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November 23, 2005
Stargate SG-3000
Toronto not being Chicago, Louisville or San Francisco (or Bremen, for that matter) it is time for a Flea-pilgrimage to Six Flags Great America and the Stargate SG-3000 simulator ride. It sounds cheezetastic.
You get to travel through the gate not one, but four times! Just as the series suggests, it's fast and jolting, but exhilarating all the same. I did notice that the creators of the ride chose to depart from how the wormhole appears in the series. I had hoped that it would be exactly the same to give the fans of the series the feeling that they were truly taking a step directly onto the show. Instead, the colors were far more purple than blue, and as well as being wider in appearance, it seemed somehow "faked" to me. It just didn't feel authentic, but the sensation of having gone through was very real, even if the feeling of having been half frozen to death while traveling through space was missing.
Seemed "fake", you say? This might have something to do with being a half-assed animated trailer splapped on to a creeking old Space Shuttle simulator or the small detail about Stargates not existing. But such is to quibble.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 23, 2005 08:31 AM
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