Mission: SPACE -- no G-force testing

[flatline]

So you're okay with the changes to the Lights Motors Action show--you know, now that guests will be driving the vehicles?

I especially like the changes to Spaceship Earth where the exterior is now a giant climbing wall with three degrees of difficulty.

 

[DancingBear]

Some should take sometime to get facts. The first death was due to the person having a congenital medical defect and in reality could have died on the monorail just as easily. That does not make for good sensational news. In other words, doesn’t make a corporation look bad so it is not going to sell newspapers or television ratings. It is way too early for the cause of the second death to have been determined and made public. With that being said, Disney, of course, is worried about public perception. Even in this thread, I did not see even one person suggest that these deaths could have had other medical reasons other then riding the ride. Of course not, because by time that is determined, the public’s short attention span has moved onto something else. So this means Disney has to deal with the perception that the ride does or could harm people regardless if it is true or not. That is world we live in now and sometimes it is very sad.

FB

We know the facts. Daudi died due to a congenital heart condition. But his risk was not the same on M:S as it would have been on the monorail.:

"People with this condition are at risk for sudden death throughout their life due to abnormal electrical heart rhythms," the medical examiner's office said. "This risk could be increased under physical or emotional stressful situations."

Perhaps it would have been the same on other thrill rides in the park; nobody really knows. But there's a legitimate question about whether this particular thrill ride subjects folks to different stresses than others. And there may be a particular issue about whether the nature of the M:S ride, compared to rollercoasters or Tower of Terror, leads to more folks with hidden medical conditions to ride.

 

[dkostel]

Does the capsule spin on the large wheel, on its own axis, and also have an up and down bumping motion? If so which are they stopping (i'm assuming it is the spinning of the large wheel?)
thanks

 

[HarambeGuy]

Go to a local park, and put four seats on the outer edge of a merry-go-round, facing inward. Spin it really fast. That's what it's like. There is no up/down motion. The spinning of the merry-go-round is what they're eliminating for guests who choose to experience the low-impact version of the ride.

 

[DancingBear]

I thought the seats faced forward motion like a pilot training centrifuge, not around the edge like the Gravitron. And certainly there is tilting and some bumping effects, like the other simulator rides.

 

[HarambeGuy]

If that's true (and I'm going on memory here so I'm not going to argue about it) then how do they load two pods side by side?

 

[Another Voice]

Each cabin is suspended from an arm that reaches out from the spinner’s central hub. When you sit down, you’re facing inwards at the same hub. As the centrifuge starts, you’re pushed back into seat giving the illusion of acceleration. It’s nothing but good old fashion centripetal force, the kind that Mr. Science demonstrated by swinging a bucket of water around fast enough so that none of it poured out.

The cabin is mounted so that it can pitch “up and down” much like a regular simulator. This effect, combined with the videos, produces all the other sensations of the ride. If you’ve seen them, ‘Mission: Space’ is really the capsule used for ‘Cyber Space Mountain’ mounted on a centrifuge (and they were even made by the same people if I recall correctly).

As I understand things, the “mild” version of ‘M:S’ would not use the main centrifuge that produces the “launch acceleration” and “moon slingshot” sensations. But the cabin would still tilt and roll to produce the “flying” and “jolting” sensations. These would be probably be less than ‘Star Tours’ simply because the cabins lack the same range of movement.

The company that created and built ‘Mission: Space’ for Disney (before Disney cancelled their contract) has an animatic that shows the basic ride system at http://www.therideworks.com/gallery.php . Click the link under the “The MAC Movie” title on the right side of the screen. Please note, this movie shows the pods face outward for loading and unloading then “flip over” so you face the center of the spinner. I assume this is the “high budget” version of the system that Disney did not go for.

 

[manning]

What was the name of that ride at Riverview park that spun you around in a cylinder pinning you to the wall and then the floor dropped away. That's Mission to mars in another version. Wonder how many g's that pushed?