Spaceship Earth RUMOR

kristen · Post by **kristen** » Dec Tue 11, 2007 12:11 am

The new computer scenes and the redone family TV scene look pretty cool. The new descent... not so much. I really hope they're going to flesh that out quite a bit before opening. It looks like the most anti-climatic finale ever.

Post by **horizons1** » Dec Tue 11, 2007 3:37 pm

I too am hoping they continue the soft openings as I'll be there in January. It's hard to think of visiting EC without going on SE!

FlatlandMounty · Post by **FlatlandMounty** » Dec Sun 16, 2007 10:17 pm

Ok, so I've been on it. The ride is pretty much the same from the Load up to the two kids playing on their computer...which has been replaced by something different. But I seriously doubt everything is done. There is no music in the Space scene at the very top. And yes...the decent is HORRIBLE. I don't want to give anything away...but there is literally NOTHING to give away.

edit: the vehicles are exactly the same, they just have touch screens now

SimonTemplar · Post by **SimonTemplar** » Dec Mon 17, 2007 10:04 pm

FlatlandMounty wrote:Ok, so I've been on it. The ride is pretty much the same from the Load up to the two kids playing on their computer...which has been replaced by something different. But I seriously doubt everything is done. There is no music in the Space scene at the very top. And yes...the decent is HORRIBLE. I don't want to give anything away...but there is literally NOTHING to give away.

I was excited about the "revamp", but I'm not hearing too many good things about the decent portion of the ride. I hope they have more that they plan to do before the official unveiling.

wdw9999 · Post by **wdw9999** » Dec Tue 18, 2007 2:08 pm

I just got back as well from WDW and we were fortunate enough to get to ride SSE! We were told in the morning that they would open it during the day for a couple of hours - but no one knew at what time. We wandered the park and were leaving in the afternoon for a break and it was open! A lot of the ride was the same with the new narration, just the ending had changed. Still a great one though!

Esmeralda · Post by **Esmeralda** » Dec Tue 18, 2007 2:26 pm

I'm assuming they didn't change the seats? Those head rests always seemed a bit painful to me (along with those uncushioned square shaped seats!).

meticulus9 · Post by **meticulus9** » Dec Tue 18, 2007 8:55 pm

Esmeralda wrote:I'm assuming they didn't change the seats? Those head rests always seemed a bit painful to me (along with those uncushioned square shaped seats!).

so true thsoe vehicles were so uncomfortable!

wdw9999 · Post by **wdw9999** » Dec Wed 19, 2007 7:02 am

Nope, sadly the seats are still the same!

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Dec Wed 19, 2007 8:41 pm

bbowen13 wrote:I just got back from WDW and the time I was in EPCOT SSE was not open. Talking with one of the cast members they had opened it for an hour the day before (Thursday). Hate that I missed it on this trip

Exact same thing happened to me (twice actually) this trip. Friday we missed by about 15 minutes, Monday we missed by an hour or two. So disappointed - I may just go ahead and watch the videos as I don't know when we'll be back at Epcot. We did mess around in the post-ride area, though. The 'put the body together' demo thing was pretty entertaining (especially if you're a Wally Shawn fan, which I am).

meticulus9 · Post by **meticulus9** » Dec Sat 22, 2007 10:09 am

do anyone think they will change the decent. i've heard its pretty boring.

BirdandRobot · Post by **BirdandRobot** » Dec Sat 22, 2007 2:30 pm

meticulus9 wrote:do anyone think they will change the decent. i've heard its pretty boring.

From what I've heard, they're pretty much finished with the rehab. It supposedly reopened yesterday.

yodiwan1 · Post by **yodiwan1** » Dec Sun 23, 2007 9:56 am

From what I've heard, they're pretty much finished with the rehab. It supposedly reopened yesterday.

Opening is not until February. They are still working on the decent which is why there are "curtains" up. Should be much better than it is now. This is coming from an immagineer that is working on it.

Blackie Pueblo · Post by **Blackie Pueblo** » Dec Mon 24, 2007 2:10 pm

Hey everyone, I just had a friend go to Disney for four days of vacation and he was lucky enough to be able to ride SpaceShip Earth!! Can You believe it? He said he just walked in with his family and they just happened to be passing SE when the construction wall opened and they waved several people in, and his family was one of the lucky ones!!

He told me all about it and between his wife and himself they had mixed reviews! Should I post what they said here, or in another topic?

"...it was all started by a mouse."
---Walter Elias Disney

Post by **acp** » Dec Tue 25, 2007 11:30 am

Blackie Pueblo wrote:He told me all about it and between his wife and himself they had mixed reviews! Should I post what they said here, or in another topic?

Go for it here, by all means

Andy.

tmptnr · Post by **tmptnr** » Dec Thu 27, 2007 12:40 pm

Well SE was opened when I was in Florida last week. I can say I'm not to impressed. I did ride it. The new music needs some help. The naration is ok. The ending hopefully is not completely finished I hope!!! For me it was kind of a let down.