I loved Adventure Thru Inner Space and was sad when I took my nephews that it was gone. We loved Star Tours, but shrinking to explore the snowflake was educational and fun! I wish they would bring it back. If anything has become apparent during the pandemic, science knowledge is severely lacking in the younger generation. Making science fun can only help.

I remember changing my son’s diaper on this ride. It was dark and private. The cars had a very generous floor area and no seat belts, as I remember. The ride was long enough to complete the messiest diaper change, and there was a big trash can at the end of the ride. The atoms were cool, too!

I remember standing in line for the Monsanto ride there was this big prop of all miniaturized people loaded into a hypodermic needle ready to be shot inside of a human body , and that big giant eyeball looking down upon you peering from a once on the ride you're traveling through cells I remember the big heartbeat as you travel to the heart wow that was a long time ago

This was one of my favorites as a kid. It's still would be today. I was sad when it finally went away. Good stuff!

What will become of the space when they move Star Tours to Star Wars Land?

Two of the greatest things about the Monsanto Ride (as we all called it) were, #1: It was dark and hidden and a great place to be with your girlfriend, and #2: It was free! You didn't need to waste a ticket on it.

I rode this many, many times. Don't remember ever spitting or wadding up gum on the walls, but I did take advantage of it being a dark ride from time to time with my dates.

This is an all-time classic ride! Disney should bring it back in its classic form down to the tiniest details. (See what I did there?) DisneyWorld should have their own version that is a complete re-imagining using the the latest technology. That's my two cents.

I thought it was weird, must have been age 7 through 9 when I rode it. The whole thing about atoms maybe were just a bit over my head. I remember thinking what is this weird ride? Now as an adult reminiscing over my long lost childhood I fondly remember the eyeball looking at me as the atom mobile turned around. It was weird and way too much knowledge for a small child to understand. Perhaps that is why Buzzlight Year, Star Wars and Monsters inc has taken over Tomorrowland. The all mighty dollar rules over everything. I do remember that the transportation aspect of Tomorrowland was very awesome and the main reason I think that Disneyland in the 70's was a far more grand place than it is now. All the motion and sounds of motion was breathtaking and is what I miss most. The lonely and largely abandoned Peoplemover track and station is so solemn and only stands as monument to the glory days of Walt's Tomorrowland. Gone are the Skyway towers and cables with only abandoned stations with only a hole through the Matterhorn as a reminder of Tomorrowland's former glory. Gone are the Rocketjets platform and towering rocket structure only to be replaced by a version that has faster rider through put placed in front of the "Y" of the old Peoplemover track. So sad is the current Tomorrowland that kids of today will never know of its former glorious past.

All I got to say about this ride is I rode it when I was about young and my sister made sure she pointed out that no people were coming out. The ride was so convincing and was terrified by Fantastic voyage I was very much starting to freak out. When I saw the eye at the end I just completely freaked out screaming and just was a wreck took me about 10 minutes to calm down once off the ride.

That ride was awesome.

I worked at the park, starting in 1983 as a Park Decorater, in the "inner-space" attraction we took care of the scrims in about the middle of the ride, guests spit on everything in the ride, it was bad, same in the Haunted Mansion in the Attic, to service a prop or clean, you wore gloves. Anyway, I always loved the ride. the day after it closed, I went into the per-show to maybe get one of the "Atomoblies" to put on my work station, all were gone when I got there, I kept doing my "Park Checks" walking the ride, it got to be an echo chamber , then I got a security guard who I knew said you can't be in here anymore, I guess I was one of the last to see, I guess respect this great attraction!

I grew up a few miles from Disneyland. In high school, it was well known that Adventures Through Inner Space (or "Monsanto" for short) earned the dubious distinction as the "make-out ride." In later years, the giant styrofoam snowflakes too close to the Omnimover vehicles were decorated with wads of gum.

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