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Originally Posted by Matterhorn Fan
Details, please. Surely it can't be worse than what's left of WDW's backlot tour. Can it?
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Oh, I bet it can. Here's the run through:
You are guided on video by Jeremy Irons and some French actress. Honestly, their spiel is entirely forgetable. Standard "Hollywood is great, isn't amazing to see the things that go into this oh-so-important business" crap.
First, you pass a few large props from what's purportedly a set from Dinotopia. You arrive at their earthquake effects setup. That's actually pretty decent. Lots of fire, lots of shaking, lots of water. And you even get taken around behind it to see a bit of the hardware.
Then you loop back around, past the loading station, see a few props strewn around, and arrive at a destroyed city set. You're told it's for a movie in which a dragon attacks London. Odd, but full of promise. The set is very detailed. We couldn't WAIT to see the awesome animatronic dragon, spitting fire, come up from behind the buildings!! But alas, all we got was a big flame thrower from a hole in the ground. Yawn.
And finally, you're taken past a fake costuming warehouse and are supposed to laugh as Jeremy Irons is shown in some stupid costume on the video.
And that's IT. That's the whole thing. MAYBE 15 minutes? And we saw the wait time up over an hour at points. We only waited about 15, thankfully, by taking advantage of a rather odd queue arrangement. I would NOT have been very cheery had I had to wait an hour for that.