Body Wars

Body Wars was a motion simulator attraction inside the Wonders of Life pavilion at the Walt Disney World Resort's Epcot.[2] Riders would be taken on a mission by the fictional Miniaturized Exploration Technologies corporation (Stylized as MET) to study the effects of the white blood cells on a splinter inside the left index finger of a volunteer. The attraction used the Advanced Technology Leisure Application Simulator technology previously seen at Disneyland's Star Tours attraction. The ride is no longer in operation along with the other attractions inside the Wonders of Life pavilion, which opened on October 19, 1989, and closed on January 1, 2007.[3]

Body Wars
Epcot
AreaFuture World
StatusClosed
Opening dateOctober 19, 1989[1]
Closing dateJanuary 1, 2007
Replaced byPlay!
General statistics
Attraction typeMotion simulator
DesignerWalt Disney Imagineering
ThemeHuman body
MusicLeonard Rosenman
Vehicle typeMotion Simulator
Vehicles4
Riders per vehicle40
Duration7:00
Height restriction40 in (102 cm)
DirectorLeonard Nimoy [1]
SponsorMetLife (October 19, 1989 – June 2001)
Must transfer from wheelchair

Attraction description

Queue

Guests entered the queue on the left side of the Wonders of Life Dome. If the attraction was in high demand, an extended queue would be utilized, decorated with signage and pastel colored shapes lining the walls. This would lead into the main queue, contained within a separate external wing of the building. As guests entered, they were informed via in-queue announcements of details surrounding the fictional MET company. The guests were referred to as "MET Observation Team Members", and would be informed via a preshow shown within the queue of the mission that they would be going on. The queue would begin with the logo of the MET Company, with various images depicting the company and the inside of the human body. Until 1993, signage would be hung up stating that the company was founded in 2063, as well as their motto "Pioneering the Universe Within"[4]. This would lead into the first of two "Dermatopic Purification" stations, before a hallway with in queue TV sets, and the second of two "Dermatopic Purification" stations.

Boarding

Dr. Cynthia Lair had volunteered to be miniaturized to observe a splinter. The guests were told they would board vehicle Bravo 229 and would be shrunk. Their mission was to meet up with Dr. Lair and bring her out. Captain Braddock would be the guests' pilot.

Guests learned that their "LGS 250"-type probe vehicle weighed approximately 26 tons, but once miniaturized, weighed less than a drop of water.

Ride

The guests' vehicle, Bravo 229, moved from the bay to the miniaturization room, where technicians focused a "particle reducer" on the ship. Their ship and crew mates were shrunk and sent under the subject's skin. White blood cells were seen on their way to destroy the splinter.

The guests arrived at the splinter, meeting with Dr. Cynthia Lair. She began to take a cell count when she was accidentally pulled into a capillary. Captain Braddock followed her into the vein, entering an unauthorized area. The captain steered Bravo past the heart and into the right ventricle. The guests entered the lungs where the doctor was being attacked by a white blood cell.

The captain used his lasers to free the doctor. By now, the ship was very low on power. The doctor suggested that they use the brain's energy to recharge the ship. Passing the heart's left atrium, the ship went through the artery to get to the brain. A neuron contacted the ship, allowing it to regain power and de-miniaturize outside of the body.

Attraction facts
  • Cast:
  • Vehicle names: (all bays and vehicles were fictional except for Bravo 229)
    • Bay #1: "Zulu 174"
    • Bay #2: "Bravo 229"
    • Bay #3: "Sierra 657" and "Foxtrot 817"
    • Bay #4: "Charlie 218"

Used same ATLAS Technology as Star Tours. [1]

Current Status
The former Body Wars entrance seen in March 2017.

As of November 2014, the four simulators have been dismantled and removed from the ride building. The queue is still intact, but most of the lighting and electronic equipment has been removed. The show building is currently used for storage for the Epcot Food & Wine Festival, along with the Flower & Garden Festival.[5] As of November 2016, the queue is being slowly dismantled while few remnants remain. The empty simulator rooms still sit to this day blocked off by their former entrances. The exit area has had the same treatment, with all signage removed. Red archive tags have been applied to the beginning MET Sign, and to the Body Wars safety information sign near the exit.

On February 21, 2019, a new pavilion named Play! was announced that it would be replacing the entire pavilion including the ride. What will happen to Body Wars during the transformation is currently unknown.

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See also

References
  1. The History of & Changes to The Wonders of Life (Body Wars) (YouTube video). Park Ride History. April 4, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  2. Tuckwood, Jan (October 29, 1989). "Get ready for the wildest ride in Epcot and learn how the human body works". The Palm Beach Post. p. G1. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  3. Geryak, Cole (August 31, 2017). "Disney Extinct Attractions: Body Wars". The Laughing Place. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
  4. Fanbase, Wonders of Life (January 23, 2019). "Obscure signage from the original Body Wars Queue, which were removed sometime in late '89 or early 1990. Thought to be remnants lost to time, I just found them misplaced in a folder that wasn't the Wonders archive for some reasonpic.twitter.com/qW01iVeUdB". @WoLFanbase. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  5. Defunctland: The History of Epcot's Body Wars (YouTube video). August 7, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
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