Body Wars
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| Epcot | |
| Land | Future World |
| Attraction type | Motion simulator |
| Theme | Human body |
| Opening date | October 19, 1989 [1] |
| Closing date | Seasonal operation |
| Director | Leonard Nimoy [2] |
| Sponsored by | MetLife (October 19, 1989 - June 2001) |
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Body Wars is a ride at the Wonders of Life pavilion at Walt Disney World Resort's Epcot. Body Wars is a simulator ride where the riders are "shrunk" and carry out a mission inside a human body.
Riders must be at least 40 inches tall to ride.
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[edit] Attraction description
[edit] Queue
Guests enter the queue as "observation team members" and are told by overhead announcements that you have to pass level 1 and level 2 dermatopic purification screen to enter the body probe vehicle.
In the queue and loading area, announcements are made that tell various details about the four bays.
[edit] Boarding
Dr. Cynthia Lair has been miniaturized into a volunteer to observe a splinter. You are told you will board vehicle Bravo 229 and will be shrunk. Your mission is to meet up with Dr. Cynthia Lair and bring her out. Captain Braddock will be your pilot.
[edit] Ride
Bravo 229 goes from the bay to the miniaturization room, where technicians focus a particle beam on the ship. The ship and guests are shrunk and sent under the skin. White blood cells are seen on their way to destroy the splinter. We arrive at the splinter where we met up with the Dr. Cynthia Lair.
She begins to take a cell count when she is accidentally pulled into a capillary. Captain Braddock follows her into the vein, entering an unauthorized area. The captain steers Bravo past the heart into the right ventricle. You enter the lungs where the doctor is being attacked by a white blood cell.
The captain uses his lasers to free the doctor. By now, the ship is very low on power. The doctor suggests that we use the brain to raise the power level. Passing the heart's left atrium, you go through the artery to get to the brain. Finally a neuron hits the ship and you regain power, causing it to de-miniaturize.
[edit] Trivia
- The line of body probe vehicles used in this adventure is "LGS 2050", and they "weigh approximately 26 tons." Once miniaturized, they "weigh less than a drop of water."
- The vehicles are shrunk by a "particle reducer".
[edit] Accident
On May 16, 1995, four-year-old Linda Elaine Baker passed out during a ride on the Body Wars attraction. She died after she was sent to the hospital. See Incidents at Disney parks for more information.
[edit] Attraction facts
- Cast:
- Tim Matheson as Captain Braddock
- Dakin Matthews as Mission Commander
- Elisabeth Shue as Dr. Cynthia Lair
- Vehicle names: (all bays and vehicles are fictional except for Bravo 229)
- Bay #1: "Zulu 714"
- Bay #2: "Bravo 229"
- Bay #3: "Sierra 657" and "Foxtrot 817"
- Bay #4: "Charlie 218"
[edit] References
- ^ Opening date http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096963/
- ^ Credits http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096963/
