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The ride vehicle is one of the things that really made me sit up and get excited about this ride.  The cars are being manufactured by Oceaneering, a company that primarily builds ROV's for deep ocean work.  If you've got to cap an oil well two miles underwater they have the machinery and robots that can do the job.  They build machinery that reliably works in the most extreme environments on the planet so operating in an amusement park is going to be a breeze.



Another thing despite who is building them got me excited.  These cars are not just going to go along a track pointing forward.  The cars for Justice League: The Battle for Metropolis have "programmable multi degree of freedom vehicles" meaning you might be going down a straight track but your seat will turn, tilt, dip, spin and move any way the programmer wants them to in order to help immerse you into the ride.



This is going to be a completely immersive interactive experience like the Spiderman ride at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure but as Dave as put it "there has been a whole lot of innovation since then".  I have to say that I really like this idea of immersive Disney and Universal theming and I hope the Six Flags chain goes headfirst that way with all of their new additions.



The innovation does not stop with the cars for Justice League: The Battle for Metropolis.  The reason all of the air conditioning and heating equipment had to be moved from the ceiling to the roof because the ride will be full of very tall screens where a lot of the 3d action you will be interacting with and targets you will be shooting are.



Not all of Scooby-Doo is gone as Bond and Rohan found a couple of Ghostblasters.  They were sad that they could not walk away with them but chances are these will become a door prize for Daredevil daze 2015.
 


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