With a trackless ride system, visitors' ride vehicles can move around a themed space in seemingly unpredictable patterns. Designers can create multiple paths through which riders can experience an attraction, increasing the appeal of coming back to ride again and again. On Pooh's Hunny Hunt, different ride vehicles get to linger with different ride elements in several of the rooms of the ride, allowing for a more intimate experience than one can get on a never-stopping chain of slow-moving ride vehicles.
Last year, Disney went back to the trackless system in debuting Mystic Manor at Hong Kong Disneyland. The winner of the 2013 Theme Park Insider Award as the world's best new attraction, Mystic Manor was an instant hit, with on-ride videos winning raves from fans all over the world.
Today, in the Theme Park Insider Tournament, we're asking you to select one of these two wildly popular rides to advance to the next round of the tournament. Here are the on-ride videos:
Tokyo Disneyland's Pooh's Hunny Hunt:
Hong Kong Disneyland's Mystic Manor:
European theme park fans will get to experience a Disney trackless ride of their own this summer when Ratatouille: L'Aventure Totalement Toquee de Remi debuts at Walt Disney Studios Paris. As for American theme park fans? Well... flights leave daily to Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Paris?
You'll find links to Facebook and Twitter below so that you can get out the vote for your favorite.
1. I'm not a huge fan of Winnie the Pooh. The story has always just been meh to me. Also, rides that follow the story of a movie prior always seem rushed. They are usually missing something that makes it feel complete.
2. Mystic Manor is a new narrative created just for the ride. I like the idea of magic in an attraction as unexplainable things can happen without reason. The visual effects in Mystic Manor are also extremely impressive. I love the final room with the monkey statue and vortex.
I do think that Pooh's Honey Hunt uses the trackless system better. In mystic manor there may be variations in the track, but each car sees the same thing. And most of the ride the cars move in the same sequence like an omnimover or classic tracked dark ride. So if I was voting for better use of the trackless system, it would be Pooh's Honey Hunt. But since it is simply better dark ride, Mystic Manor had to win. Plus being a newer ride gives it slightly more appeal. If both rides were introduced at the same time, maybe my opinion would differ.
The monkey is definitely cute, but Pooh has a long history and is pretty darn adorable himself. What else would you expect from Disney?
I'd love to ride both rides, but voted for Mystic Manor.
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