Mission: SPACE Review, Epcot Space Simulator | Too Intense for Disney?

Mission: Space is a space simulator at Epcot. The green side takes riders on a mission around Earth, but the orange side takes guests on a more extreme mission to Mars since this side operates as a centrifuge that subjects guests to strong forces. I think this is the most intense ride at Walt Disney World, but is it too intense for a Disney park?
Video Credits
Centrifuge (James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)- • Seth Green visits NASA...
Horizons (Lee Torsey)- • Vintage 1990 Epcot Cen...
Mission Space Commercial (Disney)
Mission Space Green (Paging Mr. Morrow)- • Epcot World Showcase 2...
Mission Space Old Pre-Shows (extreme railfan redwood emprie corp)- • mission space old vs u...
Mission Space Pre-Shows (Street Spitzley)- • (EPCOT) Mission: SPACE...
Mission Space Queue (Disney FAM Adventures)- • Full ride Mission: Spa...
Background Music
Mysterious Space Music
Gravity Sound - Portal
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[@thomasxl200]

It is too intense for Disney, and I absolutely love it

[@CanobieCoaster]

It's a shocking display of force.

[@maxhagenauer24]

I 100% disagree with you, Disney has almost 0 intense rides outside of Hollywood Studios. They need more for thrillseekers.

[@goldstarchoice]

Challenge accepted

[@vinniet2828]

This is one of my favorite rides at Disney. I do get dizzy on this one but I've been on rides that are worse than this one. This ride actually got me into riding thrill rides!

[@CanobieCoaster]

Nice!

[@MathiHase]

Congrats to 20.000 subscribers!

[@CanobieCoaster]

Thanks!

[@danp3964]

in 2015 when i was 13 i've been to disney world. I was scared of too much of a thrill and didn't do any super big roller coasters. This one i actually did the green lane first and then decided i wanted the more intense orange. i still remember to this day how i freaked out that in orange i rotated fully 90 degress up in the launch (also i felt dizzy for a while after the ride haha) honestly a good memory.

[@CanobieCoaster]

It's definitely one of the most intimidating rides at Disney World given the Gs.

[@michaeltaylor1603]

I rode Orange on two separate visits. I must say, you feel a bit "weird" for about an hour after you get off. I went through the single rider line (super fast) I agree, It's a beautiful pavilion especially @ night! If you come across the 2003 advert for this with the kids/parents it's hilarious! I forgot which "role" I had, but I was very focused on that task. LOL!

[@CanobieCoaster]

I don't recall there ever being a single rider line.

[@Stuntpilot22]

When I was 8, I remember this being one of my favorite things ever. I actually remember freaking out because my family didn’t press the buttons immediately, and I thought we would crash! Also, the X-2 has always been my favorite fictional space shuttle. I still have my toy X-2 sitting around somewhere.

[@CanobieCoaster]

Nice!

[@maxhagenauer24]

This is seriously one if my favorite rises of all time and I'm not kidding, the fact it's an actual centrifuge so you can experience sustained linier Gs like on a rocket is absolutely nuts. I don't remember it being super intense and I rode orange, but it's definitely not meant to be intense imo, I know some would say it is, but more of a full experience with the forces acting just the right amount. I don't remember but I don't see how you can get motion sickness if you can't see outside to see anything moving and also the fact you are just spinning at a distance from the center which gives more of a G Force sensation being pressed into the back of the seat instead of getting sick as if you were spinning in the middle. Also I do very VERY much appreciate how Disney split it into 2 modes instead of completely tuning it down.

[@CanobieCoaster]

I like how they split it too.

[@ChillaxeMake]

I believe the motion sickness on Mission: SPACE is due to the difference between what your eyes see and your balance calibration from your ears.

[@christopherfisher3251]

With the motion simulator added to the centrifuge, this ride makes me feel a unique kind of weightless that blows me away every time I ride; one of my favorites, despite the lackluster graphics. 10/10!!

[@CanobieCoaster]

Nice!

[@Coyotek4]

Simple question: how do the G-forces compare to those from a typical carnival Gravitron?

[@CanobieCoaster]

Not as intense, but as sustained and your pod is shifting during the spinning.

[@ToneTitan]

Good God! I’ll never forget this one; felt like my chest was going to cave in 😂

[@CanobieCoaster]

It's intense.

[@Jackp499]

I adore this ride

[@CanobieCoaster]

I wish the screens were better, but it's still solid.

[@donkeyentertain]

I haven’t ridden it in a number of years, and I think I only went on it twice… I didn’t find it very good. I agree about the poor screen quality, and I also think the centrifuges are too small. The tight radius makes differences in gravity more noticeable, and they have to rotate faster which leads to stronger Coriolis effects. I don’t think the forces in the ride matched up with the screen well. Feel like it would be better if they stripped that part out and made it like a Gravitron.

[@CanobieCoaster]

I wonder if this ride would be better with the Smugglers Run ride system.

[@donkeyentertain]

@@CanobieCoaster That would work better for sure, and be way more popular. I also think after universe of energy going away, they could put in another slower Omni mover and that would be a nice fit as well (like an updated horizons, I hear that one was good). They really need to fix the Journey into Imagination ride first though.

[@MikeAnnarose]

Man i love this "ride." I road it back to back 7 times one day. Almost passed out twice. Pretty sure I can blame it for the blood clots in my legs today. 😮

[@CanobieCoaster]

Wow!

[@JT863Media]

Finally see how they simulate that insane gforce. It had me mind bobbled on how they achieved that. 👍🏾 👍🏾

[@CanobieCoaster]

There are some other off-ride videos showing the full chamber at Epcot.

[@ScottyMania313]

Huge fan of this ride. When Gina Torres pops up on the screen, I'm like, "yo, isn't that the actress from ..____.." - I never know what she was in, but I know she was in it. I enjoy the story of the ride when you're inside. Question, would you say this is as fast or faster than a Gravatron or Rotor?

[@CanobieCoaster]

I didn't recognize her from anything. This isn't as fast as a rotor or gravitron, but the forces are sustained and can mess with you due to the visuals.

[@MattMcIrvin]

She's been in so many things, it's hard to say what you recognized her from. Lots of fantasy/science fiction TV. "Xena: Warrior Princess", "Cleopatra 2525", "Firefly"... Also a lot of video game work; for a while she was the voice of Ikora the Warlock Vanguard in "Destiny".

[@EnoughRhetoric]

My little kids (7 & 8) and I love both sides. An easy 8 for us. I can see the video quality complaints but that’s it. With an update to those it’d be an easy 10.

[@CanobieCoaster]

It would go up at least 2 points for me with better video.

[@MattMcIrvin]

This is, I confess, a ride I have never bothered to do at Epcot. Based on how I react to very spinny flats, orange sounds actively unpleasant and green sounds pointless.

[@CanobieCoaster]

Orange is a nightmare if you hate spinning.

[@paintervision]

It’s a fine ride, but the Green side (which I’ve never done, actually) sounds pointless to me. I’d be OK with them improving the visuals on Orange and gutting the Green side for a return to the “Mission To Mars” format. That way, they can remove the height limit and claustrophobic feeling. As it is today, the Green side feels like overkill with all that extra hardware for a few gentle motions.

[@CanobieCoaster]

Green is sort of awkward now with half the system disabled

[@redstonecommander5190]

Of course, there are a lot of buttons those two of them below the screen are crucial to certain portions of the mission, or at least experience the rest of the switches and buttons you can fidget with switched on or off or even pressed would basically do nothing but just make machinery computer noises throughout the ride

[@redstonecommander5190]

They have no effect on the ride, though the tube button below the screen does depending on the audio prompt and depending on which rider

[@CanobieCoaster]

They are there, but technically don't influence the ride.

[@redstonecommander5190]

Even though they do not influence to ride, they are still there to have people who ever rode horizons before a bit of a memory flashback before they even attempt to team orange

[@davidpalomeque4689]

This is NOT too intense, this is just the type of ride I’m looking for! I love this thing!!! The only other Disney ride that can match this thrill type is Hyperspace Mountain at Disneyland Paris (which needs to be cloned here!)

[@CanobieCoaster]

I think the fact you can't see the ride dooms a few people.

[@jamesmason5576]

I worked this attraction in 2019 and I will say it is definitely the most polarizing attraction on property. You either love it or hate it and if you had less then 4 protein spills a day then you had a great day. A custodial cast member was required to be stationed there especially during food and wine season because the overwhelming amount of protein spills consistently. I still say this is nothing but a spin and puke ride with millions of dollars poured into it. But the graphics on the ride and in the games/playground area DESPERATELY need to be updated.

[@CanobieCoaster]

I agree those graphics are the achilles heel.

[@HarryPorpise]

I love this ride, the sustained forces are just bonkers.

[@CanobieCoaster]

I agree.

[@micoasters]

I rode this but I hated it, that was before I liked coaster so I will definitely be trying it again

[@CanobieCoaster]

Hope you like it better!

[@thebasic95]

Rode this for the first time and tried to get my party to ride the orange side, last minute they all went to the green side and still ended up getting sick and one person threw up afterwards 😂

[@CanobieCoaster]

If that happened on Green, Orange would have been bad.

[@thegteam4349]

I took one look inside the capsule and decided "Oh, hell no!" Probably didn't help that I read dozens of YT comments while waiting in line. Being trapped inside that thing for 4 minutes sounded awful.

[@CanobieCoaster]

I don't mind being stuck in the capsule, but I know it's a nightmare if you're claustrophobic.

[@andrewh4855]

Literally the ONLY ride at WDW that made me sick. One and done for me. 😂

[@CanobieCoaster]

I can see how that would happen.

[@sparko2012]

I was nearly sick myself, i was there last week. Only ride I went on, I felt sick for hours after it!

[@christoferberruzchungata2722]

This ride was amazing; but it left me sick for the remaining of the day 😭

[@mateoalvira3514]

Canobie Coaster said: I would give this attraction a 6 out of 10. This is a solid ride. As a thrill-seeker, I'm genuinely impressed by the sustained positive Gs this ride induces on the orange side. That is particularly true during the liftoff sequence. I just wish the on-screen visuals were better. That is one of the most important things of any simulator, yet this is where this one struggles. That's the one thing holding Mission: SPACE back for me from being a truly great attraction. Holding it back from being great, what does that mean?

[@CanobieCoaster]

Preventing it from going to the next level or tier of quality.

[@Paolo8772]

In January 1977 I rode something that thought was Space Mountain at Disneyland. It was a simulation of a trip to space and back but it wasn't a roller coaster. I remember because there was no track or forces. I'd say it was more like this ride, but it obviously wasn't, since this ride has even more forces than any roller coaster or flat ride with forces at Disneyland; to the best of my recollection it was just a film of what it would look like to leave earth's atmosphere then return again. Can anyone please tell me what I rode at Disneyland in January 1977? From my best memory: It looked exactly like the planetarium looking building that Space Mountain is housed inside. If anyone can help me w my memories from being not even 7 years old: Thank you.

[@CanobieCoaster]

Interesting, I don't know the attraction you're describing.

[@Paolo8772]

@@CanobieCoaster Neither do I, apparently. The only coaster we rode at Disneyland was Bobsled Matterhorn. What I'm describing wasn't a coaster. I rode it with my mom, dad and my younger brother Mischa who was 4 (the same guy that yelled "my car! My car" on lil' Screamer at SFGA in August of the same year; 1977; that Molina and Sons coaster that "lil' Phantom is a clone of that you do a great parody for). Perhaps I'll eventually actually figure out WTF I rode.

[@MattMcIrvin]

That was almost certainly "Mission to Mars", which was retooled from the old Rocket/Flight to the Moon attraction. The weird Brian de Palma movie was nominally an adaptation of it, though it had been long gone by that point. I figure Mission: Space was conceived as a next-level revival of it. Someone's home movie of it has been uploaded here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jomcmWWPorqpe5I

[@Paolo8772]

@@MattMcIrvin That's gotta be it; Mission to Mars at Disneyland! THANK YOU!

[@redstonecommander5190]

If you don’t wanna vomit during the high Gs of team orange, I recommend not eating lunch before you even enter team orange territory. If you do eat lunch before heading here, you would probably pay the price by vomiting afterwards.

[@CanobieCoaster]

Or you can ride green if needed.

[@redstonecommander5190]

If I was able to be going, my family will be going in separate ways my sister is in my mother will be going to team green and for the daredevils like me and my biological father will be heading to team Orange

[@redstonecommander5190]

Since there are only four seats, me and Marcus will go to team Orange and two of my sisters, including my mother will go to team green just so that my mother and my sisters won’t get frightened when they exit this is just a recap what I said it’s just a recap

[@tedperkoski7534]

I have ridden this ride only once, and I do not think I will ride it again. In fact when I rode it with my friend, he asked if I wanted to ride it again, I said No, I just could not go on it again so soon. Now I am a person who could ride the Incredible Hulk back to back no problem. But for some reason, I just could not go on Mission Space again, so soon. infact when i heard about the death of the young boy, I was not surprised.

[@CanobieCoaster]

The orange side is intense.

[@ryanlaukshtein4957]

My daughter and I did the easy level then she says let’s do hard level. Then she says that’s the worst ride I’ve ever been on, I couldn’t breath !!!

[@CanobieCoaster]

Orange is very intense with the spinning.

[@upsidedown_]

I mean worse than a HUSS take off is impossible xD

[@CanobieCoaster]

The one Huss Takeoff I rode wasn't too wild.

[@jtwoolley]

i love it.

[@CanobieCoaster]

Nice!

[@ethanhcomposer]

I've got really bad motion sickness and I had to avoid this ride. If I get motion sick from Fahrenheit or Batman, I definitely need to stay away from this thing

[@CanobieCoaster]

Yeah it's worse than most coasters.

[@ChiefBlueScreen]

new mic?

[@CanobieCoaster]

Yes, I'll be phasing it in.

[@leighgarrettorr9630]

I I was there a couple months ago and I have post-traumatic stress disorder because of this ride. My son said wow this ride is advanced. Don't do it!

[@CanobieCoaster]

Did you ride the orange side?

[@leighgarrettorr9630]

@@CanobieCoaster I guess it was orange it was awful I can't believe I survived it the only way I survived was because I knew I was in Disney World and I didn't want to ruin my trip so I took deep breaths until they opened up the freaking door

[@ThrillsofColdplay]

I hated this ride oh my goodness that feeling of being lifted up in a rocket was so uncomfortable I wasn’t riding super forceful coasters when I first rode this I was very young

[@CanobieCoaster]

I like it, but it can make me feel fuzzy.

[@itstrickyy3934]

The issue is not that it’s too intense. It’s that neither the adults or little kids have no idea what they are getting into. I knew it would be cool but damn I didn’t expect that 😂 such a great experience

[@CanobieCoaster]

I agree it is deceptive what it does.

[@tom-840]

I've done orange once, and I promise not to clog up the line ever again. Setting aside the sickening G-forces, the ride is not very good.

[@CanobieCoaster]

I find it fun, but it is very dizzying.

[@trevorjensen2706]

I would definitely prefer green. If I was on Orange, I would need more than one puke bag.

[@CanobieCoaster]

Smart choice.

[@FilmThePoliceFTP]

Ive rode mission space a barely felt anything

[@CanobieCoaster]

Did you ride green?

[@FilmThePoliceFTP]

Definitely rode orange

[@FilmThePoliceFTP]

Idk maybe I just have a really high tolerance for motion. Ive had motion sickness once and it was from an up and down up and down roller coaster and I e never had it since (I was probably 9 years old when it happened)

[@gatsbysdead]

This ride was the height of Eisner’s nonsense and I’m a huge fan.

[@CanobieCoaster]

It's a fine ride.

[@fabiangarcia6079]

listen...LISTEN...this is serious. it is AWEFUL

[@CanobieCoaster]

I enjoy it, but I get why some may not like it.

[@KimCarter]

Love this ride! Except for the one time I road with my idiot boyfriend at the time who decided to “test” all of the things they tell you not to do. He threw up later and was miserable the rest of the day.

[@CanobieCoaster]

Ouch!

[@kiitzuna]

i love how absolutely wacky the forces feel even if it makes me sick

[@CanobieCoaster]

It's so forceful.

[@chibimaho273]

but apparently that Epcot's Space Simulator was too intense- hold up wait a minute Canobie Coaster: hey Epcot is that if Mission Space was too intense will permanently destroyed all hopes for BanG Dream Redditors? Epcot: YES!!! I WIN FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! me: oh no.. not again... ❗spoilers ahead boys / disney fans❗

[@CanobieCoaster]

I'm glad they added the less intense option to make it more accomodating for all.