Space Mountain Refurb

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Oct Mon 05, 2009 9:40 am

I was actually upset with the whole Tomorrowland transformation. I liked it when it looked as they thought the world might look in the future and the attractions fit the theme. Now, it looks rather cartoonish to me. I'm glad the TTA is still there though. I'm nervous about Space Mtn. and Fantasyland though.

theBIGyowski · Post by **theBIGyowski** » Oct Mon 05, 2009 9:51 am

agingerbugg wrote:I can't say that I hate it. Like Future Guy said, it is more like the WEDway Peoplemover that I remember growing up with. I was actually kinda upset when they changed it to the TTA in '94. As a kid I always dreamed of the day I would live in a city that had a mass transit system of Peoplemovers and monorails. To me, this is more along the lines of Walt's dream for the Peoplemover than the "ride" it became as the TTA.

I am also really excited that they put Peoplemover back into it. Now, we just need to rechristen it the WEDway Peoplemover again, because that is truly what it is.

Even though TTA was one of my favorite things at WDW...I find myself strangely agreeing with you on this change. It has a retro Peoplemover feel to it. I don't think they are done with it either. They will most likely add more to it which will make it a complete experience like the Peoplemover used to be.

Will I miss the former TTA? Of course...and thank goodness we have it here at SSR and on YouTube. But...I am looking forward to seeing them complete SM and TTA.

packwingfn · Post by **packwingfn** » Oct Mon 05, 2009 11:00 am

Blah, It just ruins the neat story TTA had. I mean TTA is still the TTA, but I still enjoyed the atmosphere of the ride, and part of that was the story the ride told with the audio.

I'm just suprised they didn't add touchscreens in each car.

agingerbugg · Post by **agingerbugg** » Oct Tue 06, 2009 8:54 am

packwingfn wrote: I'm just suprised they didn't add touchscreens in each car.

A little "what if..." scenario to distract the passengers from the construction walls in SM?

That will come with the next refurb, when they remove progress city and all the vignettes along the route because they are too time consuming to maintain. The tunnels will just be dark and you will have little screens in the cars to distract you so you don't notice that something is incomplete.

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Oct Tue 06, 2009 9:54 am

agingerbugg wrote:
packwingfn wrote: I'm just suprised they didn't add touchscreens in each car.
A little "what if..." scenario to distract the passengers from the construction walls in SM?

That will come with the next refurb, when they remove progress city and all the vignettes along the route because they are too time consuming to maintain. The tunnels will just be dark and you will have little screens in the cars to distract you so you don't notice that something is incomplete.

I hope they don't ever do this! I love progress city, lets hope the only thing they've ruined is the audio! I'm sure in time it will grow on me, but I will miss the previous audio. I will still ride TTA and love it though!

theBIGyowski · Post by **theBIGyowski** » Oct Tue 06, 2009 10:18 am

I really do think this is somewhat temporary. They will add more audio in time. The overall theme will remain...but I think they will add to it. I wouldn't be surprised if they used or made a reference to the old audio. Let's hope we get some creative imagineers working on this.

packwingfn · Post by **packwingfn** » Oct Tue 06, 2009 12:47 pm

Creative imagineers? HAHAHA

theBIGyowski · Post by **theBIGyowski** » Oct Tue 06, 2009 3:37 pm

packwingfn wrote:Creative imagineers? HAHAHA

Yeah...I almost put it in quotes...hehe.

I'm crossing my fingers...but not holding my breath.

Jacca5660 · Post by **Jacca5660** » Oct Tue 06, 2009 5:30 pm

To be an Imagineer, would they have had to actually go to the parks before destroying a venue?

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Oct Wed 07, 2009 9:30 pm

theBIGyowski wrote:Even though TTA was one of my favorite things at WDW...I find myself strangely agreeing with you on this change. It has a retro Peoplemover feel to it. I don't think they are done with it either. They will most likely add more to it which will make it a complete experience like the Peoplemover used to be.

Will I miss the former TTA? Of course...and thank goodness we have it here at SSR and on YouTube. But...I am looking forward to seeing them complete SM and TTA.

I second (er, third, I guess) this. The Peoplemover's always been my favorite and I felt more than a little territorial about them changing the voice over, but I like what they've come up with. I'm not a huge fan of the way it's basically turned into an advertisement for the other attractions - more blatant advertisement anyway - but to be fair, it's really turned back into that, since that's what it used to be. They've just peeled off the Buck Rogerish overlay, which they've been slowly doing to the whole land for years so it's not a big surprise to me.

What I do really appreciate is them whipping out the word "peoplemover" over and over. Thumbs up on that one. And I'm happy the music is the same. All in all, I likes.

Just Believe · Post by **Just Believe** » Oct Sun 25, 2009 4:22 pm

If the Space Mountain is anywhere near as great as the SM in Disneyland... then I CAN NOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

keneka · Post by **keneka** » Nov Tue 10, 2009 9:23 am

the tta and sm was closed during our visit - tta is one of my fav's

MW1218 · Post by **MW1218** » Nov Tue 10, 2009 9:25 am

Here's a link to a new story about the update. It's almost ready for liftoff, it says!

http://www.attractionsmagazine.com/blog ... -lift-off/

Post by **rdeacon** » Nov Tue 10, 2009 9:52 am

Seems they have done very little with the refub of SM. The cars are the same, so it seems besides a new paint scheme on the outside we have to hope for some cool new effects. They are supposedly soft launching this week.

Rich

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » Nov Tue 10, 2009 10:06 am

Disappointing, especially after all the work they did to Disneyland's Space Mountain for the 50th Anniversary.