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Volunteers are needed for the latest scientific breakthrough, actual travel through the internet as a digital package. This process is still the experimental stage, but guests who're brave enough are ready to be among the first to ride the information superhighway.
The debriefing room will double as a safety spiel where guests are introduced to their guide, Nibble. Nibble was designed to monitor the guests in real time, while also telling the guests what to expect while in the internet. The test mission is simple, Guests will be sent as an attachment on an email being delivered over to the sister testing facility in Disneyland. Once received, the researcher will send the message, and the guests back to CommuniCore.
Guests are ushered to the N.O.R.T. train, and over head harness will lock them in place. Once safely on board, the train will be sent to the digitizing room, where bright flashing lights will simulate the guests being made into a digital attachment. Afterwards, the lead researcher will appear on a giant over head screen (like the guests are looking at him through a computer screen). Once confirming, that all guests are accounted for and (ahem) unharmed, the coaster is launched into cyberspace.
The entrance (tube) into the internet is where we first meet Nibble who is flying beside us and is very excited to be with us today. As the tube ends, the train enter into a corridor where specialized screens show the guests and Nibble being fragmented and being sent off into other directions. Nibble assures us that we’ll see those pieces of ourselves once we reach the other computer in California.
It's then that the coaster picks up speed as we head through another tube, where it appears we’re at the bottom of the ocean. Nibble explains how packets of data are sent through the internet through satellites, and even yes, the actual cables on the ocean floor. Just up ahead, we can see a shark attacking to cables, twisting and writhing. The train starts to slow down, as the room flickers and suddenly the train abruptly stops and the room plunges into darkness.
Nibble appears in the void, a worried frown on it’s face. “Oh no, I think the internet just dropped-“ Right on cue, the train suddenly drops a few feet, before the lights start to come back up. Nibble warns us to hold on tight as when the internet comes back on line, it’s going to be fast. Just as advertised, the coaster is launched at high speeds, going through twists and turns, and steep drops.
As the train starts to slow down, through the declaration tube, we can see that the other pieces parts that separated from us earlier, have now rejoined us. Once again, a large face appears over head (mimicking looking through a computer screen), and says the test was a success. While the person is happily calling over her fellow researchers, Nibble starts to notice some sinister looking energy signals and tries to warn the researchers that they have a virus, but it’s too late.
We’re quickly emailed back to sender, and the coaster shoots us backwards. Nibble cries out to wait for it, all the while dodging the virus that keeps trying take a bite out of us. Our train tries to evade the virus with helix maneuvers, and wave turns but the virus is there at every turn.
Finally, we arrive back at CommuniCore, and Nibble says it hopes they don’t open the email without scanning it first. Luckily, the researchers scan the email before opening (several blasts of air that also conceal the track switch so the train can move forward into the loading dock), and congratulate guests on a successful test. Nibble cheerily tells the guest good-bye waving before telling the researchers that we need to have a talk about anti-virus software. The train pulls forward, unidigitizing the guests, and letting them off at the unload station.
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