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Those photos were quite common back in the day. There was a website called The Horizons Tragedy that documented virtually every day of it. IIRC it’s still around on the Wayback Machine. Those photos look very similar to what was on there.I didn't see this page posted here before, I could be wrong though. It shows some exterior photos but once you get past those there are interior pictures and aerials as well. There are three pages total. Very sad.
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Horizons
www.retrowdw.com
$$$$I don't understand why this ride was closed and demolished. It was so elaborate and really just needed a refurbishment. It could have easily become Epcot's Pirates of the Caribbean or Haunted Mansion.
It’s a time a lot of people would like to forget. The way it was in full sight was painful.Must have been surreal to watch this come down in real time.
Whew! For a moment, it looked like we were getting a glimpse into Trader Sam's parlor!To lighten things up a bit, here’s a neat little beat of trivia that doesn’t get mentioned very often..
Sometime after Horizons closed, the original Haunted Mansion Little Leota figure was put into storage and the Hologram Girl figure from Horizons replaced her (notice the flesh colored hands).
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(The heads in the storage pic are also from Horizons)
Horizons is probably my favorite ride ever (as you can see by my profile pic), so I obviously wish it was still there.
With that said, they would have needed to do serious work on it for it to still be open today. I think almost all of the first half or so of the ride would need to be completely replaced with something new (especially the movie), and the best part of the ride (the trips through the future habitats) would also need a serious upgrade for modernization.
Just imagine if they hadn't all-but-ignored Epcot in the 90's and had invested in more of the rides instead of letting them rot. The 1994 SSE refurb notwithstanding. It's fairly clear that the only ones who "got" EPCOT Center were the ones who built it.
Mr. Chapek? Who hacked your account?I don't understand why this ride was closed and demolished. It was so elaborate and really just needed a refurbishment. It could have easily become Epcot's Pirates of the Caribbean or Haunted Mansion.
On the other hand, if they had invested in Horizons in the mid-late 90s, we could have gotten a bastardized version like the defacement of Journey into Imagination.
YOUR Horizons! Starring Regis Philbin [or Whoppi Goldberg]
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