So...I just want to take time to appreciate the fact that not only did you willingly record the ride through of this, but you also willingly went there in 2006 when absolutely nobody else would, AND you stopped and taped the queue show even though there was literally nobody in the line and you almost certainly would have gotten funny looks for doing that, AND you even went on a second time just to get a full recording of the side screen alongside it. I am in shock and awe of the dedication you went through to document this ride. I never got to personally go on it myself but this looks like a really neat ride that combines thrill and education very effectively. And since I've been on Star Tours, I think I have a pretty good idea of what this ride was like! Serious props for the recording. And you even gave us the 60fps version. It's so refreshing to see someone else who actually knows how interlacing works. Good job!
That has to be one the best responses I've gotten on this video. Ya know, when I film attractions like this, the impact isn't felt right away of course, but many years later. I'm really glad I went out of my way to take care of filming this and editing it. It was an honor to film it and to showcase it to everyone. Thank you for those kind comments.
@CFSAS Yes of course! I just couldn't help but notice all those things and I just had to say something about your dedication! Glad you loved my comment so much!
Seeing the red skin decontamination lights, and the long hallway designed to handle a typical Disney line, I wondered how many people under the lights joked about how clean they were getting, standing there, so long. :-)
I was one of those people. This ride creeped me out as a kid, had totally forgotten about it until a Defunctland video reminded me of it, decades later.
Oh, I loved this ride SO MUCH as a kid. I used to drag my dad on it with me every time we went to Disney World. Honestly, I credit rides like this and Horizons for making me want to be a scientist when I grew up - so inspiring. I wish kids today had these same kind of experiences to give them a love of science.
I have a different story... I have a love of the insides of the human body because it makes me feel good inside. Everybody has something that makes them feel like that, and for me it's that. People think it's gross; well, I do, because we are inside a woman's body (look closely at when the shield lowers), and I prefer men as the "hosts." I remember the only thing I saw being done with a female was really gross. This might be an exception, as I thought it was a man when I first rode this ride in 2006, and hell, the subject even looks like a man at the end. Perhaps, they switched actors.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 I getcha..... I am the same.... at the time I mainly liked Snake from Metal Gear..... when I got back to the hotel that night you KNOW what I was imagining. xD
I really love the vintage aesthetic of this ride. Honestly it would’ve been so school if it was themed to vintage space travel concepts. Something like A Space Odyssey
Yeah. Way better than giving autistics nightmares because we're inside of a woman. (I know they kept whoever it was far away so the patient could be whoever you wanted them to be. But I'm technical.)
I still remember the movement of this ride. It felt sort of disorienting because how it tried to simulate the probe reacting to the body. Something like Star Tours you could expect where to go and brace for movement.
This was the best simulator ever. The constant panicked narration combined with the extremely unpredictable movement really makes you feel helpless. I would get chills every time. At least in star tours you're dealing with enemies and an environment run by sapient beings. It's much more twisted when you're just being tempest tossed the whole time as the crew alternates from being horrified to in awe every five seconds. Only thing that bugged me is knowing people threw up in there which I mean I would be so pissed if someone threw up inside my body. Also "I'm gonna use the lasers to stun it" *winds up VAPORIZING a cell*
@@unwelldanny7108 yeah I still wish they would bring this back even for like a special run like captain eo maybe just have a small simulator and the film synched up. If i had a lot of money I'd make it myself
@@janetplanet4595 I'm more scared that the patient we go inside could be a woman. I always saw this thing being done with men (Kwame, TOM, etc.) as a kid, so I'm very off-putted by it being a woman. I'm into endo, that's how you call it. I'm bi, but I only do my stuff with men.
Went to Epcot with cheerleading squad in college..... this ride was my EVERYTHING..... loved the film and Dr. Lair.... I especially liked the safety video for some reason.... somehow I just liked seeing the fashion. BOMB-ASS.
I didn't think of it as gross until I realized other people did then I specifically looked for why. I guess it's cuz the tissues and the lungs look all shrivelly and the veins look like someone had the worst inner hair day ever. I guess. At most it makes me a little itchy but I guess being a tomboy has many imunities to squick.
@@janetplanet4595 I used to be a girly girl and I loved the inside of the human body even back then. All those 90s girly girls need to know that that's what the inside of their bodies look like, and that their cartoon crush has probably had his body travelled inside of. (Mine, Cyborg, has. I have a fetish for the insides of people's bodies for some damn reason so I always get excited when they go inside someone I have a crush on. Blame me.) It's not about being a tomboy; even men were grossed out by it.
Im glad people uploaded footage from the rides at this pavilion. I was only 4 when the pavilion closed so I never got to see any of this stuff and it all seems like it was awesome!
Central Florida Sights and Sounds 😂😂 Im sad that Disney is replacing so many classic rides. Ive never gotten to go to Florida at all so ive never been on any of the rides
I was only 4 as well, and I have a love for vintage pop culture, so to see these rides in all their glory is a real treat, especially with the lack of updates they received since 1989.
When I was 13 I thought it was the coolest thing ever! Funny I never noticed how uninterested the rest of the people were in the ride. Now seeing it as an adult, I can understand why it didn't last for too long.
"Dermatopic Purification." I distinctly remember going on this ride for the first time as a kid, seeing that and asking my mother what it meant. She just leaned towards me and said "Skin Cleaner!" I'm still amazed that she knew that!
This ride and the whole pavilion has freaked me out ever since I was a little kid, passing by the barred off pathway up to the building and leaving what was in there totally up to my imagination. Seeing this now, I almost have to laugh at the almost Tim and Eric level of acting and the hilariously shoehorned educational material. Thanks for some peace of mind!
You know, watching the preshow, It makes me wonder how the volunteer was feeling during the ride.They had to keep moving that scope around to where the ship was so they could beam us out wherever we were. The subject most likely wondered why!
Who are they, anyway? I think they were so far away so we could decide what they were like. But I wonder who they really were. They look female at the beginning, but male at the end. Since we could decide what they were like, I say we were inside Iroquois Pliskin from Metal Gear Solid 2. Also, I don't like how the volunteer feels nothing... because in my comfort scenarios, I like the patient (whatever fictional character I crush on currently) feeling the movements inside him.
I loved this ride as a kid!! Simulators were often my favorite rides at Disney and even though this wasn't the best simulator it still had a fun theme that made me want to go on every time my parents took me to disney
It was fun for me too! The best part is that you can decide who the patient is, since they're far away! I imagine it being Iroquois Pliskin from Metal Gear Solid 2.
I remember another simulator ride at epcot from late 80s, something to do with space, pretty sure it was not star tours as that was at another park, do you remember any other simulators at epcot?
I was holding back tears with this compilation you put together. This ride has been so underated and the fact somone put in the effort to pull this off is amazing.
Do you know who we're inside in this ride? Alot of people say it looks like a woman, but I just see a white-haired man (especially at the end.) Kinda like Romulus Thread from the Hunger Games, almost.
@@DigitalAndInnovation I would like to know who the patient we see briefly move at the beginning and the end is. Sometimes it looks like a girl, sometimes it looks like a guy.
Thank you so much for taking the time to record and post this, I know it's been many years but sometimes I get flashes of memory and look for stuff like this. I rode this as a kid in the 90s back when it had lines and I especially appreciate you recording the queue, pre-show, and other little bits - the kind of odd things I noticed as a kid like the signs and pictures really took me back. Also interesting tidbit, the actor who plays mission control in this is the admiral who gives command of Voyager to Janeway in the first episode of that show. He's done 1000 other things but when I was a kid watching voyager and then riding this ride, I remember recognizing him from that. I also still remember vividly an interactive piece just outside of this ride that explained how we feel hot and cold via touch. There were metal coils, one cold, then one warm, but the last one had alternating warm/cold and you could barely stand to touch it because your body was essentially telling you that it was incredibly hot even though it was barely room temperature. Super cool. I think of it more often than you'd expect, like touching the towel bar while in a hot shower, or.. other examples I can't think of right now but I'm surprised how often I've noticed that phenomenon in day to day life as an adult. Thanks again for this - and your other videos (which I'm pouring through now).
Ditto. And, I love intense rides. But, this one with the motion, and more the sound effects, the sloshing blood, etc, nauseated me. No other ride, no matter how intense, has ever done that to me.
I went on here during my 2006 trip to Disney World. It was awesome! I felt I was in an episode of the Magic School Bus. I love the inside of the human body!
Body wars had the worst death in Epcot history. it slowly began to die because of mission space, test track and MetLife closing their sponsorship in 2001.
I'm not usually squeamish, but something about this is so uncomfortable and disorienting even without moving, so I can definitely see how it made people want to throw up.
I wish Disney owned the rights to all the Marvel characters east of the Mississippi so we could have an Iron Man retheme of this attraction with you inside Hawkeye. The cartoon with that episode is on Disney+ now, so....
Except you're gonna go inside a kid, and that's GROSS. Why not base it off that episode of Captain Planet? Captain Planet was like the Magic School Bus, but with young adults.
I like that this ride was a loose tribute to Adventure Thru Inner Space from Disneyland. Now that Galaxy’s Edge is open at Disneyland, I think Star Tours should be moved to Galaxy’s Edge. When the eventual Remodel of Disneyland’s Tomorrowland happens, I think Body Wars would be a good fit in the old Adventure Thru Inner Space building, and I can also picture the Peoplemover moving through this building just like the good old days. PLEASE GIVE THIS COMMENT A THUMBS UP IF YOU AGREE. Hello from Phoenix Arizona.
I vaguely remember going on this ride when I was 6. I remember my dad warning me to close my eyes if it made me feel sick but luckily I didn't have to.
I honestly thought my memories were messing with me. I vaguely remember riding this when I was 5 and up until now I thought I imagined this ride. Watching this I now remember how absolutely terrified I was of this ride. It was definitely ahead of its time I think if they rebuilt this ride and used the better technology available today and made an even better story for the ride, I think it would do well.
This ride was awesome. It was essentially Star Tours but way more movement. It really tossed you around. I can confirm though it really never had a line but part of that was because it was kind of hidden in the Wonders of Life Pavilion.
I have a soft spot for Body Wars and I appreciate those old-school simulators that kind of made you sick. Course I was a Floridian child of the 80s-90s where these were a must-ride and relatively new…😬😂
I loved this ride as a kid. And when learning the parts of the body in science in elementary school and early middle school, it was neat to “see” what I was learning. I wish they’d bring this ride back!
Oh wow, I remember this ride from my very first trip to WDW way back in 1992, I was only 7 then. Loved it! Thanks for uploading such a clear video of this ride, it’s brought so many nice memories rushing back!
I rode this on my second trip to WDW in 2006. As someone who considers endo (body exploration like in Fantastic Voyage and this) a comfort scenario (though only when it's done to certain people), I loved this ride. Though I didn't think much of who we were inside in the ride; I thought it was a guy. Some people say it's a girl. I've never liked the scenario done with girls (as mentioned above, I only like it done to certain people, and there were a few shows I watched where it was done to girls and their insides looked very creepy or gross.) I understand they kept them far away to let the riders decide what they were like, and in my mind, it's Iroquois Pliskin from Metal Gear Solid 2.
Not just the visuals but the extremely disorienting movement. They actually cut a part out of the ride in the lungs section because there was so much beating and moving back and forth without warning while the video didn't exactly match up so it made people sick
I LOOOVE this, thank-you! So many rides I haven't experienced and now this is the only way I will. I'm from San Diego, grew up going to Disneyland, but never been to Disney World, so thank-you again for preserving this experience and sharing so others can experience them:)
This was the 1st and only ride I ever vomited on. I puked like a freshman. It would have gotten all over everyone in the simulator, if there had been anyone else on the ride. I still feel really bad for the cast members that had to clean it up. I offered to help but they rushed me to the trash can and then to a restroom as quick as they could. I got a free T-shirt and bottle of water from management.
All my life I had this weird flashback/dream of a ride that took my through the human body and I thought it was all in my head. I really did. I’m pretty shocked this is real and I had any memory of it given I was so young when I went on this apparently. Well at least it was a real memory and I’m not crazy 😂
My mom went on this when i was a kid and got motion sickness so bad, it ended her vacation! Never seen anyone get that sick from a ride, for that long. Its an impressive feat.
Yeah, but honestly, it just made me get into endo. Before anyone asks what's wrong with me, I don't hurt anybody with it, do I? I'm just more open on the Internet.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 But sometimes people don't like what you're into.... like say if they liked feet and you didn't like feet.... you wouldn't get them would you??? So just don't talk about it unless you're sure they'd understand...
Check out Martin Vids Ultimate Tribute to Wonders of Life where not only the whole queue and ride in HD is shown but also shows the bits that were cut to make the ride less rough. They're shown towards the end of the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nhbY7oVQCPc-.html
Mats Berglinn Wow after seeing that deleted scene with my own eyes, even I have to admit it does look dizzying. To the point where I can understand why it was deleted.
@@ashleys8730 I would've LOVED it! I LIVED for anything that moved me around like that. I loved every fast-paced thrill ride that didn't make me feel like I was gonna fall out of my seat (like most Larson Superloops and Zamperla Hawks.)
Figment was only gone from '99-02. The second version of Imagination was so unpopular it got the axe in near-record time. I took a survey last week at Epcot and flat out asked the proctor about Imagination. His response was that while the current attraction might not stay, Figment will always be a part of Epcot due to his sheer popularity. Figment is going nowhere.
Rode this MANY times as a young child growing up. Had the family passes when they first came out, was a lot of fun. When the ride first came out I remember the wait times exceeding 2 hours. Seemed so futuristic and incredible to a young kid. :) I really liked your video having the box in the corner zoomed on the "cockpit". Thanks so much for this flashback.
I totally agree. I went to Epcot in 1990 and this was CUTTING EDGE. Even now, when the ship enters the skin, I'm still kind of nostalgic about this ride. We rode it all day many times even with the long lines.
This reminds me of the episode of magic school bus where the kids went inside Ms Frizzle's lungs...I was four when I saw that and had to turn the tv off lol
@@Trollpatrolisawesome The one thing I saw where they went inside of a girl, a Magic School Bus episode where they went into Janet's nose to study smell, really grossed me out. The other episodes with this trope I saw used guys, like Captain Planet (where the Planeteers went into Kwame and had to rid him of waterborne parasites) and Toonami (where Clyde went into TOM after Swayzak infected him.) Also, the Sabrina episode where she ended up inside of Libby scared me as a kid. The set for the inside of her was creepy. All that made me dislike endo done with women, even if I am bi. I only do my stuff with men. And I sure as hell do not use kids (youngest I'll get are 18 year olds.)
Heard about this ride when I was a child! Unfortunately I never had the chance to experience it for myself. Heard it was directed by Mr. Leonard Nimoy. These must’ve been the days.
I rode this in the early 2000s and it was great. I rode a similar ride at Futuroscope in France, but it's inside of a woman there... as far as I know, we are inside of a guy here.
Oh gosh, I have veeerrry blurred memories of this when I was a kid. I don't remember what age I was, but I recall going on something like this and it really freaked me out. Also, are those the same vehicles they use at the Star Tours ride? They look identical on the inside.
They are the same! In fact, the simulators are no longer in the bays at Body Wars because they were scrapped for parts and used to repair the star tours simulators!
@@JacobB451 I actually love the whole "Fantastic Voyage"/"endo" scenario; it was only when they went inside of girls in TV shows that freaked me out (like Sabrina the Teenage Witch with Libby or Magic School Bus with Janet) because their insides always looked creepy/gross.
This hurts me because it’s like no one wants to ride it no one cares about it like it’s a ride they builders worked hard on to make it for people to enjoy but no one wants anything to do with it it hurts my heart and I never got to ride it ever and it looks fun
This ride made soooo motion sick! It didn't help there was some woman repeating over and over "Oh my god I'm so nauseous, I'm so nauseous" over and over.
I wonder whose splinter it was. I gave an identity to the patient. His name is Clint, and he's a sardonic, insistent adult in his early 30s. I based him on Marvel's Hawkeye, because Iron Man went into his body in an episode of the '90s Iron Man cartoon.
Would have never rode this as a kid and probably never would give it a chance as an adult now (I HATED dinosaur) but I'm so glad I get to somewhat experience it here, thank you.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 I'm not 100% sure if that was John Reilly either. The guy we see here actually almost looks young enough to have been John C. Reilly.
I went with my parents in the early '90s to Disney world the line for body wars must have nearly 3 hours. After all that the ride seem to be finish quickly and we were really disappointed. It definitely didn't seem as long as the version in this video. Maybe they had a short film for packed a days
I went on this ride in '96. Loved it! Gave me "Magic School Bus" vibes. Considering VR is cheaper now than it was back then, I wonder if anybody has thougt about making a new VR version of this ride. Have different difficulty settings.
I went ten years later, and I loved watching MSB back in the day. Since I was into Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Toonami, and Metal Gear Solid at the time, I would always imagine endo scenarios of Warp Darkmatter, TOM 2, and Solid Snake/Iroquois Pliskin in the style of MSB.