Body Wars

Body Wars
Ride statistics
Attraction type	Motion simulator
Manufacturer	WED Enterprises
Designer	WED Enterprises
Theme	Human body
Music	Leonard Rosenman
Duration	7 min.
Director	Leonard Nimoy
Located within	Wonders of Life Pavilion
Must transfer from wheelchair

Body Wars was a ride at the Wonders of Life pavilion at Walt Disney World Resort's Epcot. Body Wars is a simulator ride where the riders are "shrunk" and carry out a mission inside a human body.

Attraction description

Queue

Guests enter the queue as "observation team members" and are told by overhead announcements that you have to pass level 1 and level 2 dermatopic purification screen to enter the body probe vehicle.

In the queue and loading area, announcements are made that tell various details about the four bays.

Boarding

Dr. Cynthia Lair has volunteered to be miniaturized to observe a splinter. You are told you will board vehicle Bravo 229 and will be shrunk. Your mission is to meet up with Dr. Cynthia Lair and bring her out. Captain Braddock will be your pilot.

The line of body probe vehicles is "LGS 2050", and they weigh approximately 26 tons. Once miniaturized, they weigh less than a drop of water.

Ride

Bravo 229 goes from the bay to the miniaturization room, where technicians focus a "particle reducer" on the ship. The ship and guests are shrunk and sent under the skin. White blood cells are seen on their way to destroy the splinter. The riders arrive at the splinter where the riders meet up with the Dr. Cynthia Lair.

She begins to take a cell count when she is accidentally pulled into a capillary. Captain Braddock follows her into the vein, entering an unauthorized area. The captain steers Bravo past the heart into the right ventricle. The riders enter the lungs where the doctor is being attacked by a white blood cell.

The captain uses his lasers to free the doctor. By now, the ship is very low on power. The doctor suggests that they use the brain to raise the power level. Passing the heart's left atrium, the ship goes through the artery to get to the brain. A neuron hits the ship, making it regain power and causing it to de-miniaturize outside of the body.

Riders must be at least 40in tall to ride.

Death

On May 16th 1995, 4-year-old Linda Elaine Baker from Galveston, Texas died during a ride of the body wars attraction and was pronounced dead after being airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Attraction facts

• Cast:
  • Tim Matheson as Captain Braddock
  • Dakin Matthews as Mission Commander
  • Elisabeth Shue as Dr. Cynthia Lair
• Vehicle names: (all bays and vehicles are fictional except for Bravo 229)
  • Bay #1: "Zulu 714"
  • Bay #2: "Bravo 229"
  • Bay #3: "Sierra 657" and "Foxtrot 817"
  • Bay #4: "Charlie 218"

See also

• Epcot attraction and entertainment history

External links

• Body Wars at IMDb