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Question About Ellen's Energy Adventure
I always have been curious how the ride itself works. It seems like you are going about 6 stories in the air before you enter into the "dino scene". Does the whole floor of the room rotate or does only the ride vehicles rotate up? Or is it something completley different? I have always been curious as to how some ride's work.
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I don't think you go in the air at all....at least not when I've been on it!
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I rode this and it never went in the air...
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When it is rotating during the movie it feels like you are rotating up higher. I always assumed it was doing this to get you to the level that had the dinosaur scene your ride through. Am I crazy?
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Originally Posted by BMan62
Yup! You're crazy!!
The entire show is done on one level. The 'cars' are on sensor type tracks that guide them through the building. Effects are generated mostly by optical tricks.
Well now I feel stupid!
Well their optical tricks sure did work on me! HAHAHA
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I got so naseous on this ride! I get naseous just reading the title of the ride. LOL
Leave it to me to get motion sickness from watching the movie at the end. When your turning and then the movie is going, it totally threw my equilibrium off and I was so sick afterwards for a couple of hours
But no it doesn't go up, its all on one floor.
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Originally Posted by DisneyPrincess21
Well now I feel stupid!
Well their optical tricks sure did work on me! HAHAHA
Hey! The effect where they are in the helicopter and bank one way or the other gets me every time. Really plays on my vertigo. Even more so than any of the effects on Soarin'
Doesn't stop me from riding, though!!
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When we were there in June we didn't get to ride. We watched the movie at the begining, but when it came time to load the seats in the big auditorium, the doors refused to open. We were told it had malfunctioned and we needed to come back later. We never got the change. Bummer!
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nope, all one level. The cars simply follow a track in the floor
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That ride begun with a different name when Epcot opened. It was Universe of _Energy I guess. But I think it was basically the same, without Ellen.
At the 80s it was a cool ride, but now with all new stuff we have seen, the dino section is not that amazing. Besides I don't get why they do a dino ride. Just to tell us that dinosaurs became petroleum and it is used to produce energy.. hummm... a bit silly.
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Wait - I distinctly remember this ride rotating and elevating me - right into REM sleep!
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Originally Posted by villavic
Besides I don't get why they do a dino ride. Just to tell us that dinosaurs became petroleum and it is used to produce energy.. hummm... a bit silly.
Actually, one current leading theory is that dinosaurs didn't become petroleum. That duty went to microscopic plankton millions and millions of years before dinosaurs.
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The dinosaur part is the only part of the ride we like
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Originally Posted by villavic
That ride begun with a different name when Epcot opened. It was Universe of _Energy I guess. But I think it was basically the same, without Ellen.
At the 80s it was a cool ride, but now with all new stuff we have seen, the dino section is not that amazing. Besides I don't get why they do a dino ride. Just to tell us that dinosaurs became petroleum and it is used to produce energy.. hummm... a bit silly.
I'm still a fan of the original version of this ride, and not so much of the Ellen version.
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It definitely doesn't go up but it does put you down, for a nap that is. There is just something about this ride that makes me nod off for a few minutes every time I ride it. Maybe because it's cool in there and I'm tired?
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The only time it makes me sleepy is when the ride breaks down.So 9 out of 10 times we ride it I get a little nap!
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