Originally Posted By WorldofDisney What I loved about the attraction was getting off the Atomibile and seeing the water drip down the strings in the exhibit with little oval pictures of stuff. I was a kid so I don't fully remember what the display was but the water was too cool. I also liked the exiting past the display and into the Character Shop. It all seemed so "Logan's Run" to me. One time was I was very little, there was a teenager just about to go into the shrinking machine and screamed, "I'M SHRINKIIIIING!" That sort of scared me...I was relieved when our car went to the left and realized we weren't really shrinking. Whew!
Originally Posted By Britain While I was sweeping up my garage one day, I caught a scent of something that smelled like ATIS. What a thrill! Maybe that place wasn't swept very often?
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes Yeah, it was a great ride and made a heck of an impression on me when I was about ten and rode it the first time. Sadly, doombuggy got it right about what it became and that's largely how I remember it.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I remember looking at the little people in the tube and trying to recognize the people I had seen in the line ahead of me. I also remember the latter days of the ride...someone had spray painted on one of the "snowflakes"...a little bit of the magic died for me that day.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie I remember riding as a kid. I don't think I ever really thought we really shrunk, but I was perplexed by the illusion. I remember the giant snowflakes and of course the big eye in the microscope.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice We called it "The People Shrinker." I absolutely loved it (didn't hurt that Tomorrowland was my very favorite part of the park back in the good ol' days). First of countless rides was in 1967 when it was a "C" ticket. Loved it as a freebie later on, too. In Jr. High and High School it was THE best makeout ride. ;-)
Originally Posted By Dabob2 It was actually free before it was a C ticket. Monsanto's sponsorship made it free; when they lost the sponsorship, they made it a C ticket (in the early-to-mid 70's). When I was very young I thought the flashing light as you entered the microscope was taking your picture, and THAT's what was showing up ahead in the higher part of the microscope, since I knew that you didn't really shrink. Still, I often wondered "what if you did really shrink? Maybe we're walking around an alternate shrunken Disneyland right now." Stuff like that. TL rides used to actually fire the imagination.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice ^^Memory can be a blessing and a curse at my age... *LOL* Thanks a lot, Dabob2! ;-)
Originally Posted By Sweeper It was a product of its day. It wouldn't play at all now. I still remember the wall of fans that would make the water molecules spin. Or the Mickey heads, depending on what you wanted to see.
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes A wall of fans? That's new to me. I remember they were behind a wall of glass (a one way mirror) so there would be an infinity effect. Then when they were bigger (just before entering the atom) they were stationary with projections of elctrons (dots or streaks of light)"spinning" over them.
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes I don't recall the ones behind the one way mirror as spinning as they were supposed to be in a frozen state.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <It was a product of its day. It wouldn't play at all now.> Maybe not in its original form. But updated with 21st C technology, the idea of shrinking down to molecule size is still appealing to me, and more "TL" than some of the recent cartoon additions.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I remember crying everytime we got on because I would worry that we would not be returned to full size. It was a great attraction, and very much the disney I fell in love with and miss to this day.
Originally Posted By ghoofie I never said it was a good pic. I was on the ride back in 1970 and had a little cheapy cubedflash camera. I only posted it as a frame of reference for anyone who never saw it.
