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[KingdomKeeper]

[Paul_Atreides]

Lightcycle ride? as in....attraction ride set in a lightcycle?

[SCS]

[MrV]

No work has been done on the tracks and it's unlikely that anything will be used on them for a very long time (if ever). The stuff that you may have seen were setups for the Star Tours 2 launch (if looking in May) and (if looking now) the stuff they use for Ghost Galaxy's exterior stuff.

The tracks are mostly rusted out and rocket rods demoed that they can't handle high speed or rain.

[Paul_Atreides]

The peoplemover tracks here in Orlando are in very good condition, but I would love to see a lightcycle ride go in somewhere like that. I was severely disappointed to see nothing Tron related going on here, not even merchandise, only the monorail. I talked to a few of the employees, but none of them seemed too enthusiastic. One reacted with surprise when I told her I loved the new one, and she said "A lot of people have mixed feelings about it" which doesnt really speak for all of Disney, but still...

[MrV]

I was going to mention "Project Z" which had WDW fans terrified and excited at the same time (the thought was that it was going to be a new ride for Tomorrowland but it was actually a vinylmation thing)

The "TTA" of WDW learned a lot from the mistakes of DLR's peoplemover, which is why yours has no hills, is a lot shorter, and also is on a fully covered track.

With DLR, which is a similar problem with test track, if it rains at all the cars will lose traction and slide (only with peoplemover, not rocket rods) due to the tires and the oil build up. Also, when the ride would break down it was quite a long walk to go "rescue" guests.

They probably will never do anything with the track (If they can work out a tron ride it might go in where Eo runs right now) since there isn't that much space to work with as well. All of the rocket rods queue became buzz and it's storage area (where you went underground). I think the only reason they don't remove the track is that there simply is no benefit to that as well. They are kind of famous for leaving closed attractions where they were on the day they closed (coming back to pick off parts as needed) and only doing removal when they have something new going in.

[SoCalSteve]

i did see that they repainted and fixed up the glass on the people mover. maybe that was for star tours.

As for the light cycle ride, it was completely done in CG format and could be "virtually" ridden as of 12/17/10. riders were to be riding light cycles and have the feel of being in control. two cycles would race side by side.

sometimes these ideas just disappear. i hope that isnt the case with this one.

[KingdomKeeper]

[MrV]

Baxter was saying they were thinking up ideas for a tron ride at DLR, but it doesn't promise anything since they have a ton of ideas that never came to pass.

[SoCalSteve]

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