Last week I made the trip to Walt Disney World while visiting my daughter in Orlando. Her and I have a “Daddy/Daughter Day” once a year there and explore new and different things that we have either missed over the past 13 years of visits or things that we have just passed up in order to do our favorite attractions. This trip our focus was on Epcot and an attraction there that we realized is going pretty much undiscovered.
The attraction/ride is called “The Sum of all Thrills” and it is located in Innoventions right next to the Electric Umbrella, across from Spaceship Earth. This area contains 4 robotic arms that take you on a thrill ride that you create. After a very short wait in line you will enter a room with 6 other people where you will learn how to create your own ride experience. After your training movie, you enter the main area where you use a touch screen tablet to create your ride. You can program a roller coaster ride, a bobsled ride or a jet fighter ride. We chose the jet fighter ride. All I can say is, WOW! This was truly an amazing experience that you really need to try.
The entire attraction is sponsored by Raytheon, a well known engineering firm. They have done a marvelous job working with Disney to create this attraction. I highly recommend giving it a try. There are height restrictions naturally and other warnings for folks with health issues but it’s a very smooth ride that makes you feel like you’re really in a jet fighter. Minus the “G” forces of course. The entire ride lasts about 2 minutes or so according to what you program so it’s short but worth every second. My daughter has tried the roller coaster program and says the jet fighter is much more intense and fun. It appears that the bobsled program would be the more tame experience. Regardless, this is one attraction that you have to add to your “must do” list at Epcot.
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