D23... Nice work, pal

If you're a fan of Soarin' and/or Patrick Warburton, then you will certainly appreciate this post with Putty/The Tick/Brock Sampson/Flight Attendant himself on the Instagram.

"If today's announcements don't measure up to your hype indicator, well...that's on you."

Spectacular!

CNBC did a nice write up of all the new stuff announced for the parks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/0...-expo.html

Yes. A new Indiana Jones ride! I’m intrigued

I could be way off, but I think the 'new' Indiana Jones ride is a reboot of Dinosaur.

It is, and it's the same ride system that has always been Indiana Jones out in California.

If all of this stuff comes to fruition, I think it is a game changer.

Rick_UK:

I could be way off, but I think the 'new' Indiana Jones ride is a reboot of Dinosaur.

Which Dinosaur ride was like a retrofit of the original Indiana Jones ride right? They felt very similar

Yeah, it's the same 'EMV' technology that Indy uses, I forget what Dinosaur was called originally.

I vaguely recall reading that the track layout is the same, but that also could be one of those Things Everyone Knows Is True But Isn't.

Rick_UK:

Yeah, it's the same 'EMV' technology that Indy uses, I forget what Dinosaur was called originally.

Countdown to Extinction

Indiana Jones and Dinosaur do have the same layout.

I am very excited to see how the Villains land turns out.

I am also very excited to see how all these attractions will fit into the parks.

I am very excited to see how the Villains land turns out.

Josh was much better about giving dates, but the cars portion of beyond big thunder is phase 1, starts next year and opens 2027ish. Villains is phase 2 and I bet 28 or 29 earliest.

Is the Cars ride going to be a clone of the DisneyLand ride? Because I thought that was pretty great.

The Disneyland ride is very similar to Test Track with the same ride system. The rendering looks different but that could just be because it’s, you know, a rendering.

A rally theme means it would be "off road," so regardless of the technology being used, it would not be the same theme.

If they could pull off the dirt track "drifting", that would be a nice upgrade.

I wonder if you could combine the Indy and Test Track vehicles, so you could slow down and get bumps and rock crawling, and feeling like drifting too.