Emmet's Flying Adventure - Masters of Flight — Local services in Carlsbad

Sometimes functional? Waited 75 minutes in a line that was supposed to be 50 minutes, on a week day, in February, in blustery, hideous weather (the park was almost empty). Only half the cars were running, and the VIP line took up 17 of the 30 seats on our run. Turns out the ride manager wasn't counting the VIP folks when filling out the line estimation time, which makes that metric useless.

We got into our seats and the ride broke down... Over an hour later, after much fiddling with "gondolas" and seatbelts, and several test runs, we finally got to ride this thing. (At this point we were determined, since we knew we would never be returning to this park. See my full Legoland review elsewhere.) Did they offer to let us ride twice? Nope. Did they offer their version of a fast pass for another ride? Nnnope. 1/3rd of the open hours of this park spent, on one mediocre ride.

The ride is cute, but ultimately not worth the wait. Sit on your couch at home, turn up the volume on your TV, and listen to five minutes of the Lego movie.

For my fellow motion sickness folks: I get very sick on Star Tours but am totally fine on Soaring. On Emmett I was okay until the middle, iffy for a minute, then had to close my eyes for the rest. The spinning spinning spinning at the end about ruined my day, but the seats stop moving then so I just closed my eyes...

Really fun overall, and certainly something of a poor man's Soarin', but it works well enough.

My only complaints are the audio isn't super crisp or easy to follow, and the projection itself doesn't appear to be 4K (at that size, it's noticeable). The lower frame rate also isn't doing something so fast paced any favors.

But it was totally fun, and it's great to watch your kinds wonder what on earth...

New ride, open in April 2021, is awesome and is like the virtual roller coasters in Universal Studios.

Highly recommended.

Be aware, since this ride is new and is a projection in the screen the waiting time usually is pretty long, and there are so many fast pass and vip people enter that the line sometimes doesn't move for around 20 minutes!!

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