Space Mountain: As you approach the imposing pointy white building, you are aware that this is something unlike any ride you have ever tried before.
As you enter the corridors leading to Space Mountain you can faintly hear the background music. You are walking down a tunnel, it looks like a set from Star Trek, or some other Sci-Fi movie. As you continue you pass what I call the "Dizzy" or "Space-Sick" portals, through which you can see a 3-D star field, but as you move past them the stars will spin, making you feel as though the tunnel is really spinning, because in the back of your brain, you know stars generally stay still.
Now you get to the Planets, and Space Station portals. These are much better than the Spinning Stars. They look cooler as well. One of the best is the one with a tumbling asteroid. It looks real enough to touch, if that glass wasn't in the way. Up ahead are some Monitors. They explain that "Space Mountain is a turbulent ride through Outer Space" and caution people with bad backs, or babies on board that they should not ride.
Finally, you get to where the pathway splits, before a control booth. You must choose, either left or right. They are the same ride. But they are a different experience. I would try them both. Do the one which looks fastest (Sorry, it never is.) then, tomorrow, come back and try the other side. See which is your favorite. As you pass the Control Booth, look up. See the stars, and the Giant Asteroids. Cool. Now your eye is caught by a Television Monitor, on which is some sort of News Broadcast. Then a commercial for Crazy Eddy's Used Satellites, then a Fashion report, then another Crazy Eddy commercial, followed by some music video, then a Fed Ex commercial, and an add for some company called XS Tech. Hmm. that name sounds familiar. The slogan sticks in your mind: "Seize the universe with XS". You will remember that.
Wow! you are already at the front of the line. You say 2, and you and your friend sit, one in front of the other in the little bob-sled like car. You make your friend sit in front, since you are kind of scared, and say that you will take the front next time. Maybe.
They strap you in, and you slide on down the track, pausing once or twice for "Clearance" before you get to a large room, which has a really cool space ship hanging overhead. You watch as you are pulled uphill and notice that the people who were about 10 places back in line, and who took the other side of the que back at the control booth are in another car on the other side of the spaceship, going up just ahead of you. Guess you picked the slower side again. Drats!
Finally you get to the top, and you tip over, and cruise bumping your way through tight turns, and over large dips/inclines, at about 20 mph. It is not as dark as you had heard it would be. This kind of spoils the effect, a bit, but you like that you can see where you are going. It is not so bad. Way slower than Thunder Mountain, that's for sure. Bumpier though. Darn, they need new shocks on those cars.
Before you know it, you have reached the bottom, and dive into a big tunnel, where your car slows quickly down to a stop. You pull into a station, and get out. As you and your friend stand there watching your empty car disappear through a hole in the wall, you think "This was not bad at all. Much better than I expected." and tell your friend "Next time, the front is DEFINITELY mine."
Now you head towards the exit, and stand on the rolling walkway, as an announcer voice and various scenes extol the virtues of Fed-Ex's new Matter Transporter. It looks pretty useful, and that City at the end, it's kind of cool, and the robot dog is So Cute!
Now you pass a wall of Televisions, and noticing that your hair is all messed up, try and fix it, realizing that a TV is the opposite of a Mirror, as you see your hand instinctively head to the wrong side of your head. Too late, since that was the last TV, and the walkway ends, dumping you into the Arcade, which you flea, heading instead towards Main Street, with a brief stop at the Tomorrowland Convention Center, to check out that XS Tech, which you recognize from the commercial you saw while waiting in line.