Every single ride causes some number of people to become motion sick. The lack of a pattern is meaningless because it doesn’t exist strongly for other rides. Different people react differently. This ride does something that is specifically known to cause issues with a wide variety of people.
Running new water supply and sewer lines in a built building would be nowhere near conservative. It would be drastic. This is exactly what is meant by downplaying.
No matter where the coaster car was facing, I turned to look at the track(besides in reverse lol) to show myself the direction I was actually going. I get the hesitation, cause I'm hesitant on doing it again, even though I was pretty ok riding it.
I'm fairly certain none of the screens move.
That's what I'm wondering as well. Simpsons was the only ride I've ever experienced motion sickness on, of the 2 times riding it was when I was in front row vs back. Soon as I started to feel my eyes crossing and dizzy I looked down the remainder. Spinning rides, coasters, etc. I never experienced that before. I do get vertigo if I look down from the Eiffel Tower at Kings Island vs out to the horizon.
My thoughts nearly exactly.
This is basically my thought right now. There’s obviously going to be a number of folks who won’t or can’t ride. It clearly seems like it’ll be a greater number than Disney anticipated. But I think it’ll settle into a similar tier as a bunch of other Disney/Uni rides and not be viewed as a significant issue. My expectation is something closer to the tolerance level of Simpsons/FoP than M:S. But we will see.
Logic seems to dictate that it would be closer to M:S, which offers the closest point of comparison. It is the only previous ride (as far as I’m aware) to offer vomit bags to guests. More importantly, it also triggers sickness in a manner very similar to CR, by putting guests inner ears and eyes into opposition. It should also be noted that, even though we have a relatively small number of first-hand reactions on these boards, quite a few describe becoming ill or noting illness in others.
It’s hard separate personal aging, but I think the motion in those old vehicles has become less fluid and consistent. The Simpsons Ride is almost a parody of a Universal ride in the way it just grabs you and flings you about. It seems the vehicles just aren’t up to the task of keeping up with all of that movement these days. This though is the issue with all simulators. If you’re not diligent with maintenance of the ride mechanisms and synchronization of the ride movement profile you get issues because, as has been stated, moving one way and seeing movement in a different way is a recipe for greater motion sickness.
Peoplemover is generally regarded as owning that title
Haunted Manion followed by Small World and Pirates.
It would have been worse.
I have ridden this multiple times now, during pass holder previews and again this weekend. My wife and I both thought that it didn’t seem quite as dark as during the AP weekend previews. I actually thought “are they intentionally playing with light levels so that people are more aware of where the track is to give you more of a sense of the direction you are headed?” Would that help at all
In my biased opinion, any list of the best rides at EPCOT that doesn’t start and end with SSE is a bit questionable. After that, the bar is so low that the title is largely meaningless, but I actually don’t doubt that CR will be one of the best rides at EPCOT.
