Originally Posted By jacobsmom How come no one mentioned "Innovations" experience here in Tomorrowland? It was very cool. We have never gone it there in the last couple of years. We didn't go in till our last day. My son loved all the interactive things to do in there he wished we had more time. I hope they keep it around until our next visit. I think it is a must see. Anyone else? Very cool!
Originally Posted By trekkeruss IMO, Innoventions is merely okay. Better than nothing, but not really a Disney experience. The only thing in there I find remotely cool is Honda's ASIMO show.
Originally Posted By jacobsmom No we didn't find half of the things in there I'm sure. Grant it, my husband didn't care for Innovations that much but my son loved it. It was a nice change from standing in lines for rides all day. Also it was nice to get out of the smoke from the fires on Monday... yuck!
Originally Posted By oc_dean The Tom Morrow AA (Nathan Lane) is good for a whirl. Pun intended One of these days I'll see ASIMO. But overall ... Innoventions is a yawner. I see a sea of modern day compuuters .. and areas upstairs that look like a giant arcade. Basically an "X-Box" experience which makes it fairly ordinary. Disneyland .. on the other hand .. is a place with adventures and shows not commonly found in one's living room. This 28,000 square foot facility deserves the E Ticket experience it's been in it's celebrated past. In 1974 America Sings was an E Ticket. And though Carousel of Progress was free due to it's big sponsor backing it (GE) .... I'm sure many agree here it was an "E Ticket" on many levels. Innoventions most likely will be tagging along for a few more years. Surely because of contracts with several of it's sponsors. I'm hopeful the carousel theater's 4th tenant will be something pretty special.
Originally Posted By pitapan16 I like Innoventions too. I think acouple things that are cool are the litle entrance show with Tom Morrow, the projection sports/heatlh game on the floor, and the one that blew me away for the first time last weekend, Honda's Assimo show! It's amazing to watch a free standing robot mover like that and be able to "see" where he is and what is around him on his own right in front of you. That's a great thing to have in Tommorowland and I have to give respect to innoventors Honda for taking robots to the next level with this guy.
Originally Posted By sjdimon We too like Innoventions (IN) (I would prefer a CoP-style show however - but it's certainly better than the "We're Imagineering Something New" sign that was there for so many years...). It's funny though - our son (now 9) used to be TERRIFIED of Tom Morrow (TM). We'd have to ask the CM at the door if we could "sneak in" and bypass TM - I'm not sure why he was so afraid of him - but he'd cry and cry if we "threatened" to drag him into IN and see TM. He was OK once he got in there - but going in was traumatic. Since it's not so popular - it was never a problem going in a "side door" and getting past TM.
Originally Posted By BrnardM <<The Tom Morrow AA (Nathan Lane) is good for a whirl>> You know, every time I see Tom Morrow I can't help but think that such an articulated animatronic belongs in a great attraction. Why have such a complex figure assigned to a routine speil that the host that's already there could deliver? Yes he's cool to look at but, underutilized is the key word here. This kind of sums up my whole feeling on innoventions as well.
Originally Posted By BrnardM P.S. If we must a have a Jack Sparrow figure in Pirates then he ought to be well represented. I know I wouldn't miss Tom too much. (Wishful Thinking)
Originally Posted By Elderp ^ Well, if Tom shows up missing you heard it hear first folks. I don't think it is going to happen. From what I have heard about Jack is he is going to be more of a popping out and back in one of the doors type characters. I wonder if it will be a full body AA.
Originally Posted By AladdinAZ Mr. Tom Morrow is A Nnoying Only thing worthwhile in that building is visting Stitch. This building should have been the 1st thing evicted from the TL98 makeover, and for some reasonl, someone has played a horrible pratical joke by keeping this as one of the last remnants of the cursed age of Eisner-Pressler=Harriss.
Originally Posted By ArchtMig I was not a proponent of bringing Innoventions to Disneyland originally. Mostly because it was a clone from WDW, and I generally hate clones because, with the exception of Buzz Lightyear, all the clones we have received from Florida are poor stripped down versions of the originals, and Innoventions is no exception. But they have added some mildly redeemingly interesting additions to Innoventions here from time to time, like the Virtual Resort, the Stitch phone booths, and Asimo. But now that Steve Jobs will sit on Disney's board of directors, I'm thinking there may be a chance that Innoventions might benefit from that. Perhaps some cutting edge high tech stuff will be added to Innoventions. But then again, the place might just devolve into a display of nothing but iPods. Worse yet... just iPod Shuffles. That would be my worst nightmare.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>But now that Steve Jobs will sit on Disney's board of directors, I'm thinking there may be a chance that Innoventions might benefit from that.<< Yeah. Like the motivation from creating an entirely better attraction, altogether.
