Originally Posted By brotherdave I know I'm in the minority, but, the only thing that I feel needs upgraded in Space Mountain is the special effects. Personally, I still find the coaster to be a really fun family ride and not rough at all. Considering that SM was an early model steel coaster, I feel that it has upheld very well. If they do feel that the track needs to be replaced, I hope that they take a cue from Disneyland's and just replace the existing tracks with identical layouts. No loops. No launch. Keep it a family ride. I also hope that they keep both tracks. I like the 'mirror imaged' design of the rides.
Originally Posted By jrpbaseball They need to get a new track, preshow,make it faster and smoother and put some loops in it. They also need to make it way darker.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Nope! Totally disagree. NO LOOPS! If you want loops in the dark, head to Disney/MGM Studios!
Originally Posted By brotherdave ^So true. But, I sincerely hope that version remains unique and stays the only looping Space Mountain on the planet! I find loops to be more painful (and highly overated!!) than other coaster elements. Most looping coasters do not 'age' well and usually become more problematic in later years as the metal fatigues.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>(and highly overated!!)<< Same can be said for any of the Space Mountain rides..
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Or DLP's Space Mountain, which does have them as well.>> Yes. If you don't need brain surgery when you get off the ride!
Originally Posted By whistler This ride, because of the size of the show building, could recieve a longer track than any of the other versions ( if capacity was doubled using disneyland's train design ) , with a fun, exciting layout that could be as family friendly as it is now, no loops or inversions. Who want's over the shoulder restraints.... yuck. The thing that impressed me when I rode Disneyland Paris's space mountain was the design of the building, fx, lighting sound, and sense of fun of the ride, not the inversions. It would have been the same for me without them. What would be really cool is a longer ride with more surprises and fx, which wdw's could have in theory.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 You know, I hadn't thought of that. I'm talking about capacity issues. If WDW decided to just redo the tracks, what would stop them from putting in stronger tracks and the Disneyland style trains? This way the capacity would double but the layout would remain the same.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Oh, and it would also allow for music to be played from the cars like Disneyland. The thing about that is you could actually have two different soundtracks with the two tracks. That would be interesting.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm not too familiar with the track layouts, but I believe the only thing keeping them from adding the side by side tracks would potentially be times when the track runs right next to itself. The only point that I know of like this is when the rockets re-emerge to the lift hill for the little bunny hill, and they are pretty close to the lift hill. If they are too close, they could always expand the walls outward, but I'm not sure how that would affect the rest of the ride. They would probably need to restructure some of the track supports, but they don't use the same style supports today as they did when the ride was constructed, so I don't really see that as being a problem. I guess another problem would be especially on days with light crowds, since it would have a huge capacity, and it would seem like a waste (and possibly dangerous due to the weight differences) to have two tracks with extremely high capacity running at the same time.
