Jedderbob posted on June 25th, 2020
I have always loved this rollercoaster. Far more so than the Paris version. My dad was a big time partier back in the day and up until they were discontinued he always drove Cadillac Eldorado's. Got pulled over on the Sunset Strip in the 80's in one actually, so the ride is the closest I come to relieving my dad's wild times in LA, hanging with bands and such. He never knew Aerosmith but I digress...Love the look of the trains! Love the look of everything. Wish that the ambient audio video wasn't unlisted because that seems cool but everything here is beautiful. I've talked with Project Sunset via YouTube and he seems like a nice dude and like all of you, a maniac for attention to detail. I might hit the word limit here just expressing my excitement. I noticed that you guys have the tunnel entrance rotation from the 90's as well. I've noticed here that the gravity building is modeled as after the repaint but that did get me curious about whether you had an opening day version planned as well?
Obviously Disney needed to adapt the ride for fastpasses and eliminate the extra que for that purpose but I do miss the original floor plan. All the extra guitars and rock artifacts that the old que passed by added to the Disney theming magic.
Thanks for this, I'm hugely excited to experience this ride again!
Thanks for the post - glad to see you're excited. We're excited too. We did discuss what to do about the fact that the ride has seen many changes both big and small over the years so what we decided to do is to make our recreation timeless. We're taking the best elements of different aspects of the ride - so the launch sign is the old yellow version, but the gravity building is the new blue version (because I modeled it, my favorite color is blue, and that's the color it was when I worked the ride).
We're also leaving the "Stage 15" sign on the gravity building which was removed during the repaint.
So it's sort of an idealized version of the attraction - showing the ride in its best possible form. I know it's slow going, but there's a lot going on behind the scenes so just stay tuned - there's more coming soon!




















