You won't, starting next year at Legoland California. The park today announced Ninjago - The Ride for 2016, a new style of interactive ride where visitors will play using hand motions.
Think of this as Xbox Kinect meets a dark ride. Developed by Triotech — the same firm behind Knott's hit new interactive ride, Voyage to the Iron Reef — Ninjago enables rides to shoot animated fireballs, lightning, shockwaves and ice from their hands toward foes and other targets on 3D screens. The ride also will add 4D effects with heat, smoke and wind during the journey.
If you haven't heard of Ninjago, there's the background, from Legoland:
LEGO NINJAGO tells the story of four young ninja heroes – Kai, Jay, Cole and Zane – who train under the watchful eye of Master Wu to master an ancient martial art – Spinjitzu.... This year, brand new episodes of the popular series, "NINJAGO: Masters of Spinjitzu," aired on Cartoon Network and 22 new building sets loaded with features and functions were released.
The four riders in each car will represent the four main characters from the franchise and will ride through several dojos to master their ninja skills before heading into the main battle. Riders will score for their training and well as their success in the battle scene.
You can see a few moments from a mock-up demonstration of the rides gameplay in this video from today's press conference at the Carlsbad, Calif. resort. The ride footage starts at the 24-second mark.
Ninjago - The Ride also will debut at Legoland Billund in Denmark next year.
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Legoland is not a good for adults, but there enough good rides for your enjoyment.
But for grownups without kids, or those with older children? No, Legoland's not meant for you.
I wonder how well the new technology will hold up after weeks or months of nonstop use, ten hours per day.
I believe I read Cedar Faire wanted to bring this type of ride to many of their parks, so I'd say there's no reason for most TPI readers to make a special trip to San Diego/Carlsbad. Or you can just sit on a swivel chair while playing on your Xbox Kinect at home and use your imagination.
Not entirely. Xbox may have the whole Kinect thing going on, but Playstation and Nintendo still rely on buttons and control pads (or at least Nintendo, I haven't picked up a Playstation in a while). And then you have all your PC and mobile gamers. Plus, if I'm still up to speed, motion controls still have a few bugs that people are trying to fix.
Changing topics, while I haven't seen the video above yet, what I've read sounds cool. I use to watch Ninjago from time to time (it was a dark period when television was dominated by tasteless reality shows, if memory serves correct.) It's clearly geared towards kids but is by no means a bad show. Any chance the ride might be coming to Florida?
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