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Its me the Pumpkin King Jack!!!! And I used my dark ways to sneak into the CM preview of Mission Space today. I rode it 3 times in an hour, and below is a detailed account of the ride. But just to get things straight with all the hype, no this ride is not as good as Spiderman. I dont care what you say its not as good as Spidy. Once the hype wears down and we look back on Mission Space you will see that Spidy still weighs in as the king. But dont get me wrong Mission Space is still a good ride, a blockbuster attraction in fact. Its not as good as Tower of Terror or Splash Moutain. I group it along with Test Track or Rockin Rollercoaster in terms of attraction Catigory, while a Tower of Terror, or a Spiderman, or a Indy Jones ride is still a notch higher in a super fun family ride. Well lets get to the review, as with all my reviews there is lots of details and spoilers so be warned!!!!
You start off the attraction by entering the building and witnessing the huge Gravitron. This thing is massive and not that loud as it spins around. There is a dinning room, and an exercising room spinning around. Above you is some moon cars above you. This is a dark room and pretty big. All through the attraction is an amazing score of music playing, very inspiring and grand. You leave the room and enter a hallway, on your right behind some glass you see the control room. There are all of these computers and hightech buttons and its all for show, amazingly enough they have castmembers in side the room pretending to be mission control. It reminds me of the days when MIB at Universal first opened and Cast members use to take there breaks in that now empty control room. This is great but I wonder how long until ride and show pulls the plug on this. You travel down the hallway and go into your chamber. There are 2 chambers I think, and each chamber holds 8 rows of 4. When is the room you see 4 astronaught suits infront of you and a monitor over them. The preshow then plays with Gary Senise talking about the training you are about to go through. It was a little hot in this room with all of the bodies in it, so I hope they crank the AC in it. Gary says the training might be a little intence and this is your last time to leave. After what feels like a long time the doors open. 1 through 4 go to the left and 5 through 8 go to the right. This area kind of looks and feels like the waiting area of Doctor Dooms Fear Fall at IOA before you strap in. Another video plays infront of you on a screne and Gary tells you what each postition must do. Its cool that a light truns on over each number when he talks about your task. THe task is no matter what you do is pressing a button when it lights up and he tells you to do so. Even if you dont press the button the computer does it for you. So you really have no control over the ride, and the ride is not really interactive like let say Men in Black, and the ride is always the same, and ends the same. There is no special endings like MIB, and those joy sticks infront of you do nothing. You just hold them and they vibrate a little. Okay the doors open and you go into the ride. You enter a big circle room and you see all the Simulators (that look like the ones from Cyber Space Mt. at Disney Quest). You get into the sim, and there is a big compartment that opens to put your stuff in. The doors shut and the control panel infront of you moves foward. There are lots of buttons to press that do nothing but it looks cool and High tech. There is also a monoto infront of you that you use to look out. Also there is a min TV ala Back to the Future the Ride that Gary Sinece apears on to talk to you on. Now lets get to the graphics on the monotors. THe Graphics do not look real, since it is a simulator, I say the video looks like a Playstation 2 Video Game Graphics, probaly 128 bits. The Video is simple and mot that impresive not as emerce or visual as spiderman, or even back to the future I might add. Its just training simulator quality, good but not great. The ride starts off with the coolest part of the ride, The Lift Off!!! The ride tilts back on your back and your looking up. 3-2-1 Blast off. Here come the G's, Fantastic!!! Try and lift your arms up, its hard to do. You see the clouds disapear and the sky turns blue to black, and your in space. Now comes the wieghtless effect. I think all what happens to create this effect is that the ride just tilts down from the laying down position you were in. I did not feel like I could float, or that If I let go of a penny or tennis ball that it would float in mid air. I think its just a trick to think your wieght less. Your now in space and Gary tells the navigator to push a button to put you on course and you feel a rocket boost. You orbit the earth and see a close up of florida, you then head for the moon for a sling shot around it to gain speed. You sling around it and pull some wicked G's. You then pass earth and head for Mars. Since it would take months to get to earth you must be frozen and put to sleep, ala The Alien movies. So the enginear is told to hit a button and you Ice form on the screne and everything turns off and there is no light. You stay in total darkness for 3 seconds until the lights turn on again, but they are flashing red. You are caught in a meteor shower. Left, Right, Left, you dodge the meteors. YOu then head to mars for a landing. You feel G's forcing you down you feel like your falling on the Tower of Terror. You then go trough a canyon on mars. Gary tells you to grab the joy stick.. Left, right, up, down.....(Though this does nothing, since you have no control over it, its still fun to do). You then aproach the runway, but to fast, you over shoot it crash through a fence and finally, land on mars. But all of a sudden the ground breaks off from the cliff (A effect that does not look real and was rushed) and the the shuttle tilts foward toward the ground off a cliff that must be miles high. The Gary Sinece says the line that will go down in history and be mutterd forever, "Dont move a muscle." The rocket then tilts right side up and the ride is over. You then step off the sim and feel a little dizzy. You walk down a hallway that is not themed at all and you enter the game area. Its not that big of an area. On your left there is a little kid play area that is not that impressive. On your right is that huge game show like game. You have two teams of 12 people going head to head. The game is quite entertaining and its long. So long there is even a halftime. I think it takes 10 min to play around, SO I expect long lines for is. THe Game has two hosts and it has a game show like feel, with the host asking for applause every 2 seconds. But its fun and I like it. You compete for boosts and the team with the most boosts wins. Also There is pretty cool jet pack game, and its also long, each game being 4 min long, and there is only 4 machines to play the game on. Then finally there is the video E-card which is real cool. I love this thing. And its free. I works great I sent it to my computer and you have a 15 second video clip of yourself at mission space in quick time. The only problem is there are only 3 machines for this so I expect a little bit of a wait. YOu then enter the gift shop which is pretty small. Probaly half the size of test tracks gift shop. It does have some cool stuff in there including freeze dried chicken dinner, or freeze dried Ice Cream yum. Amazing enough I think this is the first big E-Ticket attraction a theme park has done in a while that does not have a camera that takes your picture during the ride. But they do have video cameras on you though.
All in all mission space is a good ride, not a ride to wait 4 years for. I think this ride could have been built in 2 years. There is not that much detail in it. It is a different type attraction and its not for everyone, I dont know how much kids will like it. The ride feels very high tech, but its not disney's answer to spiderman. The only way for disney to beat spidy is for it to whip out its cave technology. Are build a copy cat of Spidy with Star Wars Characters. This ride does test your bodys limits. You will feel lots of pressure on your face, and is probaly the close as I will ever get to a real space flight. ANd the lift off gives me more G's on my face then the lift off from the Hulk Roller Coaster at IOA. I dont know how long this hyp will last from Mission Space being a big dog out there, because from what I am hearing 2004 will be the year of the Mummy and Universal is pulling out all the stops to make that the ride of the ages. Mission Space Gives Epcot to major attractions though, and yes Mission Space is a Must see, I give it two thumbs up, but its not the next big thing.
You start off the attraction by entering the building and witnessing the huge Gravitron. This thing is massive and not that loud as it spins around. There is a dinning room, and an exercising room spinning around. Above you is some moon cars above you. This is a dark room and pretty big. All through the attraction is an amazing score of music playing, very inspiring and grand. You leave the room and enter a hallway, on your right behind some glass you see the control room. There are all of these computers and hightech buttons and its all for show, amazingly enough they have castmembers in side the room pretending to be mission control. It reminds me of the days when MIB at Universal first opened and Cast members use to take there breaks in that now empty control room. This is great but I wonder how long until ride and show pulls the plug on this. You travel down the hallway and go into your chamber. There are 2 chambers I think, and each chamber holds 8 rows of 4. When is the room you see 4 astronaught suits infront of you and a monitor over them. The preshow then plays with Gary Senise talking about the training you are about to go through. It was a little hot in this room with all of the bodies in it, so I hope they crank the AC in it. Gary says the training might be a little intence and this is your last time to leave. After what feels like a long time the doors open. 1 through 4 go to the left and 5 through 8 go to the right. This area kind of looks and feels like the waiting area of Doctor Dooms Fear Fall at IOA before you strap in. Another video plays infront of you on a screne and Gary tells you what each postition must do. Its cool that a light truns on over each number when he talks about your task. THe task is no matter what you do is pressing a button when it lights up and he tells you to do so. Even if you dont press the button the computer does it for you. So you really have no control over the ride, and the ride is not really interactive like let say Men in Black, and the ride is always the same, and ends the same. There is no special endings like MIB, and those joy sticks infront of you do nothing. You just hold them and they vibrate a little. Okay the doors open and you go into the ride. You enter a big circle room and you see all the Simulators (that look like the ones from Cyber Space Mt. at Disney Quest). You get into the sim, and there is a big compartment that opens to put your stuff in. The doors shut and the control panel infront of you moves foward. There are lots of buttons to press that do nothing but it looks cool and High tech. There is also a monoto infront of you that you use to look out. Also there is a min TV ala Back to the Future the Ride that Gary Sinece apears on to talk to you on. Now lets get to the graphics on the monotors. THe Graphics do not look real, since it is a simulator, I say the video looks like a Playstation 2 Video Game Graphics, probaly 128 bits. The Video is simple and mot that impresive not as emerce or visual as spiderman, or even back to the future I might add. Its just training simulator quality, good but not great. The ride starts off with the coolest part of the ride, The Lift Off!!! The ride tilts back on your back and your looking up. 3-2-1 Blast off. Here come the G's, Fantastic!!! Try and lift your arms up, its hard to do. You see the clouds disapear and the sky turns blue to black, and your in space. Now comes the wieghtless effect. I think all what happens to create this effect is that the ride just tilts down from the laying down position you were in. I did not feel like I could float, or that If I let go of a penny or tennis ball that it would float in mid air. I think its just a trick to think your wieght less. Your now in space and Gary tells the navigator to push a button to put you on course and you feel a rocket boost. You orbit the earth and see a close up of florida, you then head for the moon for a sling shot around it to gain speed. You sling around it and pull some wicked G's. You then pass earth and head for Mars. Since it would take months to get to earth you must be frozen and put to sleep, ala The Alien movies. So the enginear is told to hit a button and you Ice form on the screne and everything turns off and there is no light. You stay in total darkness for 3 seconds until the lights turn on again, but they are flashing red. You are caught in a meteor shower. Left, Right, Left, you dodge the meteors. YOu then head to mars for a landing. You feel G's forcing you down you feel like your falling on the Tower of Terror. You then go trough a canyon on mars. Gary tells you to grab the joy stick.. Left, right, up, down.....(Though this does nothing, since you have no control over it, its still fun to do). You then aproach the runway, but to fast, you over shoot it crash through a fence and finally, land on mars. But all of a sudden the ground breaks off from the cliff (A effect that does not look real and was rushed) and the the shuttle tilts foward toward the ground off a cliff that must be miles high. The Gary Sinece says the line that will go down in history and be mutterd forever, "Dont move a muscle." The rocket then tilts right side up and the ride is over. You then step off the sim and feel a little dizzy. You walk down a hallway that is not themed at all and you enter the game area. Its not that big of an area. On your left there is a little kid play area that is not that impressive. On your right is that huge game show like game. You have two teams of 12 people going head to head. The game is quite entertaining and its long. So long there is even a halftime. I think it takes 10 min to play around, SO I expect long lines for is. THe Game has two hosts and it has a game show like feel, with the host asking for applause every 2 seconds. But its fun and I like it. You compete for boosts and the team with the most boosts wins. Also There is pretty cool jet pack game, and its also long, each game being 4 min long, and there is only 4 machines to play the game on. Then finally there is the video E-card which is real cool. I love this thing. And its free. I works great I sent it to my computer and you have a 15 second video clip of yourself at mission space in quick time. The only problem is there are only 3 machines for this so I expect a little bit of a wait. YOu then enter the gift shop which is pretty small. Probaly half the size of test tracks gift shop. It does have some cool stuff in there including freeze dried chicken dinner, or freeze dried Ice Cream yum. Amazing enough I think this is the first big E-Ticket attraction a theme park has done in a while that does not have a camera that takes your picture during the ride. But they do have video cameras on you though.
All in all mission space is a good ride, not a ride to wait 4 years for. I think this ride could have been built in 2 years. There is not that much detail in it. It is a different type attraction and its not for everyone, I dont know how much kids will like it. The ride feels very high tech, but its not disney's answer to spiderman. The only way for disney to beat spidy is for it to whip out its cave technology. Are build a copy cat of Spidy with Star Wars Characters. This ride does test your bodys limits. You will feel lots of pressure on your face, and is probaly the close as I will ever get to a real space flight. ANd the lift off gives me more G's on my face then the lift off from the Hulk Roller Coaster at IOA. I dont know how long this hyp will last from Mission Space being a big dog out there, because from what I am hearing 2004 will be the year of the Mummy and Universal is pulling out all the stops to make that the ride of the ages. Mission Space Gives Epcot to major attractions though, and yes Mission Space is a Must see, I give it two thumbs up, but its not the next big thing.
JB: Are you sure your name is not Jayson Blair?
