Rumor Siemens is going to end their sponsorship with the parks - Spaceship Earth and IllumiNations

[JoeCamel]

Wasn't it Buckminster Fuller that coined the term?

Yep
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/spaceshipearth

 

[marni1971]

Wasn't it Buckminster Fuller that coined the term?

Yep
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/spaceshipearth

I hang my head in shame. And I've only just finished researching the thing too...

 

[MCast]

I don't mind SSE as it stands. The end of ride segment is gimmicky, but I don't hate it.

I do think there should be a scene or two about the technological breakthroughs of the 90s/early 2000s.

 

[*Q*]

I hang my head in shame. And I've only just finished researching the thing too...

An easy brain fart, I think.

 

[WEDwaydatamover]

Idea!
I think they should keep the screens but instead of the stupid cartoon (that's funny about the first 2 times) show real time footage of the prior versions ending and descent.

I'm just throwing it out there.

 

[ChrisFL]

Idea!
I think they should keep the screens but instead of the stupid cartoon (that's funny about the first 2 times) show real time footage of the prior versions ending and descent.

I'm just throwing it out there.

Anything that's more realistic than the cartoons they have now. It's sort of my issue with both SSE and the new Design your own car segment of Test Track...why not make them a bit more realistic?

 

[tl77]

ALL they need to do is make an incredible final act/descent & freshen everything else up. Leave this alone and continue to make it the shining beacon of this park. Without it, the park is completely lost.

Maybe if the final act/descent featured a song about "Tomorrow's Child" again?

 

[Haymarket2008]

Maybe if the final act/descent featured a song about "Tomorrow's Child" again?

Sign me the up!

 

[tl77]

I'd be happy if they just started taking the thing seriously again. Lose the cartoon touch screen, and get another "news man" type to do the voice over, Walter Cronkite brought an authenticity to it that presented Spaceship Earth as "fact", which it is, as oppose to "entertainment" which all the celebrities ushered into Epcot around 2000... I think someone like Bill Curtis or Charlie Rose would be good contenders for the narrator job

 

[WildcatDen]

I'll likely be there the first week of September, so hopefully I can get one last ride in.

I heard soon after the Labor Day holiday weekend

 

[Notes from Neverland]

I heard soon after the Labor Day holiday weekend

Thanks for the info. Sounds like it's going to be close!

 

[HMF]

I'd be happy if they just started taking the thing seriously again. Lose the cartoon touch screen, and get another "news man" type to do the voice over, Walter Cronkite brought an authenticity to it that presented Spaceship Earth as "fact", which it is, as oppose to "entertainment" which all the celebrities ushered into Epcot around 2000... I think someone like Bill Curtis or Charlie Rose would be good contenders for the narrator job

I am thinking Benidict Cumberbatch.

 

[Goob]

This has Morgan Freeman written all over it.

 

[Movielover]

I am thinking Benidict Cumberbatch.

This has Morgan Freeman written all over it.

Would I be the only one wishing for the ride to be narrated by both these actors having a delightful conversation back and forth with all the AA's replaced to look and sound like Jeremy Irons...

 

[cheezbat]

I am thinking Benidict Cumberbatch.

Nice idea...but Patrick Stewart is still my dream narrator.

 

[Otterhead]

I'd be happy if they just started taking the thing seriously again... get another "news man" type to do the voice

I don't know if having Dame Judy Dench voice the ride means they're taking it less 'seriously' than having a generic man's voice.

 

[WEDwaydatamover]

I was saying yearssssss ago that Morgan Freeman was the only one that could make Jeremy Irons sound like Judy Dench.

What about Tom Selleck?
No wait Henry Rollins.

 

[WEDwaydatamover]

Even Ellen calls her stupid Judy.

 

[HMF]

I don't know if having Dame Judy Dench voice the ride means they're taking it less 'seriously' than having a generic man's voice.

Judi Dench is not the problem. What they have her saying is.

 

[HMF]

Nice idea...but Patrick Stewart is still my dream narrator.

I used to think Patrick Stewart too but Cumberbatch is more contemporary.