Thanks! This is really cool, fantastic innovation from Disney yet again!
Executed by Vekoma (Dutch design) very proud to be Dutch.
They've probably laid off the entire effects department at this rate haha. I can picture this entire project being done by the one remaining imagineer they have left, sat in his home office, sweating profusely...
It was previously said that the ride will be the world’s longest enclosed coaster, but a length has never been specified.This slightly more zoomed out and clearer version of the previous photo definitely confirms a chain lift hill:-
Anyone have any idea how long this coaster will be? I mean it wouldn't surprise me if it ends up being the world's longest indoor coaster at over 4,000ft+ in length, considering it will have at least one LSM launch and lift hill and also considering the size of the show building.
Ahhh temple how I miss you
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I wonder how much of that figure would be due to Disney's creative accounting, though. The way I've heard it explained, Disney Parks and Resorts (a subsidiary of Disney responsible for running the parks) can't transfer its profit to Disney (the parent company) without incurring a lot of taxes and fees. Not as a pure transfer of profit, at least. But they've found a way around it: Whenever Disney Parks and Resorts build a new attraction using a Disney IP, they have to pay the parent company for the rights to use the IP. Those rights are "bought" at ludicrously inflated prices, essentially costing the parks whatever money they have earned that year. In short, for this coaster, 10% of the sum could be the design costs and ride hardware, and 90% could be the intellectual property right to use the GotG characters on the ride.
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