Does anyone else dislike Space Mountain? isnt it just overrated.

[disBEAST]

Honestly, the one at DL is way, way better. But I'll still ride it.

 

[BaltimoreLauren]

I prefer the one in DL honestly.

 

[larryz]

I dont get all the pain comments. I'm almost 30 and still ride it just fine. Painful? i can name some rides at Six Flags Great Adventure, for sure. But not space mountain!

Tick, tock. Your time is coming.

 

[theyoungs07]

Once over the age of 35 I found it more jerky than I could enjoy. Plus I remember that trip taking my son who was barely tall enough to ride it and found myself more terrified that he was going to fly out since he wasn't next to me...kinda distracted me.

 

[Mac30188]

It has always been my favorite, but I have not rode in a few years. All these jerky comments make me nervous on when age will catch up with me on this one.

 

[nilla]

I dont get all the pain comments. I'm almost 30 and still ride it just fine. Painful? i can name some rides at Six Flags Great Adventure, for sure. But not space mountain!

Size is a big factor. I'm 6', so I'm cramped in there pretty tightly. I laugh at the pain, though

 

[nilla]

When I first rode it, I wasn't that impressed. However, after 10 yearly trips, it's one of my favorites. It's a crazy ride, IMO, which is why I love it.

 

[metzgardesign]

Over-rated? Perhaps....but I still enjoy it when I go.

WDW (in my mind) currently succeeds based on it's nostalgia factor....specifically in the MK (and secondarily....EPCOT). In that.....no technologically cutting-edge attractions are going in there, really. (at least compared to other amusement attractions being offered). This observation does not extend as broadly to HS or AK (and subsequently, the rumored applications of new areas in those parks).

So....Space Mountain may be defined as over-rated....but to those who have gone for generations, that over-rating is generally surpassed by the relative familiarity of the attraction....for now.

 

[AFwifelife]

I'm 28 and find the ride jerky. It's always been painful for me! We ride it for the nostalgia and it is fun but goodness the rattling is ridiculous.

 

[5kidsmommy]

I'm 42 and a little bigger but I don't find it too tight or jerky. I love it! But yes the one at DL is better.

 

[EricInPA]

Take a trip to Cedar Point and ride "Blue Streak"... then we can talk about painful roller coasters!

However, Disneyland's version is exceptional (especially Hyperspace Mountain!).

 

[Bobb_o]

I'm 26 and love but understand why a lot of people don't like it.

 

[jsmla]

I dont get all the pain comments. I'm almost 30 and still ride it just fine. Painful? i can name some rides at Six Flags Great Adventure, for sure. But not space mountain!

This made me smile, give it another quarter century.

Why I Will Never Ride Space Mountain Again

I'm an almost 56 year old woman who just LOVES thrill rides and never experiences motion sickness. I was once on a cruise that hit some very rough water. My roommate was beyond ill and to give her a little privacy I spent most of the day wandering the ship. As far as I could tell I was the only passenger still upright. I was definitely the only one at the buffet (the only restaurant open) for all three meals. The crew looked at me like I had a third eye or something.

I adore things like the Hulk and Rip Ride Rockit. On my solo trips at least one day would find me racing from Disney coaster to Disney coaster with a little Tower of Terror thrown in for extra thrills. This went on for decades, literally decades.

Bring on September 2014. It had been a magical but very long and very hot solo day in the World. I had walked approximately 127 miles and was now in the Magic Kingdom for evening Extra Magic Hours.

Ooh, look, the wait for Space Mountain is only 15 minutes, yippee!

I assume I enjoyed it. (My memory is a little sketchy. Trauma will do that to a person, you know.) I enjoyed it until the end when it was time to disembark. When it was time to disembark I fully intended to jump up and exit just as I'd done dozens, if not hundreds, of times before. Instead I had the following conversation with my thighs.

Me: Allright, thighs, let's go! Time's a'wasting and we're gonna ride Splash!

Thighs: Sorry, lady, ain't happening.

Me: No, seriously, get going thighs. We're holding up the ride.

Thighs: Not our problem. You should have thought of this before you asked us to walk 127 miles in the Florida heat after six straight months of sitting on the sofa in the A/C. We're staying right here.

It took two Cast Members to haul my ample rear out of that car and it took a while. Someone suggested calling in first aid. People in the rockets arriving after me all got to have a nice look. I've had a lot of embarrassing moments at WDW but this one takes the prize.

No, I don't think I'll be riding Space Mountain again.

 

[dledger]

The WDW version of space mountain is something I can only ride once a day. It makes me motion sick and my poor fiancé is crammed into the car. Between every trip I secretly hope to hear that they will update it to be more like the DL version which I could have went on over and over during my trip.

 

[Pemeberly]

When I was younger, I loved Space Mountain.

Now, at the old age of 24 (heh), I found on the last trip that it made my neck hurt way too much. My boyfriend had the same experience, and we're not particularly tall.

We still ride it, but it's more of a once or twice a trip instead of over and over like it used to be.

 

[krm222]

I'm not crazy about the light level in Space Mountain. Many many years ago, there were stars and other bodies that were lit up. And part of the fun was zipping right up next to them and thinking you were going to hit them. Now the ride is just bright enough that I can see a lot of the tracks, and think they are going to decapitate me, But I can't actually make out anything that's in there. They need to either selectively light things up to look at or shut down the lights completely.

My son on the other hand is four and it was his favorite ride. He rode it five times.

 

[Didoll]

I have a love/hate for it. I always loved it, but my anxiety seems to be getting worse as I've gotten older, so thrill rides that I loved make me quite apprehensive now. So, I go into it feeling like I am dying, just to come out quite fine (miraculously! lol) and happy to have ridden.

I can already see that my days ridding that attraction are counted though. Especially because I didn't care much for the latest refurb. Its too dark now, you can hardly see any stars and stuff, and alot more rough.

 

[AllieBoo]

I used to like it, but the older I get the less I like it. Way too jerky! Also, I once saw it with the lights on and ever since, I've been paranoid I'm going to hit my head on one of the tracks. I know I won't, but they just looked so close together!

 

[DOOM1001]

Take a trip to Cedar Point and ride "Blue Streak"... then we can talk about painful roller coasters!

However, Disneyland's version is exceptional (especially Hyperspace Mountain!).

Blue Streak is a good ride,Mean Streak also at Cedar Point is the rough one,at least the last time I visited CP,these wood coasters do change over time so its possible Blue Streak has gotten rougher.The three roughest coasters I've been on have been Kong at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in California,Manhattan Express or whatever they call it now in Vegas,the third is Gwazi in Busch Gardens Tampa before they changed to the Millennium Flyer trains which were supposed to improve the ride and they did but not for long as the ride got rough again and was closed.All these rides would measure a 9.5-10 on the rough scale,Space Mountain in my opinion would be no worse than a 2.5-3 compared to these.

 

[EricInPA]

Blue Streak is a good ride,Mean Streak also at Cedar Point is the rough one,at least the last time I visited CP,these wood coasters do change over time so its possible Blue Streak has gotten rougher.

Blue Streak, Mean Streak, and Gemini are all really rough now (as of summer '15). I was wondering why there were no lines at any of them (on a Saturday). It's a shame because those aren't that old. Thunderbolt/Racer/Jack Rabbit here at Kennywood are all over 90 and ride as good as ever.