Time to refurb Buzz Lightyear in MK?

[JerseyDad]

I've been going through my daily routine of watching as many on-ride Disney World and Disneyland videos, and just finished watching the Disneyland Buzz Lightyear ride. I've always enjoyed Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin in WDW, even though it's been very limited. After watching the Disneyland version, I have to wonder why the WDW one hasn't been revamped yet. For one major thing, the car-mounted guns give you too limited range of motion, they need to be on a pull-out cord so you can fire all over the place (like you can in the DL version), and for another, I like the little light-up squares around the targets in the DL one as well, so at least then you can know when and if you hit something. It may be just me, but I think the Buzz animatronic in the queue at DL looks and operates better than the WDW one, too. Anyone else feel they ought to update the WDW version?

....is this all about that time you only scored 000,036 on Buzz Lightyear in WDW?

 

[Texas84]

If Buzz leaves we riot.

 

[secondstartotheright]

Buzz is looking rough. I think it's pretty dated-looking at this point and the plywood cutout aliens look terrible. The DL version is way better IMO.

 

[JiminyandTink]

I felt the same way when I rode it in October, the ride seems filthy and could use a good paint job. The guns also seem very slow and unresponsive now, but they might just feel that way after riding TSMM. I do still love the projection/audio-animatronic Buzz and the spining omnimover though.

For completely unrelated, nostalgic reasons, I would also love it to go back to Delta Dreamflight, but I know that's never going to happen, so a simple clean-up/refresh of the ride would be great.

 

[Matt]

The joystick that controls the spin on a few of the cars on our last trip in Oct was hit or miss. Some were super touchy and would spin it with barely a touch whereas others had to be jammed left or right to spin