And that little buzz along the spine as you link in.

Same. Had this small detail not been there, it would have been awesome but would have only met my expectation. Having that in the middle of the ride threw me into full suspension of disbelief, putting me fully into the experience of the movie I loved. That one little detail brought the whole section of the park alive for me, and it actually brought a tear to my eye as I left for the first time.

Me too

this was the thing that made it so special for me

I was so immersed by this as an adult I ended up petting the chair I’m embarassed to admit...

Yeah, the glasses will help recombine the image to an extent, but it'll still be 2D.

Beautiful comment and memory. Please send feedback to Disney too if you haven’t already! 💙

@@wesley815 I would love to but 'm not sure how to do that. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Omg i have the same condition as you... im so happy you said that.. i will be able to see it as well when i go ☺️🧡

I’m in the same boat. Typical 3D movies don’t do much for me, they’re always a bit blurry. I can switch dominate vision between my right or left eye but that only changes what side the ghost image is on. I don’t mind going to most of Disney’s 3D attractions with friends and family, because I can still enjoy the other immersive elements but it’s frustrating knowing I’m missing out on the full experience. I’m really glad new attractions (like Rise of the Resistance) are leaning more towards large high def 4K graphics instead of 3D screens.

I bought the candle in the gift shop but won't light it. It smells of Pandora...ahhhhh ❤️

I waited 4 hours

It's one of my favorite smells in the world. I've been trying to find oils to burn that smell like it 🤌🤌🤌

yea it’s really fun you should ride it btw i’d ride it first in the park because the line is very long

You should ride it once through the stand-by line and once with a lightning lane pass. The que itself is almost worth the wait if its your first time.

@@calebw5290 thank you for letting me know :)

I hope you get to go soon! Me and the wife went to visit friends who work for Disney and they got us in for free, the que is jaw dropping and the ride is nothing short of breathtaking! The first drop can make people sick cuz of how realistic it is but it's hands down the best ride I've ever been on and I also love the avatar universe so it was something truly special. Sivako!!

I rode it 3 times in 1 day, worth the wait every time. It was so immersive

Katya Weikel yeah... but it’s screens. Well, I shouldn’t criticize, cause I didn’t get to go on it. I waited the full 3 hours but had to secure our reservations :/

@Origami Pizza It doesn’t even feel like a screen when you get in it.

Aaleyah Adebayo exactly it’s feels like you’re right there, and if it didn’t feel like you were right there then you wouldn’t feel yourself falling like the screen does when flying...

Same! I’d never had that experience until this ride

the part with the giant wave made me so freaked out, I have a fear of waves

Me too.

Same bro it just made me feel so free idk how to explain it lol

omg me too. I thought I was the only one crying after this ride.

If you get to the park right when you are allowed to, then the line is really only 45 minutes to an hour.

One of...

i mean the actual queue of rotr is basically just rocks....i think once you get into the room with bb-8 and the rey hologram, that’s considered part of the attraction

@@jonahchristopher9102 true. Though there's lots of little waterfalls and storage lockers with equipment in them.

@@america091397 ...and keep holding it cause that stuff tastes gross...

@@america091397 it's coconut milk and rice milk with a bunch of other flavors that don't mix. I haven't personally tried it, but I do know of people who wanted to, bought it, took one sip and threw it in the trash can. I don't understand Disney's need to make everything super bizarre and weird with SW:GE. A standard vanilla milkshake with blue, yellow or green food dye would have been the safest way to go.

I rode this with a friend who got a special pass so we went in what I think was the fast pass line & saw none of the queue. 1st world problems i know & skipping the 3hr wait was Disney magic in & of itself, so I'm grateful for these videos.

@@dundonoz If you come in September the queue is 30 minutes long

@@rice2291 we were there mid Jan

It's truly a run-away hit and a job well done. Don't care that it's a screen ride, the queue is half the experience and the ride itself is great. 🙂

Fantastic job. Everyone who worked on it should be very proud. I hope you all know how much we love the ride and appreciate the hard work the went into it.

I was part of the team that built the screens, unfortunately none of us actually got to test the ride out and as we where all from England, it wasn’t exactly easy to pop back to have a go

The cost would be huge tho…

You know, I’ve always wondered why Disney doesn’t have their own multiplex cinema inside the Magic Kingdom that exclusively plays Disney films. Feels like there’s a lot they could do with that as far as tailoring the experience to each specific film or franchise. I guess theater-studio ownership laws make it difficult.

For that they would for sure have to charge at least $100 a person or more to cover for the build, power consumption and maintenance.

@@syzer3056 ​ I'd say even more. Because a whole movie with Avatar technology costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and usually that gets made again by being watched worldwide in cinemas. ====== Hindsight: This is long. But I'll keep it in here for people who might be interested into the numbers and how it could work out, and also why not. It was fun a few hours to fiddle around and learn about the numbers of Disney World and how Mathematics and Economics are connected. ====== Let's see, and get some data. Epcot has about 12 million visitors per year. Ok with that, it would probably attract more people from other theme parks to Epcot. Let's take the overall number: The resort gets about 60 million viewers per year. Let's half that to 30 million to get a realistic number, because probably not everyone would go there (-), but it would also attract a lot more visitors (+), so that might be a good estimate. Hmm - looking at the high price - half it again to 15 million visitors for that specific attraction. Avatar 2 did cost 350-400 million dollars, let's take the lower number of that. Flight of Passage did cost 200 million dollars to build. Now I don't really know much about maintenance, power and operation costs. Mhm, let's just take a wild guess: 3 million dollars per year. 350+200=550. Let's just make it 555, if I forgot something. Alright: 555/15=~37$. Wow, that's not all too much. Maybe I overestimated how many people would go there. Ah yes, right, it can't handle 15 million people per year on that ride. Of course. Now I have to find out the capacity. Give me a second... 1440/hour. Since I couldn't find any information when and how long the ride is under maintenance, let's guess 2 weeks, so 365-14=~350 days. Epcot is opened from 8:30am (early access for resort guests) to 9:00pm, that's 12.5 hours. So: 1440*12.5*350=6.3 million per year. But I forgot, that of course that capacity will drop. Let's take the usual length of 1.5h for a movie plus 15 minutes for cleanup or something in between, and calculate again. 12.5h / 1.75h = ~7 screenings per day. According to parktourist: "The Avatar Flight of Passage has four theaters with six rows per theater and can accommodate up to eight riders per row, for a total of 192 people at once." 192 people per screening. So: 7*192=1344 visitors per day. 1344*350=470,400 visitors per year. That changes everything. Because 555,000,000/470,400=1180$, if you want to make it back in 1 year. Let's cap that to 100$, then it would be 11.8 years to make it again in revenue. But you'd need a new movie at least every 3 years to keep people interested. So it's 200 (building cost) + 350*4 (movies) + 3*12 (operation)=1,636 million dollars for those 12 years. Let's calculate the ticket cost: 1,636,000,000/470,400*12=290$. That's too much, have to cap it again to 100$. ALRIGHT: It's impossible: I have entered this formula into Wolfram Alpha: (200 + 350*x/3 + 3*x) / (0.4704*x). The LIMIT of the function is 254.393$. That's this inverse exponential nature. That means: Even if we consider an INFINITE amount of years, even then the best we can do is a ticket price of ~255$ per person. And then it's break even. Wow, I've never had that and applied Math that way. So it means, it is not possible to get a price of 100$ given the costs that it takes and the capacity that one Flight of Passage theater has. So: What if we build 2? Or instead of more guessing, let's solve this equation again, and set a realistic approach of 21 years: (200*x + 350*21/3 + 3*21*x) / (0.4704*21*x) = 100. The answer is ~3.38. So let's assume 4 theaters: ~90$. Bingo. With the numbers of theaters we can scale it up. But what would the investment sum be for those 4 theaters and 7 movies over 21 years? 3.5 billion dollars. So yes, with 3.5 billions dollars and a ticket price of 100$ it could be done. The problem probably is, that I was way optimistic about visitor numbers. How many would really do this? Aren't 1.5 hours too exhausting? And also, a movie has more than just you flying around. The whole concept is questionable. If it's not a concept that consistently draws people in for 7 movies over 21 years, filling 7 screenings per day from morning to evening, it also wouldn't work. These questions should be asked in the beginning. However, I learned something today. That was fun, and gives insight into what is possible, and what isn't. But: What is possible in theory, might not work out in practice.

Dude you can already watch Avatar 1 and 2 in 4D

Andre DeVine next time get a fast pass! But it is definitely worth the wait 😭

Andre DeVine I waited 4 hours with my then pregnant wife 2 years ago, AMAZING THOUGH

i waited for 95 mins without eating lunch but worth a ride and forgot eating after that... kept remembering & rejoicing it for last 1.5 years...

when we went on it we were lucky enough to get very short queues. we rode it four times. three times in a row, a final time before we left the park. it felt like riding it the first time every time. there's nothing like it out there, it's a life changing experience

I waited about 2 hours also. I decided to ride a second time and found out I could have used my fast pass 😂

Same - they knocked it out of the park with this one.

Me too! Going back in 4 weeks from today. So excited!!

Same

That's not even the real disney.

@Los Angeles Lakers Then what is?

I'm a HUGE fan of Harry Potter and I'm not even a fan of Avatar, but I think the Flight of Passage is a much better ride.

‘Of a true rollercoaster’ not every ride is a rollercoaster, and this one definitely isn’t anywhere near one

WOAH. lucky!! I normally call 40 minutes short lol, hope you had a great time!!

So you ignored social distancing and decided to go to Disney in the middle of a pandemic?

@@MeGustanLosTacos1013 there was a ton of social distancing precautions set that we obviously followed, but there was also hardly anybody there. also, we wouldn’t have gone, but my mom is a travel advisor (she plans vacations for people) and she gets tons of discounts. she ended up getting a huge discount and we went. she also just liked the idea of going with no lines.

@@MeGustanLosTacos1013 Maybe they were aloud too??

First time I rode it was summer if 2017, got to the park an hour early and only waited 30 minutes to ride..worth waking up early

Not worth 4 hour wait, you're insane.

almost no ride is worth a 4 hour wait

I hate myself I skipped

Same here.

Why do I always see you on the comments section on the vids I watch

You’re like Christopher Moon, but better

@@wolfie1179 Thank you

The wall in front of you simply moves/tilts upwards and that's it. The strobe lights are to distract you so you don't notice it as well as to prevent your eyes from adjusting to the darkness. Additionally colored lights are projected onto the wall which are also the first sequence on the actual screen to make the transition even more seamless.

@@Telris86 👍🏾Thanks!🦋I❤it when a plan comes together! -The A Team!😂

The only two I think might rival it would be Rise of the Resistance and Mickeys Runaway Railway

In which Disney world is it?

@Andrew P Yeah but the technology of both aren’t the same as this, especially Star Tours seeing how old it is

What's the significance of finding the 5 gears? I've watched this channel for awhile but never noticed

@@awesumtoast97 Not sure of the significance, might just be something new. They flash for about one second, and there is a message at the end of the video, asking if you spotted all five. They look like the "settings" icon on some apps/websites.

Rope drop?

Ryan Petersen before the park officially opens, cast member carry a large rope to contain the crowd until a specific point. They then drop the rope, and you go to the ride.. so, basically park opening

Ryan Petersen we generally get to the parks 60-90 minutes before official opening time. If the crowds are deep, the manager will allow guests into the park a few minutes early. The closer to the head of the line you are, the better your chances of a very short wait for premium rides (FoP, Soarin, Test track, 7DM, and the like)

Do you happen to know what the weight restrictions are? I'm 780 lbs and would love to experience this amazing ride!!! Great video! Can't wait for the next one!

@@stateradio115 it wasn't a weight restriction that killed me. It's a combination of my knees being too tall to fit inside the restraints, and my body being too far back in the seat. If I were slightly shorter I probably would still get away with it but with the combination of the 2 it was the killer. I am 6'3" but was 6'4" with the shoes I was wearing that day which is also part of the reason for the ride didn't work out for me.

@@Elmerstudd007 my dad had the exact same issue! he asked to take his shoes off to have his knees fit and they said no :(

@@stateradio115 at 780 we should ride you

@@fusion451 oh that's fucked up

Biger Boy how was it?

@@f3rzz476 Loved it. But now I am back in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷😭😂

Biger Boy oof I was sad when I had to flight back to Chile 😭 but I cherish the memories so much, I hope I can go back 😃 I couldn’t stop smiling for like an hour after riding flight of passage

Coaster Labs There are actually 10 projectors per room. 3 stacked in the middle and 1 on each side rotated vertically. All of that x2 (one for each eye). Also, the back of the ride cannot move up and down, it is purely fixed in place but allows rotation as the front half moves. It’s hard to tell that the back doesn’t move if you’ve only seen it from the guest’s perspective but behind the back wall there are giant bearings that hold one side of the platform while the other side moves up and down.

@@Nathaniel_Belles aw man... 😞 This is gonna be a long edits page.

@@AmusementLabs Any chance you can point to where it's stated the screen is transparent and case members are behind it watching the audience? This just doesn't seem accurate. I'm in film and have used Imax and other technologies and have seen slightly transparent screens (especially noticeable if no video is projected), but once film/video is started it's nearly impossible to see through the screen.

Billy Reichard the screen is made out of metal and is technically transparent because it’s filled with small holes about the size of a pencil eraser (the small pink one on actual pencils) so when the show lights are on and the projection is playing it is very much so transparent but not amazingly clear or anything my

piecesofme I M WATCHING THIS VIDEO ON THE LINE WTF

Mabi 1972 how long was it boyyyyy

I found this video when I was in the queue but I’m watching it days later lol

I'm watching this at 5 to 1am in Rainy England 😥

Right now probably everybody...

Heather Schmidt ha! I just noticed that!

Glad to hear you liked it and thank you so much for your help. 😃

@@AmusementLabs ^_^ Keep up the amazing work and looking forward to helping as I can anytime and seeing what else you cover in the future, from big E-Tickets to things completely out of left field! ^_^ Best of Luck and thanks again for an excellent showing of an attraction so many of us love and even a few have had the privilege to operate and know its secrets from the queue to the attraction itself. :)

Me too! It was sort of blurry for me and the people I rode with. I was wondering if it meant I was higher up or lower rather than in the center row

Yea I thought the same thing.

@@hitz310 Apparently sitting to the side can do that too for some people. It was a bit blurry to me too.

You need to sit towards the middle of the cinema and floors 2 or 3 to get the best experience. So probably between seats 6-8 and 9-11.

That's a really good idea. It's on the list now. 😃👍

@@AmusementLabs I'm glad you're considering it and Thank you for the ❤️

The queue and all its visual elements are a part of the experience story as a whole , for example you are told that what you are about to experience (Take part in) is rights of passage ceremony ,"past" history is explained (important point).. a key phrase in Na'vi used by the Na'vi Guide is core explained.. refelctive cultural identity aspects and art are shown ,, it adds to the layers of the experience ..

Eh, no ride at Disney is worth a 2 hour wait. Fastpass was the only way to ride this bad boy.

@@jackwilliams303 I've been to both Disneyland and Disneyworld and I have never had a 2 hour wait. Longest I waited was 45 minutes.

@@mikel9567 back in the normal times, this ride was easily a 2 hour wait almost any time of the day, every day. Sometimes over 4 hours on numerous occasions.

I waited 3 hours with my phone dead, i would have killed for a fast pass 😂😂

I also experienced horrific motion sickness on this ride in particular! I had to close my eyes for the second half, it was just too much. Before that happened though, my curiosity caused me to crane my neck out and look around me. I released that there was an entire other row of people next to mine, and one above, and one below... The realisation of the crazy mechanism I was in the middle off was the mind-blowing thing I took from the ride, and ultimately brought me here to see more of it.

@@BrotherSergeantFlynn Take Drammine and give it another go! It will be worth it. It is incredible how sync the movement is along with the picture and how it actually make you feel like flying.