…It's kind of like the old notion of E-ticket rides is being slowly made official again.

Yeah, they went to the Epcot system, with the top tier corresponding to the Avatar attractions.

…In these situations, basically the only reasonable way to ride the ride is with Fastpass, but I've heard they went to a tiered Fastpass system for Animal Kingdom (I think you can get one for this ride or the Avatar boat ride, but not both on the same day).

…similarly, my daughter's favorite thing at Epcot is not any ride or show, but the Agent P game in World Showcase, which took up most of the time we were there. We actually had five park admissions and a half-day before we flew home, and she had us go back to Epcot just to play more Agent P. After two and a half…

The accessibility issues particularly sting given, you know, the premise of the movie, in which the hero is a paralyzed man, I think. The ride seems to talk up how you're being linked to an avatar, but actually being in a body other than your own is an experience they can't quite give you.

The fourth one is at Animal Kingdom—"Tricera-Top Spin."

The real 30 Rock tour in New York once had a silly thing where you could ride Conan's desk on greenscreen and buy a VHS tape of it. It's possible that that inspired "Race Through New York."

Forcing scared kids onto rides never, ever goes well. There's a reason parks actually tell you not to do it.

My daughter likes to play "Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom", this game at Disney World where you have to interact with screens hidden at various locations around the park, and that puts you on a punishing walking workout. There was one stage in Adventureland where it seemed like every single encounter sent us to a…

I enjoy both in different ways, but what changes it a bit for me is that I usually go to these parks with my family, and my wife and daughter are just not thrill-ride people (and to make it more difficult, certain types of animatronics really creep out my daughter as well, so there are a bunch of gentle Disney rides…

Everyone seems to like the queue for that ride much more than the ride itself.

"Shrinking the audience" and putting giant props everywhere seems to be a theme they come back to over and over in different ways. I wouldn't be surprised if they were itching to do something with Ant-Man.

I could see something like the Indiana Jones stunt show at Hollywood Studios working well with superheroes.

The thing I'm wondering now about Star Wars Land (on both coasts) is that it sounds as if it's going to have only two major rides, and neither of them is going to be very high-capacity. I suspect there are going to be insane multi-hour waits and onerous Fastpass restrictions for a good long while. I was wondering if…

…if they got rid of the Bilge-Rat Barges I'd be sad, though, because that is the wettest and therefore best rapids-raft ride I've ever encountered. Re-theming it would be fine.

I'm sure it wows the over-90 demographic. "Look, it's Prince Valiant and Bringing Up Father!"

The projected faces effect isn't new, really— it goes all the way back to the original effects for the Haunted Mansion, which do great things with it (the medium in the crystal ball and the singing busts). But those were more realistic faces intended to look spooky.

It was the other way around—the ride was built before the movie, and "Countdown to Extinction" was the original name. I think the movie "Dinosaur" was actually vaguely inspired by dinosaurs from the ride (though it had no other connection to it), and then the ride was renamed "Dinosaur" to make it a tenuous tie-in.

And when the rides and attractions based on classic Disney animation first opened at Disneyland, they were mostly rides based on current movies. (Or, in some cases, even advance hype for future movies—Sleeping Beauty Castle was built years before Sleeping Beauty came out.)

I've never been there, but wooden coaster enthusiasts consider Knoebels a holy place.