In March 1999, Epcot got what it desperately needed, a new thrill ride. Well, Epcot's version of a thrill ride. (Epcot's only other thrill ride, Body Wars, was a decade old.) After 25 years, changes were being made in Epcot, and General Motors was willing to pay for theirs. Thus, Test Track was born, the world's largest and longest slot car track.
This video is an updated version of my other Test Track video, if you can call using clips from 2004 an update. That video is a direct port of a 2002 edit, since I lost all my source clips.
The original video can be found here: • Test Track (2000, old ...
I recaptured all my lost video from tape recently, so I re-edited Test Track from scratch, included some long lost clips of DreamChasers, a failed-early-sort-of-a-VR attraction, and a couple of Test Track fails. (See below if you want more details.)
Regardless of how this video starts, it's all NTSC 480i video, but it's pretty good 480i, upscaled to 1080p.
And again, if the queue walk-through is too rough for you, jump to 3:35...
Chapters:
00:00 Queue
03:35 Preshow
06:40 Load Queue
07:45 Test Track
13:03 Postshow
14:59 DreamChasers
15:56 Test Track Fails...
Some things you probably don't care about.
The Queue is a complete walk-through of the original queue (which became the Standby queue after FastPass was installed.) So some mysterious queue lines may appear and disappear, like the single-rider queue, but it's pretty faithful to the original queue.
I cut back and forth between videos a lot during the ride. I tended to try to use video with a windscreen you could actually see through, but used whatever video best represented the show.
DreamChasers was a side attraction in the post-show of Test Track. It was an attempt at sort-of-a two-dimentional Virtual Reality experience. Didn't work for me. It was also a low capacity attraction at the end of a high-capacity attraction, so long lines and wait times were better spent eating in World Showcase, lol. The cartoon clip shown is what you'd actually see via the chair's optics.
There are two clips at the end where Test Track broke. That's two breakdowns from four ride-throughs. Welcome to typical early-2000's Test Track. There were a lot of birthing pains...
I actually use the first portion of the first breakdown clip in the attraction video before goes into slow motion.
By the mid-2000's or so, Test Track got much more reliable. 😁
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