Mission:Space update (confirmed)

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rushtest4echo

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So what people want to do is essentially have one fewer preshow? I'm pretty sure they could just load directly from the first preshow if that's really one of the main issues with the ride experience. It may add a few seconds to the load cycle, but probably nothing more than 15 or so seconds max. They'd need to adjust a few story related things but it sounds like that's changing anyway.

As bad as Mission:Space is with the waiting and preshows, it pales compared to Simpsons/BTTF. I swear it takes 20+ minutes between the grouping, standing around, preshow, walking to your room, standing in the room waiting, another preshow, and then more waiting for the other group to unload, then waiting for all cars to be loaded and the ride to begin. Mind numbing! At least I know if I enter Mission: Space with a 5-10 minutes queue that I'll be off the ride in about 15 minutes. 20 Max. Simpsons can end up being double that even with a small wait.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Monorail_Red_77 said:
I've never had a problem with the ride. Per the pre-ride videos, I have always thought it was just a simulator and that you were training for a mission to Mars. Not that you were actually going to Mars. It is clearly stated in the pre-flight room and also when you are waiting to enter the crew capsule area. So I guess for me it is not so jarring that you just end the simulator.
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Of course it was a training scenario, but, when was the last one, think Star Tours and Body Wars, where you didn't make it safely back to your starting point. Even Mission to Mars and before that Mission to the Moon brought you back home. Sure it could have a different ending because it was a flight simulator, however, they could have done that with any of them. It isn't a problem, it just felt odd, but, has never discouraged me from riding it every time I am there. More of a comment instead of a criticism.
 
Bocabear

Bocabear

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Using my old Living Seas voice : Just Imagine....
If the simulatoer ended, you left the capsule and walked down a hallway lined with windows viewing the martian landscape... Imagine a glass walled moving sidewalk taking you to Mars Base Alpha.
Imagine entering an expansive pavilion filled with interactive exhibit on hydroponics, robotics and more....Queue up for a deep probe shuttle to the next nearest planet...add a QS location and a Gift shop and it would be a big wow... no one would remember the waiting in the hallway for the pre-flight briefing...Just the exciting journey to a spectacular Space port...
Just imagine....
 
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Ralphlaw

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A few photos of red landscapes, or better yet, TV screens that look like windows onto the arid Martian landscape, would be welcomed. Maybe even slap a Viking explorer in one. Good point that we don't feel like we've "arrived" anywhere. Not a fatal flaw in my opinion, but yet another way in which this attraction comes up a bit short.

Also, if this attraction was otherwise amazing, most people wouldn't mind the double stand-around. But because the reward, especially for repeat riders, is not that great, the double stand-around comes off as more annoying.

If I could change one thing about MS, it would be that same trip to Mars over and over. Changing it up ala Star Tours would do wonders. And changing the landscape on the screens thereafter would be a cool addition. You get off from Mars, and it's red sand. You get off on Titan, and it's Saturnian rings in the sky. Very cool, and I'm riding that bad boy more than once.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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Goofyernmost said:
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.
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You never travel to Mars. You're in a simulator training to go to Mars.
 
marni1971

marni1971

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Ralphlaw said:
Also, if this attraction was otherwise amazing, most people wouldn't mind the double stand-around. But because the reward, especially for repeat riders, is not that great, the double stand-around comes off as more annoying..
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Plenty of attractions have double "standing around". Test Track two for example. If not more.

Wait for Alcatraz.
 
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rushtest4echo

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Bocabear said:
Using my old Living Seas voice : Just Imagine....
If the simulatoer ended, you left the capsule and walked down a hallway lined with windows viewing the martian landscape... Imagine a glass walled moving sidewalk taking you to Mars Base Alpha.
Imagine entering an expansive pavilion filled with interactive exhibit on hydroponics, robotics and more....Queue up for a deep probe shuttle to the next nearest planet...add a QS location and a Gift shop and it would be a big wow... no one would remember the waiting in the hallway for the pre-flight briefing...Just the exciting journey to a spectacular Space port...
Just imagine....
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So, like the Seas it'll remain unexplored in real life but become hopelessly outdated within 10 years of opening as an attraction? ;)

I kid I kid! Well I wish I was kidding but I can see that happening based on your descriptions, sad as that is. :( I'd love to see what you're describing though! They could even acquire the rights to "The Martian" and go from there. Captain Mark Watney can take over for Gary Sinise! OHGODNOIJUSTPROPOSEDIPATEPCOTBURNTHEWITCH.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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lazyboy97o said:
You never travel to Mars. You're in a simulator training to go to Mars.
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I sure glad you told me that, because I thought that we actually went and I had to walk back. And yes, I know we were all in a simulator so by definition of simulator and story line, we never moved from where we were at any time. I think most people know that and might "get" my joke and my observation that when you are used to returning safely home on all the other simulated rides, it seemed odd.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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Goofyernmost said:
I sure glad you told me that, because I thought that we actually went and I had to walk back. And yes, I know we were all in a simulator so by definition of simulator and story line, we never moved from where we were at any time. I think most people know that and might "get" my joke and my observation that when you are used to returning safely home on all the other simulated rides, it seemed odd.
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Most other simulator rides are not supposed to be a simulator.
 
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Ralphlaw

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marni1971 said:
Plenty of attractions have double "standing around". Test Track two for example. If not more. .
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Respectfully, I disagree. There's the initial corralling area before the big doors open which enter into the design area. That's one.

After designing your car, you get funneled through the winding area past the engines to go into the loading bays. You're moving, albeit slowly. Then you indeed get assigned to a particular line where you touch your magic band and watch the cars zip by. Generally, that second area moves very quickly (less than a minute or two), and you're busy with your magic band and watching the cars go by. I do not consider that 2nd one a stand-around because it's very short, it's a little busy, and you have something interesting live to watch.

By comparison, at MS you stand around for quite a while twice as you watch videos that you may have seen dozens of times before. Get's old fast.

Admittedly, many attractions have areas that come to a kind of stand still. Soarin', for example, has the narrow blue hallway that may take quite a while to pass through. Yet these are not designed stand-arounds built into the attraction. The blue hallway is boring, but you're well aware that you will soon be entering the video area to see Patrick's sublime, "Nice work, pal" video.

Again, I can't think of a huge halfway successful attraction that has two stand-around areas. Yet even so, that's not my biggest MS complaint. My biggest complaint is that it's the exact same thing every single time, and it doesn't really hold up to multiple viewings like the best attractions do.
 

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