#epcot horizons

[a-strange-human]

I don't think any animatronic fans follow me here but I'm posting it anyway!

Butler robot from Horizons real again in Epcot!!

[idreamofthemeparks]

This model of a LIFE habitat, a space environment for humans to live in long-term, at the Kennedy Space Center reminds me so much of Horizons! The plants growing in the background especially.

[geekyanimator]

“Only then will we be truly…Living with the Land.”

Meant to upload this one on here sooner! Another Horizon/Epcot mashup with GAIA and Living/Listen to the Land, taking inspiration from both versions of the ride!

[the-computer-wife]

I completely forgot I had a tumblr errmmmm….,..

Here’s some posters I designed!!! (Ignore the fugly ass watermarks I ain’t having my shit poached again I worked WAY too hard on these for that 😭🥀)

[a-land-of-shadow-and-substance]

It just occurred to me the weird implications of Disney making Star Lord canonically a fan of Horizons. Like they obviously picked it just because it's a prominent defunct ride to make the joke about "oh haha he's hyped for the ride we removed." But... the guy lives on a spaceship with five alien roommates and is constantly interacting with advanced technology and diverse biomes.

Was he inspired by the ride as a child, and that's why he adapted so well to his eventual life? Did he want to ride it again because he wanted to compare how much it "got wrong" about living in space in the future?

Or maybe he just likes retrofuturistic aesthetic? Like, I'd still be curious to see the original House of the Future despite living in a place with a flat screen TV, a microwave, and way too much plastic around...

[zannolin]

i don't want to be a teenager again. i don't want to go back to high school. intellectually i know things were worse than maybe they'll ever be again.

but also i want to go to blockbuster again. i want to eat in my favorite restaurant. have one last bagel at my favorite bakery. i want to have chocolate coke with all my siblings in the car at sonic, hoping "fireflies" by owl city will come on the radio while we're there. i want to not be working two and a half jobs. i want the hastings down the street to be open again, and my favorite knickknack store to be waiting when i drive to that side of town. i want the street lights to be orange again. i want my favorite thrift store back, the one with the best fabric selection in town. i want vhs tapes and cassette tapes and cd players in laptops and cars. i want to write more letters. be less angry. not spend $300 on church camp that i mostly hated anyway. i want to play three's a crowd one last time. i want to climb up the wall to the roof on the grad school campus. i want the concrete books back behind the library. i want to go back to house phones and no social media. to before they redid the movie theatre. to when the best feeling in the world was wearing a white shirt when they turned the blacklights on in the bowling alley. to stretching my fingers out as far as i could go to touch the nose of the zebra statue behind the railing at putt putt golf and whispering i love you to it. because i did.

you know.

[disneyparksattractionstournament]

Favorite Disney Parks Attraction Showdown: Round 1 - Group 1A

Videos under the cut!

Horizons (1983-1999): Epcot

Journey Into Imagination (1983-1998): Epcot

[mousecrossingtours]

Spaceship Earth at Epcot

[pippydog]

I love you retro futurism I love you edutainment I love you creative storytelling I love you unique character creation I love you practical effects I love you old EPCOT

[forgottenfuturist]

Scenes from Horizons, not just the greatest theme park attraction ever, but one of the greatest things ever.

[disneyremnants]

After Horizons closed in 1999, the original Mesa Verde Hovercraft and Sea Castle Submarine were moved to the Studio Tram Tour over at Disneyland Paris! Sadly, the attraction was replaced by Cars Road Trip in 2022- but it is likely that the props now live in the archives!

[tomoleary]

Robert and Louise McCall "The Prologue and the Promise" Horizons EPCOT Walt Disney World (1983)

Source

[disneyparktournament]

Round 1

East Coast:

[geekyanimator]

“Tomorrow’s Child”

My first Epcot/Horizon mashup piece! I feel like Aloy would definitely vibe early Epcot Center!

[vermilllionsands]

Exiting Horizons

[cowboyypunk]

horizons concept art, epcot center