MIB tips for left and right hand lanes

[phamton]

I'll be there in single rider line. I hope I don't embarrass myself as I am sooooo out of practice.

 

[rangebob]

I was thinking about coming out this weekend also. I may need to be there for the 9 am opening also.

 

[Slacking]

I would love to make it over there, but don't think thats going to happen, you never know though.........

Ooooh, and I saw Bev the one time she has ridden MIB recently (weekend before Thanksgiving)

Oh, And I can max out on Buzz, but its ridiculous, because you only need like 3-4 different sensors to do it.

 

[MIB999999]

I was thinking about coming out this weekend also. I may need to be there for the 9 am opening also.

Thought you were in California this week?? I guess my memory by just turning 50 is not what it was in the past. Be great to see you there

 

[MsDisney]

Are you seriously this sad ? LMAO

Way to make an entrance on the boards!

And yeah, as he freely admits, he is...


But he's also OH SO GOOD!!!

Karen
Is so "sad" that she's "Hot For Teacher"! Woohoo!

 

[MIB999999]

No MsDiz cause if you shot at your own exhaust port you have not learned a thing grasshopper.

By the way exactly which exhaust port are we talking about???

Phantom: this post was made 12/31/2001. You said your students called your training "grasshoppa" school. Do you think they were refering to this old post??

it was good to meet you and your husband today and have you show me all the new things they have done to the pre-ride area. It was nice to meet someone that after so many times thru, like muself, can still just relax and enjoy the ride.

if you know when one of those that can max out two guns on one ride are going to be at MIB, i would like to go and see how that is done.

On a less upbeat note, MsDis has had to relocate to Massachusetts due to the death of her mother on 10/27 and then her grandmother on 12/10. Circumstances and opportunities have caused us to put our house up for sale. Once the house is sold and we have worked out other details, i hope to be reunited with my favorite "grasshopper".

 

[phamton]

Phantom: this post was made 12/31/2001. You said your students called your training "grasshoppa" school. Do you think they were refering to this old post??

I asked around and found they got it from old Japanese movies where the master is training the youth and calls them grasshoppas.

it was good to meet you and your husband today and have you show me all the new things they have done to the pre-ride area. It was nice to meet someone that after so many times thru, like muself, can still just relax and enjoy the ride.

It was lots of fun. I wish I had had more time to just hang out.

if you know when one of those that can max out two guns on one ride are going to be at MIB, i would like to go and see how that is done.

I'll let you know. My son is working fulltime right now and hasn't been on MIB in awhile.

On a less upbeat note, MsDis has had to relocate to Massachusetts due to the death of her mother on 10/27 and then her grandmother on 12/10. Circumstances and opportunities have caused us to put our house up for sale. Once the house is sold and we have worked out other details, i hope to be reunited with my favorite "grasshopper".

I am sorry to see you leave. Hopefully you will come and visit Orlando often.

 

[MIB999999]

Pretty much had MIB to myself till around 10:00am and even at 10:30 the line was only just starting up the stairs in the loading area. I hit a new high for myself of 999,999 on one gun and 552,775 on the second. I still hope to meet one of you that can max out two guns so i can watch you at work

 

[Laurabearz]

OMG... people can max out two guns???? I would be impressed! Heck I am impressed with anyone who can get 999,999 on one gun!! LOL

I learned so much from watching MIB and Phamtom. It was great meeting both of you... I only wish my DD's were game for more than one run through....

We are already planning our next US/IOA trip for October.... I sure hope the girls are into lapping the ride by next year...

 

[princess21niki]

My hubby and I are going 1/16 and 1/17. In the past (before I read this post) my scores were usually between 300,000 and 500,000 which I thought were great until now. Now my goal on our trip will be to get the 999,999. It's hubby's 1st time and I can't wait to kick his butt!!! Of course after I beat him really good once I will help him get better. LOL Thanks to EVERYONE for their wonderful tips, but I do have one question. I read that shooting your OWN exhaust gets good points. I always thought if you're exhaust got shot it would take away points from the average at the end. Anyone know if that's true?

 

[phamton]

I read that shooting your OWN exhaust gets good points. I always thought if you're exhaust got shot it would take away points from the average at the end. Anyone know if that's true?

Shooting your own exhaust gives you just as many points as shooting your opponents' car. But don't do it---most of us feel it is a cheap way to get points, kind of like cheating at solitaire.

 

[princess21niki]

Thank you phamton!

 

[MIB999999]

Shooting your own exhaust gives you just as many points as shooting your opponents' car. But don't do it---most of us feel it is a cheap way to get points, kind of like cheating at solitaire.

One of the things i did in the past when we had a meet or were just riding and the other car was really spinning us. If i was sitting in the back row center i would hold my free hand up over the exhaust port to block the beam from the opposing car.

 

[metsfan11]

One of the things i did in the past when we had a meet or were just riding and the other car was really spinning us. If i was sitting in the back row center i would hold my free hand up over the exhaust port to block the beam from the opposing car.

thats awsome!!!
hahaha

 

[cigar95]

I'll be at US this weekend, and it would be fun to meet some of our max-out experts. This'll probably be my last trip to the Orlando area until '08.

I'll be there either Fri or Sat, depending on the weather. If it looks like rain on Friday, I'll probably do US on Fri and IOA on Sat. The Studios look like the better park to do in wet weather, since more of it is indoors. Then I may be back for just a couple hours on Sunday.

My best on MIB is only 216k, but that was before I read this thread. It's difficult to catch everything just from reading, without seeing everything in front of me. I'll probably do the ride, read my notes, do the ride, read my notes again, . . . . . You guys who have it down to actually knowing where the individual sensors are located are pretty impressive, in a crazy sort of way.

Any word on if the change in point values has happened? (The one that was mentioned last summer?) Are the original directions from MIB999999 still valid?

I'm a lot better at Buzz - usually in the 600-800 range, maxing out now and then.

 

[Slacking]

As of 12/31, all point values were still the same, I'd expect that to be the case.


Kinda off-topic, but I have a problem with Buzz. In order to max out on Buzz, you really only need to depend on hitting 2-3 different targets. (I use the 2 100,000 point sensors and then the Volcano) With MIB, you can't really do that. Sure, I hit pretty much the same sensors every time i ride, but to max out, I'm required to hit many different sensors not just the same 2-3 several times.

 

[MIB999999]

But of course the original MIB999999 instructions are correct!! Do i look like i would lie to you???

The only thing i add to the original is the "drop-down-boys" right after the scan. look up in the "ceiling" and on the right track you will see one and on the left track you will see two aliens dropping down out of the ceiling to shoot at you. Hitting them is pointless. hitting the sensors on the "beam that forms the hole in the ceiling is priceless.

went three weeks ago and got 999,999 on gun one and 575,000 on gun two using the original instructions

 

[cigar95]

Kinda off-topic, but I have a problem with Buzz. In order to max out on Buzz, you really only need to depend on hitting 2-3 different targets. (I use the 2 100,000 point sensors and then the Volcano) With MIB, you can't really do that. Sure, I hit pretty much the same sensors every time i ride, but to max out, I'm required to hit many different sensors not just the same 2-3 several times.

It may be that the designers of MiB learned from the weakness in Buzz. (BTW, are the two 100k targets still the claw and the back of the glove in the first room?) I think Disney may have been less interested in creating a genuinely challenging game.

That does raise another question - are most of the targets in MiB only able to be hit once per player for credit? Or maybe twice, to turn them from red to green and back? (I have to go back and reread the instructions again. I think there were a few comments about hitting targets multiple times.)

But of course the original MIB999999 instructions are correct!! Do i look like i would lie to you???

The only thing i add to the original is the "drop-down-boys" right after the scan. look up in the "ceiling" and on the right track you will see one and on the left track you will see two aliens dropping down out of the ceiling to shoot at you. Hitting them is pointless. hitting the sensors on the "beam that forms the hole in the ceiling is priceless.

I wouldn't blame you if things had changed since you first wrote the tips four and a half years ago!

Does the exhaust port still take priority over the drop-down aliens? If there is one thing clear in the instructions, it's that the exhaust port is a major target.

 

[MIB999999]

i go for the drop downs first until i can no longer hit the sensor and then go for the exhaust port.

 

[cigar95]

Well, just got back, and the tips genuinely helped. Still not at the 999 level, but I improved my best almost each time through. My best had been 216k, and each succesive time through over two days went 314, 333, 344, 232, 395, 423, 459, and 386.

Main things I benefited from were the eyes in the trees and the exhaust port. It's definitely easier when there aren't other riders, since there's only one red dot to focus on, plus no one shooting at your own exhaust port.

I don't think I ever got any significant points in the ambush, just because things happen so quickly there. And at the crash site, I could just never remember much of the instruction in the heat of battle. I kept drawing a blank once I passed the alien on the fire hydrant.

Still, it was great fun improving my scores. I got to wear the black suit several times, and my car usually got some good props from Will Smith at the end.

No idea when I'll be at Universal again, but thanks, gang.