cabihler
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i too have ridden it several times this week
and that is about the way i feel. i admit i am bigoted about SSE. PLEASE PLEASE bring back the original ride with Walter Cronkite. this was my 98th trip to WDW and except for our first trip in 1978 EPCOT is always the first stop and SSE is always the 1st ride.
i got here on friday the 7th and got on SSE the first time on monday. seems like between 10 and 11 in the morning they are opening it up because the 3 times i rode it were always during this time.
if you read the first message in this then you have read it all. well maybe. i kinda liked how they linked rome with the information highway because in a sense they did for their time and technology. but i was not aware that somehow during the fall of rome that the alexandria library was burned, thought that happened during julius cesar's time not later... and also i was not aware that those rascals the muslims saved a great many of the works from the burning library... suffice to say some liberties were taken with truth... maybe this is why they used Dench and not Cronkite. TRUTH does matter. anyway.
i was really excited first getting into the car and seeing the screen for the first time. wondered what great possibilties this would present us... perhaps someone thought about Horizons or something. they ride took off and i thought the sound system was better. essentially the ride is not changed much. some touches here and there but character/animatronic wise basically the same up to the living room scene. furniture is updated and no longer jimmy brown running the football BUT THEY DID USE WALTER for a brief instant and then the Apollo 11 landing. from there on it was nearly entirely different. the computer room reminded me of one from 1988 with its tape drives.
you know i love the scene at the top and whenever i get stuck up there i never mind because i love the view of the heavens and earth. then there is the ride back to earth. and two thoughts.
1st --- if you do not look at the screen there is not a thing to see other then fiber lights not dancing not in a patten no magic to them providing images of cities or communities of tomorrow just white fiber lights.
2nd --- after selecting 3 different options on the 3 rides i got essentially the same cartoon. now i know how Ralphie felt when he decode his little orphan annie message and it said DRINK YOUR OVALTINE.
there is 2 months to go as has been noted and hopefully the back half is still a work in process. i hope so otherwise they have totally destroyed my favorite ride in EPCOT and while the ball stands sadly if this is the way of things then SSE has gone the way of Horizons.
i leave tomorrow and will be back in just under 4 weeks and i will hopefully get on it and see improvements then.
and that is about the way i feel. i admit i am bigoted about SSE. PLEASE PLEASE bring back the original ride with Walter Cronkite. this was my 98th trip to WDW and except for our first trip in 1978 EPCOT is always the first stop and SSE is always the 1st ride. i got here on friday the 7th and got on SSE the first time on monday. seems like between 10 and 11 in the morning they are opening it up because the 3 times i rode it were always during this time.
if you read the first message in this then you have read it all. well maybe. i kinda liked how they linked rome with the information highway because in a sense they did for their time and technology. but i was not aware that somehow during the fall of rome that the alexandria library was burned, thought that happened during julius cesar's time not later... and also i was not aware that those rascals the muslims saved a great many of the works from the burning library... suffice to say some liberties were taken with truth... maybe this is why they used Dench and not Cronkite. TRUTH does matter. anyway.
i was really excited first getting into the car and seeing the screen for the first time. wondered what great possibilties this would present us... perhaps someone thought about Horizons or something. they ride took off and i thought the sound system was better. essentially the ride is not changed much. some touches here and there but character/animatronic wise basically the same up to the living room scene. furniture is updated and no longer jimmy brown running the football BUT THEY DID USE WALTER for a brief instant and then the Apollo 11 landing. from there on it was nearly entirely different. the computer room reminded me of one from 1988 with its tape drives.
you know i love the scene at the top and whenever i get stuck up there i never mind because i love the view of the heavens and earth. then there is the ride back to earth. and two thoughts.
1st --- if you do not look at the screen there is not a thing to see other then fiber lights not dancing not in a patten no magic to them providing images of cities or communities of tomorrow just white fiber lights.
2nd --- after selecting 3 different options on the 3 rides i got essentially the same cartoon. now i know how Ralphie felt when he decode his little orphan annie message and it said DRINK YOUR OVALTINE.
there is 2 months to go as has been noted and hopefully the back half is still a work in process. i hope so otherwise they have totally destroyed my favorite ride in EPCOT and while the ball stands sadly if this is the way of things then SSE has gone the way of Horizons.
i leave tomorrow and will be back in just under 4 weeks and i will hopefully get on it and see improvements then.
