100% TSMM is better. Agreed but Buzz is still fun. They could do an improvement though. It’s really hard to tell whose laser is whose and that makes it hard to adjust your aim. There has to be a way to fix that somehow.
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Well I’m still waiting on a Star Trek style transporter so I can eat dinner in Paris and be home right after thanks. 
Beam me up.
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Now there’s an IP I’d like to see in TL
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The main point of getting rid of Autopia is that it takes up a lot of valuable real estate. If you compare the amount of people who can ride in an hour per square foot of space, it’s not getting a bang for it’s buck. Of course you’ve also got the monorail supports in there too.
I completely agree it’s soooo much better than MK’s TLS! But I would also love to see them revamp with electric cars. The exhaust smells are sickening besides not being environmentally friendly.
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Or, something like this:
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One of the best attractions at MK. The replacement was terrible.
Likely unhealthy too.
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Agreed. I just showed some of my family a video of the original experience, and even I was blown-away (again) with how immersive they managed to make that thing!
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I’ve heard this before but I only rode the original.
Other than swapping in Stitch (and I presume some supporting characters into the pre-show) how did the replacement version alter the original?
Did you experience the Star Trek attractions in Las Vegas before they closed? Those were fun. I will never forgot when the Klingon waitress approached me and said “HUMAN”.
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Substantially tamed down the darkness and the effects, but those were what made the original great.
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It is Wedway Radio podcast dated 11/22/2020 - Reimagining Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. The guy with the plans is Wesley James who is an architect. This conversation has inspired me to look up his blog.
I don’t necessarily fully agree with his concepts, but they are very interesting! If you’re a wannabe Imagineer like me, it’s worth a look.
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I don’t like it either. Skipped it my last two trips even though each visit was 2.5 days at MK.
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No I didn’t. Didn’t even know they had closed.
Of course, it’s been a looong time since I went to Vegas.
Buzz is fun-ish. But once TSM came to HS, the backwards technology of Buzz is showing far too strongly to fit neatly into TL now. It is like going back and playing Pong in an age of Mario Kart, etc. And with TSL, the placement of Buzz in TL really should be nixed.
I’m not sure I like the concept of a Wall-E-inspired ride in its stead. I’d like to see something more innovative.
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DW and I were there for a wedding 6 years ago, and I told her I don’t ever want to go back. First, the smoke in the hotels was miserable (even though our room was non-smoking, it reeked of smoke). Second, no more Star Trek.
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I’m sure it isn’t. Now ,that I’m a parent I can probably guess he didn’t want to pay / travel all the way across the country and this was his excuse. He still says it though! 
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Yeah. There’s a few casinos that are much closer to home so they gotta come up with something much more appealing than that to drag my butt 3,600 km.
Good point. The logical solution might be to use other colors of laser pointers in the blasters than just red. More colors have become more readily available in the last 20 or so years, so in theory, you could use red, yellow, green, violet in every set of two consecutive vehicles and that would help differentiate who is who. But, understandably, WDW has kept the cheapest option as red is the lowest powered color using the most common laser diode technology at 650 nm. Lasers of other colors in the visible spectrum operate on slightly different concepts like diode-pumped-solid-state and have other factors to account for. I’m not surprised they don’t want to put money into making Buzz just slightly better. It would still feel very basic compared to TSM.
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The guy I linked to above calls for moving Buzz at DLR to DCA near TSMM and using that technology to revamp it. I don’t know. It would be two very similar rides very close together. But TSMM has huge lines at DCA so adding another similar ride could reduce the pressure.
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