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.)
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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).
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 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.
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?
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 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!
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!
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 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 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 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.
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 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…😬😂
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.
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:)
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.
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
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: ruclips.net/video/nhbY7oVQCPc-/видео.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.)
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 😂
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.
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
@@ProudSwifty157 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.)
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 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.
Yeah, good luck getting arrested because you invaded some poor 10 year old's privacy. You know, with the episode of Captain Planet where they went inside Kwame's body, it was a villain who sent them inside, and Kwame was shocked when the villain told him they were in his body.
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
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.
This was so much fun! I heard about this, today, on a podcast episode. I recognized Mr. Matthews, first, then Mr. Matheson. I didn't recognize Ms. Bellenson or Ms. Shue, because unlike male actors, women aren't allowed to keep one easily-recognized hairstyle. I try not to think of the busload of boat anchors that were really what drained the ship's power cells. ;-)
Who was the patient? Was it a man or a woman? If it were a woman, I don't really like that ride this much. Seeing this done with women just grosses me out. It's because all the stuff of this type I saw back in the day did it with men.
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.
@@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.
There’s something oddly heartbreaking about a Disney ride having a 0 minute wait in the middle of the day
You sure this wasn't shot first thing in the morning, when Epcot opened?
Put in Houston, Texas Disney land Texas.
C.T. Warren no it was pretty empty post 2001 until it closed in 2007
I remember when this attraction was considered "the star of the show"
@@DrJekyll38 na this was removed for low ridership
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!
@@CFSAS How did you get in? Didn't they close the ride?
So empty the last few years of operation. Creepy.
Because everyone knows that Test Track was the better Thrill Ride and to avoid the Wonders of Life at all cost.
Yes there's something odd about it specially if you had the chance to ride in 1995 , about a 30 - 45 min wait line
@@groggle_noggle3348 Snake was fucking hot back in the day.
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. :-)
@@groggle_noggle3348 This comment made my day.
everything about this ride is just... eerie... i never had the chance to ride it but it’s clear why many describe it as “disturbing” and “unsettling”.
As someone who has an endo kink, nothing about this is unsettling.
15:12 I thinks it’s the weird breathing sounds
@@ImTomfoolery They were done by Fred Jones himself Frank Welker.....
@@CreesNostalgiaHut Ken Mitchroney sounds a lot like him
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.
Horizons closed down, body wars and the life and health pavilion were “out of date” and yeah.
@@Funrollercoaster606 The safety video is literally the only thing "out of date" about this ride.
@@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
@@CreesNostalgiaHut OOOOOOO!!!!
"I'll use the lasers to try an stun it." *Vaporizes the white blood cell*
Destroy the evil aging cells.
Plotholes yoooo
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
Oh! Like mission space?
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.)
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*
Yeah someone throwing up inside someone's body does sound a little gross.
@@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.
it really was one of the most intense simulators I have been on. I remember getting freaked out as a kid.
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.
tastyfish1 They actually used the same ship from body wars in star tours
@@odenairsoft315 I knew I recognized that interior.
Star Tours 2.0 has Boba Fett laughing evilly. That's all I need.
This ride was so special. Just waiting in the line, hearing the sound effects as a kid and going on it. It had that Disney magic I can’t describe.
I really miss the old epcot
So... No ones going to talk about how Star Trek that was? Like, the uniforms, the set design, it even had Leonard Nimoy.
It even had the LCARS screens from Next Generation in the set design.
And now I want to go back to Sid Meier's Civilization 4, so I can hear Mr. Nimoy's voice, for each of the technology advances.
This is like the closeset we got to a star trek disney ride Its so lame that its gone though they could have seriously just left it there
For Nimoy! FOR NIIIIMOOOOY!!
THAT'S WHAT I JUST THOUGHT, THE SUITS!
I went on this in 99, enjoyed it because I liked simulators. Shame that it was almost abandoned by this point.
THEremiXFACTOR Same, but there were a lot with me.
@@MarthaRoseQuartz The guy talking played on childs play 3.
@@ryan-yw9dy Tim Matheson; he was also Jonny Quest.
I remember going on this ride back in 1997.
I went in 2006. There were only a few people with me.
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.
They were like "whatever.."
I like that movement aspect too.@@YuukiTakemoto1996
@@YuukiTakemoto1996according to Wikipedia, Alex Hyde-White was the Subject in main show , but he’s uncredited
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!
SNUGGLER! DA DA DA! SNUGGLIN' BACK TO HEALTH! THE SNUGGLER!
hijhiysonikku "I AM the Snuggler."
I fucking love Tim and Eric.
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!
And all of a sudden...I feel slightly old.
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
:(
Oh no worry I was about to turn 3 when it closed
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!
I love how there's literally no line.
Also why do people think this ride is gross? I don't see it at all.
I rode this in 1990 and the line was endless. we went on it 4 times cuz back in the day, this was the coolest ride in all of the Magic Kingdom.
0001D LLC Epcot.
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.
@Teddy Sneakers Don't fucking say that to my friend, she just has problems, that's all.
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).
I have very vague memories of riding this as a kid. Since I don't like blood, I practically closed my eyes for the majority of the ride.
Same here, I was 4 years old at the time.
You would've died at the Iron Man episode where he enters Hawkeye's bloodstream to fix his spine. "Did... we get him?"
Pussy
@@MarthaRoseQuartz "We sure did."
@@unwelldanny7108 I remember dying at how his AI called Hawkeye "Mr. Hawkeye." That AI was always my favorite part of the show.
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 loved that safety video too.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 Yes it is reminiscent of a better time..
I love that fashion and lolita fashion (it's not what you think, trust me.)
Love this. In 1992 no one was in line so I rode it 15 times in a row. Loved it!!! Very exciting.
15 times in a row and no motion sickness? Trooper
@@Robonkeykong I was young. I would totally get sick these days.
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.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 Are you asking about who was the cast of the film in the ride?
@@DigitalAndInnovation I would like to know the cast too
@@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.
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?
This ride made me sick. I was so nauseous that I had to go out to my car to lie down for a while.
rutilated quartz my mother told me that people were throwing up out of the simulator 😖 fortunately she didn’t 😁
It was a horrible experience for me. Ever since, I've sworn off any simulator rides.
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.
@@e.l.norton The sloshing blood is amazing. It's a miracle how every component of the human body works together to make you.
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!
Mickey: Donald isn’t this incredibly interesting!?
Donald: no
Sora: Yes
@@unwelldanny7108 kingdom hearts baby!
Me: Oh, yeah. (said like Heavy D at the end of "Now That We Found Love")
I feel like Zurg would like this...
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!
Magic school bus used children tho,,, it's not supposed to be what WE see it as..
Otter turned out to be quite the innerspace pilot!
I’d love to see this with modern technology
Oh, that would be WAY too fun. (ahem...)
And make it so that you're being led by Ant-Man and The Wasp and the body you're inside is the Falcon.
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.
dragonrider0601 Same!
My sister says that to me and i always have to close my eyes onetime I went on a simulator I closed my eyes the whole ride
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.
Thank you for taking the time to record & post this. As a kid, this ride definitely affirmed my desire to "become a doctor when I grow up."
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.
Even better story? Let's have Ant-Man and The Wasp go inside Sam Wilson. Pretty kinky, huh?
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 THAT WOULD RULE.....
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 could totally see Universal Studios doing something like thus but it would be Magic School Bus themed!!!
PBS made Magic School Bus...
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....
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 what the actual fuck
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.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 KWAMEEEEE
After going to Disney World for the past 15 years, I somehow never knew this ride ever existed. Wow. I guess you learn something new every day.
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.
oh man... I haven't seen this ride in 30 years! Thanks for the memories.
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…😬😂
Gotta love that sudden jump cut in the lungs. They don't even try to hide it.
E Malone It's weird, because both times I went, there was more time spent in the lungs. Said time I spent yelling, "I LOVE THIS RIDE!"
Part of the ride sequence got cut midway through the ride’s lifespan due to how aggressive the sim was.
When did they cut it?
hijhiysonikku I guess in the early 2000s?
I always wondered why they did that...
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.
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 is honestly the best footage of this attraction love it!!
I have to say, it is a female we're inside. This reminds me of Logan encountering a female cop (ElToroRyan reference.)
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 I love that vid. *COME ARREST ME!!!!*
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.
I never got to go on this ride, but I can tell why it was abandoned. Looks like it would make even the strongest of stomachs queasy.
Why, because of the film?
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
Exactly right! I NEVER get motion/travel sick. EVER. My only memory of this ride is just having to sit down with my head between my knees afterwards.
I don't think the film is gross.@@unwelldanny7108
I miss this ride!
I wish I could see that one deleted scene that took place inside the lungs.
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: ruclips.net/video/nhbY7oVQCPc-/видео.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.)
Even waiting in this queue was an adventure in itself. : ) Thanks for sharing!
My parents are so traumatized by this ride from how violently ill they got, that they don’t ride simulators to this day
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 😂
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.
I love how it turns into a different scene
This guy started making theme park videos before everybody started doing it. He was ahead of his time.
Thanks for this. Man I miss Body Wars and the whole Wonders of Life pavilion!
This reminds me of the movie Inner Space.
And the episode of Captain Planet where they go inside Kwame.
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
Yeah. I never liked this stuff being done with women.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 Why not ?
@@ProudSwifty157 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.)
Beautifully done .. thank you so much for sharing
Almost puked my guts out in 1989.
my dad would love this he has 2 shirt's of it he loved his ride
Ayyyy gotta stick with retro splatfest
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.
0001D LLC In 99 I thought we were inside the skin of Hawkeye from the Iron Man cartoon from the mid 90s.
@@MarthaRoseQuartz I thought we were inside Cyborg. Haha. Even though this is WB's main competitor.
@@user-ee6qp2qd8n I always imagined we were inside Iroquois Pliskin's skin.
That is not Solid Snake!@@YuukiTakemoto1996
RIP John Reilly (guy at 4:53, he died a year ago)
made me go into healthcare..loved it and was fascinated as a child
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...
@@CreesNostalgiaHut Dan Schneider has ruined feet for everyone.
I rode this ride like 2 million times one of my favorites.
I love how basic yet so 80s some of classic Epcot was
This gives me backroom vibes in the beginning
Yeah
Backrooms are interesting.
Thanks for posting this video;it brought back a lot of fun memories. And the video quality was excellent!
I loved this as a kid! I went on it in 1993, I was very young, back when Figment was still at Disney
I went in 95. In 99, I rode the horrendous second version, where the ride insults you at the beginning. Needless to say, I like the first one better.
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.
Princess Sally yeah, I got that. I was just trying to convey that Figment returned shortly after your visit.
Isn't that when the narrator tells you you have no imagination? Yeah, he can say that to me, because my imagination is disturbing.
hijhiysonikku yep, and that narrator would be none other than Eric Idle from Monty Python
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.
It's not disturbing, it's the truth.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996the truth can still be disturbing
Even then, some people liked it and made them want to become a doctor. Some other people see it as comforting to them, like myself.@@Osushat
It's kinda like Star Tours meets Innerspace.
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.
I miss this ride,it was awesome,no matter how many times I went on it, I always thought we'd get stuck in the body
This one scared me as a kid. Then I think it was star tours. Liked that 1. Don't know what it is now
I loved this ride.
This looks a lot like star tours. I wonder if star tours was inspired by this.
Yeah looking back at it, I think I can understand why this made people so sick, it’s pretty much space mountain with gore.
It's not gore! It's the inside of the human body, a MIRACLE! It's the inner workings of ourselves.
I would've love to ride this, this looks amazing
When Braddock doesn't watch his pressure because his ship could be crushed...
Braddock looks like he's drunk the entire time
It’s definitely extremely innovative in terms of it’s animation and technology for 1989 but it became dated only a decade later! :)
RIP to the director of the ride Leonard Nimoy
FOR NIMOOOOOOOY
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.
Enigma oh I was 7 years old. I'm 23 now. I didn't cry on this thing, I wanted to.
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!
@@alyLUCK While this has endo, ST has Boba Fett.
Yeah this totally freaked me out too. Thanks for dragging me on mom!
@@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 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.
They need to reimagine this ride
10:37 - "Hi, I'm Eric Stratton. Rush chairman. Damn glad to meet ya!"
Wow just wow that ride looks awesome
Body wars was peak scifi edutainment
I confess to riding this one over and over.
Everyone in the pre show looks like they should be in Star Trek the next generation.
SEATBELTS EVERYONE!
Kyouko Pocky lover12 Please tell me this is a normal field trip...!
Princess Sally WITH THE FRIZ NO WAY
AUUUUUUUGH
hijhiysonikku CR U I S I N D O W N O N M A I N ST REAY
Yeah, good luck getting arrested because you invaded some poor 10 year old's privacy. You know, with the episode of Captain Planet where they went inside Kwame's body, it was a villain who sent them inside, and Kwame was shocked when the villain told him they were in his body.
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
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.
I’d much rather go on a ride like this than something peppered in Disney/Marvel IP, EPCOT seems borderline unrecognisable today and not in a good way
This was so much fun! I heard about this, today, on a podcast episode. I recognized Mr. Matthews, first, then Mr. Matheson. I didn't recognize Ms. Bellenson or Ms. Shue, because unlike male actors, women aren't allowed to keep one easily-recognized hairstyle. I try not to think of the busload of boat anchors that were really what drained the ship's power cells. ;-)
Who was the patient? Was it a man or a woman? If it were a woman, I don't really like that ride this much. Seeing this done with women just grosses me out. It's because all the stuff of this type I saw back in the day did it with men.
I kept asking my parents what happened to the ride with the splinter lol they said I was crazy. Guess I have a good memory!
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.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 YESSS. Hawkeye is da bomb
@@MarthaRoseQuartz DID... WE GET HIM
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 "We sure did"
I wish we could've seen the volunteer with the splinter...
Dang it was recorded in 2006 the same year it closed forever 😢
I loved this ride as kid I was 8 years old when I rode it can they make a new on please Disney! The memories it was awesome!
I rode it when I was 10! It was fun!
Elizabeth Shue! Yowzza!
That's the actor who voiced Hawkeye (the 90s version) at 4:53.
D I D W E G E T H I M ?
Are you sure?
@@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.
@@kuluke2002 Oh god no... now I'm havin Steve Brule flashbacks.....
@@kuluke2002 CHECK IT OUT