M:S speculation!

[Cliff]

Yup, this IS just speculation. Nobody knows how drastic the effect is going to be.

It's simple to fling folks around in these pods. However, WDI will need allot of testing to get it so that people don't hurl allot and the effect is still good.

Weak stomach people will spew on ANYTHING. I was in line a t Rockin' RC one time. A lady barfed on herself during the 3..2...1..launch countdown. It stopped the ride for 30 min for cleanup and resequencing.

I hope these pods have quick flush down seats and dash board. Theoretically,...it could be everywhere. If the person next to you yaks....it could fly UP, DOWN...or fly SIDEWAYS across the interior of the pod.

Maybe, just maybe....a cast member could open the pod door after the ride is over....only to find "it" EVERYWHERE inside and on everybody.

Na,.......I'm sure this won't happen. I think Disney will put enough warning signs in the que so that people with weak stomachs will surely get out of the line before they try to ride.

I don't think we have anything to worry about.

CT :lookaroun :lookaroun :lookaroun

 

[Scar Junior]

Well I didn't really pay attention in physics so most of this is flying over my head. All I know, is I'm getting Damn excited for this ride. Keep that info comin, guys!

 

[CoraJack]

I doubt this will be a repeat ride for a lot of people if it's going to do what all of you say it is. Did you ever see that movie "Stand by Me? The one kid tells a story about a "barffest" where one person throws up and then everyone around them starts to throw up too. I can see that happening.

If I was on the ride and someone threw up and it was all over me that would completely ruin my day and force an immediate return to the hotel room. Not to mention the medical worries that come with having someone else's bodily fluids all over you!

I know I won't ever ride it. I have ridden everything at all the parks but this will be too much for me. Being locked up in a small pod with 3 other people who might get sick or scream their heads off the whole time just does not appeal to me.

Christina

 

[wdwmagic]

Originally posted by CoraJack
I Being locked up in a small pod with 3 other people who might get sick or scream their heads off the whole time just does not appeal to me.

Christina

The pod isnt THAT small, and each seat is seperated from the one next to it. So you might be OK!

 

[Nut4Disney]

This excerpt about Mission Space is from an article on Laughing Place today.


Rebuilding Tomorrowland


For 50 years, Disney's Imagineers have put the tech magic in the Magic Kingdom. Now economic pressures are bringing the grand ambitions back down to earth, where it's a smaller world after all.

By Scott Kirsner

For a minute, it seems like Bob Zalk has been locked out of his own construction site. We're standing on the wrong side of a painted plywood wall at the Epcot theme park in Orlando, Florida, out of place in our plastic hard hats amid the mouse-eared tourists. Zalk, a 21-year veteran of Walt Disney Imagineering, the creative unit that oversees all new theme park and resort projects for Disney, is standing in front of a doorway in the plywood wall. He jiggles the a few more times, but it won't budge. Then, just before we give up, he puts a little shoulder into it. The door bursts open, and suddenly we're facing a building that looks like an airport terminal designed by Salvador Dalí. Luminescent orbs hover in front of the entrance, and the roofline swerves and curls sleekly. This is Planetary Plaza, the entryway to Mission: Space, a $150 million attraction scheduled to open next summer. Inside, the pieces are still coming together. Blueprints, work lights, and hydraulic lifts are scattered around; a crew is setting up the railing that winds through the queue area. A massive "gravity wheel" — it looks like a prop from 2001: A Space Odyssey — is affixed to one wall. It's the year 2036, Zalk explains, and we're standing in the International Space Training Center. "Mission: Space assumes that, by this point, space isn't just for scientists and astronauts," he says. "It's for kids, families — everybody."

For the $50 park admission price, Mission: Space intends to deliver the same sensation of space travel for which Dennis Tito shelled out $20 million. Visitors will board a four-person simulator. They'll be flat on their backs for liftoff and will feel the intense g-forces of a spacecraft straining to escape Earth's atmosphere. They'll enjoy a brief moment of what will seem like weightlessness, all while trying to push buttons and perform tasks to keep their craft on course for Mars. It's a classic Imagineering project — a big-budget ride, built around a new generation of simulator technology, coupled with an engaging, anything-is-possible story: You and your family have the right stuff for interplanetary travel.

"Space is as ambitious as anything we've ever done," says Don Goodman, president of Imagineering. "There are inherent risks, because you can't say with absolute certainty what it'll take, or how long it'll take, to solve the technical problems. It may look unnecessarily risky, but it's actually the safest thing you could do, because if you do it well, it becomes a topic of conversation: 'You have to go to Epcot and do this.'"

 

[Ijones88]

One can always take a Dramamine tablet that morning, the less drowsy formula, and shud be ok from motion sickness. I use them when we go deep sea fishing in the Keys and they're good for about 24 hrs. Maybe it wud work.......:dazzle:

 

[Scar Junior]

Originally posted by Nut4Disney
This excerpt about Mission Space is from an article on Laughing Place today.

Umm... :lookaroun: That article made me so excited that I think I need to go change my underwear... :lookaroun

 

[Disneynutcase]

Okay, I'm getting grossed out.

But to continue the vein of yuckiness, WDI has to get the dynamics of this ride right. Otherwise they are potentially killing one of the major side businesses and unique aspects of Epcot.

Namely, that it has great eats!

And for some reason, I picture Bubba and his pals grabbing a Fast Pass for M:S which gives him a return time for hours later. In the interim, Bubba and his pals his WS, chowing down at the San Angel Inn, Marakesh, or better yet, doing all you can eat at the Biergarten, Akershus (Norway buffet), or Garden Grille. Then they turn for their ride with full stomachs and...

I'm starting to think that the ride will give minor sensations of G's and weightlessness because anything even moderate could make this ride a complete FUBAR disaster. How often would they have to shut the ride down to do a clean-up? Or is every rider going to get its own self-contained barf helmet to prevent spewage from hitting all ride vehicle surfaces?

 

[jmarc63]

Originally posted by Disneynutcase
Okay, I'm getting grossed out.

But to continue the vein of yuckiness, WDI has to get the dynamics of this ride right. Otherwise they are potentially killing one of the major side businesses and unique aspects of Epcot.

Namely, that it has great eats!

And for some reason, I picture Bubba and his pals grabbing a Fast Pass for M:S which gives him a return time for hours later. In the interim, Bubba and his pals his WS, chowing down at the San Angel Inn, Marakesh, or better yet, doing all you can eat at the Biergarten, Akershus (Norway buffet), or Garden Grille. Then they turn for their ride with full stomachs and...

I'm starting to think that the ride will give minor sensations of G's and weightlessness because anything even moderate could make this ride a complete FUBAR disaster. How often would they have to shut the ride down to do a clean-up? Or is every rider going to get its own self-contained barf helmet to prevent spewage from hitting all ride vehicle surfaces?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

you make a good point Disneynutcase

 

[adr315]

Well Cyberspace Mountain has an "abort" button to push if u feel sick, and im guessing Mission Space will have one too.....

 

[Goofster]

No offense, but I think there's a whole lotta overreacting going on here. Disney's not really gonna build a ride that makes 1 in 4 people barf.

 

[WDWGarden]

Originally posted by Goofster
No offense, but I think there's a whole lotta overreacting going on here. Disney's not really gonna build a ride that makes 1 in 4 people barf.

Agreed! We should really give them a little credit...they've been doing this theme park think for a little while now...somebody MUST have thought of this by now.

 

[Testtrack321]

Disney has it down pat. This ride will kick butt. But I'll miss Horizions...

BTW, 600 posts.

 

[Cliff]

Well, the very nature of the ride will cause some folks to loose it.

Let's face it,... it's a "motion simulator ride". If WDI found a way to give folks "weightlessness" without making ANYBODY quiesy...well, they'd need to infrom NASA right away!

I'm not worried, I can handle ANY park ride ever created.

If you are the kind of person that gets dizzy on TOT or R&RC...you probably want to think twice before you hop on M:S.

You folks know who you are.

I hope that the "thrill" part of the ride is only half the attraction. I hope the story, plot, "spirit" and sense of wonderment are the other half.

CT : - )