55 minutes ago, rappa said:

The engine is now electric and it has simulated noises

With Autopia I actually don't get this. It's supposed to be tomorrow land, electric vehicles would be on theme. Vintage cars the whole point is they're vintage cars and old cars have petrol motors.

 

And we settled it yesterday, it's not a relocation, one ride is being scrapped and a different ride is being built.

Its simple. DLR is too cheap to replace the cars with the new Hong Kong ones. 

No but I mean the fact that they're electric cars can be the whole point. You don't need to have a pretend engine noise when it's literally themed to the future.

I probably was misleading. The electric cars have futuristic jetsons style fake noises. 
 

RSR cars have the fake petrol engine feel/noises. 
 

ie it is possible to have an electric vintage car with artificial vintage sounds and feel. 

24 minutes ago, Slick said:

By that logic, if I buy a new road car somehow it’s the same car as the one I had before because they have the same spirit.

By that logic, you still have a (new) car. It still fulfils that function.

By that logic, they still have a (new) vintage car ride. It still fulfils that function.

22 minutes ago, joz said:

With Autopia I actually don't get this. It's supposed to be tomorrow land, electric vehicles would be on theme. Vintage cars the whole point is they're vintage cars and old cars have petrol motors.

Just for completeness, the original storyline for Autopia wasn't the cars of tomorrow but the highways of tomorrow.

 

It was a weak theme and an excuse for attraction filler which has ultimately become a staple of the park, but it is what it is.

18 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

Just for completeness, the original storyline for Autopia wasn't the cars of tomorrow but the highways of tomorrow.

Would the highways of tomorrow not have electric cars on them?

24 minutes ago, rappa said:

The electric cars have futuristic jetsons style fake noises

This is important in helping me get on with my day.

39 minutes ago, joz said:

Would the highways of tomorrow not have electric cars on them?

I mean, the highways of TODAY do, but back then, WEDWAY was the only way they could achieve the electric transit and that didn't work well for Autopian highways.

2 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

I mean, the highways of TODAY do, but back then, WEDWAY was the only way they could achieve the electric transit and that didn't work well for Autopian highways.

... what do you mean back then?

The theme isn't 'back then'. The Theme is tomorrow!

Now you're just being facetious, but this is why "Tomorrowland will never be finished" and why they're now installing electric versions of the attraction where opportunity arises.

Maybe after Jungle Rush they could round off the area, with another supporting family attraction - a boat ride around the existing river. Not the return of the paddle steamer, but perhaps something along the lines of Snake River Expedition at Cedar Point.

Believe it or not... this was briefly on display on the Tiger Island screen. It's the layout for MM, plus a few bits of concept art!

Bye bye to Motocoaster's entrance!

So it looks like the Murrisippi Motors station is directly opposite Motocoaster shop. 

Going to be interesting to see how they handle two currently clashing themes (jungle buggies vs racing motorbikes). 

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12 minutes ago, red dragin said:

So it looks like the Murrisippi Motors station is directly opposite Motocoaster shop. 

Going to be interesting to see how they handle two currently clashing themes (jungle buggies vs racing motorbikes). 

hopefully, by getting rid of the motorbikes…

Hopefully DW have invested putting a lot more cars on the track, than DW run with the vintage cars.

Surely they will retheme the motor coaster to blend a little better and not take away from the Rivertown entrance? 
Rivertown Racers, Dirt Bike Derby, Murrisippi Motorcross?

There are plenty of easy to blend in themes they could go with, even if all they did was retheme that horribly tacky green building/entrance sign. 
do we have any word about the possibility of this? 

Thinking of the dingo racers at Aussie world, pretty cheap but fairly effective. They don’t need to spend a fortune, you don’t want it to take away from the Rivertown entrance, but just something to blend in nicely could be fairly affordable/easy to do…

we keep saying ‘get rid of it’ but they won’t, not for a long time. It’s still fairly popular with kids/families. 

Would be cool if they mixed the old cars with the new.. even though they are probably different systems it would be sick

They’ll be all new cars similar to the ones that Universal Singapore has. And I’d say there will definitely be a lot more vehicles available since they’ll be brand new and electric 

Let's hope DW do better than the Scarab attack on Treasure Hunters.   I don't like that effect at all.

10 minutes ago, New display name said:

Let's hope DW do better than the Scarab attack on Treasure Hunters.   I don't like that effect at all.

it looked really good in 2010. Not so much these days.

Motocoaster will close again for a couple of weeks in October, presumably related to the construction of MM

The magic of 3.

Spinning coaster, Spinning coaster, Spinning coaster.   

A man can dream.

How difficult would it be to change the trains to a spinning coaster?

 

1 hour ago, New display name said:

How difficult would it be to change the trains to a spinning coaster?

Anything’s possible! If DW are willing to pay and Intamin are willing to design a train to work with the correct wheel alignments for this track.

But for me it doesn’t even need to be a spinning train, it just needs be a comfortable one!

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How difficult would it be to change the trains to a spinning coaster?

Depends how heavy the trains are!

17 minutes ago, themagician said:

But for me it doesn’t even need to be a spinning train, it just needs be a comfortable one!

But I have already have an AI name. /s

Gspin.

12 minutes ago, Gazza said:

Depends how heavy the trains are!

True.

Have you ridden the Tornado spin coaster by Intamin?

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It also needs theming/scenery like tunnels, and head choppers and completely unlikely but a second boost would be nice.