WARNING - The following section of the attraction write up deals with the technical aspects of the ride system (don't worry, nothing too technical. I'm not gonna make you read schematics or anything haha). Therefore, this section will discuss aspects of how real life attractions achieve certain effects. If you wish to continue with the belief that Tower of Terror, Dinosaur, and Rhino Rally (from Busch Gardens Tampa) all work by magic alone, do not read further as technical aspects of these three rides will be discussed.


-Ride System-
One of the most impressive moments of Tower of Terror (one of the most impressive attractions ever built) is the Fifth Dimension scene. That is when your elevator, which you had assumed could only go up and down like the cast majority of elevators, moves forward! It's an exciting, memorable moment! The way this is achieved is pretty simple actually.

Your ride vehicle is not the elevator.

Your ride vehicle is essentially just a bigger version of those used in simple, classic dark rides such as Snow White's Scary Adventure and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. BUT your ride vehicle can lock in to another ride vehicle! So, your car rides the elevator!

This ingenious ride system was a partial inspiration for the ride system we have chosen to design for Legacy of Olympus.

In Legacy of Olympus, the primary ride vehicle is an EMV (Enhanced motion vehicle) very similar to Dinosaur! in Animal Kingdom or the Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland California.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since the set up for the ride is that you are modern day tourists going on a tour of some ancient Roman ruins, the ride vehicle are themed as jeeps and visually looks very similar to the vehicles from Indiana Jones.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For added capacity, the EMV will have a fourth row added at the expense of quite as wide a range of motion.

At a certain point in the ride, vehicles will try to cross a "bridge." The bridge is really a wide boat that the EMV can lock on to. The "bridge" will then "break" and slide into the river.

As mentioned, the "bridge" is a boat. The boat has to be wide to support the weight of the main ride vehicle. Thus, the waterway used for the aquatic section of the ride will have to be wide.

For a real world example of this, you can look into Rhino Rally, a former attraction from Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. The ride was a jeep safari ride very similar to the Safari in Animal Kingdom. The big novelty of Rhino Rally is that it had a water section where, similar to our ride, your jeep ride a broken bridge down a river. Legacy of Olympus will have a different enough context to avoid comparisons to Rhino Rally (assuming anyone other than me even remembers is). Also, our ride will have a small flume.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For reasons that should be obvious, steps will be taken to prevent water from splashing into the undercarriage of the vehicle. Small misters will therefore be added to the inside of the ride vehicle so guest can still be "splashed" going down the river without the machinery of the EMV itself getting wet.

At the end of the river portion of the ride through, the "bridge" simply lines up with the regular land based track and the EMV unlocks and continues normally.

Overall, this will be an exciting new ride system that is achieved by simply combining a few different fantastic theme park ride systems already existing. This ride system will be one of many aspects that will make Legacy of Olympus a one of a kind, thrilling, ground breaking E-Ticket experience. .