Originally Posted By Mr X Thought I'd get your attention. So, are you two the ONLY people who have a long enough history with TDL to have seen "Eternal Seas", the original Tomorrowland show that MN wrote about on another thread? I remember TDLFAN mentioning it and I was like "wow...I never even HEARD of it...BOY he knows everything about this place!!" (of course, I'm a bad bad person cause I don't know how parkhoppers work right? ). So, tell us all about it! How was it? Was it popular, or not too well received? Any and all info would be fun to hear about! Of course, any OTHER LPers who've seen the attraction are welcomed to chime in...but I have the feeling there are only two gaijin who have checked this one out!
Originally Posted By MagicalNezumi Yes sir! MagicalNezumi reporting for duty! ;-) Except that I never saw it in person. I first visited Tokyo Disneyland in 1992 and then regularly since 1995. That attraction was long gone by then. I have seen footage from old VHS tapes of news coverage from that time. I'll have to ask the OG Maniacs (Older Generation Hard-Core fans) what their impressions were. -- MagicalNezumi
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I never saw "Eternal Seas". By the time I made it to TDL on my first visit, Captain EO had already replaced that show... Actually, EPCOT's Magic Journeys I beleive was the movie that replaced "Eternal Seas". All I know is that "Eternal Seas" was an overview of japanese's relationship with the seas, and was located where MicroAdventure is located today.
Originally Posted By Mr X Wow...so we have an attraction that NO LPer has ever seen!? That must be a first, huh!?
Originally Posted By Mr X Okay...if it's not much trouble (I don't really care THAT much lol...I was just curious about it)...
Originally Posted By Mr X Oh, FGM just took a look at this thread and...well I've been sitting right NEXT to someone who's seen it (duh!). She said it was nothing special, though.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>When you come to for a visit - I can try and find it<< Oh Dennis, if that is the case, then get a head start and begin looking, because I would love to see that.
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara What kind of film was it? Flat? 3D? In theater effects of any kind? I consider myself lucky to have seen the extremely odd Meet the World.
Originally Posted By Mr X Me too! It was an ideal place to cool off and take a nap on busy summer days.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris I saw it once. I really liked that they had the English headphones. I would have appreciated something like that for 20K, Stormrider and JttCotE at TDS.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney LOL, this thread was funny!! Mr. X summoned two people who actually has never seen it and he never bothered to ask someone who lives with him and probably been going to the parks since she was a teenager. Priceless ;D Yeah, count me in to one of those people who saw Meet the World too....and let's hope we all never have to meet it again .
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara From a technical point of view, Meet the World was a fascinating failure. From a political point of view, it was a historical whitewash. All Japanese agression simply didn't exist. That would've gone over real well had it been built at Epcot as planned. Fortunately they figured that out--after they built the building, but before they put the show in.
Originally Posted By Mr X Well, it's still a magic kingdom attraction, after all. Wouldn't really expect to hear about the rape of nanking or nothin. (although I did find that comment along the lines of "then our wize Japanese leaders decided peace was preferable, and put an end to the war" a touch ridiculous)
Originally Posted By TDR_Fan I find rather odd and insulting that they do not teach their children what really happened. In the school textbooks, anything that's less than positive has been erased from history (taking over China, Pearl Harbor, etc). Instead, they act as if nothing ever happened.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney ^^Yeah, it is odd TDR_Fan, I lived in Japan and Korea and BELIEVE me the countries are opposite extremes about this lol. In Japan, kids aren't taught all that much, its barely mentioned and when it is, there is a huuuuge chunk of it missing and even adults don't really know all that much (although they certainly know more and learning more) whereas in Korea children are taught all about the past evils of Japan and what they did from the early age of 6. They learn all about the colonization of Korea, the comfort women issue, Japan's wartime aggression against the other countries, Pearl Harbor, aligning with the Nazis, all of it all by the ripe age of 8. Every Korean kid is fed a full plate of hate for that country before they are old enough to know better while the average Japanese kid at the same age doesn't realize Korea even exist or anything their country did to most of Asia around the same age. One should a little less at such a young age and one should A LOT more. It is strange.
Originally Posted By Mr X I agree, TDR_Fan, but Disney would be the last place I'd expect to get an education on that stuff. Anyway, the way they treat the schooling is much like the way the government treats the whole shameful past...very much a "that was then, this is now" attitude.
