Is The Simpsons Ride a World Class Attraction? • FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT
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D'oh! The guys slam a few cans of Duff and invade Krustyland to discuss The Simpson's Ride.
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it would be so cool to have an episode or two delving solely into deceased rides like back to the future, because it's clear that people loved them and they were probably world class during their lifetimes! maybe a halloween special for FYA? like raising these rides "from the dead" to give them some honor?
The one I'd be most curious about would be Alien Encounter.
I want to see them do infamous defunct rides like Superstar Limo and Rocket Rods.
If they don’t invite Kevin for that one, he should take it personally 🤣🤣
Oh man, I spent a year of my life working on this ride! I was working as a concept artist at the studio that did most of the animation for it. the ride had a completely different storyline early on. It centered around mister burns and had you in a plane trying to hunt down homer who had been turned into a giant king-kong-style gorilla by radioactive waste from the power plant. Fox had been too focused on making the simpsons movie at the time to pay attention to what was happening with the ride, but when they finished the film they fired the director of the ride and had us start from scratch again. This was partly because a couple of the voice actors refused to be in the ride, so the antagonist switched from mister burns to krusty. I got to go to one of the early tests of the ride, they had stripped out all but one of the deloreans, which was sad to see. we ran through the ride twice before I had to stop due to motion sickness haha...
It's funny that they went with Krustyland as the setting, when the show had a much more iconic theme park in the show by way of Itchy & Scratchy Land
I am the Lizard Queen!!! 😂
@@sammybear7100 that's from the Duff Gardens episode.
@@BanjoBreakdown1 close enough
okay but that intro of them going on the ride? that's World Class!! I know it's not good podcast fodder, but I'd love more visiting the parks content with Ryan & Byron (and Matt!) on their socials or something
Ryan struggling to be positive throughout the episode is hilarious
I'd love Disney to take a chance on Simpsons and add a Tree House of Terror area to Hollywood Studios. I think a lot of the Fox IPs would work well there as well, including Aliens, Predator, and Planet of The Apes.
It’s interesting when Byron brought up how so much of the major IP in Universal parks isn’t actually owned by universal. They have so much iconic IP that just isn’t used? I would take a universal classic movies land over a new Wizarding World expansion any day.
Well, we’re lowkey getting both with Epic Universe
They make bank off of Butter Beer, wands, and cloaks. As much as I love classic Universal movies, it ain't a cash cow like Potter is.
Also, while I'd love to be optimistic about first party Universal attractions, we did recently get two terrible first party attractions in Jimmy Fallon and Fast & Furious. I'm not as mad about Villaincon or the DreamWorks land, and I'm definitely looking forward to Epic Universe, but... First party isn't *always* good, and often I prefer third party
When I was applying for ride operations, getting put on the Simpsons was my worst fear.
This is actually my mum’s favourite ride from our trip over 10 years ago. She asks if it’s still there whenever I talk Theme Parks and her signature moment she always mentions is the baby powder smell with giant Maggie 😂
As someone who didn’t have strong feelings about Universal changing the ride, the one reaction I do remember back in 2008 was… “Really? The Simpsons? This feels like it is 10 years too late.” The ride was fun and pre-show was funny. It felt like such a weird IP to put in the park.
I would love for you guys to interview people after riding the rides! Ryan mentioned “if we interviewed people” and I think that’s a great idea. If you’re going to ride the ride for content I would love that insight of people answering some world class questions after they’ve rode the ride. Could be a cool way to get more people to the pod as well.
"What a feather in their cap," is the new "Bless your heart."
"you can be positive if you try. let's get onto the bad." this cracked me up 🤣
It's not a one-trick pony, it's a no-trick pony
It’s just a pony
I was at Universal Studios Florida in its first week of operation to the public. NOTHING worked except for Jaws and ET. We got on Jaws and it was terrifying. ET was a 4 hour wait so we opted out. The Earthquake ride wasn’t working but the pre ride behind the scenes was open. My sister and mom were picked to be scared shoppers on the escalator and I was “Best Boy Grip” who pulled ropes so columns fell. Still can’t believe we got on the OG Jaws!
Forgot to mention I was soooo bummed to see Back To The Future The Ride was being built but not open.
I loved classic universal. Today it’s a shell of its former self with all the screen based rides
You know, I actually am a fan of this ride. I feel like this is the biggest victim of people being upset at what it was vs enjoying it for what it actually is. Is it the greatest ride in the world? Absolutely not. But for what it is, it's a fun time and something I rarely if ever visit universal without doing. So even if it doesn't pass the world class test, it's still worth riding in my book
This is how I feel about mission space at Epcot
@@jaykay1899 same here
I've never been motion sick before going on this ride (and haven't since), but this ride made me so sick that I had to spend an hour sitting in the shade. Definitely not one I'd ever get on again personally
As a BTTF fanatic I loved this episode! Let the hate flow through you, Ryan!
100 people came for the opening of the ride, 80 people wore Marge hats. Realistic numbers.
I'm so thankful that I was alive and experienced Back to the Future and E.T. Just everything early 2000s. Beloved, indeed.
To make it even worse, the one in Orlando has a terrible screen. It's very dim and blurry.
I'm so glad that wasn't just me. Seeing the ride footage interspersed throughout this video I was like I have never seen it look anywhere near that clear. Orlando is SO dim and blurry, which makes the motion sickness even worse because you are straining a bit to try and see it.
They should’ve set it in Springfield and instead you visited the simpsons house and had to take a device to save homer from that 3D world he went into in treehouse of horror
I will say, I normally don't enjoy this attraction because it has not aged well. HOWEVER after I had about 2 long islands, I found the ride hilarious and I couldn't stop laughing. I thoroughly enjoyed it so much that I actually rode it again later that day.
I would kill to see you guys take on Monsters Inc: Laugh Floor
First time I went on the simpsons ride I was in high school on a field trip, I was on shrooms and knew it was a colorful trippy ride but oh man I was tripping balls. In the outside queue the shade is made up of a lime green material so the light coming through was making our skin look yellow and it clicked that this was meant to make us look yellow like the simpsons. And then I was tripping out more in the inside portion of the queue where there’s so many things going on all around you. Very trippy ride
Making skin look yellow is incredible themeing!
@@mariapizzaa right? It was such a cool detail that can be overlooked
@1:22:40 This hit the nail on the head. Comedy might be the least evergreen thing there is, and hardest to connect to. Rather, a ride that hits on a deeper emotion will always connect to some guests. It also is easier to remember how the ride made you feel after, making it nostalgic. I cant think of one "comedy" ride that has stood up.
THE ULTIMATE SIMPSON TEST… and of course it failed. 😭🤣
Hoping the Nemesis Reborn tee is a hint for a future podcast! In the meantime, loving your work, easily the best podcast I watch
There’s a sign in the queue for this ride that really tickled me: it’s more fun than sitting at home. It was true. It was slightly more fun than sitting at home
The only thing i remember about this ride was Don Cheadle was in line behind me.
A POKEMON RIDE?! INCREDIBLE GIVE ME 20
*reads title*
“Lol. LMAO even.”
Anyone else start the pod on spotify then realize they want to see the ride footage and come over here 😂?
Idk what happened but this ride was crazily popular when it came out. The theme was fun, wait stayed long for so long, it was crazy, wacky, fun. Now no one wants to claim that they liked it lol this was the backbone as stated for so long but now it’s just overshadowed by better rides.
I was there, it came out the same year or the year after the movie. The simpsons was popular again for both young and old at the time. So naturally it was a huge deal. I remember being like 8 and being hyped as hell about riding this lol
@ yeah I was around the same age. I think I was like 12 and this ride came out and was super popular
As a die hard Simpson's fan I feel you should have had me or someone else come on and defend the ride. I grew up in the midwest so I started becoming a theme park head after going to the Simpson's area at USH. It started my love for the parks. I feel the same about Simpsons as you do about Back to the Future. Knowing you're biased it was sad watching it go out here just to die.
This may be controversial, but I was about 10 years old when I first rode this and I was VERY into it, I’m pretty sure my family and I rode it multiple times in one visit
If they haven’t already, Ryan and Byron need to go to Virginia for Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Kings Dominion. Both have some amazing coasters, and BGW is beautifully themed. Love this podcast!
This ride is the bane of my existence, I’ve never felt sicker so quickly
I didn't watch Simpsons growing up, but from my limited experience I imagine Krustyland would be similar to Action Park.
"that's the world we live in, these are the times" 22:00
Lemme tell you something - I was waiting for the Simpson Ride for about 45 minutes with a man who thought we were on a date and we were NOT and I was entertained in line, so...LOL
Genuinely look forward to these episodes every week🎉🎉
I'm so sad that Universal Studios Hollywood tore down BTTF for The Simpsons. I love the old seasons of The Simpson's but BTTF is one of my favorite movies and my dad played Doc Brown three separate times when I was a kid.
Appreciate you repping the Nemesis Reborn shirt. That's a world class attraction
i got stuck on ONE RIDE last week in orlando and it was looking at a white imax screen while locked into a clown carriage for 15 minutes
I saw the name of the episode in Spotify and my first thought was- This is going to be so shady and fun...And it is.
I'm the same gen as yall but did grow up with the Simpsons as it's really popular in my country so seeing the land was amazing for me, even the queue for the ride was fun. But OH MY GOD, this ride made me sicker than any other ride I've experienced, and I couldn't even enjoy the ride as I could not watch the screen. I hate it, and look forward to whatever comes after.
This opened up when I lived in soCal. I remember the hype of the ride opening, walking around the Springfield land, and waiting in the queue, but I don't have a single memory left of actually riding the ride.
Edit: Maybe I remember walking through Springfield in later visits if it wasn't there at first. Which makes me realize I never rode this a second time.
21:00 Were you saying boo or boo-urns?
I was saying boo-urns!
I'm excited to finally reach an episode of this podcast where nobody will have any strong opinions....
I think it's a generational thing really. You feel that a pokemon world or a bikini bottom world would be cool, but I think eventually, in future, there will be adults who wouldn't want that anymore because they had different I.P.'s as kids. I'm not saying the Simpsons stuff was well executed but I can see why it was chosen during that time period. It's also a little funny because no matter how much nostalgia you had for E.T. or Back to the Future, there will be a ton of younger people who will have never seen those movies. Gen Z and alpha have been exposed to very different media, even just in quantity available, then older generations and it is a wild ride talking to them about what they have or have not seen or even care about.
Classic universal was something special
I'd agree with you on Spongebob, but Pokémon has had some impressive staying power, so it's going to be a good long while until there's an adult audience without Pokémon nostalgia
My hot take is not that The Simpsons Ride is good, but rather that BTTF was nearly just as bad. It basically boils down to which IP you prefer more, the only edge BTTF had was the then novelty of the ride system and having a larger cult following. Both were/are pretty ugly rides that give the same experience, hope to god that they level it for Pokemon instead of a retheme lol
My hot take is that even the Spider-Man ride system at islands is starting to show its age
I cried after Star Tours since I was the rebel spy and it was an embarrassing picture of me yawning 😭
I rode BTTF when I was 6 years old, had an empty seat next to me to every time the ride tilted left, I was thrown down into the empty space and being rag called all over 🤣 Then rode the Simpsons version about 19 years later and came off the ride being very bitter that they replaced BTTF with this.
I work at universal Hollywood and there are barley any teens that work at the park.
I would wait for the Hollywood version because it's one of the few size inclusive rides. Even The Secrets Life of Pets Ride put a seat divider that makes the seat very small.
That's so sad! Ugh, I HATE that theme parks don't think about that and disabilities.
Kind of annoying when you guys confuse “being objective” with “only interpreting the letter of the law” and don’t include the spirit of it.
To explain the difference, let me use a park example. Let’s say there’s a sign that says “no vehicles” in order to stop cars or such from driving where there are children actively playing. If you only took the letter of the law and applied that, then strollers would have to be banned from the park because they are vehicles.
But, applying the rule of the sign that way would almost be as absurd as giving the Simpsons ride a point for not ending too early. Clearly, the test was designed (its spirit was) to gauge how good the duration of the ride felt, not simply if it was too short.
I love this podcast and will enjoy every episode that releases, but after this ride passed the “premature detrackulation test” and figment passed the “smart phone test,” I felt like I wanted to make a comment
Now I am wondering if you do Star Tours as it is today. How would you approach the Signature Moment test. Would you run through ever combination. You could say every scenerio has a moment. If you do Star Tours I will be there to watch how you tackle that.
I would even venture to say that the fact that it has the randomized scenes is the signature moment. Looking forward to see what combination you'll get.
Born in 85 here. I grew up in SoCal LOVING the Simpsons. Always remember talking to my friends at school on the episode that had just aired the night before and just laughing. If we ever met kids who didn’t like the show we always thought it was weird haha or there would be kids whose parents wouldn’t allow them to watch it haha. Carried that through high school even! Still raving about the episode aired the night before. Then the seasons got weird and I stopped watching but I’ll always watch the early seasons.
So when I first went to universal studios for the first time, this was the ride I was excited for and boy those jokes didn’t disappoint. My husband and I had just started dating then and we just laughed all the way through the ride. One of my most fondest memories.
This ride was so underwhelming that I honestly couldn’t remember if I had ever ridden it until I watched this video. These simulation rides just remind me of that period when McDonald’s had those small simulation roller coaster machines, exciting the first time I experienced them but predictable after that first time.
I rode this for the first time last year, with my family. I sat in the back row with my niece and SIL. We are all shorter people (around 5 ft) and couldn’t see anything below the top 1/3 of the screen. The rest of our family had to tell us what happened on the screen when we got off. It was a bad experience that made us feel motion-sick and bruised our arms.
I technically rode the BTTF ride in the womb (my parents were on their honeymoon and the day they went to Universal my mom started to show and they had to buy her all new clothes)
I’ve been watching this podcast since the beginning, and it’s been really funny to see Matt slowly develop actual theme park opinions 😂
I agree that it is the generation above us that loved the Simpsons. My brother was 16 yrs older then me and he loved the Simpsons.
I just remember Biff calling me a butthead again and again on the ride, I was a young lad, but I do vague remember riding it (back to the future)
ok i am definitely basing my love for this ride on nostalgia bc the first time i rode it as a kid it was like. fine. but in 2018 my school went to Grad Bash at Universal Orlando. the mix of excitement and nervousness and freedom that came from a bunch of teenagers were set loose in two theme parks all night only weeks-to-days from our graduations was so great. my friends and i ended up in a big cluster of kids from my school, and the whole queue thing was so fun to go through with them. i think it was around midnight, and we were all giggly and a little overtired. the memory of it has made it one of my favorite rides at that park.
I was just getting back into theme parks when I rode this for the first time so I had no context for the ride system at the time. If you had interviewed me and the person I was with after getting off we would have shown that "bounce" and we would have quoted a couple of the laugh lines as the highlights. This attraction is genuinely funny and I guess that's all I really needed from it at the time.
I would be interested to hear anyone offer another theme park attraction with as many actual laughs as The Simpsons has. I'm coming up empty. Most "funny" attractions have 1-2 decent gags or just a good premise. I can't remember riding anything else that has made me genuinely laugh like this one did.
That said, I agree that it shouldn't win the title of World Class Attraction.
I love this podcast! You guys are so fun to listen to
I think this would pass the exit hall and premature detrackulation tests for me as I had a really good time on this ride my first time on it. The jokes all landed and my friends were cracking up after the ride recalling some of the jokes. So, it’s a 7/10 world class for me. Also, I think the Hollywood version of Springfield is done really well. Before Nintendo, it was my favorite section of the park.
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This podcast 😩🙏🙏🙏
Ryan with the nemesis reborn shirt!
As someone in gen z who grew up with simpsons ride its interesting to see the perspective of people who grew up with back to the future. Because for us, the idea of Simpsons being replaced by pokemon is worrisome, switching a colorful and fun area for an area that might be sloppy given how poorly thought out the latest pokemon games are. Finding out thats how people thought about bttf to simpsons was like makes me feel a bit better about things lol
Just started episode. Will it past the Simpson's Test?
All of your criticisms are valid (and I fully agree that Back to the Future is the superior ride (I was lucky enough to ride it twice). However, I’m personally much more positive about The Simpsons ride and I think it’s mostly because it was made for someone like me. I am a big Simpsons fan (particularly of seasons 3-9) and I felt that the ride did a very good job showcasing what I love about the show which is the writing and the characters.
The signature moment of a Simpsons ride for me should be the jokes and there are a lot of jokes I love on this ride such as Ralph saying “I’m a baby bird,” Homer’s reaction to Marge saying that Bob is trying to kill the kids, the Itchy and Scratchy safety spiel, and pretty much everything with Sideshow Bob who’s one of my many favorite characters of the show. I’m lucky enough that I don’t get sick on the ride so I do enjoy the motion.
I’m not gonna defend it as a world class attraction as I do agree that it’s too long and the animation’s looks bad. I’m also sad to not see the Harry Shearer characters like Burns, Flanders, and Smithers. But I do personally have a great time with The Simpsons Ride and it satisfies my love for both the show and theme park attractions. I will take this over Transformers every day.
And Harry was fair. Why would they expect the voice actors to work for free?????
I really like Simpsons ride, but in my opinion Transformers is better. I think transformers is better because it’s definitely a motion simulator that really moves you around, more intense than most other simulators in the park like minions and the Simpsons. I also think the queue is better since it’s indoors, perfect to wait in during the summer months, and I like the futuristic look of it.
I think what’s better about the Simpsons is the overall presentation of it, the ride building definitely sticks out compared to every other ride in the park because of its bright colors and giant Krusty head. But what is really hurting the Simpsons ride is its age. I did the ride last week and it felt like at any moment we were just going to detach from the platform and fall because there were very loud creaking sounds during the start of it. I don’t want to genuinely doubt if I am 100% safe on a ride.
This is my biggest complaint about universal studios. There are too many screen based simulator rides. People like to exalt as a way to crap on Disney. But universal really neglected it’s original FL park. Last time I was there I was bored with a lot of the rides because of all the screen based rides.
Rumor has it Pokémon will replace it soon...👀
I almost got to ride back to the future, but because of the shaking and hearing people screaming in that last area of the que, I freaked the heck out and had to be carried out...😅
Omg Ryan I love the nemesis reborn t-shirt, my favourite ride here in the UK!!
Next I would love a review on the Mario Ride at universal studios Hollywood
Loving these episodes on universal hollywood
A Disney Treehouse of horror land would interest me more than a Disney Villans Land. Putting the Springfield people in parodies and rooting for the family in dofferent situation woukd work better than villians just being one note bad.
Why do they still put ad breaks in when there’s no ads? You can edit around them.
and I've been thinking that I was one of the only ones who got sick on it...
Thank you for addressing the 60 fps elephant in [every] room. There is no context in which that frame rate doesn't look goofy, unrealistic, and non-immersive.
I have been a Simpson fan since childhood, I love the show -watch every THOH during spooky season. I found it super fun to walk through the land and go to places like Krusty burger.
I can’t speak to the ride- it was the first ride we did that day and it instantly made me so so sick. I had to stare at my feet the whole time. Idk if it was a combo of the screen and animation style but it messed me up for almost the entire day. I had to go sit in krusty burger for about 45 minutes before I could power through to start walking again.
Other screen rides can make me a bit off but this one was on a whole different level.
Universal has too many herky jerky screen based simulator rides
King Kong had banana breath then because he wasn’t the fierce monster he is now. He was kitschy, so, of course, as a big “monkey”, he had banana breath ha ha.
I know this is just an excuse to dunk on the ride and I’m HERE for it
Love to come here to dunk of this shit of a ride. I can't wait until it's replaced. A pokemon snap game would be amazing especially with the tech form the mario kart ride.
i already know this ride isn’t world class. it’s world ASS
World ass is hilarious 😂
I think this is an unpopular opinion (and it’s off topic), but I really enjoy Star Tours. I think it’s so fun that it’s different everytime.
This ride always ruins my back almost as much as the Matterhorn. But I do remember having my head bounce off the side door on Back to the Future as a kid when I was sitting on one of the edge seats. Didn’t hurt as it’s flexible plastic, but it surprised me. Same thing happened on Star Tours when I sat on a top corner seat.
It’s a ride I only go on if I have an express pass, as I’m not waiting any longer than 10-15 minutes without it. I like the Simpsons but not enough to go every trip.
And definitely agree about Tree House of Horror. They’re the only episodes I love watching every year as anything goes in them. I love that they’re not canon, but are just pure ridiculousness. Would have loved to see a ride that can do that if they were gonna go with a “Fantasyland Dark Ride” style ride. Just pure cheese while throwing light horror at us.
I love this podcast!
Lower frame rate would get you more sick.
I bought an N64 at launch and then basically couldn’t use it because the games were 20fps on a good day. I’m almost ready to vomit just thinking about that POS.
Motion smoothing on a TV looks weird because they have to guess details of anything that is rotating, but mostly because it makes everything move smoothly, even things that are not supposed to move at all smoothly.
I’m a Simpsons super fan, and no, this ride is not everything I’d want it to be. The humor and queue are great, but the sickness inducing motion simulator and bad 3D renderings do the Simpsons dirty.
D'oh! Love the Simpsons. Not a fan of the ride. Wish I could go back in time to go Back to The Future!
It just hit me when me and my family went to Universal Orlando for the first time. This was our first ride. Crazy to think about it like that. 😂😂
Seems like this ride is judged on what it used to be and not on the current ride itself, which is disappointing. I feel like this should be judged on its own merit. It will never be judged fairly, especially by non-Simpsons fans.
Well when me and my family went to the park, we had never been before so idk what it replaced. I really love the Simpsons and we rode this and this was easily the worst part of our day. It just ain't good
One good you can say about The Simpsons Ride: there’s no bent Eiffel Tower in it 🤣😂
I know I’m a nobody in this scene but in my head, this was gonna be my episode! The trauma I have experienced on this ride…. 😮😅
Omg of there's a Pokemon Snap ride I would loose my mind. Have you played the New Pokémon Snap Ryan?
My son and nephew like this ride but I think it’s more for the cartoons in the queue 😂 my nephew hates the horn blowing at the end of the ride 😂 looking back I can’t believe my parents let us watch the Simpsons. I have dvd season 1-17 and pretty much stopped watching after the movie came out.
Wasted an hour and a half with this ride when I could’ve waited in line for Velocicoaster…