I came across a video of a ride similar to Horizons. It was at the 64 New York's Worlds Fair, the same one Walt Disney was involved with. Does anyone know if that was a Walt Disney ride? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5aK0H05jk
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Did Walt Disney create Futurama 2?
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Cmdr_Crimson
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No he sponsored The Ford Motor Company and the attraction was the Ford Magic Skyway. Which was the inspiration to the Peoplemover.
trr1
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WED was hired to build attractions for
Ford Motors
Visitors would be carried through the history of the world from Stone Age, to Modern times in Ford Vehicles.
General Electric
A revolutionary new system where the audience moved around a series of stages explaining the progress of home electric appliances.
State of Illonios
A Hall of lifelike (audio-animatronic) presidents. Abraham Lincoln was the only one completed.
Pepsi-Cola
Made to benifit UNICEF, a boat ride through countries of the world.
Ford Motors
Visitors would be carried through the history of the world from Stone Age, to Modern times in Ford Vehicles.
General Electric
A revolutionary new system where the audience moved around a series of stages explaining the progress of home electric appliances.
State of Illonios
A Hall of lifelike (audio-animatronic) presidents. Abraham Lincoln was the only one completed.
Pepsi-Cola
Made to benifit UNICEF, a boat ride through countries of the world.
TP2000
Well-Known Member
Both GM Futurama attractions at the 1939-40 and 1964-65 World's Fairs were wholly created in house by General Motors and their various engineering, architectural, design and decorating divisions, although the art direction of the 1939 version was contracted by GM to the famous designer Norman Bel Geddes. That was back when General Motors was a powerhouse of industry and commerce, building everything from Frigidaire dream kitchens to Cadillac status cars to powerful train locomotives to lunar dune buggies for use on the moon, and could do anything they set their mind to.
GM's Futurama was the most visited and top rated attraction at both World's Fairs. GM's pavilion hosted 26 Million people in the 1964-65 seasons, more visitors than several of Disney's pavilions combined.
It's doubtful that the GM of today, AKA Government Motors and just a weak shell of its 20th century self, would or could ever try something as huge and daring as Futurama II.
GM's Futurama was the most visited and top rated attraction at both World's Fairs. GM's pavilion hosted 26 Million people in the 1964-65 seasons, more visitors than several of Disney's pavilions combined.
It's doubtful that the GM of today, AKA Government Motors and just a weak shell of its 20th century self, would or could ever try something as huge and daring as Futurama II.
WDWFanatic
Active Member
You know i think ive seen some of those transportation scenes in my old disney encyclopedia collection. It was a set of like 24 books and one was transportation, i swear some of that was in it.
Did World of Motion display any scenery or props from the original Ford Motors pavilion?
Cmdr_Crimson
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Nope Many of the props were brought back to DL The primevil world section is on the DL railroad which is similar to the scene of the stegosauras and t-rex fighting from UoE.
To bad they didn't recreate that ride in tomorrowland. But knowing its in Disneyland I want to see it now. I always thought Horizons was modeled after Futurama which made me think it was the work of Walt Disney.