Please share why one of TheDScoop's all-time favorite ride in the world does or does not make some of your lists
...Test Track didn't make my best or my worst list. It's an okay ride, there's nothing so bad about it that I needed to get it on the worst list, there just isn't anything good enough about it to get it on the best list, either.
I think that TT is more of a ride than a pavilion (caveat: I've not seen the new post-show), and that disappoints me for FutureWorld. I think that a model of a current day automotive proving ground isn't particularly Magical, educational, or Future-looking, again a disappointment for FutureWorld. I find the indoor section of the ride to be rather boring, with particularly poor special effects in the non-Antilock brake and "evasive manuever" sections (it also bugs me that the final bust-though "wall" is so obvious and that the speed indicators are so blatantly meaningless, but I may be the only person who notices those things), and poorly done effects in Disney rides are the bane of my existence. I feel the "who needs theming when you're going this fast through backstage areas" is another disappointing concession to cost. As far as I can tell, the unique "ride mech" is mostly safety devices to keep the souped-up Speedway cars from flying off into the parking lot, a merely evolutionary change over a ride most don't seem to consider fit for MK's Tomorrowland (as opposed to, say, the more revolutionary step that ToT's ride mech made past other free-fall type rides).
All of those things, to me, add up to a ride that is simply less than what I expect from one of WDW's flagship rides. Not bad, per se, but certainly not one of their best.
Jeff
PS: My own TT ride habits, you ask? If we can get a FastPass for a time not unreasonably far flung, we'll usually ride it (only five out of eight of the "big plan" Jewell clan can ride the thing at all, and two of those don't really care about it that much). I do like the outside part of the ride a lot, but it's nothing we go out of our way for. It's not like Snow White's Scary Adventures, or anything.