So my son and I were watching videos on YouTube and we decided EE isn't too bad. Then we watched FoP...when he realized it was 3-D he said he couldn't do it. I forgot about that as I offered to let him ride with a friend who is joining us. 3-D is a bit too intense for him. Anyway, we watched the actual ride and I kid you not...I felt nauseous a couple minutes later. Is that possible? I know it was nothing I ate. Every now and again my stomach gets queasy if I eat too close to bedtime. Was it just mental and my mind played tricks on me? I hope I don't sound too crazy. However, I think I will just stick to my normal plan and not ride.
Dh was fine on the ride. It made me very VERY motion sick...even through my prescription motion sickness patch (that works to let me ride everything else at WDW). I'd be fine skipping it. Wasn't impressed.
Haha and that's why I don't think my sister and I should go on because she gets motion sick easily and I can't even see properly in 3D but here we are going to go on it anyways in July and expect the hype won't be lived up to.
Dh was fine on the ride. It made me very VERY motion sick...even through my prescription motion sickness patch (that works to let me ride everything else at WDW). I'd be fine skipping it. Wasn't impressed.
Thanks for your reply! Don't feel like we would be missing much. I'm picking up some OTC meds for motion sickness before our trip. Someone mentioned one that you rub behind the ear. And another organic one.
Sometimes when I'm watching a movie there's a camera sequence that makes me feel a little queasy, so I think it's very possible that watching videos of FOP affected you. When we rode it in November, my DH hated it. He could just barely handle Soaring', and FOP was too much for him. I liked it, but there were a couple of times that I had to use the trick of locking my eyes onto one stationary point.
I would not let the youtube video worry you. You're not getting the right 3D effect. I assume most people don't have two separately polarized lenses on the camera when someone's just taking a video while on the ride. I took a look at two of the videos and one of them had me feeling queasy and I don't typically get motion sickness and didn't at all on FOP.
I get motion sick on most 3d rides. FoP bothered me considerably less than Star Tours does. Plus, you can always close your eyes or look to the side and it stops the motion sickness, at least for me.
I get lightly motion sick on ST, but had no problems on FOP. You can easily take off your glasses which I think helps your body adjust. You will still feel motion but won't can't see it.
One of the big issues with VR is that, if you aren't feeling the motion when your eyes are telling you there is motion, you can get nauseous. It's the opposite of, but similar issue with, seasickness and why people sometimes feel better going up on deck. Your vestibular system is telling you you're moving, but your eyes are saying you're not (if you're inside without view to the outside). Fortunately, FOP has motion as well as visual movement so your vestibular and ocular systems are far more in sync. Not saying that it's not still possible to get motion sickness - that's very individual - but you're far more likely to get sick when your two systems are in disagreement with what's happening and viewing a video without the movement can easily do that.
I have trouble with youtube videos making me feel queasy at times (especially ones with someone just walking around or ones of people playing video games). I had no issues on FoP.
I have trouble with youtube videos making me feel queasy at times (especially ones with someone just walking around or ones of people playing video games). I had no issues on FoP.
I get sick on Star tours too. I had no problem with FOP. In my opinion completely without proof of anything I think it’s because the room is so much bigger. I don’t have claustrophobia but the Star tours car seems a little tight spacey to me. I think the spray mist also helped. I love it. I’m hoping to book fast passes for my June trip for it.
I have motion sickness with many things, including FOP. I had to close my eyes a few times throughout. My husband and kids loved it, I wouldn`t do it again. Glad I tried it once so I know what it is but it was one and done for me.
It's a tough call because I'm sensitive to 3D (Star Tours and Soarin' are okay but they push me to about my limit) and I was fine on FoP. DH has rated FoP possibly one of the best rides he's ever been on. But you will find as many people telling you it's not worth the hype and/ or that they were violently ill after that ride. It's very much a YMMV situation and unfortunately the only way to know is to dive in.
Honestly, 3D and motion is a bad combination, for example, I can only handle the new Star Tours on a good day. I would imagine FOP would be the same if I could ride it.
I have trouble with youtube videos making me feel queasy at times (especially ones with someone just walking around or ones of people playing video games). I had no issues on FoP.
Sounds like your system doesn't like when it's seeing one thing, but the body "feels" like it's doing something else. Which is interesting, because that's exactly what's happening on FoP. You're a lucky one. I know I would be done if I even tried.
Watching a video is definitely different from experiencing the ride as intended. If you need more help making a decision, search for threads with "FOP motion sickness" in the title and you will find lots of posts from people with various motion sickness issues and outcomes.
I get motion sick (can't ride Star Tours) but thought FOP was amazing....looking forward to trying it again next year with a tweaked anti-nausea strategy. My description from a previous thread-
I absolutely can't ride Star Tours, while Soarin' gives me a twinge of nausea/headache....I was nervous about FOP but it was well worth the time and the dose of Bonine .
I used some techniques that had helped me in other situations (like picking visual points in the distance to focus on). Even though some of my brain was occupied with not getting sick, i Ioved it. I walked away feeling a little off....but a night blossom quickly fixed that. Next time I am going to try and relax and I will have some ginger with me....advice I read in another thread.
What really made the difference for me compared to other simulation rides (OMG, Universal Simpsons flashback ), is the motion of the vehicle truly being in sync with what you see (I guess being on an individual vehicle is a big part of it....not sure how to explain it) and the air that was blowing.
Disclaimer: No one should feel pressured, or pressure themselves, into doing a ride they're uncomfortable with. That's true whether it's a three year old afraid of Ursula in the Little Mermaid ride or an adult with a medical reason for avoiding a ride. But that said,
FoP is (IMHO, and debatably, and at the moment) the best ride in Disney World, and it would be a shame to miss it. The movie Avatar* devotes several minutes to simply showing the unbridled terrifying ecstasy that it is for an earthbound creature to know flight, and this ride does a darn good job of replicating it. The point of Disney World is not just "rides" but immersion—not just "whee I'm moving fast" but willing belief in a fantasy world, and this ride is in my opinion the most immersive. Every sense, including tactile, is convinced that you're really there.
I was concerned, before the trip, for my older daughter, who sometimes gets mildly carsick on windy mountain roads or the state fair Tilt-a-Whirl. Given how many rides at Disney World are mentioned in the same breath with motion sickness, I was interested to discover that there's such a thing as Dramamine for Kids. I picked up some of the traditional formulation, and one marked "non-drowsy," that was actually just capsules of powdered ginger. As it turned out she never used it and never needed it. She did Mission Space: Orange, teacups, everything, with never a problem. (Takeaway: there are mountain roads and state fair rides that, for us at least, are more of a motion sickness hazard than anything at Disney.) I would consult with your pediatrician (as I did), but to the best of my knowledge there is no pharmacological reason to be hesitant to use Dramamine, and the all-ginger option, if it works, has the added benefit of being a 100% natural solution.
So I'd say, #1, ride some other things first. If many other questionable rides give him trouble, maybe don't push it. But if he can handle Star Tours and Soarin with no problem, then get some Dramamine on board and go for FoP. If you like it as much as we did you'll want to ride it more than once, and if it gives him problems you can just do it once.
By the way, other commenters are right, the fact that you're moving in sync with the visuals matters a lot here (it's also part of what makes it so much more effective than other rides). Having ridden Mission: Orange, I see now why it's so famous for motion sickness. In the "takeoff" sequence you're being spun centrifugally to create the sensation of increased G-force, so you have a distinct to-the-side sensation while the rocket viewscreen is telling you you're travelling straight forward. On FoP, when your eyes tell you you're making a terrifying drop, at least the chair your mounted on is actually dropping!
* To really appreciate this ride, as well as Navi River and the entire Pandora area, it's best to have seen Avatar. The problem is that it's a PG-13 movie with a lot of violence and a fair amount of profanity that we weren't ready to show our 7 and 9 year old. But we previewed it and discovered we could just skip "the middle" and show them the rest, and they have enough to appreciate the rides. Going by this scene list (NB, constitutes spoilers, and makes its divisions according to minutes in the theatrical screening, which probably don't correspond to chapters on a DVD), I'd say we skipped the 21:00 scene between Jake and the Col as well as fast-forwarding through some other expositional banter. We then showed them solidly from the first mission (23:30 in that list) through the discussion of Toruk after the banshee ride (stopping at 77:30 according to that list). After that we just summarized the plot points they were missing and, because we couldn't bear not to, showed them the
scene where he tames Toruk
, skipped the battle, and showed them the final scenes starting with 151:00 by that list,
Neytiri seeing Jake as a human for the first time
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Even without seeing the movie, the Pandora area of Animal Kingdom is breathtaking, and the FoP ride is beautiful and exhilarating, but there is definitely a moment in it that will be even more exciting if you know the significance of what you're seeing, and there is an emotive impact that the soundtrack can trigger. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's the movie of the century or anything, but if you're going to watch Beauty & the Beast before eating at Be Our Guest, it makes sense to watch this before going to Animal Kingdom.
At times, when I've felt nauseous on a 3D ride, I simply close my eyes for a few seconds and it passes. The actual motion is minimal and nausea comes from my visual cues.
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Anyway, we watched the actual ride and I kid you not...I felt nauseous a couple minutes later. 
Is that possible? I know it was nothing I ate. Every now and again my stomach gets queasy if I eat too close to bedtime. Was it just mental and my mind played tricks on me? 
I hope I don't sound too crazy. 
However, I think I will just stick to my normal plan and not ride. 
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), is the motion of the vehicle truly being in sync with what you see (I guess being on an individual vehicle is a big part of it....not sure how to explain it) and the air that was blowing.
