RCA's Home of Future Living had to be one of the most interesting post shows ever created in Disney history.
It was supposed to be practical, but fun. Simple in it's modern aesthetic choices, but elaborate in telling the story of how one family interacted with new technology in the future. (Basically, Carousel of Progress reduced to a moving sidewalk show :lol
There are some slight hints of what remains of the Home of Future Living...
I have no idea if they will do anything to the post show during the refurb, so let's remember what it looked like just before it closed.
When you step onto the moving sidewalk, there's the robot working at the control booth on the left, to the best of my knowledge there was nothing here, the room itself most likely did not exist either.
On the right there are two hexagon or octagon shaped displays one right after the other. The first one had the father of the home on the porch with a laptop. He was originally having a video chat, and it later changed to him watching a videodisc.
The next room had the baby in shiny silver diapers and a plexiglass crib chilling out goo goo gaaing all the time, while a toy clown (I don't think it was a toy clown it more looked like a toy chicken with a yellow hat on its head but whatever) the object was filming the baby so that it could be monitored onto any TV in the house.
Then we head over to the next set of displays...I think this is where the bones are and the astronauts are today. One the right of this set of displays was the Mother's mother (Grandma!) learning pottery in the den. She was on a two-way TV conference with her art instructor.
Next to her, on the left was the son of the house with a friend.The son was assembling a saturn V rocket (I think it was a saturn V) and his friend was playing a virtual reality ski game on a flatscreen TV.
Further down was the front door of the home where a boy named billy and his dog and frog want to get in to visit the son. There was the dining room as well where the mother sat at a control pannel and originally shopped for dishware on TV, later it became Julia Childs, meanwhile the Mothers' friend is watching the TV.
Now we get to the very last part, and what little remains of the Home of Future Living.
In the room that has cabinents, and a movie screen in it with a vista of a city in the background, is what remains of both the daughters bedroom and entertainment room. The current TV screen has been moved over the right, it used to be more to the left. Where all the bones are and filing cabinents are, is what remains of the hexagonal layout of the daughters bedroom. The platform for her bed is still there, with drawers and filing cabinents on top of it. Next to her room was the entertainment room, where her friend, and another kid were watching a football game on a screen projector tv, later it became them watching 20k under the sea. The screen is still there, playing something else.
Then you headed down the speedramp, above you where the starlight skylights are, used to be television monitors. Well, actually, they used to be posters selling RCA products, but in 1982 it became TV monitors advertising videodiscs, and then in 1985 when the home of future living closed...and became RYCA-1, the TV monitors displayed images of astronauts in space.
Once we saw ourselves on TV, Billy and his Dog were there filming us. It later became robo boy and robo dog filming us, and they currently are in the very last room. I hope they are saved. They are the only figures to have survived the home of future living.
It was supposed to be practical, but fun. Simple in it's modern aesthetic choices, but elaborate in telling the story of how one family interacted with new technology in the future. (Basically, Carousel of Progress reduced to a moving sidewalk show :lol
There are some slight hints of what remains of the Home of Future Living...
I have no idea if they will do anything to the post show during the refurb, so let's remember what it looked like just before it closed.
When you step onto the moving sidewalk, there's the robot working at the control booth on the left, to the best of my knowledge there was nothing here, the room itself most likely did not exist either.
On the right there are two hexagon or octagon shaped displays one right after the other. The first one had the father of the home on the porch with a laptop. He was originally having a video chat, and it later changed to him watching a videodisc.
The next room had the baby in shiny silver diapers and a plexiglass crib chilling out goo goo gaaing all the time, while a toy clown (I don't think it was a toy clown it more looked like a toy chicken with a yellow hat on its head but whatever) the object was filming the baby so that it could be monitored onto any TV in the house.
Then we head over to the next set of displays...I think this is where the bones are and the astronauts are today. One the right of this set of displays was the Mother's mother (Grandma!) learning pottery in the den. She was on a two-way TV conference with her art instructor.
Next to her, on the left was the son of the house with a friend.The son was assembling a saturn V rocket (I think it was a saturn V) and his friend was playing a virtual reality ski game on a flatscreen TV.
Further down was the front door of the home where a boy named billy and his dog and frog want to get in to visit the son. There was the dining room as well where the mother sat at a control pannel and originally shopped for dishware on TV, later it became Julia Childs, meanwhile the Mothers' friend is watching the TV.
Now we get to the very last part, and what little remains of the Home of Future Living.
In the room that has cabinents, and a movie screen in it with a vista of a city in the background, is what remains of both the daughters bedroom and entertainment room. The current TV screen has been moved over the right, it used to be more to the left. Where all the bones are and filing cabinents are, is what remains of the hexagonal layout of the daughters bedroom. The platform for her bed is still there, with drawers and filing cabinents on top of it. Next to her room was the entertainment room, where her friend, and another kid were watching a football game on a screen projector tv, later it became them watching 20k under the sea. The screen is still there, playing something else.
Then you headed down the speedramp, above you where the starlight skylights are, used to be television monitors. Well, actually, they used to be posters selling RCA products, but in 1982 it became TV monitors advertising videodiscs, and then in 1985 when the home of future living closed...and became RYCA-1, the TV monitors displayed images of astronauts in space.
Once we saw ourselves on TV, Billy and his Dog were there filming us. It later became robo boy and robo dog filming us, and they currently are in the very last room. I hope they are saved. They are the only figures to have survived the home of future living.
