EE Update Feature

[Tim G]

geez where the heck did the money go? Certainly not in the attraction. No doubt, into Eisners pockets!

M.E. was about the only person who didn't want M:S... He needed to be locked up in a mock-up of a M:S pod... to get the green light...

R&D and NASA research... those things simply don't come cheap...

 

[peter11435]

Just over $112,000.000.000 :wave:

Maybe Im wrong but don't you mean 112,000,000.

 

[Tim G]

Maybe Im wrong but don't you mean 112,000,000.

Oops!!! I made it billions... LOL... you're absolutely right...

Indeed... 112 Million

 

[peter11435]

Not to be a bother Corrus but do you have any idea what the final price tag was on EE.

 

[Lee]

Indeed... 112 Million

Funny...I heard a much larger number.

 

[Tim G]

Funny...I heard a much larger number.

I didn't... :animwink: :kiss: :lol:

 

[orlandorealtor]

Little update from today. No steam effect. And, unless it was really low or I just never noticed, there is a very loud and long Yeti roar at the exit tunnel before you go to the unloading platform.

 

[dxwwf3]

I've got a feeling that when I first get to ride in June, the steam will be a fading memory.

 

[orlandorealtor]

Interestingly, and maybe I missed this here in for the forums. But that really is steam. I had always thought it was some stage smoke effect. You can see the heat resonating off of the machinery behind the load platform where it is originated and you can definitely feel it when you are in line for the last few rows.

 

[wdwmagic]

M.E. was about the only person who didn't want M:S... He needed to be locked up in a mock-up of a M:S pod... to get the green light...

R&D and NASA research... those things simply don't come cheap...

And what a brave man ME was to have a go in that mockup. People who have ridden that thing have told me of the nightmares experienced in that rig LOL.

 

[Tim G]

And what a brave man ME was to have a go in that mockup. People who have ridden that thing have told me of the nightmares experienced in that rig LOL.

It got everyone pretty claustrophobic...

 

[wdwmagic]

It got everyone pretty claustrophobic...

People think the version at Epcot causes motion sickness, from accounts I've been told, the mockup version was on a whole different level. Must have been interesting for those involved.

 

[Lee]

People think the version at Epcot causes motion sickness, from accounts I've been told, the mockup version was on a whole different level. Must have been interesting for those involved.

Kinda like in Moonraker.

 

[Tim G]

Sorry... I won't go there... :zipit:

 

[Jose Eber]

the smoke effect is not pure steam

 

[mkt]

the smoke effect is not pure steam

Is it LN2, like in other WDW attractions?

 

[dxwwf3]

People think the version at Epcot causes motion sickness, from accounts I've been told, the mockup version was on a whole different level. Must have been interesting for those involved.

Well I wish they would have made a replica of the mockup version for one centrifuge of the actual attraction. Some of us would appreciate the intensity turned up to 11.

 

[orlandorealtor]

Is it LN2, like in other WDW attractions?

Does anyone know what that aged looking equipment is used for behind the trains then? It was radiating heat on a very cold day.

 

[EpcotServo]

It's real steam. If you feel it, it's pretty warm. They use some ways of cooling it down before it reaches guests, but it's real steam. That large machine behind load you mentioned is the main steam unit.

 

[EpcotServo]

Funny...I heard a much larger number.

You know...with all these people wanting more from EE, all I can do is quote a hero.
"Well if wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak."
-Jayne