bhg469
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They actually did something? I don't recall the sticks ever having any real effect.
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Mission:Space update (confirmed)
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Horizons78
Grade "A" Funny...
They had active resistance at points during the show (predominantly landing sequence) that made it feel like you really were battling control surfaces. They were never tied to any interaction relevant to what happened on screen though.
Cosmic Commando
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Good news: Horizons is coming back.
Bad news: They won't break ground until after Avatar 2 is released.
AndrewsJ
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Well I have been going since 1971. I was there the day MS opened. Just because a title on WDWMagic says "well known member" actually means most of these folks have no life and post all day long in their daydreams.
bhg469
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That really didn't answer my question.. I am of that member status but if you look at my posts I go weeks or months with little contact. I'm not sure what you're implying with your response.
DDLand
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That lens flare is great!
It's pictures like these that demonstrate how much I just don't get it. What a mind blowing experience it must have been to walk around EPCOT Center in the mid 80s. As a younger person, Epcot is all I've known. Everything was so clean and focused. So monumental and distinctive.
I try to understand what it must be like to see the state of things today. It would be like Tokyo Disney Sea's Mediterranean Harbor repainted in hideous nonsensical shades, American Waterfront demolished for something inferior, Mysterious Island's rides ripped out and replaced with generic and unsightly new attractions that shamelessly expose their track, Indiana Jones switched out with a new version a fraction of length and an inferior story, etc.
The extent of the decline is almost unfathomable.
Trying to understand that we used to have 1980s equivalent rides to Battle for the Sunken Treasure and Mystic Manor in Florida. Experiences that would leave you speechless. Rides that not only were great on their own, but fit into a larger picture.
All of that history is still there. It's mostly aged, but also has been updated with no coherent strategy.
I just don't get it. I don't honestly think I can...
Kamikaze
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I don't know what he meant either, but I too rode the attraction before public open, and the sticks never actually did anything. They had a 'rumble' effect that still exists to an extent, but has not been maintained. They did not influence the actual attraction.
There's plenty of strategy, but it has shifted from being an entertainment company to being a stockholder (and executive) ATM.
V_L_Raptor
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OK, so multiple missions, but all playing on the same round. Everyone boards the 'fuge this time... we're going to a comet. Centrifuge clears out, next passengers board... we're going to Mars. Next round, we do a really sci-fi-laden trip to Trappist-1. Why not? (Granted, "why not" may simply be that Imagineering didn't want to try such a thing...)
How about "Orange team, you're going here. Green, you're going to here..."?
V_L_Raptor
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Sure. I was more speaking to the discussion on what the centrifuges (and capsules? I've never seen how the whole system runs) could be synchronized with or not, as far as varying the missions goes. Either orange or green could go pretty much anyplace each time they fill the "assignment" room, right?
Horizons78
Grade "A" Funny...
New CM Explanation Scripting for MS:
"Orange Team, heads up. You'll be venturing to Mars - a cosmic wasteland that may have supported life at one time. The surface is desolate, inhospitable, and death lurks around every corner."
"Green Team, you're headed to Detroit. So, pretty much the same thing."
BoarderPhreak
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Got that right... It used to be amazing - now it's just garish.
It still has a "good side" even if it is mostly obscured these days.
*Q*
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Those banners are at least better than the old ones. EPCOT: constantly taking five steps back and one step forward.Got that right... It used to be amazing - now it's just garish.
It still has a "good side" even if it is mostly obscured these days.
Goofyernmost
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I've never been on it when they didn't work just fine.
Goofyernmost
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Yea, let's suggest that they close something down instead of adding to the parks. Let's decide that just because you don't like something, no one does.
Don't blame your dead hands on Disney.
disney4life2008
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Exactly. Its a horrible attraction, period!
bhg469
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Oh no! I wouldn't dream of blaming dead hands on Disney for anything. Strobe lights can fix just about everything. Heck the electric umbrella burger didn't taste like a triple frozen patty once I had 1000 lumens of led goodness flashed in my eyes.
rushtest4echo
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Mission: Space is no doubt flawed and largely underwhelming (except when it overwhelms for a few seconds with the bricks on your chest feeling). But the last thing EPCOT needs to do is shutter another pavilion and hope that a replacement will be an improvement. Horizons isn't coming back, and right now it's a passable attraction with good capacity and decent queue times. Besides, a new mission (if that's what's on tap) is going to be imminently better than Guardians of the Mission Breakout Space, right?
Personally, I'd place Mission: Space extremely low on my list of EPCOT/Future World priorities. Let it sit there and do what it does. I'll pop in every 6 months and ride one side or the other depending on how long the queues are and how I'm feeling. Wonders of Life, Energy, the Land, Imagination and plenty of stuff in World Showcase could use an overhaul/replacement above what Mission: Space needs. In fact, I'd like to see them finish Spaceship Earth's finale and address the Seas before touching Mission: Space in any major way. A few month rehab to make adjustments and updates is fine, but that's about all I think would be reasonable compared to the rest of EPCOT's needs.
Personally, I'd place Mission: Space extremely low on my list of EPCOT/Future World priorities. Let it sit there and do what it does. I'll pop in every 6 months and ride one side or the other depending on how long the queues are and how I'm feeling. Wonders of Life, Energy, the Land, Imagination and plenty of stuff in World Showcase could use an overhaul/replacement above what Mission: Space needs. In fact, I'd like to see them finish Spaceship Earth's finale and address the Seas before touching Mission: Space in any major way. A few month rehab to make adjustments and updates is fine, but that's about all I think would be reasonable compared to the rest of EPCOT's needs.
Otterhead
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Thank you for your opinion, which is not shared by most people, especially not by guests in general.