Mission space: orange or green?

[prettypolkadots]

Hey y'all,

My 60 day mark is tomorrow at midnight and I'm making last minute tweeks to our FP plans. We don't normally get motion sickness, but I'm wondering how "intense" the astronaut training ride is... Help?

 

[LSUfan4444]

Hundreds of people do it per day without issue. How it might effect you and our family is impossible to tell. My wife can't handle the teacups because of the spinning, but she is good for Orange MS at least once per trip.

 

[prettypolkadots]

Okay, I think we will go for orange then. Thanks!!

 

[CTDisneyfan816]

depends on the person. I generally have a high tolerance for spinning rides, but this ride on the orange feels like my face is being torn off of me. I did the orange a few times but now strictly green.

 

[SirDuff]

Definitely personal.

No way can I handle orange (did it once, when there was only the one option). Can only do the green side once were trip (and I don't really like the way it makes me feel).

 

[MrsJobba1]

Can I ask what happens on the green?

 

[FLchick415]

Like other PPs, it all comes down to you personally. I hardly ever (read: never) get motion sick on rides, not even the Tea Cups, but MS:Orange turned my stomach upside down and inside out and left me incapacitated for a good 20 minutes after.

 

[CTDisneyfan816]

Can I ask what happens on the green?

Green is the same but without the real strong g force pressure pushing against you.

 

[KTR]

Can I ask what happens on the green?

Green is a motion simulator like Star Tours. I thought it was plenty thrilling enough and it left me a tiny bit queasy. There's no way I'd try orange. But I also have a weak stomach.

 

[SirDuff]

Can I ask what happens on the green?

The centrifuge doesn't spin on the green side - so no lateral forces (though, I swear I still feel them - clearly I'm prone to the placebo effect of expecting to feel the forces). The cars still move (i.e. you are still rocked and moved forward/backward).

 

[BrianL]

The centrifuge doesn't spin on the green side - so no lateral forces (though, I swear I still feel them - clearly I'm prone to the placebo effect of expecting to feel the forces). The cars still move (i.e. you are still rocked and moved forward/backward).

They just tilt the cabin up to pin you to your seat using normal gravity. With no frame of reference it still feels similar to the G forces from the spinning, just not as strong (and it won't disorient you if you look side to side).

I don't ride Orange Team: More Intense Training too much because of my back, but I find Green Team: Less Intense Training to be just as good really.

 

[nanhol]

I know you're setting up fast passes & need to decide, but my advice is to try green before you try orange.

We loved green but found orange very disorienting. I was nauseous for a few hours after riding it, which was a bummer for my snacking plans!

It was our experience that the stand-by line for orange was often shorter than the stand-by line for green--can anyone else weigh in on this?

 

[ghtx]

Orange will make you barf; green will make you bored.

 

[disney world dreamer]

personally i'm all for orange.
i don't get motion sickness on rides.
to me the orange team is actually much less intense than the gravitron at local fairs and amusement parks.
and i don't find that looking at a video screen that is showing you one thing while your body is spinning to be a problem.
all my body feels is being pushed back into the seat. i do not feel as though i'm spinning even though i am.

 

[prettypolkadots]

I know you're setting up fast passes & need to decide, but my advice is to try green before you try orange.

We loved green but found orange very disorienting. I was nauseous for a few hours after riding it, which was a bummer for my snacking plans!

It was our experience that the stand-by line for orange was often shorter than the stand-by line for green--can anyone else weigh in on this?

Great advice! Thank you... after the additional previous comments, I think we will try green first and if DH still wants extra thrills, he can use stand-by line for orange. So glad to have experience Disney-ers to guide us!

 

[bookgirl]

Green is nothing major. A little claustrophobic but no motion sickness.

Orange on the other hand was enough to make my step dad nauseous and make me a little queasy for about an hour.

Neither one of us has had any trouble riding any other rides at any parks.

I will say though that I do not like the teacups because I don't particularly like the twirling rides, they don't really make me sick or anything but I don't like the twirling as much as the up and down stuff, and Orange is the mother of all things twirly. I have ridden spinning rides and they don't make me sick but I still don't like the sensation.

 

[Mousemommy1]

I feared this ride like nobody's business because of the stories I had heard, but then I decided to go for it and ride Orange....when it was done I was like..."that was it???"

I mean, yes, you feel G-forces, but I seriously felt no spinning. My DH gets very motion sick, and I wouldn't hesitate to have him give this ride a go.

 

[bookgirl]

I feared this ride like nobody's business because of the stories I had heard, but then I decided to go for it and ride Orange....when it was done I was like..."that was it???"

I mean, yes, you feel G-forces, but I seriously felt no spinning. My DH gets very motion sick, and I wouldn't hesitate to have him give this ride a go.

I don't feel the spinning either, but my inner ear does. I often have fluid in my ears (due to allergies) so spinning makes my equilibrium react as though I am still spinning even when I'm not and it takes a while to come back to normal. That's why I don't ride spinning rides, not because of the spinning per say but because it makes my balance fight itself when I get off the ride.

Mission Orange is the only ride to actually make me queasy.

I've been on board a ship once and on a small fishing vessel where the majority of people got sick because of storms and the movement of the waves, I never did. It seems that it's only spinning that bugs me not motion itself.

I think as a ride it's not that bad it's only people who may be sensitive to it that react badly.

 

[Carriemel]

Realize also that you don't have to decide on green or orange until you get to the Mission Space pavilion itself.

 

[Kristina4109]

I wanted to love Orange. I really did. The sensation of take off was exhilarating. I felt the skin on my cheeks pull back and a tear escaped one of my eyes. The feeling of weightlessness was amazing.

And then the nausea hit. And the nausea stayed with me for about an hour after "touchdown." Went on Team Green that same trip and loved it. Went on it again this past June and had a great time.

Mind you, my Dad had absolutely no trouble on Orange and thought I was weird for having such a bad reaction.