Alien Seed

Let's not label the music's faults now. What's wrong with Beetlejuice and Tales from the Crypt? You can't go wrong with Danny Elfman...unless it's 1989, you love the DC Batman comics, and think that Elfman couldn't score a super hero film if his life depended on it. 500th post...Bonus.

It's not like they're what you'd call vintage either. They're from 1990 and up.

As far as I can tell, a college education in business or something else like that looks good on the resume, but it's far from being required.

Theme Park Management is a major?

They actually want up to $85 for a map? Are they serious?

Do you actually have the ride recordings, or a recording of you riding the Theater? I'm guessing the latter based on your profile.

USF & IOA

Well, the music is technically original. Though I'm willing to bet that some of it WAS inspired by Tales from the Crypt, maybe a little from Inspector Gadget, and alot from Beetlejuice; especially the part of the prop room theme with the intense beat that is commonly associated with the boiler room.

We already know!

Look on the first page of this thread, in my posts. There are two links, one in a post. One of them takes you to R&R's website and directly to a page with a sample of the soundtrack.

Nothin' like a dozen heads hanging from ropes and a chainsaw wielding maniac to bring families closer together

PKI, the only one I've ever been to.

I was the same way...it's addictive music.

And not to mention Dreamworks is also Spielberg's

why did they have to change Ghoster Coaster's name? I thought Paramount gets to keep Scooby a little longer than the rest of the HB characters.

Vortex is too easy to avoid stapling, just lean forward into it.

Look at my personal photo. The laws of physics says I should be stapled extremely easily, especially since I don't put the restraints really tight. I have a special way of avoiding stapling on every ride in the park (it's different for each ride). Yeah, no one can figure out how I do it either, since I just put my arms up, relax, and let them try their best. Only one person has ever caught me off guard at FOF.

You're working at TRTR this season, Gab? Awesome.

I call that dedication. We can all be dedicated in our own way. If you know me, I show it by never leaving and going home.

"Yes, I agree with you on Tomb Raider, and the fact that there is no story line to TR:TR. However, I think the concept and storyline to IJST will stand on its own, and guests will not have to have seen the movie to get the just of the ride." I disagree with you Coasters. There is a story to TRTR; they just do a bad job explaining it. You have to look on the internet to actually get some of the story elements they don't mention in the ride (like the whole planet alignment thing). It took me 2.5 years, but I finally figured it out in its entirety, from the queue to the ride. TRTR's biggest problem is the preshow. Preshows are obviously meant to explain what's going on. TRTR's is unable to do that. For a good preshow (if the story of the ride differs from that of the movie), you need new footage. By relying on just footage from the first movie, they get the guests confused. They think they are just watching a preview of the movie, when in fact, PKI designed it to show Lara's adventures inside the tomb you're in; a separate quest than the movie's. Now let's say every guest did understand the meaning of that, that leaves another gap in the preshows responsibility; not only explaining the story, but what the ride is. Since the ride is your "escape vehicle," yet does not look like any vehicle anyone has ever seen, the preshow should be forcing the idea down your throat, so people will not think of it as a topspin. When people realize they're on a topspin, the only way they look at the ride is that it's a topspin in a box with effects around it. Since the ride is a "vehicle" of some kind, preshow should be convincing you that this vehicle can fly, or whatever, and that you will be using it to actually try to get out of the temple, not just swing around in loops for no reason. Finally, getting back to the story part, preshow should give you some kind of an idea as to what happens at the end of this ride. People are confused about the ending; so was I until last season. The fact that it just ends as you are trying to escape doesn't make any sense. Preshow should be giving you the full story so that the guests can know what just happened on the ride, and how they escaped. Unless I'm completely wrong about the story (I don't think I am), the abrupt ending has something to do with the unsaid Planet Allignment element. And that's my two cents....and I think I'm a little to passionate about this subject.

I believe that PKI WAS haunted for a time by some ghosts of the Vaudevillian era, but they're gone now. Anyone else encounter them? I remember one of them attacked me with sheets of music everytime I saw them.

Universal. They know how to make a themed ride, and that's what I love.

This must have been added while I was typing my first response. Really you can give them non-paramount names....you just have to get creative. Just because they were originally built and themed for a Paramount movie, doesn't mean you can't change it. For instance TRTR could easilly be transformed into the original concept for the ride "Inferno" Just change the story line around a little bit and maybe remove some of the original theming elements and you have a "new" ride with a generic theme. Also IJST could be re-themed to anything that had to do with cars...the only reason we say "oh, that is Italian Job" is becuase we know that is what it is built to simulate....however...you couldn again change the story around to create any type of "car chase" aventure ride. You just have to put a little imagination into the re-themed storyline. A typical car chase with three mini coopers, a helicopter, and a dive into an aquaduct? Yeah, you'd better get REALLY creative with the name change. Sorry, but that would be like changing JP River Adventure's name to Carnosaur R.A.; it just wouldn't quite work. And about TRTR: the story change would be no problem, it doesn't follow the movie anyways. But, you would have to tear out the entire cave part of the queue. Everything in it says "Hey look, I'm from Tomb Raider."

I think people have overactive imaginations.