2025?Hey! I know who filmed that video!
I filmed it on April 14, 2025
2025?Hey! I know who filmed that video!
I filmed it on April 14, 2025
I think you could “create” the effect though. Volcanos are more heat events so heating coils and a bubble effect in the water with steam would be nice spiritual replacement to the fire.If they really invested into projection mapping, fog effects, and lighting that sold the story of the attraction, I wouldn't mind giving up the fire personally. The fire is a huge "wow" effect for guests and that can likely never be replicated with other effects, but on the flip side, the fire effects are costly to run, costly to maintain, and costly to staff. I can fully understand the park wanting to move away from them and I think it would be reasonable to do so.
If Nessie's tunnel turns out horribly, maybe I'll change my mind here, but, in theory, I'm not opposed to a Escape from Pompeii v2 with lighting, media, moving props, audio, etc only.
The other day when i rode it the effects didn’t work and they gave everyone on the boat a reride. They had a spiel play that said something along the lines of “guests in the boat returning to the station, you did not receive a full show, if you would like to stay on you may ride it again.”When I worked at Pompeii in 2009, the midchute operator was responsible for presence buttons that enabled the fire effects. If you accidentally lifted pressure too much, the buttons would disable all effects for the rest of the cycle. The fire effects sometimes would also fault out and stop. In these events, we would call controls and notify them the boat was "no show" and they would be offered an opportunity to stay on the boat and ride again. It wouldn't surprise me that process has entirely been abandoned nowadays. We did have times maintenance would shut off a specific fire effect for the day, but never the entire show.
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