| # | Author | Message |
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| figment1986
Wed 6/20/2007 8:27p | It doesn't make any sense why they would seal off the theater and simulators, when they could at least send the simulators to hong kong or another park if Epcot doesn't need them.
It was a great pavilion, just a little hidden. Think about the last time they opened it, did they tell you where it was or force you to look for it since they let the foliage grow in around the pavilion masking it. |
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| BlueOhanaTerror
Wed 6/20/2007 8:40p | When you think about the fact that medical technology is advancing by leaps and bounds - I mean, they're soon going to be making blind people see!
There's SO much in this field that can be creatively tapped... and the idea of zapping a virus... Ugh. It feels old fashioned.
If you're going to do that - then go all the way with it and anthropormorphize the virus. Maybe kids will be inspired to become doctors. Let's do an attraction that IS like "Vintage EPCOT Center" - where instead of addressing what we can do today or in the next five minutes, we're taken on a bold vision where Cancer, AIDS, and Pandemics are eradicated, vaccinated, eliminated, through novel approaches.
Let's see a UNIVERSE OF ENERGY approach to the subject. Dramatic and forward-thinking. I loved CRANIUM COMMAND, and a revisited version of that - with TIMELESS characters filling the roles once held by now-forgotten comedians - would balance such a dramatic approach. You could even integrate a new thrill ride - but let's lose the motion simulators, unless they're reimagined and seriously "plussed." They were never a great idea. |
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| ChiMike
Wed 6/20/2007 8:42p | Exactly Figment. As with many other things, not only did they not promote it, they obscured it. After 13 years they are now experts at sabotaging their own assets. |
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| ChiMike
Wed 6/20/2007 8:43p | Great ideas Blue,
I really like the idea of Adventures thru Innerspace Version 3.0 More thrill than ver 1.0 but less than ver 2.0 (Body Wars) |
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| Jim in Merced CA
Wed 6/20/2007 9:57p | The real bummer with Body Wars, is that it took SO MUCH pre-show explanation.
Heck, it made 'Countdown to Extinction' feel like a spaceshot ride.
They talked, talked, talked about miniaturing us and injecting us into the bloodstream, and what we were going to to -- it was like an Adult Learning Seminar.
If the line was short, and you didn't see the little TV monitor presentations, you missed a good portion of the story.
It's never a good thing when the pre-show has to be explained in such detail.
One interesing thing...
I remember seeing 'Body Wars' when it first opened -- maybe it was even just for Cast Members. The part where Elizabeth Shue's character floats out and lands on the giant splinter...
When the splinter...splinters, they originally had her really scream and her voice sounded very worried and scared.
They quickly changed the soundtrack so that when the splinter broke away, she gives more of a command -- a very authoritative 'oh no..'
And they cut a good 5-6 seconds out of the trip through the body -- the breathing section where we're in the lungs went on a bit longer as I recall -- it was that section that they seemed to figure was causing most of the motion sickness.
I used to get a little queasy in there... |
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| Skellington88
Wed 6/20/2007 11:12p | Body Wars rocked you people have no respect for classics. That ride seriously inspiried me to get more interested in medicine. I especially liked the part where you go into the neo cortex. |
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| BlueOhanaTerror
Thu 6/21/2007 1:02a | >>>Body Wars rocked you people have no respect for classics. That ride seriously inspiried me to get more interested in medicine.<<<
What does that mean? Are you in medical school? Are you taking analgesics? Do you now stock Theraflu, just in case? |
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| vbdad55
Thu 6/21/2007 6:44a | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ROTFLMAO !!!
No, went into soda theft, but knows where to go in webmd.com if too much free soda is ingested.
Body Wars a classic ??? Potc a classic / HM a classic - body wars an out of date flight simulator movie |
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| Fe Maiden
Thu 6/21/2007 7:08a | <<What does that mean? Are you in medical school? Are you taking analgesics? Do you now stock Theraflu, just in case?>>
It means he never misses an episode of House. |
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| twirlnhurl
Thu 6/21/2007 8:00a | I didn't watch the queue tv monitors until after my 15th or 20th ride. It really is quite simple, shrink down really small, go in the blood stream, watch a doctor. It explains itself on the actual ride.
And I could understand why Wonders of Life would seem out of the way. When it was open last year, the pavilion was behind the same trees they usually use to block the entrance. They were pushed to the side, but it still looked like a Cast Member only entrance. The first time we were there, we asked the CM at the entrance if it really was open. It wasn't on the map, but it is next to two of Epcot's biggest rides. |
