Spaceship Earth: Lights On and Guest Evac Photos

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Blizz

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I was one of the last to take the cast member tour of SSE back in my days of working for the mouse. I can't imagine people wanting to be evaced from that ride. The walk is not a fun one, especially if you are at the top. It is cool to see some parts with the lights on, but I must say it kills the attraction to see it with the lights on, some effects are totally ruined. I can say the same about when I took the Haunted Mantion tour.

Trust me... enjoy it with the house lights off. Its much better and you dont have to do all the stairs.

PS - It's a shame that in the Rome scene you didnt get a little beyond it and walk back... lets just say that scene is only powered by 1.5 horses. :)
 
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v_misses_epcot

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Blizz said:
I was one of the last to take the cast member tour of SSE back in my days of working for the mouse. I can't imagine people wanting to be evaced from that ride. The walk is not a fun one, especially if you are at the top. It is cool to see some parts with the lights on, but I must say it kills the attraction to see it with the lights on, some effects are totally ruined. I can say the same about when I took the Haunted Mantion tour.

Trust me... enjoy it with the house lights off. Its much better and you dont have to do all the stairs.

PS - It's a shame that in the Rome scene you didnt get a little beyond it and walk back... lets just say that scene is only powered by 1.5 horses. :)
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I was going to ask figment82 this question but I'll ask you too. lol Was Mike doing the tour with you? And you know, the SSE tour didn't kill it for me as much as the Haunted Mansion one. =/ I still love SSE as much as I did growning up but I guess since I never liked HM, it did kinda make it worse for me.

And your right x_x Those stairs = murder going down. Someone even dropped their cellphone but luckily it didn't go under the shafts.
 
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Blizz

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v_misses_epcot said:
I was going to ask figment82 this question but I'll ask you too. lol Was Mike doing the tour with you? And you know, the SSE tour didn't kill it for me as much as the Haunted Mansion one. =/ I still love SSE as much as I did growning up but I guess since I never liked HM, it did kinda make it worse for me.

And your right x_x Those stairs = murder going down. Someone even dropped their cellphone but luckily it didn't go under the shafts.
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I think his name was Mike. There is only one guy does it that I know of. The guy we had was the one who created the cast tour. He was researching it for years before they allowed him to do the tour. Hopefully he will be able to bring it back once all the refurbs are finished.

I never got to do "The Great Movie Stride," I kinda wish I had.
 
mousermerf

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Here's hoping that it will no longer have a visible plume of dust getting sucked into the ride up the first shaft when the lights are on. The miracle of air pressure.
 
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Blizz said:
I think his name was Mike. There is only one guy does it that I know of. The guy we had was the one who created the cast tour. He was researching it for years before they allowed him to do the tour. Hopefully he will be able to bring it back once all the refurbs are finished.

I never got to do "The Great Movie Stride," I kinda wish I had.
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Yeah!! Mike from GR! He did a pretty decent job durning his tour and that tour was one of the more popular ones for us. I was lucky because one day I just got out of work and decided to take a ride on SSE and the CM told me a tour was going to happen and I was like, I'm a cm, can I go check it out and she let me in. They had told me they were waiting for two more people because the tour was already filled. I was obviously sad but no biggie and asked him when the next one was going to happen. While he was letting me know, he got a call from one of the girls he was waiting for telling him she wasn't going to make it. Woot! I was in and as tired as I was from that day of work, I enjoyed it.
 
Figment82

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Unfortunately I don't remember our guide's name - we had two, actually, one who did all of the talking and another man who followed behind. Both were extremely knowledgeable and very nice. I had a great time - it was a lot of walking but getting the chance to "touch" the inside wall of SSE and walking up to the very top was an unforgettable experience.

I remember signing up for the tour about an hour after it was made available, and I think it filled within a day or so. We had a few tagalongs who didn't quite get the concept of a full tour, but no one really cared.
 
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Just real quick, before everyone gets all spastic, SSE has broken down regularly for years. It's certainly not the top offender at Epcot though, so worries that they're letting it fall apart before they refurb it.
 
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MinnieSummer

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This confirms what I already knew -- everyone on this board is a major Disney Geek. Who else would be jealous of someone that had to evac a ride at WDW? I know I am. But what would someone do if they were in a wheelchair and transferred to the ride?
 
brkgnews

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MinnieSummer said:
This confirms what I already knew -- everyone on this board is a major Disney Geek. Who else would be jealous of someone that had to evac a ride at WDW? I know I am. But what would someone do if they were in a wheelchair and transferred to the ride?
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On the way down, I met four Reedy Creek Emergency Services workers going up the stairs with a stretcher-chair device (the same kind they use to evac wheelchair-users from high-rise buildings when elevators cannot be used). So I presume that's how. :)

And by the way, Merf -- yep, it's breaks down a LOT. I just got lucky this time. I suppose it does say something about me that I was sitting there at the load zone when it stopped the first time, saying "OK, if you're gonna break down, at least let me get up in there first. :lookaroun
 
marni1971

marni1971

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twilight mitsuk said:
how do they evacuate from the very top and what are the evacuation roots?
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Roots? It isn`t The Tree of Life :D

SSE, like most Omnimovers had, has a stairway / walkway along one side of the track. If an evac gets the go ahead, the CMs working the attraction will walk up from both load and unload reassuring guests - and asking them to remain seated - until they meet eachother. They`ll then begin to send guests down the trackside stairs from the top downwards, and follow this with a sweep of the building.

For immiediate evac there are a series of stairs and corridors in the building away from the show scenes, but that`s not the kind of thing discussed generally.
 
marni1971

marni1971

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You mean scene # 19? Or what used to be scene 19 I should say ;)

This is Elevator #1, the primary service elevator of the building. It runs from the 115ft level down to ground level (hidden in the recently restored mirror shaft) though there isn`t a landing near scene 19. More scene 21 (base of the time tunnel into 180top) though the gradient of the track here negates any usefulness for maintainence. This elevator is a goods lift, not designed for evac. If needs be RDFD could use it to evac mobility impaired guests, but it isn`t the norm or accepted method.
 
brkgnews

brkgnews

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marni1971 said:
You mean scene # 19? Or what used to be scene 19 I should say ;)

This is Elevator #1, the primary service elevator of the building. It runs from the 115ft level down to ground level (hidden in the recently restored mirror shaft) though there isn`t a landing near scene 19. More scene 21 (base of the time tunnel into 180top) though the gradient of the track here negates any usefulness for maintainence. This elevator is a goods lift, not designed for evac. If needs be RDFD could use it to evac mobility impaired guests, but it isn`t the norm or accepted method.
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Holy Flurking Schnitt! Martin changed his avatar!!!
 

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