As much as I loved HISTA (the virtual dog snot was my very favorite special effect of the whole trip) when I visited last year, I HATED the pre-show. It made me want to NOT buy Kodak products. I went on my last morning of a 5-day trip. I was tired, and nursing a blister on one big toe. Standing would have been bad enough, but that sloped floor started bothering my knees (which were not at their most cooperative by this point)fairly quickly. Despite the announcements telling me not to, I walked right over against the far wall and sat my butt down on the floor until they opened the doors. It hurt a lot less that way. I'd had a fastpass for this show, and if I'd known about this pre-show (and that the return time range was for the time the pre-show would run) I would have come back near the end of the return time, instead of at the begining. I know now, and so will do that.
As for the pre-show film itself, I can understand why some (maybe even most) people would like it, but I am of a not-very-sentimental-at-all turn of mind, and it looked to me like a whole lot of gooey mush.
Elizabeth