Astuter Computer Revue in Communicore

Magical Pixie

New Member
^Yep, Ken Jennings being the host of the show (who was also the original Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd). That outfit he's wearing, though.... Good gravy. @_____@
 

Mista C

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I can remember waiting for hours to do that walking tour back when Epcot opened. I also remember playing that touch-screen game (cannot believe that they had those back then) where you had to sort different color luggage on a conveyor built to the proper airplane. And what was that show in Communicore where you would sit in a theater with a bunch of people and watch clips of things and then vote? Am I remembering this correctly? There was a host that would ask poll-type questions and once the entire audience voted, they would show the results.
 

Cmdr_Crimson

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Original Poster
And what was that show in Communicore where you would sit in a theater with a bunch of people and watch clips of things and then vote? Am I remembering this correctly? There was a host that would ask poll-type questions and once the entire audience voted, they would show the results.

That was the Future Choice Theater where you took The Epcot Poll.
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The Theater is where the Big Rotunda is in MouseGears.
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Mista C

Well-Known Member
Wow, thanks! That show was probably so lame, but to a 10 year old kid in the 80's, it was awesome. Did not realize that the theater used to be in what is now that section of MouseGears.
 

Magical Pixie

New Member
I can remember waiting for hours to do that walking tour back when Epcot opened. I also remember playing that touch-screen game (cannot believe that they had those back then) where you had to sort different color luggage on a conveyor built to the proper airplane. And what was that show in Communicore where you would sit in a theater with a bunch of people and watch clips of things and then vote? Am I remembering this correctly? There was a host that would ask poll-type questions and once the entire audience voted, they would show the results.

Those sound like fun! I remember seeing in a video of a touch-screen game where you had to assemble a United States flag.... That looked like fun, too! Now I wish I had a time-traveling machine....
 

Mista C

Well-Known Member
Those sound like fun! I remember seeing in a video of a touch-screen game where you had to assemble a United States flag.... That looked like fun, too! Now I wish I had a time-traveling machine....

I totally forgot about that one! I used to play that one too... would had never remembered if I had not seen your post!
 

Goofyernmost

Well-Known Member
I kinda missed my opportunity to experience all of that due to my ignorance of what was in there. I did get to see the computer central show. I remember the little guy jumping around from machine to machine and I also remember the queue going up the (stairs?) or was it a ramp. I just remember going up something. For years, I just passed by both East and West because I thought that there wasn't much in there. In the words of Cher... If I could turn back time...
 

Magical Pixie

New Member
I kinda missed my opportunity to experience all of that due to my ignorance of what was in there. I did get to see the computer central show. I remember the little guy jumping around from machine to machine and I also remember the queue going up the (stairs?) or was it a ramp. I just remember going up something. For years, I just passed by both East and West because I thought that there wasn't much in there. In the words of Cher... If I could turn back time...

I think it was a ramp that you went up. As for the host;

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"That's why I'm a-rooter for me computer, ev'ry body needs a friend!"
 

englanddg

One Little Spark...
It still seems so weird to me that central computer control ever made sense for these attractions.
It makes about as much sense as "cloud" computing through web based interfaces.

A LOT of sense to management for resource management and expense controls.

Cables are cheaper than controllers.
 

englanddg

One Little Spark...
To build on that, the mid to late 80s and 90s were a time of decentralized model computing...

With the internet taking up steam, centralized computing is now not only marketing fashion, but a regression back to mostly "terminal" client machines, and powerful central hosts.
 

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