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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
Why don't our local Imagineers have a freaking clue??
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The Oriental Land Company exports their theme park attractions to our local imagineering deptartments for designing with a huge or sometimes unlimited budget. The estimated budget for this version of TOT is $181 million. The imagineers that designed TOT for DCA had a budget of (at the most, and a bit unlikely) $100 million thanks to Paul Pressler & Cynthia Harris. Our imagineers are their imagineers too. So it's not the imagineers that are to blame. They can make anything good, if you give them the money to bring their ideas to life.
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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
That said, exterior design is one thing .... if the attraction is as bare-bones as the DCA version, it won't matter how cool it looks from the outside.
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Ride-wise, it will follow the same basic operating layout as DCA. The elevator moves backwards into the shaft, up to the show scenes & effects, then drops, and forward into the loading area again. The elevator moving forward during the ride will remain a Floridian exclusive, mainly cause it's so problematic. I'm sure the japanese version will have a few nice surprises that'll more than make up for this.