Originally Posted By oc_dean The giant omnimover attractions of EPCOT's past ... always deserve a mention, every now and again. I was fortunate to visit WDW in '92 and '95. And I'm so glad I got into the big ommimover experiences, before they were wrecked! The part I can't forget in World of Motion was the finalé. The futuristic city in the dark, with it's dramatic music. That had me get chocked up. The original Journey Into Imagination was so colorful and whimsical. Horizons .. one very elaborately laid out ride. One I'll never forget. And I'm glad I got into the Wonders of Life pavilion before it was shuttered.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "I was fortunate to visit WDW in '92 and '95. And I'm so glad I got into the big ommimover experiences, before they were wrecked!" I was at Epcot on opening day. There were a few snags - Spaceship Earth was broken down most of the day and large sections of Communicore (Innoventions) was still under construction. Overall though most of the park was functioning and everyone was gawking and marveling at what was considered at the time to be Disney's greatest and most ambitious achievement since the opening of WDW.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros ^^I'd still argue that EPCOT Center is Disney's most ambitious achievement since opening WDW. They've done a lot of smaller improvements and projects since then, but as a proportion of the company's size, nothing can ever compare to the scope of EPCOT Center. At the time it was built it was the largest private construction project ever attempted, and Disney was a shrinking shadow of its former self. Even big projects like Shanghai can't compare because TWDC is so much bigger and more stable today (not to mention it's basically a copy of their existing park format) that it's a much safer gamble I would have loved to be there on opening day. It must have been a really incredible experience, even with the snafus!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I agree. It could be argued that the DLR expansion was ambitious and perhaps the west coast equivalent. DCA is no Epcot, but the very notion of rearranging a 50 year old theme park's infrastructure and transforming it into a multi-day destination was unheard of. It's one thing to build a park from scratch in a wide open space on untouched Florida swampland, but initiating a massive development like that within the confines of a well developed urban area while maintaining daily operations at DL is another.
Originally Posted By Kusin_It "And who is Mr. Disney? " The Disney corporation "More importantly, what is the point of this thread?" the point is to complain and discuss; in other words the point is the same as 73% of all threads about the parks "How long have WoM and Horizons been gone now? Why bring this up now Kusin?" they have been gone for at least 4 years. and I bring it up because it is not too late to discuss the past. there are some archeologists and anthropologists that still talk about Lucy from Ethiopia and she is 3 million years old
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Closed at least 4 years? You don't get to WDW much do you? Neither one survived to see the arrival of the 21st Century.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Yeah, I don't know why this discussion is any more or less inane than any other.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I have no problem with the discussion and obviously there are more than a few here that enjoy it. I was just surprised that a person so interested in those attractions didn't seem to have much of an idea as to when they closed.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Yeah, well I just recently learned that FWIW means For What It's Worth, and I'm very interested in acronyms.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Yeah, well I just recently learned that FWIW means For What It's Worth, and I'm very interested in acronyms.<< Really? I think I learned FWIW here on LP many moons ago. It seemed to be one of the more common non-Disney-specific acronyms that got used here, along with IMO/IMHO
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn I inform my engineering staff "Be cautious when using acronyms. If I do not know what they mean, I will reference Urban Dictionary to find out."
Originally Posted By danyoung >I was at Epcot on opening day. There were a few snags - Spaceship Earth was broken down most of the day...< I was there the week that it opened. I had the worst sunburn of my life, having spent too much time on a Tampa beach the day before. I remember Spaceship Earth breaking down while I was riding the down section, and it about killed me, trying to lean forward to take contact off of my burnt shoulders!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt OMG, that sounds awful. Was Walter Cronkite's spiel playing over and over?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Doubtful, since Cronkite wasn't added until the 1986 redo when they added the Tomorrow's Child song to the descent. Prior to that time, the narrator was Lawrence Dobkin, who would have been endlessly harassing our sunburned friend I'm not sure if it's just similar instrumentation or an actual musical connection, but Tomorrow's Child has always sounded like a riff on the music composed for Horizons. Both seemed to approach a more Future World-wide set of lyrics than the super-specific lyrics of the other pavilion songs <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usIQmSI7Kcw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...QmSI7Kcw</a>
Originally Posted By danyoung I have no memory of what the soundtrack was doing. I just remember the pain!
