First up, the story behind the story. On Thursday, I stopped by for an unexpected trip to EPCOT. Long story short, I hadn't planned on being in Orlando that day but wound up there anyway, so I hadn't brought my usual big honkin' camera with me. And of course, that's the day that the house lights come up on Spaceship Earth and all I had was my camera phone. :brick:
No sooner had I plopped my ample hiney down inside my time machine on the load platform, the ride stops. The tech guys are in the little area between offload and onload working on one of the cars. They put the "don't sit here" gray thingys on the car and restart the ride. It goes five or ten feet (I'm not even into the ascent tunnel yet) and it stops again. After ten more minutes of fiddling with it, they restart it and my car makes it all the way to "all roads lead to Rome." And we stop again. After thirty minutes of listening to breakdown spiels every thirty seconds and asking leads to come to Load, not to mention a few false starts (interrupted by some guy bailing out of his vehicle and walking out on his own), we're finally informed that our time travels "have been terminated." Show lights come up, and CMs come by to open the time machine doors for an evac (or "in-show exit," if you prefer the euphemism).
So without further ado...
Lights up on "All roads lead to Rome"...
More to come...
No sooner had I plopped my ample hiney down inside my time machine on the load platform, the ride stops. The tech guys are in the little area between offload and onload working on one of the cars. They put the "don't sit here" gray thingys on the car and restart the ride. It goes five or ten feet (I'm not even into the ascent tunnel yet) and it stops again. After ten more minutes of fiddling with it, they restart it and my car makes it all the way to "all roads lead to Rome." And we stop again. After thirty minutes of listening to breakdown spiels every thirty seconds and asking leads to come to Load, not to mention a few false starts (interrupted by some guy bailing out of his vehicle and walking out on his own), we're finally informed that our time travels "have been terminated." Show lights come up, and CMs come by to open the time machine doors for an evac (or "in-show exit," if you prefer the euphemism).
So without further ado...
Lights up on "All roads lead to Rome"...
More to come...
My only gripe is 
