Originally Posted By mousermerf In light of the fact that many people are finally accepting that Spaceship Earth is finished and has been finished since sometime in 2008 - what do you think of the ending? Are you a fan of the canvas triangles painted black with blue highlights? Do you enjoy the class look of chicken wire and flush mount sprinkler heads? How do you feel about black curtains? Or maybe the turned off effects like the starfield mobiles from the last version still sitting there unused?
Originally Posted By joe80x86 "what do you think of the ending?" I love the new ending, it is much better than nothingness. "Are you a fan of the canvas triangles painted black with blue highlights? Do you enjoy the class look of chicken wire and flush mount sprinkler heads? How do you feel about black curtains? Or maybe the turned off effects like the starfield mobiles from the last version still sitting there unused? " I guess I just don't pay enough attention to detail, in the 20 or so times I have ridden it since the re-opening I have never really noticed so they must have done a pretty good job blending this stuff in. And if I don't remember/notice I doubt anyone who has never ridden the ride before would notice/care. Not to be offensive, but sometimes I think people complain just to complain.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I too love the ending, When my family was there in October we thought it was great. We loved our cartoon people.
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad I never noticed anything. I guess we were too busy looking at the screen. My kids did love the aftershow stuff with the games
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt The cartoon people are a riot!! I guess we were laughing too hard too notice anything not finished!!
Originally Posted By -em >>Not to be offensive, but sometimes I think people complain just to complain.<< Agreed as I also have never noticed the stuff mentioned... and I tend to be a noticer of things not right (like the horrible dents and scratches in R n R Coaster cars and the desperately needed paint job on the trams) -em
Originally Posted By mousermerf I'm not sure which is more disconcerting- that you don't notice items which are intentional show pieces (the blue triangles) or that you actually find those videos entertaining. Wild guess: you also don't notice that your head is poorly cropped in the animation either? And the ride vehicles don't clunk and clang through the ride? I suppose SSE's lackluster new ending is fitting of your "vision" (or lack thereof) for the future - as sad as that may be.
Originally Posted By -em < hates the videos and I dont utilize the screens at all except to listen to it in German.. so wrong there.. I have always hated the ending to SSE both older and newer visions and think they are both lackluster but still have never noticed all this "bad show" mentioned...
Originally Posted By HMButler79 it seems this post was infiltrated by "MAGIC"al people from the oother site. "its amazing"! "We love looking at ourselves in bad Esurance flash animation!" "Who needs theming!? You guys complain too much! I didnt grown up w/ Disney '55-'95! so who cares!"
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I first rode Spaceship Earth in 1986 -- even then, the cars were rickety sounding, and made a horrible clacking noise when going backward down to the end of the ride. The system itself has always been a headache from a maintenance perspective -- the constant stress on the cars and the track is always causing issues. My point? It's nothing new. As for attention to detail, I'm convinced that people notice what they notice. Just because someone notices a specific detail, doesn't make them better or worse than one who doesn't notice a specific detail. -em notices the dinged up Rock n RollerCoaster cars -- someone else doesn't. Whatever...
Originally Posted By leobloom The videos are not a riot. But their crappiness is almost worthy of a riot. Last time I rode, our faces weren't on the bodies. Time before that, I was taught that in the future I would have a suitcase that would pack my clothes for me. Gimme a freaking break. It's not cute, it's not funny (unless, perhaps, you're part of the Walmart crowd), and it's terribly out of place given the serious and historically accurate scenes that have preceded it.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper >>Gimme a freaking break. It's not cute, it's not funny (unless, perhaps, you're part of the Walmart crowd), and it's terribly out of place given the serious and historically accurate scenes that have preceded it.<< Agreed.
Originally Posted By joe80x86 <<Wild guess: you also don't notice that your head is poorly cropped in the animation either? And the ride vehicles don't clunk and clang through the ride?>> I have noticed the cropping but I think that is more an issue of the automated program used than anything else, it's not as if there are a hundred Indian artist sitting in front of PCs with photoshop somewhere in India cropping the pics. As far as the vehicle noise, some times I notice it more than others but it has been there for as long as I can remember so I doubt it will ever be fixed unless the entire ride gets replaced.
Originally Posted By joe80x86 PS. As far as the complaining some times it is due (Examples: When your at Epcot and the walk ways seem to be covered in trash and the bins are over flowing and you haven't seen a janitor all day or when in the middle of the rehab they opened It's a Small World a couple of years ago and 80% of the ceiling tiles were missing and some of the walls had yet to be painted, but they opened it because it was spring break.) but other times it just seems to be very nit picky.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS <---part of the walmart crowd. The animation makes us laugh. No offense to anyone....Different strokes, you know? Of course we only go to WDW once a year, so we ride for enjoyment and not to analyze everything.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>Gimme a freaking break. It's not cute, it's not funny (unless, perhaps, you're part of the Walmart crowd), and it's terribly out of place given the serious and historically accurate scenes that have preceded it.<< I didn't realize that all Walmart customers shared the same sense of humor. :-(
Originally Posted By MPierce I'm to busy looking for the spaceship to notice much of anything. They definetly could add a little glitter to the descent though.
Originally Posted By leobloom >I didn't realize that all Walmart customers shared the same sense of humor. :-(< When used in this sense, the term Walmart crowd implies a homogenous group. (They'll cringe at that description.) What strikes me as so disappointing about the Flash animation videos, is that they could have been used for a serious purpose, to show plausible technologies that might come online in the next ten or fifty years. I don't anticipate seeing a suitcase that can pack itself in my lifetime or, hell, in any lifetime outside of a Jetsons cartoon.
