It’s world class if your family of 5 gets to go on it via free fastpasses after 4 of you were sitting on a broken down splash mountain so long that a cast member felt bad for your grandmother sitting alone in the sun and offered them to her
i love that everyone who's gone to theme parks enough times has a story like this. god bless cast members that do this. we also got pity fastpasses bc magic kingdom was full in the am and we spent the day at animal kingdom instead
Theme parks really need to have better amenities for elderly attendees. I hear about people ditching their grandparents somewhere bc their wheelchair wont fit on this or that ride, or just bc theyre slowing them down. Im not saying yall did that, but it reminded me of that
@@bustedkeaton That makes me really sad to hear. My parents are in their 60s and still ride quite a few rides, but they definitely hang out more often at the different show offerings that parks have to offer. Not all parks offer a lot when it comes to that either, though. Indiana Beach is the park we grew up going to at least yearly. Most of the park is in the sun, and the only show they've had for decades has been a ski show a couple of times a day. I'm pretty sure they don't even have that anymore.
@@bustedkeaton I know you mean somewhere to park the wheelchair but I’m just imagining a splash mountain photo of 90 year old gripping their handlebars for dear life 😂
This pod has quickly become my number one “comfort food” podcast. I literally listen to an episode every day. I’ve been through all of them like four times now lol
I rode this ride at night during the fireworks. The wait time was only like 30-45 minutes and the fireworks were going off so it was definitely the epitome of a magical Disney World experience. It was a win in my book, but I feel like if I ride it again the experience won’t be the same.
I'm so glad to share this experience with you ❤ I remember it felt like being a part of the Disney commercial I'd seen as a kid. That same trip my brother and I would ride Everest in animal kingdom 3 times in a row. There was a parade or fireworks going on somewhere in the park and a few of us kids were sprinting through the line to jump right back on the ride. Peak experience for 8 year old me
severed snow white arm goes crazy but one time when i was on pirates the head of the guy being dunked in the well came off and he looked decapitated…the kids in the boat were traumatized
I have a vivid memory of waiting in line for this ride towards the end of the park day and I was so hot and tired and THIRSTY that when I saw a decorative rock that had a little trickle of water from the fountain falling down it, I bent down and drank some. Low point of my life for sure lmaoooo
I have a couple theories why disneyworld has so many indoor meet and greets, one because it's so hot and humid it's just a safety thing to keep their performers inside in the AC, and two there's just less rides at Magic Kingdom compared to Disneyland and they need to distribute people into more lines to help with crowd control and keep wait times with other rides down
You guys have to invite some of your guests back. I know I'd love to see Offhand Disney, Poseidon, and Jenny all back here on another one of their attractions
Here to say that I love the podcast please keep making it!! Gosh I wish I could be a guest on this it would be amazing!! You should have a contest or something. I want to talk about It's A Small World and I've already mourned that it definitely isn't a world-class attraction, but I still wanna see how it scores!
I have a severe fear of heights and usually avoid roller coasters and that sort, as such i am not a big amusement park person but this podcast is awesome and makes me want to go
I get really motion sick at rollercoasters so genuinely hate them - never go, but watching these guys talk about them makes me really want to go! Even though I know I couldn't hack it
(27:11) Ryan's definition of Rotoscoping is not correct. Rotoscoping, in terms of animation, it tracing over live-action footage to give animated character realistic movement.
I studied live-action video production and that's what we called rotoscoping for post-production. Maybe the definition has changed over the years, or has a different meaning in other fields.
I actually remember the original Snow White ride from The Magic Kingdom. It was only there the first time I visited the park, and I think I was around 7 or 8 years old at the time. When the Evil Queen turned around as the ugly crone witch, I screamed, burst into tears, and hid my face in my dad's arm for the rest of the ride and wouldn't look up again for anything. (The fact that there was also the part with the evil trees did not help matters as I was and still am terrified of trees.) My dad caught the whole experience on home video. He also got me passing out and bonking my head three times on various parts of the Mad Hatter's Tea Cups... Fond memories, lol.
Yes, I was on in 1995 or 1996 at 5 years old-ish and my dad laughed for years about how much I cried. I've told him it was closed for being too scary though, so there!
When I was a young child (early 1970s) I rode the Snow White Ride at Disneyland. I still remember the terror I felt. I ended up cowering on the ride vehicle floor crying uncontrollably. The only other attraction that scared the pants off me was the Enchanted Tiki Room, when the totems began singing. Even the haunted Mansion didn't scare me as much as these two attractions.
I rode this February 2020, right before lockdown. We were able to get an evening fast pass when I swapped out another. Ahhh good times precovid, pre lame park changes and genie+
I love this podcast guys! I don’t have the money to go to amusement parks nor do I live by any but I love learning about them and living vicariously through you guys lol
i rode this in summer of 2015 & the projection mapping was still nice & fresh. i also went on durring the fireworks & it was so cool and definitely more thrilling at night. its a fun ride every one can do but i wouldn't wait more than 90min
I remember waiting probably 2 hours for this with my family in 2015 and I remember loving the gems and other features of the queue.. for about 20 minutes. It was torture to wait the remainder of the line but I did love the ride itself - though Big Thunder certainly fills the same niche in my life as a DL person nowadays 😂
My family went to WDW at Christmas in 2013 and I remember seeing allllll the construction and being so bummed we went before it opened. We ended up going to WDW 6 years later, Christmas 2020 and final got to ride it! Waited like 20 minutes at rope drop, got last row on Christmas Day, definitely a core memory. I wouldn’t wait anywhere over 45 minutes for it though!
I wanna be a purist here…but the original Snow White attraction scared the shit out of me. Mine Train is a fun time. I’ll fully admit I get DAS pass so I don’t think I’ve ever waited more that 45 min for it, but really awesome little ride. And even though as. DLR cast member I always wanna say we’re the best, WDW does know how to do a queue
Seven Dwarfs is fun, but ultimately meh. The seats aren’t hugely accessible for anyone tall or large - the bucket scoop seat combined with the individual lap bar means that you have to be very narrow in the hips and legs or you won’t have a comfortable ride. Combine that with the long wait (which I put down to it being one of the only ‘coaster’ rides that’s is suitable for kids in MK) and it tends to be one I skip. Big Thunder Mountain is more thrilling for a much shorter wait.
I can't believe they didn't mention the seats as a bad quality. Like you, I typically skip it and the seating is a primary factor. For a park that's known for its inclusivity in this area, it's frustrating how much they dropped the ball on this one.
I'd call Big Thunder BETTER for kids than Seven Dwarves. I still feel that one drop in my stomach. And even then, The Barnstormer is much more suitable for little kids than this is
@@officialmonarchmusic Yes, I’d agree, but it’s height requirement is tougher (40 inches compared to Seven Dwarfs’ 38 inches). So I think most families treat Seven Dwarfs as the first coaster.
I'd like to argue the point that despite the fact that the ride vehicles are aesthetically pleasing, there is a design flaw! Let me set the scene: You've been line for the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train for over an hour. You start to hear some whining from kids who didn't have to pee an hour ago, but they're now doing the pee-pee dance while they desperately try to hold it until after the ride. You're finally next in line. The previous occupants of the ride vehicle jump out, the gate opens, and you move towards your seat. The lighting is meant to invoke the dark lighting inside a mine shaft, and with the blazing sun outside, that creates a lot of shadow and makes it hard to see in general. The seats are bucket seats with a spacer in the middle. They slant downwards towards the backrest and create a lovely scooped out area for your bottom. The seats are also a dark wood with a shiny finish, and are swathed in shadow due to the contrast between the inside and outside lighting. There's a lot of people who've been waiting a long time to get on this ride, so you spare no time plunking your butt down into that nice comfy bucket seat, and the ride takes off. It's during the whirlwind of psychedelic flashes of color interspersed with searingly bright sun in your face that you begin to realize you are in fact sitting in a puddle of pee that's so deep it's in places you'd REALLY prefer it not be. Anyone who's ever been to a music festival knows that to some people, this is a good time! But to a single mother who's saved up for a long time to take her son on this trip, not so much! The cast members were really good about helping me out. Unfortunately it wasn't just a matter of offering me some clean bottoms, because I couldn't walk around in the hot sun with someone's pee in my butt crack! I had to take the bus back to my hotel to shower and change and then come back. The employees at Disney did make it up to myself and my son. I'm sure they deal with small-bladder-long-line incidents on the daily! I think there should be something like a small drainage hole in the back of the seat. It wouldn't stop the pee from getting on the next person, but at least it wouldn't be a deep puddle! I also think they should put some lights somewhere that shine onto the bucket part of the seat and turn on when riders are disembarking and boarding, so we have the opportunity to avoid a pee-related incident altogether! My comment has turned into an essay... If you read this, thanks lol
I'm being the obnoxious "Well Actually" Guy here, but having more track and more vehicles on a coaster would not increase its hourly capacity at all. The only thing that can increase the capacity of a tracked ride like a roller coaster is the frequency with which vehicles are loaded/unloaded (and of course the number of people each vehicle can carry). Twice as many vehicles (as a longer track would allow) would increase the number of people on a ride at any given instant, but since each vehicle would then be turned over at the station only half as often, you end up with the same THRC! Great podcast as usual, and don't feel bad about giving this ride a low "Is It World Class" score - it is a good D-ticket family ride for sure, but it is not a showstopper world class attraction, and your criteria actually sussed out a lot of the signs that it's not.
i think this score was in fact a little harsh😅 at the end when you were saying it’s a world class kiddie ride i was like OK SO THERE IT IS! kid/family rides are an extremely important part of the amusement park landscape, especially a disney park. when you mentioned parents having bounce bc they got to go on something a little more exciting than a typical dark ride that seems proof enough to me that it is world class and exceptional among kiddie rides, which many many park guests are limited to
I really hope yall can go to the international parks (not just Disney, please go to Alton Towers too) and make some pod episodes about that. Id love a vlog too.
Anyone else get a quarter of the way through the pod before you realized they aren't talking about Snow White's Scary Adventures, since you've only been to Disneyland? 😅
The worst case of projection mapping failures I experienced was the first time I rode the Frozen ride in Epcot. One of the little baby trolls’ face completely malfunctioned and was showing like TV static/random colours like a broken computer screen. It was very jarring and completely broke the immersion for me for the rest of the ride.
I can't believe there was more debate over whether matterhorn's line was worth passing over this line. I mean I agree this ride isn't worth the normal wait but damn yall are harsh this episode haha
Ride when the fireworks are starting we wait like 20 minutes tops, plus you’re riding at night and you get to see the fireworks from the ride. It’s the only way my family rides it (we’re not big into fireworks)
vekoma had a terrible reputation because they sold arrows but cheaper. their track profiling was worse and it still had the same design jank as arrow. they started to claw back some respect as they released inverted boomerang and giant inverted boomerang models (which both were considered ok to good rides) but by the mid-late 2000s the damage had already been done and american parks would no longer invest in thrill coasters from vekoma for a long time. they essentially only sold family rides to US parks throughout the 2010s while in europe and asia they started massively improving their thrill rides, creating some of the best coasters in europe in things like lech coaster and creating interesting new models like the tilt coaster. only in the 2020s is the US finally seeing vekoma thrill coasters in things like lightcycle power run, cosmic rewind, and the upcoming COTAland's new tilt coaster set to open in the next couple years
Oh, dude, so many wait times are inflated now. They're ALL inflated. I challenge you to time your wait. We did it at Halloween Horror Nights and 90 minutes meant an hour, two hours meant one hour fifteen, etc. They pad it by around 30 minutes. I walked on Space Mountain when it claimed to have a thirty-minute wait. Please talk about this it's an issue
I went on the snow white scary ride when I was a child and I got so scared I quite literally bit my mother because I did not know how else to express the fear I felt by that witch
Idk if I’m being too harsh but I always really disliked this attraction because of the cool ass ride system. I think the ride itself really lacks how fun that could be. You barely get a taste of it swinging around before it stops again. If it was a standard roller coaster I’d probably feel better about it but it feels like such an overhype for this ride system and it blows because each section is so lackluster and you just wish for more. I didn’t ride this the couple of times I went there even though I knew that if I didn’t it would be close to 10 years before I came back and I didn’t care. Waiting for an hour seemed worse. 😂
No offense or anything guys- but I don't think you're the target audience for this ride. (You hit on it a bit towards the end when you answered the "bounce in your step" question.) Personally, the main thing I don't like about this ride is that the average wait is 75 minutes (or you have to spend even more for the ILL), but that's also proof that everyone in that queue is willing to wait longer than 60 minutes for it, for over a decade. Can you give this attraction another shot with a kid as the guest reviewer? That would be hilarious.
My last trip to WDW I was excited to ride 7 Dwarfs Mine Train and even though I rope dropped it, I still had a significant wait for it. I thought it was okay, but I’d say Big Thunder Mountain is a better coaster. The most fun moment for me was going up the second lift hill with the dwarf’s silhouettes as they sang Heigh Ho. On the plane home I was seated next to a family and they felt like I did that as a whole the coaster was somewhat disappointing. Fun, but kinda meh.
Disney just doesn’t have any creative people left in the company. This ride should have been in a mountain (thus no rain closures) and then you could have gone higher with more loops. Not worth the wait.
In 1984, my parents took my sister's, cousin, and I to Disney World. Definitely did not see the 😢 scary moniker because the ride people put my 6 year old sister in a seat by herself. My cousin was 12 and I was 10. She's scarred for life!
I love Mine Train so much. I'm a chicken when it comes to thrill rides, so this is a coaster I can handle. Its an adorable coaster with fun dark ride elements, but the wait is NEVER worth it. I will always pay extra for the lightning lane for it now because I CANNOT stand in that line for such a short ride.
I really really want a top 5 beatdown of Ryan and Byron doing their top rides
Favorite overall theme parks would be a fun one, too.
I could imagine the drama and I need it!!!
With Jenny Nicholson as the guest.
It’s world class if your family of 5 gets to go on it via free fastpasses after 4 of you were sitting on a broken down splash mountain so long that a cast member felt bad for your grandmother sitting alone in the sun and offered them to her
i love that everyone who's gone to theme parks enough times has a story like this. god bless cast members that do this. we also got pity fastpasses bc magic kingdom was full in the am and we spent the day at animal kingdom instead
Theme parks really need to have better amenities for elderly attendees. I hear about people ditching their grandparents somewhere bc their wheelchair wont fit on this or that ride, or just bc theyre slowing them down. Im not saying yall did that, but it reminded me of that
@@bustedkeaton That makes me really sad to hear. My parents are in their 60s and still ride quite a few rides, but they definitely hang out more often at the different show offerings that parks have to offer. Not all parks offer a lot when it comes to that either, though. Indiana Beach is the park we grew up going to at least yearly. Most of the park is in the sun, and the only show they've had for decades has been a ski show a couple of times a day. I'm pretty sure they don't even have that anymore.
@@bustedkeaton I know you mean somewhere to park the wheelchair but I’m just imagining a splash mountain photo of 90 year old gripping their handlebars for dear life 😂
I AM SCREAMING
50:00 omg surprise puppy!
Not a surprise anymore lol
This pod has quickly become my number one “comfort food” podcast. I literally listen to an episode every day. I’ve been through all of them like four times now lol
Listening to this while working and I look over and all of a sudden there’s a little puppy in Ryan’s Lap!!
I rode this ride at night during the fireworks. The wait time was only like 30-45 minutes and the fireworks were going off so it was definitely the epitome of a magical Disney World experience. It was a win in my book, but I feel like if I ride it again the experience won’t be the same.
I'm so glad to share this experience with you ❤ I remember it felt like being a part of the Disney commercial I'd seen as a kid.
That same trip my brother and I would ride Everest in animal kingdom 3 times in a row. There was a parade or fireworks going on somewhere in the park and a few of us kids were sprinting through the line to jump right back on the ride. Peak experience for 8 year old me
I had a really similar experience on big thunder but it had a 5 min wait. Something about those fireworks !
9am every tuesday is my favorite time
severed snow white arm goes crazy but one time when i was on pirates the head of the guy being dunked in the well came off and he looked decapitated…the kids in the boat were traumatized
I have a vivid memory of waiting in line for this ride towards the end of the park day and I was so hot and tired and THIRSTY that when I saw a decorative rock that had a little trickle of water from the fountain falling down it, I bent down and drank some. Low point of my life for sure lmaoooo
How disappointed were you to get a little further in the line and see the water fountains? 😂
I have a couple theories why disneyworld has so many indoor meet and greets, one because it's so hot and humid it's just a safety thing to keep their performers inside in the AC, and two there's just less rides at Magic Kingdom compared to Disneyland and they need to distribute people into more lines to help with crowd control and keep wait times with other rides down
You guys have to invite some of your guests back. I know I'd love to see Offhand Disney, Poseidon, and Jenny all back here on another one of their attractions
Me- Looks away for a second to her phone.
Me-looks back up
Me- Vinny!
Omg ryan that freaking puppy is so adorable
Here to say that I love the podcast please keep making it!! Gosh I wish I could be a guest on this it would be amazing!! You should have a contest or something. I want to talk about It's A Small World and I've already mourned that it definitely isn't a world-class attraction, but I still wanna see how it scores!
Also Byron’s coaster knowledge blows my mind! To be able to pull out all the manufacturers of specific coasters, that’s next level dude
For any coaster enthusiast, it's pretty much a given, especially if you're at the level of counting ride credits
I have a severe fear of heights and usually avoid roller coasters and that sort, as such i am not a big amusement park person but this podcast is awesome and makes me want to go
I get really motion sick at rollercoasters so genuinely hate them - never go, but watching these guys talk about them makes me really want to go! Even though I know I couldn't hack it
"One of the more satisfying things I've seen at a theme park." I love Ryan's thirst for karma😂
I've never been happier to hear an ad
This ride is fine, but not worth the long wait time. It took 3 attempts, but I finally got this credit after buying an Individual Lightning Lane.
(27:11) Ryan's definition of Rotoscoping is not correct. Rotoscoping, in terms of animation, it tracing over live-action footage to give animated character realistic movement.
Right on, he's talking about masking in his definition.
Ryan is frequently "confidently incorrect" lol
I studied live-action video production and that's what we called rotoscoping for post-production. Maybe the definition has changed over the years, or has a different meaning in other fields.
Also worth noting this is one of the less size inclusive rides at Disney
A very magical moment is if youre on the ride at night during the fireworks show and get to see the fireworks go off at the top of the ride
Sounds awesome. 👍
Now that we know Byron’s nickname is Pooh Bear, him loving “Pooh’s Playful Spot” is wild lmaooo iykyk
I actually remember the original Snow White ride from The Magic Kingdom. It was only there the first time I visited the park, and I think I was around 7 or 8 years old at the time. When the Evil Queen turned around as the ugly crone witch, I screamed, burst into tears, and hid my face in my dad's arm for the rest of the ride and wouldn't look up again for anything. (The fact that there was also the part with the evil trees did not help matters as I was and still am terrified of trees.) My dad caught the whole experience on home video. He also got me passing out and bonking my head three times on various parts of the Mad Hatter's Tea Cups... Fond memories, lol.
Yes, I was on in 1995 or 1996 at 5 years old-ish and my dad laughed for years about how much I cried. I've told him it was closed for being too scary though, so there!
When I was a young child (early 1970s) I rode the Snow White Ride at Disneyland. I still remember the terror I felt. I ended up cowering on the ride vehicle floor crying uncontrollably. The only other attraction that scared the pants off me was the Enchanted Tiki Room, when the totems began singing. Even the haunted Mansion didn't scare me as much as these two attractions.
I rode this February 2020, right before lockdown. We were able to get an evening fast pass when I swapped out another. Ahhh good times precovid, pre lame park changes and genie+
Oh my goddd, that puppy!!!
It took me 50 minutes to realize that Ryan has his dog on his lap.
It took me reading this, so there’s that
I am enjoying this because your tiki mini room IS AWSOME
I like that you are self aware that we are all "theme park sickos" 😂😂😂
I love this podcast guys! I don’t have the money to go to amusement parks nor do I live by any but I love learning about them and living vicariously through you guys lol
I must be the only kid who didn’t get scared by the Snow White ride, in fact I loved it 🤣
i'm so glad i made it to today, simply bc a new for your amusement episode is out
Here for the Vinny cameos!
Always makes my day better to see this channel post (:
i rode this in summer of 2015 & the projection mapping was still nice & fresh. i also went on durring the fireworks & it was so cool and definitely more thrilling at night. its a fun ride every one can do but i wouldn't wait more than 90min
I remember waiting probably 2 hours for this with my family in 2015 and I remember loving the gems and other features of the queue.. for about 20 minutes. It was torture to wait the remainder of the line but I did love the ride itself - though Big Thunder certainly fills the same niche in my life as a DL person nowadays 😂
That is the sweetest little dog ive ever seen. The platonic ideal of a puppy
My family went to WDW at Christmas in 2013 and I remember seeing allllll the construction and being so bummed we went before it opened. We ended up going to WDW 6 years later, Christmas 2020 and final got to ride it! Waited like 20 minutes at rope drop, got last row on Christmas Day, definitely a core memory. I wouldn’t wait anywhere over 45 minutes for it though!
I’ve been to Disney World four times after this ride opened and it only got to go on finally the last time and my god I loved it
watching the fireworks from seven dwarfs mine train is one of my fav mems, highly recommend!!
In the pod watcher episodes i thought Byron was the name of the puppy
I wanna be a purist here…but the original Snow White attraction scared the shit out of me. Mine Train is a fun time. I’ll fully admit I get DAS pass so I don’t think I’ve ever waited more that 45 min for it, but really awesome little ride. And even though as. DLR cast member I always wanna say we’re the best, WDW does know how to do a queue
My knees don’t fit. At least Tron has the shame car for me to ride in.
So, fail the bastard!
I haven't been to an amusement park in years but I love this podcast anyways 😂❤
As a friend of Olaf, I would love to have him meet a drunk Ryan
Seven Dwarfs is fun, but ultimately meh. The seats aren’t hugely accessible for anyone tall or large - the bucket scoop seat combined with the individual lap bar means that you have to be very narrow in the hips and legs or you won’t have a comfortable ride. Combine that with the long wait (which I put down to it being one of the only ‘coaster’ rides that’s is suitable for kids in MK) and it tends to be one I skip. Big Thunder Mountain is more thrilling for a much shorter wait.
I can't believe they didn't mention the seats as a bad quality. Like you, I typically skip it and the seating is a primary factor. For a park that's known for its inclusivity in this area, it's frustrating how much they dropped the ball on this one.
I'd call Big Thunder BETTER for kids than Seven Dwarves. I still feel that one drop in my stomach. And even then, The Barnstormer is much more suitable for little kids than this is
@@officialmonarchmusic Yes, I’d agree, but it’s height requirement is tougher (40 inches compared to Seven Dwarfs’ 38 inches). So I think most families treat Seven Dwarfs as the first coaster.
I'd like to argue the point that despite the fact that the ride vehicles are aesthetically pleasing, there is a design flaw!
Let me set the scene: You've been line for the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train for over an hour. You start to hear some whining from kids who didn't have to pee an hour ago, but they're now doing the pee-pee dance while they desperately try to hold it until after the ride. You're finally next in line. The previous occupants of the ride vehicle jump out, the gate opens, and you move towards your seat. The lighting is meant to invoke the dark lighting inside a mine shaft, and with the blazing sun outside, that creates a lot of shadow and makes it hard to see in general. The seats are bucket seats with a spacer in the middle. They slant downwards towards the backrest and create a lovely scooped out area for your bottom. The seats are also a dark wood with a shiny finish, and are swathed in shadow due to the contrast between the inside and outside lighting. There's a lot of people who've been waiting a long time to get on this ride, so you spare no time plunking your butt down into that nice comfy bucket seat, and the ride takes off. It's during the whirlwind of psychedelic flashes of color interspersed with searingly bright sun in your face that you begin to realize you are in fact sitting in a puddle of pee that's so deep it's in places you'd REALLY prefer it not be. Anyone who's ever been to a music festival knows that to some people, this is a good time! But to a single mother who's saved up for a long time to take her son on this trip, not so much!
The cast members were really good about helping me out. Unfortunately it wasn't just a matter of offering me some clean bottoms, because I couldn't walk around in the hot sun with someone's pee in my butt crack! I had to take the bus back to my hotel to shower and change and then come back. The employees at Disney did make it up to myself and my son. I'm sure they deal with small-bladder-long-line incidents on the daily!
I think there should be something like a small drainage hole in the back of the seat. It wouldn't stop the pee from getting on the next person, but at least it wouldn't be a deep puddle! I also think they should put some lights somewhere that shine onto the bucket part of the seat and turn on when riders are disembarking and boarding, so we have the opportunity to avoid a pee-related incident altogether!
My comment has turned into an essay... If you read this, thanks lol
I'm being the obnoxious "Well Actually" Guy here, but having more track and more vehicles on a coaster would not increase its hourly capacity at all. The only thing that can increase the capacity of a tracked ride like a roller coaster is the frequency with which vehicles are loaded/unloaded (and of course the number of people each vehicle can carry). Twice as many vehicles (as a longer track would allow) would increase the number of people on a ride at any given instant, but since each vehicle would then be turned over at the station only half as often, you end up with the same THRC!
Great podcast as usual, and don't feel bad about giving this ride a low "Is It World Class" score - it is a good D-ticket family ride for sure, but it is not a showstopper world class attraction, and your criteria actually sussed out a lot of the signs that it's not.
This is my new favorite! Also you need to have Poseidon on the podcast! That would be so fun!
He was on the Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride episode a while ago in case you missed it :)
Can you guys have Mammoth Club on the pod? They would be awesome in this format!
No way this is getting World Class. If it does, I'll ride it 70 times next time I get to Magic Kingdom.
i think this score was in fact a little harsh😅 at the end when you were saying it’s a world class kiddie ride i was like OK SO THERE IT IS! kid/family rides are an extremely important part of the amusement park landscape, especially a disney park. when you mentioned parents having bounce bc they got to go on something a little more exciting than a typical dark ride that seems proof enough to me that it is world class and exceptional among kiddie rides, which many many park guests are limited to
How did Ryan randomly summon a puppy
I really hope yall can go to the international parks (not just Disney, please go to Alton Towers too) and make some pod episodes about that. Id love a vlog too.
patiently waiting for Tower of Terror (rip DCA)
Anyone else get a quarter of the way through the pod before you realized they aren't talking about Snow White's Scary Adventures, since you've only been to Disneyland? 😅
The worst case of projection mapping failures I experienced was the first time I rode the Frozen ride in Epcot. One of the little baby trolls’ face completely malfunctioned and was showing like TV static/random colours like a broken computer screen. It was very jarring and completely broke the immersion for me for the rest of the ride.
I can't believe there was more debate over whether matterhorn's line was worth passing over this line. I mean I agree this ride isn't worth the normal wait but damn yall are harsh this episode haha
Can you please try to get Bob Gurr on this. The last imagineer that Walt personally hired
I was just thinking how cool it would be for them to have an Imagineer or ride designer from a park on to discuss what they made!
Omg that Java the hut story is amazing.
This is my second favorite theme park ride after the Matterhorn Bobsleds in Disneyland.
Dopey holding Snow White’s arm has me cracking up at my work desk!🤣 Please never stop making this podcast!
Ride when the fireworks are starting we wait like 20 minutes tops, plus you’re riding at night and you get to see the fireworks from the ride. It’s the only way my family rides it (we’re not big into fireworks)
god i love this podcast
46:25 Tron, Seven Dwarfs and Tower of Terror have ride videos
I was 50 minutes into this video when I noticed Ryan's puppy. Not sure what that says about my attention to detail. Adorable little puppy, congrats!
He didn’t have the puppy long. Maybe 2 minutes 😂
I didn't notice so now I'm gonna have to rewatch 😄 gotta watch the video versions for Hidden Vinny
vekoma had a terrible reputation because they sold arrows but cheaper. their track profiling was worse and it still had the same design jank as arrow. they started to claw back some respect as they released inverted boomerang and giant inverted boomerang models (which both were considered ok to good rides) but by the mid-late 2000s the damage had already been done and american parks would no longer invest in thrill coasters from vekoma for a long time. they essentially only sold family rides to US parks throughout the 2010s while in europe and asia they started massively improving their thrill rides, creating some of the best coasters in europe in things like lech coaster and creating interesting new models like the tilt coaster. only in the 2020s is the US finally seeing vekoma thrill coasters in things like lightcycle power run, cosmic rewind, and the upcoming COTAland's new tilt coaster set to open in the next couple years
I went to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween recently, and I waited less than 20 minutes to get on. Didn't know that was an anomaly.
Oh, dude, so many wait times are inflated now. They're ALL inflated. I challenge you to time your wait. We did it at Halloween Horror Nights and 90 minutes meant an hour, two hours meant one hour fifteen, etc. They pad it by around 30 minutes. I walked on Space Mountain when it claimed to have a thirty-minute wait. Please talk about this it's an issue
Bumping this because it's TRUE
I went on the snow white scary ride when I was a child and I got so scared I quite literally bit my mother because I did not know how else to express the fear I felt by that witch
Just got my coffee and finished my daily, let's get productiveee
that’s the melody from funky town 💨
Never interested in any rides, just love to hear these dudes discussing lol
People are physically excited once getting off this ride because they can finally go on a better attraction elsewhere in the park.
12 chromatic notes, the 12 pitches in music
Watch the wait times dip because of this podcast and then the ride becomes World Class...
Idk if I’m being too harsh but I always really disliked this attraction because of the cool ass ride system. I think the ride itself really lacks how fun that could be. You barely get a taste of it swinging around before it stops again. If it was a standard roller coaster I’d probably feel better about it but it feels like such an overhype for this ride system and it blows because each section is so lackluster and you just wish for more. I didn’t ride this the couple of times I went there even though I knew that if I didn’t it would be close to 10 years before I came back and I didn’t care. Waiting for an hour seemed worse. 😂
No offense or anything guys- but I don't think you're the target audience for this ride. (You hit on it a bit towards the end when you answered the "bounce in your step" question.) Personally, the main thing I don't like about this ride is that the average wait is 75 minutes (or you have to spend even more for the ILL), but that's also proof that everyone in that queue is willing to wait longer than 60 minutes for it, for over a decade. Can you give this attraction another shot with a kid as the guest reviewer? That would be hilarious.
"Rejected Dwarf Names"
Me: "Don't say it... Don't say it..."
"Deafy!"
Me: "God damn it."
I had a great experience with this ride... Got a night ride right before leaving, it was dark and the fireworks were happening.
Simpson Test - Frozen. Oaken's Sliding Sleights from Hong Kong. Same ride concept & layout. But Frozen.
My last trip to WDW I was excited to ride 7 Dwarfs Mine Train and even though I rope dropped it, I still had a significant wait for it. I thought it was okay, but I’d say Big Thunder Mountain is a better coaster. The most fun moment for me was going up the second lift hill with the dwarf’s silhouettes as they sang Heigh Ho.
On the plane home I was seated next to a family and they felt like I did that as a whole the coaster was somewhat disappointing. Fun, but kinda meh.
Disney just doesn’t have any creative people left in the company. This ride should have been in a mountain (thus no rain closures) and then you could have gone higher with more loops. Not worth the wait.
In 1984, my parents took my sister's, cousin, and I to Disney World. Definitely did not see the 😢 scary moniker because the ride people put my 6 year old sister in a seat by herself. My cousin was 12 and I was 10. She's scarred for life!
Maybe the amendment episode can include videos or comments by fans and special guests in favor or against some of the ratings
"is this the handbreak?" 😭
I do not want to live in a world where Mickey and Minnie RR is a world class attraction and a family friendly coaster wasn’t even close to passing 😩
I love Mine Train so much. I'm a chicken when it comes to thrill rides, so this is a coaster I can handle. Its an adorable coaster with fun dark ride elements, but the wait is NEVER worth it. I will always pay extra for the lightning lane for it now because I CANNOT stand in that line for such a short ride.
50:23 that puppy just appeared and disappeared. Introduce them. Bring them back.
He's Vincent Bergara, aka- Vinny. Ryan and Mari have just adopted him. He also talks about him on the PodWatcher.
Harsh rating, but I do think it's fair. The wait for the ride is what kills it for me (that and it being an ILL). Big Thunder is SOOOO much better.
I keep seeing a thin translucent string next to Byron... reminds me of the Death Stranding 2 trailer👀😂😳
Have you guys thought about asking Brayden from Mickey Views if he wants to be on the show?
The way I thought this ride and Big Thunder Mountain were the same ride for the longest time. Clearly I’ve never been on this one 😂
Vinny cameo!
Tried going very near close at Orlando and waited about 3hrs like an absolutely baffoon
“Is this the handbrake?”
i went on this ride as a kid not knowing that it was a roller coaster
i hated (and still hate) roller coasters too
i cried afterwards
Ye tron does a video too on both sides
The ranking was so much lower than I expected!