Sum of All Thrills Closing?

[MagicHappens1971]

When I went last (before the blackouts) it was 45 minutes and I didn't wanna wait. I'm seriously regretting that now because my next trip isn't till October

 

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

Sum of All Fears closing? That's a shame. I rode it for the first time on my last trip (actually rode it twice) and I really enjoyed it.

Oh well.

Being replaced by....

Thrill of all Sums

Hosted by Scrooge McDuck, we hear the story behind the vast sums of money TWDC scoops up from unsuspecting tourists who think EPCOT is a full-day park.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Bah, Sum is one of the few real hidden gems of WDW. A complete blast. A D-ticket disguised as a mathematics corner.

I hope it can find it's way into EPCOT in some form or other again. EPCOT has a great tradition of 'design + ride your coaster' experiences.

 

[Marc Davis Fan]

Sum of all Thrills should be made into its own full-fledged, full-capacity attraction. It should have 20 arms and be placed in, say, the former WoL building.

 

[ford91exploder]

Sum of all Thrills should be made into its own full-fledged, full-capacity attraction. It should have 20 arms and be placed in, say, the former WoL building.

Yes it SHOULD I'd say though you are about 30 arms short, This is an AMAZING attraction, You could even do a Star Wars version piloting your choice of Tie Fighter, Imperial Shuttle , X or Y wing or the Falcon or for the faint of heart perhaps a Cessna 185 into MCO or a Robinson R-22 over the 'Glades

But Disney is too cheap and shortsighted to do something like this.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Yes it SHOULD I'd say though you are about 30 arms short, This is an AMAZING attraction, You could even do a Star Wars version piloting your choice of Tie Fighter, Imperial Shuttle , X or Y wing or the Falcon or for the faint of heart perhaps a Cessna 185 into MCO or a Robinson R-22 over the 'Glades

But Disney is too cheap and shortsighted to do something like this.

ford for head Imagineer!

 

[ford91exploder]

ford for head Imagineer!

Don't know about that, I'm just a simple (well perhaps not so simple) engineer and I can see these applications as blindingly obvious I've always been amazed that Disney has not seen them as well. With this ride system all these experiences are merely software no custom hardware required and a ride system like this would be easily clonable and scalable.

 

[Foltzy]

I knew something was up when they didn't give us the interactive cards for home last week. All we got was a card with a magnetic stripe

 

[danlb_2000]

Sum of all Thrills should be made into its own full-fledged, full-capacity attraction. It should have 20 arms and be placed in, say, the former WoL building.

Yeah, and they could call it Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey.

 

[*Q*]

Don't forget the extended version of the area loop. Sure Epcot never had it's own "Theme Song" but I always viewed the Innoventions loop as the unofficial theme song to Epcot since it still had that old Epcot charm to it.

EPCOT does have a theme song:

 

[parkhopper1213]

Hey folks,

I was looking at the website you go to after riding Sum of All Thrills that you use your card at http://games.mathmovesu.com/soat.html and noticed something interesting, look at the screen shot, it says the website can be used "until June 30, 2016" is this indirectly telling us something? Food for thought.View attachment 142581

so very sad this attraction is closing. It was one of our favorites.

 

[Johnguelff]

Wait wait wait... I get to WDW on the 14th of September. Is that its last day, or the 13th?? In all my years I never knew this was even there.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Wait wait wait... I get to WDW on the 14th of September. Is that its last day, or the 13th?? In all my years I never knew this was even there.

Exactly.

 

[The_Jobu]

SoaT is excellent, but it's also extremely low capacity.

That is certainly true. I had read about it before our vacation this summer so we headed straight for it at park open. My family wondered why I was in such a hurry to get onto a ride tucked away indoors with no line-up. By the time we got off the lineup was snaking back through the pavilion.

 

[mgpan]

This is so crazy. Eventually we won't even recognize Future World. So much is going to change...I feel.

I hope so, and i hope there will be a great new nighttime parade at MK, that ROL will begin eventually now that Jungle Book is ending, etc.etc. Just doesn't make me feel any better for my October trip since it's things closing and nothing new opening in that timeframe. I seem to be having to take a wait and see attitude for quite a few things with WDW lately, after i'd already postponed this visit for a couple years waiting on things that still haven't happened.

 

[brb1006]

EPCOT does have a theme song:

And that song pretty much sums up Epcot at it's prime.

 

[doctornick]

I enjoyed both attractions, but Sum of All Thrills is beyond excellent. In my very honest opinion, it's a better attraction than Mission Space. I was very pleasantly surprised when it first opened.

Yep. It's a hidden gem. Really sad to see it go -- I'd have preferred to see it expanded to have the capacity needed to be an attraction they actually publicized. It was ironically probably the best "recent" addition to Epcot that embraced the edutainment of classic Epcot while still trying to appeal to the masses and be "fun".

 

[Captain Barbossa]

Went on it for the first time back in late May-early June. Dissapointed. Such a long line too.

 

[WondersOfLife]

I did get to ride Sum of all Thrills for the last time in July... It will be truly missed! It was a legit awesome experience!

 

[DisneyJayL]

I didn't get to ride this.