After reading some threads about improvements WDW needs to make I've seen a few people mention Horizons. I have no idea what that is. Please help a poor soul who has no idea what that was! 
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WDWmazprty
Well-Known Member
Check these out:
Horizons:
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbuA4m4QZQY
Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rsx3IlIlYY
:wave:
Horizons:
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbuA4m4QZQY
Part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rsx3IlIlYY
:wave:
wbc
New Member
Horizons was a ginormous building that housed Disney's view of the future.... but in 1983.
Lots of Star Trek looking people. It was totally awesome, but by the time it closed it was severely outdated and almost laughable.
IMO, no other attraction had a level of detail like Horizons. That is what is most missed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizons_(Epcot_attraction)
For pictures and videos go here:
http://mesaverdetimes.blogspot.com/
Lots of Star Trek looking people. It was totally awesome, but by the time it closed it was severely outdated and almost laughable.
IMO, no other attraction had a level of detail like Horizons. That is what is most missed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizons_(Epcot_attraction)
For pictures and videos go here:
http://mesaverdetimes.blogspot.com/
Evil Genius
Well-Known Member
I've always felt that Horizons could've been viewed the same way Spaceship Earth is. An attraction that could've been constantly revamped an updated with new scenes and technology.
We won't go into my distaste for its replacement...
We won't go into my distaste for its replacement...
wbc
New Member
IMO, the only reason Spaceship Earth hasn't suffered the same fate is that its building is the icon of Epcot.
However, Spaceship Earth is 95% historic, so to update it only requires updating a few scenes (which has been done like....... three times?). Horizons would require an update of roughly 50% of the attraction.
Evil Genius
Well-Known Member
Yeah MS stinks.
This last trip a few weeks ago I only went on it once, and that one time was horrible. The scene in at my station in the capsule was messed up, the whole screen had a very yellowish tint to it and blurry, also the joystick had no simulated motion at all
Evil Genius
Well-Known Member
To me M:S can be summed up as the following:
Get in a phone booth with three other people
Get spun around at violent speeds
Watch video game in front of you
Vomit if neccesary.
wbc
New Member
Well, at least they borrowed one thing from Horizons. :ROFLOL:
stlbobby
Well-Known Member
After reading some threads about improvements WDW needs to make I've seen a few people mention Horizons. I have no idea what that is. Please help a poor soul who has no idea what that was!
Oh my god...Can open...Worms everywhere.
DMC-12
It's HarmonioUS, NOT HarmoniYOU.
Horizons was a dark ride of what Imagineers on acid and Quaaludes in the 1970's thought what the future would look like.
Its die hard fanbois have been QQ-ing about its demolition for many many years now. And as a result, most hate mission space, just cause it killed daddy and took its place.
Its die hard fanbois have been QQ-ing about its demolition for many many years now. And as a result, most hate mission space, just cause it killed daddy and took its place.
Horizonsfan
Well-Known Member
^^Ah another fan!:lol:
Horizons was the attraction that was definitively futuristic in Future World. It badly need an upgrade and from what many have said WDI had great proposals to fix it up however the price tag to make it "modern" was not liked by Eisner and the project was indefinitely shelved. It's really a shame as it really was, and still is, an important aspect of FW.
Maybe someday they'll go crazy and build a 21st Century, or 22nd Century
, version in between The Land and The Seas. Ah if only...
ERich2010
Member
im not saying this to troll or anything:
but i think MS is a HUUUUUUGGGGE improvement from Horizons. Future World is supposed to be about the FUTURE! its supposed to have the most technically advanced rides.
i just think the "traditionalists", as i call them, are holding WDW back. if we keep holding on to these...dare i say...boring rides like Horizon, we wont ever come close to being compared to other Disney Parks. compare any of our original dark rides to the new ones in TDL or HKDL. They blow us out of the park! (no pun intended)
i dont mean to hate on Horizons, im just saying that MS was an improvement. you cant say things like "we need more E-tickets to kill Potter" and then hope they dont change anything
but i think MS is a HUUUUUUGGGGE improvement from Horizons. Future World is supposed to be about the FUTURE! its supposed to have the most technically advanced rides.
i just think the "traditionalists", as i call them, are holding WDW back. if we keep holding on to these...dare i say...boring rides like Horizon, we wont ever come close to being compared to other Disney Parks. compare any of our original dark rides to the new ones in TDL or HKDL. They blow us out of the park! (no pun intended)
i dont mean to hate on Horizons, im just saying that MS was an improvement. you cant say things like "we need more E-tickets to kill Potter" and then hope they dont change anything
Horizonsfan
Well-Known Member
That's fine that you like M:S, different strokes for differnt folks. However, many, not all, of the people who you are talking about aren't anti-progress. Most of them, and I would probably include myself in the group, dislike when a good idea like Horizons or the original EC entrance layout, isn't "plussed" but rather is just discarded. It's even more grating to these people when the replacement is narrower in its audience than it's predecessor. By audience I mean mean people who can enjoy it, not who wants to enjoy it. Everybody could enjoy Horizons, not everybody wanted to enjoy it. Only some people can enjoy M:S, only some want to enjoy it. It's also grating when the replacement is far shorter than the original, example - JIYI and M:S. Is that a good explanation?
You were seven (six?) when the pavilion closed. How could you possibly make an informed opinion about whether or not Mission Space improved upon Horizons?
ERich2010
Member
memories and youtube.
im not trying to start a fight, im just saying that we're quick to think Disney is ruining itself when they do have a plan.
For example, when i was a kid, Mr. Toad's was my favorite dark ride in MK, and when i heard it was closed down due to Pooh coming in, i was crushed. but now, looking back, i realized that Pooh probably was a smart choice looking back, though i hate to admit it.
Bravo 229
Member
^^Ah another fan!:lol:
Horizons was the attraction that was definitively futuristic in Future World. It badly need an upgrade and from what many have said WDI had great proposals to fix it up however the price tag to make it "modern" was not liked by Eisner and the project was indefinitely shelved. It's really a shame as it really was, and still is, an important aspect of FW.
Maybe someday they'll go crazy and build a 21st Century, or 22nd Century
I'd love to see them create a New Horizons, so long as they pay as much attention to detail as they did with Horizons!
Uncle Lupe
Well-Known Member
Perhaps if they redo Horizons they will include some Pixar characters.
Thanks everybody! I asked my DH if he remembers Horizons from our honeymoon in '94 but he didn't. I guess it was closed by then. BTW, I love Mission Space. Only the intense version (after taking motion sickness pills though) the mild is too wimpy, I mean what's the point? :shrug: