I haven't been on the Tower of Terror, but I still scream like a girl when I think about the "It's A Small World" ride.

Holy crap, when I was four, I think, my mom took me on the "It's A Small World" ride. To say that I blew a gasket would be an understatement. They had to stop the ride and take me off. So wrong.

It's a Small World still gives me the crawling heebs.

I know lots of people who think it's great fun to get all saucer-eyed on various chemicals or combinations of chemicals and go to Disneyland, but I can frankly do without that combination of psychological self abuse - even if it wasn't always crowded with thousands of straight people.

Anyways, some of this subset of derelicts assert that doing so and riding It's a Small World is the bestest, ever. I'm pretty sure I'd end up in a psyche ward if I did that, and I'm certainly no stranger to self-inflicted psychological alteration - blissful or terrifying or other.

maybe she was like those basketball players who suddenly collapse--some undiscovered defect?

Ages ago, we took our grandparents on Space Mountain, not having a clue what it was like--the looks on their faces afterward!

A kid died last month on Mission Space, too.

space mountain was closed when i went
i think there had been problems

Is it wrong that I read this and want to go on the ride even more?

isn't it just a drop ride? like parachute drops?

Space Mountain has been closed for like 3 years for a complete re-do and overhaul. It just re-opened like last month or something. Frankly, I'm scared and worried. I grew up on that damn ride. I know I'm going to miss the 2001-esque theme, especially if they replace it with that junky Jules-Verne-esque steampunk theme they've been going with.

kellydamnit: Nope. I mean, if you like rides at the upper end of the "i need fresh underpants!" scale, it's certainly Disney's best offering, considering how mild the rest of 'em are. And at the least it's competitive with more cutting edge adrenaline rides everywhere else. Which is pretty much a first for Disney parks since Disneyland opened.

amberglow: (Spoiler alert!) Yeah, it goes down. And up. And down again. And then sometimes up and down again, and sometimes again. So, metaphorically it's more like an ejector seat instead of a parachute. It's an elevator, a psychotic elevator on crack. You sit in some pretty basic bench seats with a lap belt. The Otis elevator company helped design it. It has a semi-random or random software algorithm that controls it, so it's supposed to not be the same every time. There's a Twilight Zone theme. The one at WDW is supposed to be more elaborate, but the one at Disney California Adventure is adequete and entertaining, and helps set the mood.

Psychologically, it just fucks with you. You start out in pitch black. Most of the time you get a view of some scenes on "floors" in between drops, and sometimes a view out of the elevator shaft over the park. The drops themselves don't seem to be just drops, but faster-than-gravity accelerations towards the ground. I remember hanging in the air by my lapbelt, having to hold my backpack down and otherwise shrieking like no other ride has ever made me scream before.

I'm a huge coaster fan, and the only screaming I usually do on rides is the giddy-laughing sort. And again, I love freefall and negative Gs. I certainly wasn't expecting something so severe and outright psychologically brutal at a Disney park. Even though I know it's mostly psychological, it's intense, easily in the top 5 or 10 rides I've ever been on.