SPOILERS! Expedition:Everest

[Dr Albert Falls]

By clicking on a topic clearly marked "SPOILERS", you are voluntarily spoiling your first experience on the attraction.

In recent threads, people have complained that "Mission:Space" has not lived up to the hype. Since Disney has not begun a widespread ad campaign yet, the "hype" is generated by posters on message boards like this.

Reading posts before you ride an attraction WILL taint your experience, for better or worse. Your expectations will either be impossibly high, or you will immediately focus on the negative aspects that others have identified.

Obviously, some people crave every bit of Disney news they can, especially if they have no immediate plans to visit.

But remember-- by reading the reviews, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

As for Expedition:Everest--- not even the Imagineers know what the ride will look like and feel like when its finally built. So don't build your expectations on what you read.

(Sorry if this post is misleading-- I'm just curious how many people are anxious to read news about this little-known attraction)

 

[MouseMadness]

Uh, good one? Yes, people are curious about the ride... is there something wrong with that? And duh your heading was misleading. Personally, I am excited about M:S, but have taken all posts I've read about it with a grain of salt... it's like everything else... it will never be as bad or as good as people will tell you.

 

[General Grizz]

Nice point, Albert.

Originally posted by MouseMadness
Uh, good one? Yes, people are curious about the ride... is there something wrong with that? And duh your heading was misleading. Personally, I am excited about M:S, but have taken all posts I've read about it with a grain of salt... it's like everything else... it will never be as bad or as good as people will tell you.

Very true. It also helps me determine if certain members of the family can enjoy. Personally, upon reading JII w/Figment, Mission: SPACE the experiences were extremely different from what I could have gathered online.

Also, I was wondering - - "how could spoilers be out so soon? Something must be up..." :lol:

 

[MonorailBlack]

I really like this thread, but of course I thought it was something else!:hammer:

I think that spoilers can be damaging to certain types of people, as with Mission:Space. I am going to ride it in a week and half, but I ma sure I will love it. On the other hand, I think the spoilers are destructive to the ride b/c it is true, people generate unreasonably high expectations for the attraction.

I look for spoilers to reveal the basis of the ride, ride system, and technical aspects. I don't look for spoilers to tell me what I will think of the ride experience.

 

[DisneyWonders07]

Yeah I never really take what other people have to say about a ride seriously...I mean, different people have different opinions, right? Some might like an attraction, some may not. Just because one person says one thing doesn't mean you have to believe that person. Experience it yourself, and then from that form your own opinion. Here's a perfect example:

Friend: "Disney World is for babies!!!"

Me: "Umm...first of all it's WALT Disney World, if you are going to diss Disney at least do it right. Second, you've just never been there."

Gosh I love Disney...:sohappy:

 

[wdwmagic]

Originally posted by Dr Albert Falls

As for Expedition:Everest--- not even the Imagineers know what the ride will look like and feel like when its finally built. So don't build your expectations on what you read.

How did you work that one out? WDI know exactly how it is going to look. They will have done numerous physical and computer models, including ride throughs in VR simulators.

 

[WDWFREAK53]

I've just heard that the Yeti will be nothing more than the standing polar bear from Maelstrom (because it rocks)...wearing a headhunter mask from one of the "dolls" in IASW :lookaroun

(this is just a joke)

 

[WDWspider]

I feel cheated. :lol: :animwink:

I won't be to WDW again til 2007, so I will know about EE before I ride sooner or later. :lol:

 

[Timekeeper]

false/deceptive heading

If someone must resort to posting a post with an obviously false and deceptive post subject just so that people will read it, well, that says alot about that particular poster.

On the subject of spoilers, I posted a thread a while back about whether or not people were going to read the M:S reviews/spoilers before riding it, and most answered that, although they would like to ride the attraction without any preconceptions, they would read the reviews anyway.

There is wide-spread demand for reviews/spoilers. Just look at how much of today's media is created to feed that demand. Every newspaper has critics that reviews things like movies, in which they must describe 'some' basic plot information along with their 'star rating.' Television programs like Entertainment Tonight (ET) and Extra also feed this craving. How many times does the host say something like "...and a new bit of information on this soon-to-be-released film when we come back from commercial." People just want to know about things that interest them regardless of how it will effect their actual experience with it.

Speaking of first-times, and I hope this example is "appropriate," just look at the subject of intercourse. There is plenty of education, some mandatory (school systems), some voluntary (adult magazines), some overglamorous (hollywood films), yet young people who have not yet experienced it are more interested in it than anything else in their life. Yet most people walk away from their first experience with a much different experience than they had expected, particularly females (who "peak" much later than males.) And it's safe to say that "disappointment" is the key expression. What topic could better illustrate human nature? And it's that same human nature to want to gather information about something prior to experiencing it for oneself.

People more or less know what they're doing when they read something that could "spoil" some surprises. They just don't have the willpower to avoid doing so when presented with the opportunity.

Tk

 

[twistedmickey]

Whats the big deal with Spoilers? Whether you choose to ride it or not or whether you choose to read spoilers or not its up to the person!!! I will probably read spoilers on Everest but that will have no effect on me when I ride it. Same with Tower.... So much was written about the drops and how different they are but that doesnt take away from the actual experience of the ride. Just go and enjoy the parks. You dont have to ride Mission:Space for that matter you dont have to ride anything. You dont have to read spoilers as well. Its your choice. Go to disney and CHOOSE to have fun!:sohappy:

 

[Lee]

Just to clarify....WDI knows exactly what Everest will be like.
It's already been done. Concept models, paintings, etc.
They know the design of the trains (a prototype has already been made), and the layout of the track.
They know what the yeti will look like.
Heck, they even know what the weather inside the mountain will be like.

 

[BRER STITCH]

Just what the world needed.....yet ANOTHER post designed to waste people's time......

:brick: :fork: .......in THAT order! :lol:

 

[Dr Albert Falls]

Again-- sorry about the deceptive title. But I knew it would generate an interesting debate---which it has (I'm here to have fun, just like the rest of you. I wasn't trying to be sinister.)

As to my comment about "not even the Imagineers know what the ride will look and feel like"--- well, they DON'T.

Sure, they know what the models look like. They know what the computer simulation looks like. They've probably seen swatches of paint, rock, and landscaping. A vehicle may already be built.

But not until all those pieces are assembled on that patch of land will ANYONE know what the attraction will be.

I've talked to numerous ride designers who say NOTHING compares to finally seeing IN PERSON the creation that, until then, has only existed in their minds (or on canvas, clay, and computer screens).

If even the Imagineers cannot truly grasp the dynamics of an attraction before they've actually seen it--- then people who read "spoilers" cannot either.

Of course, I never meant to insult people who read online spoilers. Heck, I do it all the time!

But I feel bad for people who were disappointed that M:S "didn't live up to the hype."

Having been among the first to ride M:S and post a "spoiler" report about it--- I hate that I my genuine enthusiasm may have given someone else unreasonable expectations.

Then again, I roll my eyes at people who DO complain about M:S being "over-hyped". After all, THEY were the ones who chose to read the hype!

 

[WDWspider]

People will love or hate anything no matter how much or how little they know prior.

Granted, if something is generally loved, then the ones who dislike it tend to get stronger and stronger emotional hatred til it becomes defensive the more people rave, and vice versa. Regardless of how little or how much is released, people formulate views.

I understand your reasoning on how an attraction is never really done until it's done, but what happened here was this....

I find you are overall considered a respectible poster who usually refrains from posting unless it's to add some value or good information. A deceptive thread such as this one (regardless of good or bad intent) gave some credibility away. Don't fret though, the internet is live and learn for life and no two people percieve anything exactly the same way. Obviously you considered this an important issue and that has been made clear I believe. I guess all my rambling was to say... it's fine to have points to make and discuss such as this one, but you are almost getting the wrong target posters and audience by misleading everyone in the first place. I know you were going for the reality factor here, but I don't think it is the best way to have approached this situation.



Just trying to give some limited insight, of course, I may be totally off. :lol:

 

[colliera]

Thankful for spoliers

Be honest. Were you not thankful for the spolier on Beverly at Ice Station Cool?

If you didn't see that spolier before it was too late WOULD you have be thankful? :hurl: