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I don't know the exact measurement, but you're well higher than 12 feet off the ground if you're on the top row.
You HAVE to include the height of the vehicle rows.I'm thinking my feet just aren't that far off the ground. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I truly doubt my feet are dangling much higher off the ground than what I specified. I'm certainly not measuring from the top of any vehicle since I'm not at the top.
The heights you quoted (even if they turn out not to be "exact") are much closer to the real numbers.In the post where I pulled this information, was here on the DIS and the person giving the numbers they gave said they had lunch with an Imagineer. That's where those numbers came from. Truth? Don't know, but regardless, it still makes me nervous.
The heights you quoted (even if they turn out not to be "exact") are much closer to the real numbers.
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In the post where I pulled this information, was here on the DIS and the person giving the numbers they gave said they had lunch with an Imagineer. That's where those numbers came from. Truth? Don't know, but regardless, it still makes me nervous.
Does this help? It also shows how where you actually are on the ride has an extra 5-10 foot or so drop off to the bottom of the screen compared to where you board. Maybe not quite 50ft (though close), but definitely significantly higher than what you listed.I'll revise my estimate that my toes would be 18, 12 or 6 feet off the ground depending in which row I was in, but you'd never get me to believe that the top row would rise the level or a 4-5 story building (50ft) off the ground.
I think regardless of where you sit, it's a good possibility you're still going to have the feeling of "soaring" hundreds of feet in the air. What would make you more nervous? Literally being 15-50 feet in the air, or the sense of being hundreds of feet in the air? Maybe see how you feel when the day comes. It's definitely a fun experience, but I don't have a serious fear of heights eitherOh boy....I think I'm rethinking this one now. My fear of heights is pretty bad. There used to be this bridge I absolutely panicked everytime I drove across it. Over the years it's gotten much easier. On an older post, someone said the different heights for Soarin were something like 50 in the top...I believe 30 in the middle and 15 on the bottom row. Some of the "up close and personal" projections kinda made me dodge and close my eyes from here at my computer desk. Not sure how I'm going to do with that where I don't have the stability that I do now in a none moving chair. It was said to ask for the bottom row and to sit somewhere in the middle. If I'm scared, my son will be too. In times like that, he feeds off my emotions. Our friends won't be with us that day, so he won't have someone else to pull his focus, so I have to be the "adult" one and reign in my emotions. You guys have NO idea how much that amused me to type thinking about me on Soarin'....panicked and nervous and wanting the ride to hurry up and end. He'd be okay if I changed my mind about it. So long as he rides Test Track and Spaceship Earth (one of the dark rides he enjoyed during his nothing dark please years) he's good! Oh and Figment too. He's got this thing about purple dragons. I guess since my husband owns a stuffed one...that might be it!
So let me hear from the amazing DISers. I know in the end, I am the ONLY one who can determine what I can handle. If our friends were meeting us that day, I think it would be easier because I'd have them to "talk me through it". I could ask them to join us, but the husband would have to take an extra day off work and I don't want him to that just because I'm a big ole baby!
I think regardless of where you sit, it's a good possibility you're still going to have the feeling of "soaring" hundreds of feet in the air. What would make you more nervous? Literally being 15-50 feet in the air, or the sense of being hundreds of feet in the air? Maybe see how you feel when the day comes. It's definitely a fun experience, but I don't have a serious fear of heights either
Nope.
Those measurements are not even close to taking into account the height of each of the seating vehicles when they are on the ground.
(If each vehicle was only 4 feet tall, how could guests walk in front of them and then sit down?)
However, I went back by myself and rode it twice in the back row, and seeing the feet dangling in front of me “tricked” my brain into not seeing the height.
Agreed. I'd be more worried of the ride than the actual distance off the floor lol. Disney does a pretty good job with Soarin.I agree. The sense of flying over the world is a bit more scary to me than the actual height. Try watching some videos of the ride online.
For me the height issues kick in from the movie itself. And being in the middle row so I can see feet is soooo good for me because I can remind myself that I’m on a ride, not actually flying.
I also look around to see the other people. The other people are also not flying. They are sitting. And they all look like they are sitting on something pretty stable, and don’t look like THEY are tilting, so I probably am not tilting either.
And when either of those ride movies get to me, I close my eyes to erase where most of the feeling of motion is coming from.
Oh boy....I think I'm rethinking this one now. My fear of heights is pretty bad. There used to be this bridge I absolutely panicked everytime I drove across it. Over the years it's gotten much easier. On an older post, someone said the different heights for Soarin were something like 50 in the top...I believe 30 in the middle and 15 on the bottom row. Some of the "up close and personal" projections kinda made me dodge and close my eyes from here at my computer desk. Not sure how I'm going to do with that where I don't have the stability that I do now in a none moving chair. It was said to ask for the bottom row and to sit somewhere in the middle. If I'm scared, my son will be too. In times like that, he feeds off my emotions. Our friends won't be with us that day, so he won't have someone else to pull his focus, so I have to be the "adult" one and reign in my emotions. You guys have NO idea how much that amused me to type thinking about me on Soarin'....panicked and nervous and wanting the ride to hurry up and end. He'd be okay if I changed my mind about it. So long as he rides Test Track and Spaceship Earth (one of the dark rides he enjoyed during his nothing dark please years) he's good! Oh and Figment too. He's got this thing about purple dragons. I guess since my husband owns a stuffed one...that might be it!
So let me hear from the amazing DISers. I know in the end, I am the ONLY one who can determine what I can handle. If our friends were meeting us that day, I think it would be easier because I'd have them to "talk me through it". I could ask them to join us, but the husband would have to take an extra day off work and I don't want him to that just because I'm a big ole baby!
This article says the bottom row is 30 feet off the ground and the top is about 50.
http://blog.silive.com/goofy_about_...ghts-challenged_soarin_rider_is_grounded.html
I guess this would make sense since the screen is over 80 feet tall.
Exactly what I was thinking. Who knows about the bottom row, but the middle row has to be *at least* the height of the bottom row, which is off the ground and more than 4’ tall.
For me the height issues kick in from the movie itself. And being in the middle row so I can see feet is soooo good for me because I can remind myself that I’m on a ride, not actually flying.
I also look around to see the other people. The other people are also not flying. They are sitting. And they all look like they are sitting on something pretty stable, and don’t look like THEY are tilting, so I probably am not tilting either.
Helps at universal with simpsons ride as well. The setup there is very similar to soarin.
And when either of those ride movies get to me, I close my eyes to erase where most of the feeling of motion is coming from.
Hi Tiggerlover91!
I know exactly how you feel. for years, I suffered through Soarin with the family, but finally told them I'd had enough of trying to like it.
I always felt like I was going to fall out of the little seat. The seat has a "bar" at the point where the back meets the seat which makes me feel like I can't sit back enough and that I'm going to fall out.
I finally faced the fact that Soarin was not for me (I'm afraid of heights too but other rides do not bother me, even Everest).
I sit it out while the family rides and I can honestly say I don't miss it at all and am much happier!