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Spaceship Earth coaster???
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WDWFREAK53
Well-Known Member
LOL!!! That is truly what it WILL become!!!
But seriously...Talk about WDW attractions lacking the quality of the original attractions...I KNOW what is a KEY component in GREAT ATTRACTIONS...
What do the following attractions have that none of the more recent WDW attractions have...
Haunted Mansion
It's a Small World
Pirates of the Caribbean
Journey Into Imagination (not the remake)
Splash Mountain
Tiki Room
Buzz Lightyear
Alien Encounter
Test Track
Journey Into YOUR Imagination
WDWspider
New Member
If you switched Splash Mountain with HoP, CoP, and CBJ you could say they were all original ideas not tied to merchandising a new movie. But since you didn't, I guess you have something else in mind. Maybe... original music and songs. But still... Splash Mountain doesn't fit into that either.
bearboysnc
Well-Known Member
Or cut open SE like that neat Orange Bee Ride at DCA (%100 kidding) That is the LAMEST ride ever.
WDWFREAK53
Well-Known Member
YOU GOT IT!!! THE MUSIC AND SONGS!!!
andresmatamoros
New Member
SPACESHIP EARTH FINALE CHANGE!!
The first time I went on SE, a couple of months after EPCOT open, I got so impress by the grand finale, when you got to the top, the car change position and then you saw the space in front of you and then to your right the earth far way and then Walter C. said “the journey will continue on this spaceship we call earth…” the music wet into a climax and then in front of you from nowhere appear a satellite floating in space and two astronauts working on it as you journey back to the base. It was amazing so on my next 3 or 4 trips to EPCOT I always took time to see at least 3 times SE in each trip, but them for a few years I could not go back to WDW until 3 years ago that I went and the first thing I do was to go to SE, but for my SADDEST surprise the ride has been change and now the finale was not the same and don’t even compare to it, it just don’t have the feeling of the first one, so for me SE is already ruined!!!!.
The first time I went on SE, a couple of months after EPCOT open, I got so impress by the grand finale, when you got to the top, the car change position and then you saw the space in front of you and then to your right the earth far way and then Walter C. said “the journey will continue on this spaceship we call earth…” the music wet into a climax and then in front of you from nowhere appear a satellite floating in space and two astronauts working on it as you journey back to the base. It was amazing so on my next 3 or 4 trips to EPCOT I always took time to see at least 3 times SE in each trip, but them for a few years I could not go back to WDW until 3 years ago that I went and the first thing I do was to go to SE, but for my SADDEST surprise the ride has been change and now the finale was not the same and don’t even compare to it, it just don’t have the feeling of the first one, so for me SE is already ruined!!!!.
WDWFREAK53
Well-Known Member
I agree that Splash Mountain does NOT have original songs...but it has a CATCHY song...a song that sticks with you way after you leave the attraction. Whenever you hear that song...you will think of that attraction. But not just the attraction...the smell of the attraction, the temperature in the attraction, the sights, the sounds, the feelings behind the attraction. THE SONG IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING!!! What would Journey Into Imagination have been without One Little Spark??? What would Splash Mountain be without the "Laughing Place" What would the HM be without those Grim Grinning Ghosts??? And can you imagine Pirates without being able to Yo Ho your way out of the attraction???
CaptainProton
New Member
Let us not lose sight of the purpose of Epcot, to discover the future and to examine the world we have today. A coaster in Spaceship Earth would just not be plausable! I Love Spaceship Earth through and through!! I still remember the time the car turns and the music swells at the top of the ride where you're left staring back at the Earth. Timeless...
CmdrTostada
Member
I think SE is the best ride in the park. If Eisner decides to change it he'll have a bounty on his head!!:drevil:
CAPTAIN HOOK
Well-Known Member
Hands off Spaceship Earth.
I think Test Track is a near to a coaster that you'll get in EPCOT - unless Mission : Space is a coaster type ride.
I think Test Track is a near to a coaster that you'll get in EPCOT - unless Mission : Space is a coaster type ride.
WDWFREAK53
Well-Known Member
PUT THE ASTRONAUT BACK IN!!!
I LOVE SE AND I AGREE WITH 99% of the people on this thread...IF YOU TOUCH SE, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE REFUSING TO GO BACK TO EPCOT...(Well, ok...Figgy is back...but come on...Even FIGGY couldn't IMPROVE SE)
I LOVE SE AND I AGREE WITH 99% of the people on this thread...IF YOU TOUCH SE, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE REFUSING TO GO BACK TO EPCOT...(Well, ok...Figgy is back...but come on...Even FIGGY couldn't IMPROVE SE)
... Spaceshop Earth Coaster - already reality!
HI there, HO there,
usually I was only lurking on this board but this thread really got me into coming out of my cave...
See you are not the first to think about a coaster in Spaceship Earth: Michael Eisner and Imagineering did visit repeatedly a theme park in Germany while creating the basic design and concepts for the Disneyland Paris (back than EuroDisney) - it's called "Europa Park" (=Europe Park) and carters a combination of guests from Germany, France and Switzerland. Basically the park is divided into several lands, each land depicting a european country (missing the central hub this looks a bit unorganized). The park is operated by Mack, which uses the park not only to make money (it is one of the top theme parks in Germany and Europe, even received numerous international awards) but also to showcase new rides Mack has created. So to some of you mack may sound familiar as they designed the water coaster that can be found in SeaWorld (which was a world premiere before they build another one for their own Europa Park). But sorry, I'm going off-topic - so back to Spaceship Earth...
While the Europa Park has a quiet neat concept it sounds a bit familar to us - Epcot just limited to Europe - it has a lot more rides than Epcot does. While they have great theming outdoors the indoor themeing of the rides sometimes lacks behind Disney more than a bit, especially as they do love to get a good idea from Disney ... so here you can find a water rider in the Dutch part of the park that is called "Pirates of Batavia" which by chance takes guests through a scene with a pirate ship battling a fort, through the twon while it is being looted, ... and this is not the only ride they copied, e.g. they have a ride called "Universe of Energy", in which you first watch a really awful movie and then board a doom-buggie style car which takes you through a jungle with countless dinosaurs munching away on trees, grass and fellow dinosaurs. You get the point.
So what has that to do with Spaceship Earth? OK, the have a French land there, and that land features as main attraction a huge silver geosphere which sits on top of a building. That building hoses "Universe of Energy" by the way. By chance the geosphere while smaller than the Spaceship Earth looks just the same - and inside the geosphere?? Well there is a coaster!! The lifthill is lcoated in teh center and is basically a spiral in a column, which you leave on the highest point before the track goes down with countless turns and twists (but no inversions). The whole thing is meant to be space themed and added some laser elements earlier this year.
So here you have it - your coaster inside Spaceship Earth ... or sort of.
Yours
Dirk
Here a link to the "Universe of Energy": http://www.epfans.com/frankreichude.php or http://www.ep-fans.de/Themenbereiche/attraktionen/dinofahrt.htm
And this is the link to the coaster inside the Spaceship Earth: http://www.epfans.com/frankreicheurosat.php or http://www.ep-fans.de/Themenbereiche/attraktionen/eurosat.htm
HI there, HO there,
usually I was only lurking on this board but this thread really got me into coming out of my cave...
See you are not the first to think about a coaster in Spaceship Earth: Michael Eisner and Imagineering did visit repeatedly a theme park in Germany while creating the basic design and concepts for the Disneyland Paris (back than EuroDisney) - it's called "Europa Park" (=Europe Park) and carters a combination of guests from Germany, France and Switzerland. Basically the park is divided into several lands, each land depicting a european country (missing the central hub this looks a bit unorganized). The park is operated by Mack, which uses the park not only to make money (it is one of the top theme parks in Germany and Europe, even received numerous international awards) but also to showcase new rides Mack has created. So to some of you mack may sound familiar as they designed the water coaster that can be found in SeaWorld (which was a world premiere before they build another one for their own Europa Park). But sorry, I'm going off-topic - so back to Spaceship Earth...
While the Europa Park has a quiet neat concept it sounds a bit familar to us - Epcot just limited to Europe - it has a lot more rides than Epcot does. While they have great theming outdoors the indoor themeing of the rides sometimes lacks behind Disney more than a bit, especially as they do love to get a good idea from Disney ... so here you can find a water rider in the Dutch part of the park that is called "Pirates of Batavia" which by chance takes guests through a scene with a pirate ship battling a fort, through the twon while it is being looted, ... and this is not the only ride they copied, e.g. they have a ride called "Universe of Energy", in which you first watch a really awful movie and then board a doom-buggie style car which takes you through a jungle with countless dinosaurs munching away on trees, grass and fellow dinosaurs. You get the point.
So what has that to do with Spaceship Earth? OK, the have a French land there, and that land features as main attraction a huge silver geosphere which sits on top of a building. That building hoses "Universe of Energy" by the way. By chance the geosphere while smaller than the Spaceship Earth looks just the same - and inside the geosphere?? Well there is a coaster!! The lifthill is lcoated in teh center and is basically a spiral in a column, which you leave on the highest point before the track goes down with countless turns and twists (but no inversions). The whole thing is meant to be space themed and added some laser elements earlier this year.
So here you have it - your coaster inside Spaceship Earth ... or sort of.
Yours
Dirk
Here a link to the "Universe of Energy": http://www.epfans.com/frankreichude.php or http://www.ep-fans.de/Themenbereiche/attraktionen/dinofahrt.htm
And this is the link to the coaster inside the Spaceship Earth: http://www.epfans.com/frankreicheurosat.php or http://www.ep-fans.de/Themenbereiche/attraktionen/eurosat.htm
WDW Imagineer
New Member
Disney sometimes has a tendance to screw up classics, JITI, and not to mention the hugh hand for example, but I dont think they would goes as far as to put roller caoster in Spaceship Earth. Epcot is about learning. Take even the thrill rides, Test Track even though it is a thrill ride it has a learning concept to it (Automotive testing). I dont think a learning experience could be put into a roller coaster, but Disney could always surprise up.
WDWFREAK53
Well-Known Member
Sure you could theme a rollercoaster to teach!!! Think about it...you'd learn a valuable lesson if you ate at the Electric Umbrella and then rode a REALLY BAD ROLLERCOASTER!
MKingdom25
New Member
Had to put in my two cents. Definitely don't mess with SE. I think its a great atmosphere and plus is a great relaxation in the middle of a hot summer day. They always could update various things in the ride throughout the year without tearing the whole thing apart. 