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I rode The Beast a week ago, and it was the smoothest ride I have ever had on it. Unbelievably smooth.

I agree with you on that! The Beast has definitely been very, very smooth lately.

The smoothness of the ride at night has also been unbelievable lately.......

....I can honestly say that on Friday, I enjoyed one of the best night rides on The Beast to date, absolutely amazing.

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I don't see why people worry about trying to get the video of these rides when people like CoasterForce, Sharpproductions, Deathbyillusion, and other official POV specialist get approval by the parks to do it anyway. Pretty much almost every roller coaster has an approved POV video now by those POV people or even by the parks themselves. Honestly though it will be great to be able to buy your own reverse POV video. It earns the park more money and it makes the memory lover people of the park happy and yes I do understand that the approved POV videos are done during Safety Test Runs.

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The same can be said of roller coasters, concerts, dark rides, museums, etc.

Been to a concert in the last five years? People watch it through their phone screens, trying to take as many pictures and videos as they can... as if they'll ever do anything with those photos or videos! I have seen people stand 10 feet from famous musicians, but only look at them through their camera or phone screen! Same of rides. I'm BAFFLED by the number of folks who take flash photographs on Disneyland's dark rides, apparently completely oblivious to three things:

  1. The flash GREATLY disturbs other riders.
  2. Photos taken with flash inside dark rides are NOT high-quality photos... The rides aren't meant to be viewed under blinding light. Like seeing a live theatrical performance, camera flash actually harms the final image, which can be recorded just fine under the theatrical lighting already present if you REALLY feel the need to, but...
  3. Whatever in the world it is that you're so determined to get a photo or video of, I can almost guarantee that a better photo or video of it already exists online.

Of course you try not to let it bother you, but when i think of the many times a ride on Haunted Mansion or Pirates of the Caribbean or Ariel's Undersea Adventure has been ruined by start-to-finish flash photography... Oh man. And what makes it worse is that the fuzzy, dusty, overexposed, blown-out photos are no doubt just sitting on a memory card somewhere serving no purpose!

Honestly, I would've thought that availability of those videos and photos online would have cut down on photography and amateur video recording on rides. But now that everyone has a camera in their pocket, it's a thousand times worse. And when the parents hand their children an iPad on Pirates of the Caribbean and tell them to make memories... oh please.

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I guess my only negative comment about the video would be that there's a decent chance I would have purchased one of my first ride on Banshee, but now that I've been on it multiple times, my interest in something like this has decreased significantly.

I couldn't agree more with this statement!

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The same can be said of roller coasters, concerts, dark rides, museums, etc.

Been to a concert in the last five years? People watch it through their phone screens, trying to take as many pictures and videos as they can... as if they'll ever do anything with those photos or videos! I have seen people stand 10 feet from famous musicians, but only look at them through their camera or phone screen! Same of rides. I'm BAFFLED by the number of folks who take flash photographs on Disneyland's dark rides, apparently completely oblivious to three things:

  • The flash GREATLY disturbs other riders.
  • Photos taken with flash inside dark rides are NOT high-quality photos... The rides aren't meant to be viewed under blinding light. Like seeing a live theatrical performance, camera flash actually harms the final image, which can be recorded just fine under the theatrical lighting already present if you REALLY feel the need to, but...
  • Whatever in the world it is that you're so determined to get a photo or video of, I can almost guarantee that a better photo or video of it already exists online.
Of course you try not to let it bother you, but when i think of the many times a ride on Haunted Mansion or Pirates of the Caribbean or Ariel's Undersea Adventure has been ruined by start-to-finish flash photography... Oh man. And what makes it worse is that the fuzzy, dusty, overexposed, blown-out photos are no doubt just sitting on a memory card somewhere serving no purpose!

Honestly, I would've thought that availability of those videos and photos online would have cut down on photography and amateur video recording on rides. But now that everyone has a camera in their pocket, it's a thousand times worse. And when the parents hand their children an iPad on Pirates of the Caribbean and tell them to make memories... oh please.

Yeah, instead of living their lives and actually paying attention to the experience itself, a lot of people these days are more interested in sharing their experience via social media than enjoying the actual experience. It completely baffles me. I understand the need for the OCCASIONAL photo as it can often be a trigger for some fond memories, but there's a point where it gets ridiculous!
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Maverick also had cameras installed, but I don't think they ever got them working.

This looks just like the on ride cameras for Verbolten. I bought one, and they are really cool.

Hopefully they work better than Verbolten's. I live next door to the supervisor of those videos and she says 90% of her day is spent on the phone with IT trying to get them to work.

And this is now my favorite picture in the world. Thank you for sharing!

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The same can be said of roller coasters, concerts, dark rides, museums, etc.

Been to a concert in the last five years? People watch it through their phone screens, trying to take as many pictures and videos as they can... as if they'll ever do anything with those photos or videos! I have seen people stand 10 feet from famous musicians, but only look at them through their camera or phone screen! Same of rides. I'm BAFFLED by the number of folks who take flash photographs on Disneyland's dark rides, apparently completely oblivious to three things:

  • The flash GREATLY disturbs other riders.
  • Photos taken with flash inside dark rides are NOT high-quality photos... The rides aren't meant to be viewed under blinding light. Like seeing a live theatrical performance, camera flash actually harms the final image, which can be recorded just fine under the theatrical lighting already present if you REALLY feel the need to, but...
  • Whatever in the world it is that you're so determined to get a photo or video of, I can almost guarantee that a better photo or video of it already exists online.
Of course you try not to let it bother you, but when i think of the many times a ride on Haunted Mansion or Pirates of the Caribbean or Ariel's Undersea Adventure has been ruined by start-to-finish flash photography... Oh man. And what makes it worse is that the fuzzy, dusty, overexposed, blown-out photos are no doubt just sitting on a memory card somewhere serving no purpose!

Honestly, I would've thought that availability of those videos and photos online would have cut down on photography and amateur video recording on rides. But now that everyone has a camera in their pocket, it's a thousand times worse. And when the parents hand their children an iPad on Pirates of the Caribbean and tell them to make memories... oh please.

Yeah, instead of living their lives and actually paying attention to the experience itself, a lot of people these days are more interested in sharing their experience via social media than enjoying the actual experience. It completely baffles me. I understand the need for the OCCASIONAL photo as it can often be a trigger for some fond memories, but there's a point where it gets ridiculous!

I go to a LOT of concerts. When I first started going, I saw the entire thing through my phone. However, now I have a rule for myself to only take pics for a couple minutes, then put my phone away.

I'm leaving for Universal tomorrow night (SUPER excited by the way), and I so plan on taking some pics of the WWOHP outside, trivial things like getting butterbeer, you know, the stuff my mom would want me to show her.

I really hope flash photography doesn't ruin my experience in Forbidden Journey or Gringotts. There is already a walk through video of the Gringotts queue posted by TPR I believe. I think in the moment, people think they NEED to take lots of pictures to remember everything.

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There was a blog post a few years back on artofmanliness.com that stated that you will never look at pictures of fireworks so out the camera down and make memories with friends and family. So if I'm not making a video or picture of my son then I don't take many pictures

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That's hardly a new problem, either. Going through my family's box of photos from when I was a child, pictures of my sister and/or myself (or any other person for that matter) are outnumbered by at least 50 to 1 by those of beautiful landscapes, pictures of random custom cars at car shows, etc. The only ones anyone is interested in seeing are ones with people.

The funniest to me are people at televised events like the Super Bowl aiming their recording devices at the action. If you aren't including yourself and the people you are with in your recording, then I can guarantee there is closer, professional, HD, footage available that is better than anything you could ever hope to get. Just put down the phone and enjoy the experience!

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