Kitty Wrote:
You described the issue very well! That actually bothers me probably more than the toned down motion. They don't even play the music in the fireplace anymore. Now it just makes the park look bad, because it looks like they were on a roll with designing the ride, and suddenly stopped. People don't understand why you're all of a sudden in a completely dark room with no sound. It looks cheap, that's why I compare it to Europe in the Air. I sometimes wish I could be the director of a full-on renovation of the ride. I have other small issues with the ride, but I think these need to be fixed first.
The issue with the ride being off sync wouldn't be so bad if the screens continuously played some kind of animation on a loop. However, you always see them resetting. Take the first scene for example: You often can see the screen reset out of the corner of your eye, when you're looking toward the trees. The only reason you notice this, is because snow doesn't magically appear in midair. If they could keep the snow on the screens looping, I think that would fix a lot of problems. However, I think we might have to wait a while to get better technology upgrades, because last time I checked, most of the ride system was still running on Windows 2000. It might've even been Windows 98. There is no excuse for a park like Busch Gardens to be using something so outdated, on what's supposed to be a very high tech ride. I would be interested to see if the ride ran on new professional Macs, would that improve it significantly? All I really know, is that this ride needs some love!
You described the issue very well! That actually bothers me probably more than the toned down motion. They don't even play the music in the fireplace anymore. Now it just makes the park look bad, because it looks like they were on a roll with designing the ride, and suddenly stopped. People don't understand why you're all of a sudden in a completely dark room with no sound. It looks cheap, that's why I compare it to Europe in the Air. I sometimes wish I could be the director of a full-on renovation of the ride. I have other small issues with the ride, but I think these need to be fixed first.
The issue with the ride being off sync wouldn't be so bad if the screens continuously played some kind of animation on a loop. However, you always see them resetting. Take the first scene for example: You often can see the screen reset out of the corner of your eye, when you're looking toward the trees. The only reason you notice this, is because snow doesn't magically appear in midair. If they could keep the snow on the screens looping, I think that would fix a lot of problems. However, I think we might have to wait a while to get better technology upgrades, because last time I checked, most of the ride system was still running on Windows 2000. It might've even been Windows 98. There is no excuse for a park like Busch Gardens to be using something so outdated, on what's supposed to be a very high tech ride. I would be interested to see if the ride ran on new professional Macs, would that improve it significantly? All I really know, is that this ride needs some love!
