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I heard Energon wasn't really selling that well at Hollywood anyways.
I don't think the two drinks were the same. The Flaming Moe really just tasted like an orange soda. Energon tasted like an orange creamsickle.
It wasn't really all that marketable. Unless you are a die-hard Transformers fan, most guests don't really have any clue what Energon is since there is very little mention of it in the films. Plus it's location was pretty bad and the drink was fairly expensive.
It was USH's first attempt at a marketable drink, they'll eventually figure it out by the time Springfield comes around.
It was too similar for them to keep it around.
I heard Energon wasn't really selling that well at Hollywood anyways.
Here's a video of the ride being evacuated. It's from TheTimTracker and it shows some backstage areas and a stairwell. If you're viewing from a mobile device skip to the 5:44 mark.
http://youtu.be/bXT0t2lc188?t=5m44s
Wait, the ride was e-stopped (meaning the buss bar was deactivated, allowing ride ops to safely walk the track) yet they were still able to manually move the RV into its home position? Is this something that the Florida RVs can do that Hollywood's can not?
I mean, you can even see operators moving towards the vehicles with safety stairs while it's still in motion! Florida plays by different rules, man.
The Florida RV's are slightly different than Hollywood's. A friend of mine heads up maintenance and construction for certain rides at Uni Orlando, and the RV's are slightly different due to some parts that were a little older and no longer available, so in Orlando the vehicles have slightly different parts (Not completely different though) so this may have something to do with why ORL vehicles are manually movable and Hollywood's are not.
^Hollywood and Orlando are very different when it comes to Ride Ops. For example, you have to be a Lead at USH to operate a panel. At UO, all ride attendants are trained on all normal operation panels, except for Controls.
Is the fog effect at the top of the construction site working? It was down during my whole five day visit last week.
No fog in the ride today either.
When I went on last week the fog for both megatrons rocket and the rooftop thing were out. I was just assuming they ran out of fog juice. But if its been this long maybe something else happened. I remember on the passholder preview day there was so much fog on the rooftop part that it filled evac and we couldn't see anything for 3 to 5 seconds.
Initially there were issues with the machinery that makes the liquid nitrogen not so.... liquidy. Perhaps this has happened again.
This ride is aggressive. If they can tone it down a bit like Spiderman, would be a hit.