Legitimately this is a top 3 ride in the resort for me. Here's way: Rise of the Resistance is best on the first ride. Your first, spoiler-free experience on Rise will be the greatest theme park attraction you ever do, probably ever. But every subsequent ride, particularly after about 3 rides, just isn't as good. In fact, it's really mid. Past combining a lot of surprises, the actual ride itself is pretty bare! It has one central thing that you look at but the rest of each scene feels sterile. Runaway Railway has SO MUCH depth and detail to the queue and ride itself. There's a clear focal point in each scene and queue element, but you are always rewarded for looking at extra details 2 or 3 layers deeper. A new character doing a funny dance that you never noticed. A hidden mickey in a spot that only one or two seats of the ride can see! A number written on the wall that you think is random but after you do some research, has a lot of significance! Tony Baxter (Disney Imagineering Legend) said he always tried to design rides for the 20th ride through. That's why I think his rides - Star Tours, Thunder Mountain, Splash Mountain, Indiana Jones - though most of them are not the #1 headliner in their park today, still hold up as really fun rides for EVERYONE, no matter if it's their first or 20th ride. Rise of the Resistance (as is the trend in modern Disney ride design) is built for the first ride. Now that I've ridden it 10+ times, it has become a pretty fancy toy that I don't want to play with. Runaway Railway? It's built for your NEXT RIDE. Every time I ride, I finish with a stupid grin on my face and am just ready to do it again. Thanks for the source audio. I've been listening to your old version where you literally put a mic next to the speaker on repeat for weeks. My quality of life just improved by a few points with this release lol!
Hollywood Studios actually has more songs in their library overall compared to this one. They were obviously omitted to make room for the legacy music that plays later in the queue (Over the Ears exhibit).
4:39 - Hall of Science hands down has always been the song in the queue, really setting the vibes for not just the Von Drake shorts but also the attraction itself.
