Soarin over the USA

In case you missed the memo, the Soarin’ attraction at Epcot made a change this week to temporarily go from “Soarin around the world” to “Soarin over the USA” in honor of our nations 250th anniversary (or as Patrick refers to it: the Semiquincentennial; And yes, his opening bit is cute)

Some kind soul recorded it and put it online. And my honest opinion is that it sucks. 

It’s a lot of CGI and things don’t look “right”… plus the things they chose to show aren’t really representative of America. What of our historical places, landmarks that really define  the country, our great national parks (and the redwoods maybe?), or a sense of how vast our country is?

It’s just underwhelming. I am disappointed that Disney whiffed on this opportunity. Especially given how good they often are at such things. 

You can watch it here: 

https://youtu.be/4ZAfniMD8So

And not only that, they turned off the soarin challenge - the game that you can play while in line. A game which I have led several times! 

To be fair, I opted to write some code which reads the question and gives the right answer most of the time, within milliseconds. But it was always fun to see my player on the leaderboard.