Imagineering Weekends : One Sentence Competition Season 2

Magic Feather

Magic Feather

Well-Known Member
Horizons: New Beginnings
This remodel of the ever popular Horizons Pavilion at EPCOT Center is sure to please all guests, cast members, and most importantly GE with its new, sleek, metallic design and greater product placement that is blended into the ride seamlessly. The changes start with the exterior, queue, and loading, as well as drastic changes towards the beginning, where the slopes on the exterior of the pavilion are made silver and have curved, metal extensions that bring the pavilion to a point. The queue's theming is very akin to that of modern day test track, similar to the cars and loading zone which make way to the new introduction in a starfield that is seemingly empty, but through on vehicle laser effects projecting into a blank background begin to demonstrate a brief technological history (with on board narration by Bob Saget) , and visions of the future by Jules Verne in a condensed segment from the original which makes way to the most impressive scene that is the ascent. The ascent begins in what looks like a metallic tube, into which we slowly arise out of with a view of a gleaming skyline, a large lagoon, and floating towers, akin to that of the Jetsons with projected flying cars floating everywhere. Guests then travel through this futuristic town called Mytra One where they will visit the High Rise District, for which you will receive a tour by the famous robot butler of the homes futuristic appliances from GE, The Cloud District, where a young girl named Galaxia will give you a tour as to how altitude affects things and shows off other GE products, and then you dive down to the Lagoon District, where a father named Aqueous shows the luxuries of underwater living, followed by a launch back into the stars, where you can choose a tomorrow to travel home through using the same effects as the past, concluding a trip that is sure to please the whole family.
 
The Excavator

The Excavator

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City Horizons
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Revamping the attraction with an update of the future, where you travel through the city of tomorrow. Similar to the ending of the current Spaceship Earth, you will get to decide your own journey with a series of questions as you ascend up to the top of the pavilion. At the top, you will be divided into one of three ending possibilities where the rest of the attraction will be about your future, and seeing you in the future. It will be an immersive experience for guests of all ages, and one that can be updated once more if necessary.
 
michmousefan

michmousefan

Well-Known Member
Horizons Two: Now Departing

A completely revised and re-imagined version of the classic Horizons ride, Horizons Two keeps its eye on the future while adding some thrill ride aspects to the attraction. After boarding your Horizons One-inspired ride vehicle (now enhanced with lap bars), you'll face and orbit around an updated "city of tomorrow" while narration intones that the future isn't far away at all. As your ridepod rotates and slowly ascends 720 degrees around the model, the memorable "explore your future" feature arrives at this point of the ride, rather than later, and the riders select their desired future. The vehicle continues ascending until it is well above the city model, then, nearly at the top of the ride building, the ridepod separates from those adjacent to it and then travels forward along one of three separate, physical ride tracks, with practical sets (no screens) depicting the chosen journey (space, undersea or nighttime urban setting) passing you on all sides as the ride vehicle moves forward and down, occasionally slowing and speeding past sets and through "speed tunnels," eventually making its way to ground level, where the ride vehicles join alongside one another in sideways motion as they began and pass before the new Omnisphere grand finale. A gift shop at ride exit will feature books about futuristic studies for all ages so that guests may take their visions of the future to horizons beyond.
 
tcool123

tcool123

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
On the Horizon

In 1993, Horizon closes for refurbishment; it will be receiving a compelling new storyline and a fresh new interior. However this is not that pitch, this good sirs is about the construction walls to be used in said refurbishment!

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The construction walls we will be using will be made out of 100% Oak wood, a nice and sturdy wood. It will be painted a nice futuristic, Cerulean with Turquoise and Periwinkle accents. Inspirational quotes said by Walt Disney will be paraphrased to be used as decoration on the walls; the quotes will not be Eggshell, but a striking white. Lastly the walls will be a good seven feet tall to scare off those who try to look over it.​
 
Daveeeeed

Daveeeeed

Well-Known Member
Into the Horizons
As requested by GE, Horizons will receive a major overhaul to continue to inspire, but this time, with the view of the brightest minds of the 19th century! Jules Verne and Thomas Edison will collaborate to create a marvelous journey to their vision of a wonderful future. You will be taken to the year 2028 (200 years after Jules Verne was born) to travel through time, and space using their ideas to get there; what you'll see are people living in spacestation like communities, with everything from aquariums, parks, and restaurants - like Edison will gleefully say, you will "Journey to it, through it, and be in your future".
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This Steampunk style 21st century themed attraction will feature contraptions thought up from Verne, like the Catapult Cannon, and put together using Edison's technology. The exterior will get a very minor Steampunk look, but the scenes will be completely gutted (kind of like Maelstrom to Frozen: Ever After), and the vehicles will be updated with new paint, and slight aesthetic changes, because the vehicles will be reality machines (meaning whatever you make of life that's how your future will be as the ride will be Verne's and Edison's dream of the future, and then in the end that is handed over to you to choose between three dreams of the future that will be shown in the finale) - also the attraction will have a couple of tension building moments traveling through space and time.
 
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kmbmw777

kmbmw777

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Horizons: Reborn


The new Horizons begins with the tune of “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,” and shows an animatronic of Walt Disney announcing the Florida project - aka EPCOT, while a narrator announces why the ambitious project was canceled. The ride proceeds to take guests through how the vision of the utopia was shaped by dreamers, like Walt, and how the vision of the dystopia and the fear of failure has halted work towards the utopia. The ride inspires guests to work towards a utopia and dream to create a better tomorrow by showing them different versions of cities in the future — underwater cities, space stations, land utopias, and finally a re-created simulation of EPCOT. This ride inspires hope rather than fear into a new generation of dreamers.

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spacemt354

spacemt354

Chili's
First review!
DlpPhantom said:
Horizons Century 4
Sponsored by General Electric
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The update of the beloved Epcot Center attraction Horizons will update the ride for the next generation. the original ride vehicle and track would be used. The message of the original would be retained along with the theme song. The ride would have James Earl Jones as its new narrator. The queue would still take guest through a airport of sorts. The ride would then quickly touch upon Jules Verne and what we though the future would be like in the 80's. It's a big Great beautiful Tommorow would play during these first couple of scenes. The ride would feature what life on the moon and mars could be like. It then takes guests back to earth to explore under water farms. In this scene submarines would tend to crops. Afterwards shows how robots will help us in the next century. This segment includes a cameo from the butler robot and the kitchen robot from the original.View attachment 160180 It also shows us how they will be used to save lives in the medical field. The ride shows a robot do a surgery. One final segment would show a train that uses magnets to propel its self and is capable of going 200 miles an hour. The finally would have us pick between flying to mars, following a jet pack around a city and take a submarine to the under water farm.
The ride would exit into a room full of interactive activities.The exterior will be repainted with a black and blue color scheme along with added supports.View attachment 160178
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Kudos to you this time Phantom - for getting it in first!

I must say, this was probably one of my favorite proposals from you this contest! Though, to be fair to everyone else, it does go above and beyond the 1-5 sentence and 1 image limit...that being said I think your ideas were very well thought out and this would be a great upgrade. I love the name as well - Century 4!
 
spacemt354

spacemt354

Chili's
Tony the Tigger said:
Good Things On The Horizon - sponsored by G.E.

Each guest begins seated and strapped into their own individual open pod, though the pods move together in rows of three, and a single slowed-down, barely recognizable instrumental line from "There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" plays at the beginning.

As each pod slowly follows the outline of the ride, each historic G.E. invention is highlighted by the narrator, and a demo of that invention lights up in the center of the room, and stays lit as the others come to life - from the light bulb to the laser to the Gemini V spacecraft - as the narrator wraps with "...but you've heard all this before" (and everything goes dark again.)

Each pod then goes up to the next level where we see "the present" era from the 1978 electric car to the 1983 MRI to the 1986 lighting of the Statue of Liberty and the brand new 1992 Mars Observer built for NASA.

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Finally, each pod ascends to the top level with easily updated pictures of new projects in the works including hints at medical, space, and energy advances, and that your own personal vehicle may one day follow the path of the Mars Observer. At that moment, a clear shield comes around the front of your pod, and you realize you have been in a small rocket-ship type vehicle all along, which then goes straight up into the sky and you can see outer space projected above you (and the rest of WDW all around you on your way back down the light-bulb shaped attraction.)
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I really like how you truly tied this into the Carousel of Progress in the beginning, with the subtle nod in song...a great touch!

Now I can't get the song out of my head :D therefore... I will do the rest of the review in song...

"There's a great big beautiful idea here,
clearly it took a lot of thought
There's a great big beautiful potential,
and I like general ideas.

The inventions were great, and that's a start,
You followed it up, with some nice, big art..
But something about those might feel out of date...by the year twenty, 2028

So there's a lot of excellent ideas here.
And you must be very proud.
So we'll see how it compares to the others
When I read the rest"

Translation: Really liked the concept - some of the more specific 80s and 90s stuff may feel out of date in a few decades, causing another refurbishment. Overall great work though!
 

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