To me Poseidon's Fury is one of the best shows in any theme park. Actors, action, close up audience and just fun and detailed. To each his own I guess, but, it sure must be hard to make some people happy. We have become so weak that we can't stand up for a few minutes. We must have someplace to park our butts or it is just to awful for words. Our gluts are the most overused muscle group in our bodies.
I remember enjoying it back in IoA's early days, haven't been back in more than a decade though. I'm sure it hasn't aged well, but the effects were pretty impressive back then.
I guess it is impossible to make everyone happy. I think, as a show... not a ride it is one of the most detailed and interesting I have ever seen. I think the effects are good and plentiful, I especially like the, so called, Toilet bowl effect and seems to be quite well done. I have never had a bad "actor", but, considering they are under a time restraint and timing is everything, it is possibly the best they could do. How could they do it better without you getting drowned or burnt to death. Moving from room to room seems to me would fix that problem of "not moving" that was mentioned earlier. The multiple rooms that are called pre-show in all places, including M:S is really part of the show. Once you leave the group outside wait and each room has a timed amount so that groups can be split up and made ready to board to rides. What is it that people would want to do. Stand outside in the sun and then go right on the ride like a roller coaster at 6 flags, with no buildup, no background, no setting of the scene? How tediously drab that sounds.
To be fair the Original show worked, it was changed because the artist who created the characters for the show pulled the rights to his work. The original show had good writing, effects, and story. There is a lot to admire about PF because of what it is attempting to do has never been done before on that scale.
If the things that you mentioned are fixed, it would/should be amazing. The issues you mention that are unfixable are arguably no different than something like Space Mountain or any coaster. Disney has enough "for everyone" rides and I think Mission Space can be a true thrill ride that many people can love.
I'll defend it. Cheesy as it may be.
It doesn't need humour
It has its merits. So long as you don't know the history.
I agree...and will add, the problem is there is no second act... OK you got me to mars, why am I now going through a series of endless hallways to end up in a gift shop? where is the actual SPACE pavilion? Where is the Mars base we just traveled to?...
That part I do indeed agree with. Every other ride brings you back home to a safe place. That one leaves you on Mars. Just seems odd. I know I once left M:S and walked over to Imagination only to see them putting up the "closed for the night" ropes. I told them that I had to be able to get on, because due to a Disney error I just had to walk back from Mars. If they had found a way to get me home I would have been here on time. They seemed unmoved by my argument. Talk about your bad show.
If I remember correctly Body Wars did that same thing. So does Stitch, and maybe even to some degree Star Tours. With M:S they have to break you down into smaller groups of four and that requires a second location, they have to have some reason for you being there other there then a dead non-entertaining queue. So basically this is a complaint about an extended entertainment loop. How sad we can't stand there for the minute of so it takes to show the entrance
