This ride used to be so COOL and fun (around 1994).
The experience was you enter the dark, cool air conditioned queuing area where you see all of the bots, the pulley with the carts above you, and red glowing lights, and the blacklight as you enter the cars (which I think is still there.)
Then, once you got on the ride I swear (but remember its been 13 years), you are going up that first hill and there was a really sweet multicolored disco light at the top (and I think there was music that died with the disco light as you approached the top of the hill?) Then yes, I agree with whomever else said that the main drops on the ride were done in pitch black; now you can see everything. Not as fun 
When the ride was the way I described it, it was a much more fun, mysterious "Space-like" experience; everything from the pitch-dark downhills to the lighting effects.
The current fluorescent paint everywhere seems like a way to cover up some of the more interesting lighting/electrical effects the ride used to have before they stripped it all down for a couple of years, and then changed to add black lighted colors.
Can anyone tell I really miss the "old Disaster Transport?"
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