I didn't tell
them) and I remember them saying afterward that they hadn't been holding
onto anything because up until the drop it was just like a regular ol' dark
ride and when it dropped it scared the hell out of them.  Of course, I
wasn't holding on, either, but I knew what was coming.  And most members of
my family are not airtime junkies like I am.  When their butt leaves the
seat it scares them.

-Rob