Is Spaceship Earth rally that bad

[EPCOT Explorer]

Sigh. It`s much worse. It is unfinished. They ran out of money.

Imagine a finale taking the best off-car visuals of the `86 and `94 versions, with the added bonus of the incar LCD. Now you know why we get upset. It`s such a waste of a vast, promising space. Face it, the screens could have been put on podiums in Project Tomorrow and still gotten the same amount of laughs and results.

That's what they have in Disneyland. :zipit:

 

[dxwwf3]

I can live with the narration (although it is the weakest SSE narration), I like the new score, but yes ABSOLUTELY the ending is that bad. It is so unbearably boring that I usually just open up my phone and mess around with it.

 

[imagineer boy]

Face it, the screens could have been put on podiums in Project Tomorrow and still gotten the same amount of laughs and results.

Agreed! Why did it have to be on the ride? Such a waste of money if you ask me.

 

[David Roberts]

Jeremy Irons voice should not have been replaced...Besides that, no other problems

 

[George]

I like the end of SSE. I like at as much as any previous iteration of the ride. The descent was never that great. The new ending keeps me distracted and makes me smile/laugh every time. My wife likes it better. My kids like it better.

IMO, a FW ride ending that has been completely butchered is UoE. In fact, it's a FW attraction that has had it's beginning butchered as well. I should probably save that thought for another thread.

 

[Texas84]

We still love it. But please bring back the ghost chariot and the city. Is there enough room to move the People Mover's EPCOT model in there?

 

[misterID]

Is glitter city still there?

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Is glitter city still there?

Nope. Gone.

 

[George]

We still love it. But please bring back the ghost chariot and the city. Is there enough room to move the People Mover's EPCOT model in there?

I miss the ghost chariot too. I always forget it's not there.

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

Actually, I think it's funny how you go right from the Steve Jobs lookalike to a Matrix-y datastream. Is the ride trying to tell us that we're already enslaved by the machines, and it's all Steve Job's fault?

I really don't think that SSE has been "dumbed down". I think the narration is geared toward the current (and future) generations that don't remember what the world was like before the Internet, and this makes those of us who fell in love with EPCOT back in the '80s interpret it as less intelligent.

I hadn't ridden the current version until this October, so I went in with all the criticisms I've read on this and other message boards ringing in my head. I fully expected the descent to be a Journey-Into-Your-Imagination-With-Eric-Idle-style hack job. And . . . it wasn't. At least not in my opinion.

The first time I experienced the descent, I was too busy with the touchscreen to notice the stuff on the walls (or lack of it) until the very end, when the wall acquired sparkly lights right before you exit. When I was at WDW two weeks ago, I paid more careful attention to the descent tunnel. And it's not necessarily worse than previous versions, it's just different. Because people are focusing on their touchscreens, it makes sense that the descent tunnel is decorated with more of a minimalist sensibility. Once you descend though the starfield-grid effect, the tunnel begins to be dotted with those irregularly-shaped triangles, first on the ceiling only, and then eventually they spread to the walls. Halfway to three-quarters of the way down, the triangles are lit. It's all very minimalist, but again most people's attention is going to be focused on the touchscreens.

The real problem, I think, is that there's a contingent of us that thinks Disney took the cheap way when they turned the entire descent into a Jetsony cartoon that you watch on a little screen. Sure, it's generic enough to appear futuristic for years, maybe even decades to come, thus negating the need for a costly refurb every few years when reality overtakes the "future" as depicted in the ride's last few scenes, but when all is said and done it's an uncomplex Adobe Flash game.

Of course, it's entirely possible that all our grumbling about the descent is the equivalent of crochety old people complaining about kids these days and their crazy music, and how in our day we listened to Bing Crosby and liked it. I really don't know.

I think spaceship is the display for the creation of hell. We run on Cell phones and Computers. Communication is so accessible tearing people and the world apart. My grades in school were effected when I didn't have a computer. It is a requirement and I hate it. I wish spaceship earth was more about civilizations and how us people evolved. Epcot doesn't have that but they should.

 

[misterID]

Nope. Gone.

:fork:

I wonder if it would shame TDO if we started a collection amongst SSE fans to finish the descent? They'd probably just take our money then cancel it again due to "budget concerns."

 

[HMF]

Its funny that you say that. The first time I wet on the ride me and my family all were baffled how it ends with steve jobs than its the screens.

It's actually Steve Wozniak.

 

[SirGoofy]

It's actually no one in particular.:lol:

 

[HMF]

Sigh. It`s much worse. It is unfinished. They ran out of money.

Imagine a finale taking the best off-car visuals of the `86 and `94 versions, with the added bonus of the incar LCD. Now you know why we get upset. It`s such a waste of a vast, promising space. Face it, the screens could have been put on podiums in Project Tomorrow and still gotten the same amount of laughs and results.

I hate to ask this Martin but are you free to elaborate?

 

[ChrisFL]

It's actually no one in particular.:lol:

Correct

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

It's actually Steve Wozniak.

Dont expect me to know the difference in a topic like that :lol:.

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

Heres some neat footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ool6Z3EtwIQ
It looks like there is a big screen at the end. It looks like there are some classic looking tube lights all wrapped up but I cant tell.

 

[Future Guy]

Sigh. It`s much worse. It is unfinished. They ran out of money.

Imagine a finale taking the best off-car visuals of the `86 and `94 versions, with the added bonus of the incar LCD. Now you know why we get upset. It`s such a waste of a vast, promising space. Face it, the screens could have been put on podiums in Project Tomorrow and still gotten the same amount of laughs and results.

I was thinking that it could have gone into Innoventions. Why is it that the history of EPCOT is littered with all kinds of amazingly cool things we could have had but no one wanted to pay for?

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Heres some neat footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ool6Z3EtwIQ
It looks like there is a big screen at the end. It looks like there are some classic looking tube lights all wrapped up but I cant tell.

That's from about a year ago, and yeah, think those are the old deactivated ones. I think that's in one of the massive EPCOT threads that we had going at the time. :lol:

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

That's from about a year ago, and yeah, think those are the old deactivated ones. I think that's in one of the massive EPCOT threads that we had going at the time. :lol:

Definitely not... There totally different shapes Take a look. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPPI9YdtQG4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ool6Z3EtwIQ. I have a feeling they wanted to make it somewhat classic in a more modern form for the 25th but failed do to low funds. Hopefully they didn't just decide the screens on the time machines are enough and just call it a day.