You're not alone! It wasn't blurry for me, but my feeling is that at the end of the day, a motion simulator is just a motion simulator. It's a very good motion simulator, but at this point in my life I have a strong preference for rides that move through physical environments, as my brain is rarely fooled into thinking I'm actually moving when I'm just looking at a screen from a seat that shifts around in place.
We went to an after events in Feb and we rode EE four times in a row. We all went on FoP and enjoyed it but none of us wanted to go back on even though it was only a 5 min wait.We’ve ridden FoP 4 times (all with a FP) and we all really enjoy it and think it’s a great ride.....but simulator rides just don’t have a lot of re-rideability to me. When I get off FoP, I feel no need to turn around and go back on, but we will ride EE 5 times in a row before I stop my kids and say “We need to take a break or mommy’s going to puke!” Lol!
We LOVE FOP so much so that we go to the park just to go on FOP then leave and go to our park for the day.
We went on FOP last week and even though I enjoyed it, I feel it did not live up to the hype.
I don’t know if it was because of the glasses I had on were dirty or defective, but too much of the ride was blurry.
For us it was a one and done.
I could have written this as well! I liked Navi River a lot better too. And yes, motion sickness killed FOP for me too. Its a one and done for me. I hate motion simulator rides. Makes me so nauseous. I like rides where i move through actual physical things.It's not for me. Wasn't blurry but it killed me with the motion sickness (even through my prescription patch) which killed my enjoyment of the ride. Even the smells made me nauseous. The theming in the queue is great though.
I liked Navi River better.
This is exactly how I feel. It’s a very good motion simulator. But I prefer moving through actual environments- so Expedition Everest or even Forbidden Journey at IOA are more enjoyable to me.You're not alone! It wasn't blurry for me, but my feeling is that at the end of the day, a motion simulator is just a motion simulator. It's a very good motion simulator, but at this point in my life I have a strong preference for rides that move through physical environments, as my brain is rarely fooled into thinking I'm actually moving when I'm just looking at a screen from a seat that shifts around in place. I think it really, really doesn't help that you can turn your head left or right and see the other riders; for me Star Tours is still the better simulator because everything that's within your field of vision is moving with you (that's part of my problem, though; I wrote about immersive cinema academically and part of my research involved riding motion simulators and deliberately looking the wrong way to break the illusion and see how things were done--and now I can't turn it off!). I enjoyed FoP, to be sure, but I don't think I'm inclined to wait more than half an hour for it now that I've done it once. Would absolutely recommend everyone do it once to see how they like it, but for me on future trips it's just not a high priority.
I have mixed feelings on the design of the seats. It's a cool concept and I really liked the added touch of the Banshee "breathing" under you, but I agree with a previous poster--the design of the seats tends to exclude too many guests from riding. I thought I'd have trouble fitting into the seat because I'm heavy, but my challenge actually came from my legs being almost too long to fit--and I'm only 5'10"! The unusual design makes it really difficult to predict what body types will or won't fit, since I'm sure many people taller than me but proportioned differently are able to ride...so then we have these threads where people are giving their body measurements down to their calf diameter and even with that kind of data it's still impossible to say until you get there whether or not you'll fit in the dang vehicle.