Test Track (Spoilers)

I will begin with the Pre-show. There are three pre-show or "briefing rooms." The preshow room has three television screens in it. The ones on the left and the right show the same thing. Those two screens show what is on the computer screen the people who work the test track are using. (Not a real computer. This is a pre-recorded video.) The one in the middle shows the control tower with the people working the test track talking to you. Before the show starts, take into admiration what is on display behind the television screens. It looks like a car drawing board......because it IS a car drawing board. Back to the show. There are two people in the show, the test track operator and his assistant. There isn't much to say about this show, but the show has it's funny moments. But to understand these funny moments, you have to pay attention to both of the two different screens. What happens is that the person who runs the test track mentions a test that you will go through and that test is displayed on the screen to your left and right. What is funny about this show is that after picking all of the tests to do and showing them to you, he tells his assisntant to pick one more, any one she wants. As much as you don't want it to be, she chooses the crash test. What makes it funny though is how they show it. Like this:

You are let out of the briefing room and led into the room where you get in your car. You just wait in this room for two minutes to get on the ride. You get in your car. (When you get in the car, there is more leg room in the front. Less in the back. Each car holds six people) Problobly the first thing you will notice when you get in the car is that there is a TV screen, one in the back and one in the front. This obviously pleases the kids ALOT. During the ride, test status appears on the screen and tells you what test is occuring. During the hot and cold tests, it will tell you what temperature it is. However, most of your attention is on the ride. The first thing that happens is that a disney cast member checks to make sure your seat belts are fastened by having you pull a yellow string attatched to it. This shows that Disney really wants to make sure that you are buckled up for this ride because you go at highway speeds on this ride. Then after that, the ride begins. You will notice that you will hear the people you have seen in the pre-show talk through the car's speakers and TV screens to you. The first test is the up-hill climb test, which in my opinion, is the sorriest excuse for a test. Obiously it is just in the part of the ride that takes you up, just like a roller coaster. The second test is the bumpy road test. It gets really bumpy. It was a neat ride effect. After that is the Anti-lock brake test, or ABS test. This is one of my favorite tests. First the test track operator and his assistant turn off your car's anti-lock brake system. They explain that this test will show what happens when your brakes lock up. They begin the test and your car FLOORS IT and really puts the pedal to the metal instantly. The brakes obviously lock up. (When your brakes lock up in a real car, you roll over, but disney obviously won't do that to you. They have the car go into a spin though which can also happen in a real car.) Then you stop and you are driven back to the begining of the ABS test. This time they have the ABS turned on. The car floors it again and this time your brakes don't lock up and your car stears itself to safety. You stop in front of these two TV screens with your ABS run on them. (You can tell it just happened because you can see yourself in the car during the video) The test track operator explains how the ABS helped you stear yourself to safety. (In my opinion, GM put this test in the ride so more people would buy ABS for their cars. The next test is almost like another up-hill climb test, only this time it is like a mountain. You increase speed as you go up. The next two tests are the hot and cold tests. Nothing to say here. (Except for the hot tests. We are already in Florida, we don't want to be anymore hot than we already are.) The next test is the corrosive chemical test. (Don't worry, this isn't real. Would Disney REALLY do this to you? No.) Then is the moment you (maybe not your kids though) have been waiting for. THE CRASH TEST. You go into a dark room and you hear the lights boom on, revealing a crash test wall. Then without any warning what-so-ever, that crazy assistant that chose this test shouts "GAS!" And the car Floors it much harder than they did on the ABS test. The moment you are about to crash. The wall opens up and you find yourself outside. (Sorry, you don't really crash. For the last time, would Disney REALLY do that to you? No.) The crash test turns without warning into the speed test. You start moving over 60 MPH. (After being relieved about the crash test part, kids will have a good time on this test.) You go right over the quque line like I said in the No Spoiler review, take a sharp turn and you slow down. The ride is over. Right after the ride you are dumped into a picture buying area. (The picture is taken RIGHT before you think you are going to crash into the wall and the wall opens up. So the picture is taken when you are scared.) After the picture buying area, you are then in an exhibit where cars are made. Then there is an optional virtual reality show about how cars are made. There was a twenty-five minute wait for that when I was there during the off-peak season, so be willing to wait if you are to go on that. After that, you are in a REAL GM car showroom, filled with hummers and chevys as far as the eye can see. They have salesmen there too. (Watch out. Don't tell them you are interested in getting a new car or they will try to make you buy one.) That is right, you can buy a car there. Finally, you are in a gift shop which has the exit.