Spaceship in Spaceship Earth

[montyz81]

I LOVE this attraction!

Me too. Not that this is hard to do, but I won’t go on any other ride before SSE when visiting Epcot. In fact I was once with a special events crew walking from International gateway to Oddesey. It was dark and there were about 100 of us. I broke away and ran down to SSE to take a ride. When I joined back up in Oddesey, I used the bathroom excuse.

 

[Bender123]

Me too. Not that this is hard to do, but I won’t go on any other ride before SSE when visiting Epcot. In fact I was once with a special events crew walking from International gateway to Oddesey. It was dark and there were about 100 of us. I broke away and ran down to SSE to take a ride. When I joined back up in Oddesey, I used the bathroom excuse.

I was planning a trip for 2020 and decided against it, just because SE is supposed to be under a major refurb. Nope...I wont do WDW without this ride. I know its not as good as it used to be, but even in ts lowered state, its still better than just about any dark ride in existence. I have only been to WDW once without a ride on SE and that was before Epcot even opened.

 

[marni1971]

I was planning a trip for 2020 and decided against it, just because SE is supposed to be under a major refurb..

Don’t bank on it.

 

[Bender123]

Don’t bank on it.

So is that cancelled or delayed now? Wasn't it just last summer it was all but certain that SE was going to get a major refurb that included a ride system upgrade, new effects and new ending?

I drink a lot of beer, so I may have drunkenly erased anything having to do with that over the past few months...

Edit: that wasn't even that long ago... https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/spaceship-earth-refurb-2-year-closure.950493/
Granted that it was never "official", but it sure seemed likely.

 

[marni1971]

So is that cancelled or delayed now? Wasn't it just last summer it was all but certain that SE was going to get a major refurb that included a ride system upgrade, new effects and new ending?

I drink a lot of beer, so I may have drunkenly erased anything having to do with that over the past few months...

Edit: that wasn't even that long ago... https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/spaceship-earth-refurb-2-year-closure.950493/
Granted that it was never "official", but it sure seemed likely.

All I can say is I wasn’t aware of one until much later than 2020.

 

[Bender123]

All I can say is I wasn’t aware of one until much later than 2020.

This is one of those rare situations where I am looking forward to the rumored updates...Oh well.

 

[Dragonman]

Dang, I was getting excited too :/

 

[HauntedPirate]

Wasn't the "SSE closing for 2 years in 2020!!!!" first "reported" by Clickbait?

 

[Dragonman]

I was wondering something. Has anyone ever tried to make transcripts of any of the original 1982 background audio? Even the space station scene had audio back then. In Marni’s video you can clearly hear the girl in the window communicating with the astronauts about payloads, etc

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

Don’t bank on it.

SSE coaster with banked curves #Confirmed!

 

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

SSE coaster with banked curves #Confirmed!

 

[Dragonman]

Thanks to Hoot Gibson, here’s what happened to the astronauts after their use in the Space Mountain post show...

 

[GlacierGlacier]

Thanks to Hoot Gibson, here’s what happened to the astronauts after their use in the Space Mountain post show...
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That doesn't provide much context.

 

[Dragonman]

He didn’t provide any context,

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

Every time I think that this thread is officially dead, someone bumps it again.

 

[GlacierGlacier]

He didn’t provide any context,

Yeah, Hoot's Twitter is sometimes a bit of an incoherent mess. It's worth it sometimes for cool photos, though.

 

[beanboon]

Those are miniatures from the Space Mountain queue. Not sure if they’re there anymore though.

 

[TOCPE82]

Wow, I remember reading this thread YEARS ago.... and just caught up on the last few years. Some fantastic information.

As for the projection chariot in the Rome scene, I was told the projector is still there, but it was covered up since the Siemens execs "didn't like it" or something to that effect. I don't remember where or who told me that, but the insinuated that the projector itself is still running and that they just blocked it from showing. Any thoughts?

 

[raymusiccity]

Wow, I remember reading this thread YEARS ago.... and just caught up on the last few years. Some fantastic information.

As for the projection chariot in the Rome scene, I was told the projector is still there, but it was covered up since the Siemens execs "didn't like it" or something to that effect. I don't remember where or who told me that, but the insinuated that the projector itself is still running and that they just blocked it from showing. Any thoughts?

Yes. I think it's something akin to 'If a tree falls in the forest, but, there's no one around to hear it'......

 

[JJJ]

Wow, I remember reading this thread YEARS ago.... and just caught up on the last few years. Some fantastic information.

As for the projection chariot in the Rome scene, I was told the projector is still there, but it was covered up since the Siemens execs "didn't like it" or something to that effect. I don't remember where or who told me that, but the insinuated that the projector itself is still running and that they just blocked it from showing. Any thoughts?

Well, the bulb has to be burned out by now, but either way this is something that would really surprise me, because it still costs a (probably insignificant) amount of money to run. Though I think it is believable that the projector (or at least infrastructure/stand for the projector) would still be there.