I can understand that, since that is how many West Coasters feel about Disneyland's Matterhorn Bobsleds. Matterhorn is bumpy and wild and beloved by millions, and next door in Tomorrowland, Space Mountain is sleek and smooth and modern and equally beloved.
WDI can still pull a bunch of surprises out as far as dome audio and effects go. Disneyland's Space Mountain reopened on Friday after a two week refurbishment to install and debut
Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy for HalloweenTime. It's an awesome holiday overlay with very spooky digital effects, entirely new on-board audio and a haunted plotline, plus an exterior dome show done with these amazing digital projectors and booming speakers. And it's wildly popular and is getting rave reviews online.
Here's a video from last night at Disneyland, showing some of the cool exterior "dome shows" they do for the Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy queue and Tomorrowland area. (Excuse the poor audio quality with the Tomorrowland Terrace dance club band and gabbing teenagers in the background, but you'll get the idea.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC9_lG_8ILY
If WDI can do that for Disneyland in a two week rehab, imagine what they've got cooked up for just the exterior of WDW's Space Mountain!
I'm sure there are plenty of new effects and dome audio coming to the WDW Space Mountain after the 8 month rehab there. There just has to be.