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Spaceship in Spaceship Earth
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CanadianGordon
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Wow. Martin. Just wow.
RSoxNo1
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@marni1971, thanks for linking to the latest video. Looking forward to watching tonight.
This is the greatest thing ever.
Animaniac93-98
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Incredible video. Thanking you for taking the time to put these together.
If there is anything left of Traditions at TWDC, a selection of your videos should be shown. If for no other reason than to remind everyone of the company's engineering legacy and storytelling potential beyond selling made-in-China plush.
As a side note, I LOVE that bit at the end with the animated/musical montage of the various Future World pavilions. A great way to showcase the park.
mitchk
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bcoachable
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Martin-
Loved the video! Thanks for your efforts to preserve history!
Loved the video! Thanks for your efforts to preserve history!
brb1006
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I really loved the animated/musical segment of Journey Into Imagination and The Land. Seeing Dreamfinder and Figment on screen made me smile.
RobidaFlats
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The guys over at RetroWDW covered Spaceship Earth in their podcast this month. I haven't listened to it yet, but they provided this neat link to a 1977 script: http://craphound.com/RAY_BRADBURY_ManAndHisSpaceshipEarth1977.pdf The notes in the preface really help put into focus the type of place that EPCOT Center was designed to be.
What's interesting is some of the ideas didn't make it until 1994.
HMF
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Yeah, the 94 version really was the definitive version, at least to me.
montyz81
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I just watched this during my run this AM. I am impressed. Some of those Communicore videos look like you just recorded them. There is much greater definition then I remember from any camera coming out of the 80s or 90s. The graphic representation of the SSE ride path was spectacular. Well done @marni1971. I'm impressed! My only complaint is that I have to wait for Pt 2 and 3.
Slowjack
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Martin, I just wanted to add to the chorus here. As always, incredible job! As someone who was at EPCOT Center right at the start, the pangs of nostalgia are very strong when I watch this. As we've discussed before, it's such a shame what has happened to Communicore. Spaceship Earth Mk. 4 may be a big step down from Mk. 3 (for me, it's 3 > 1 > 2 > 4, never cared for Cronkite), but it is still recognizable as the same experience. But as your video demonstrates, Communicore was once joyful, bright, open to marvelous views, and humming with kinetic vibrancy. Now the areas are sealed in like a casino jealously guarding the rubes pulling the handles on the slot machines, half-filled, with exhibits that feel like the theme-park equivalent of a seasonal kiosk at the mall, nothing more than filler until the next filler arrives.
EPCOT Center was something wonderful and is now gone, and I'm glad that it has someone as dedicated and skilled as you as its historian. Bravo, sir.
Prince Thomas
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OMG this is EPIC!!!!!!!! Its 2017, just found this and its EPIC!!!!!! Holy thread bump batmanMeanwhile back to the thread. She's been such a topic of conversation over the last 8 years of this wonderful thread, and so ladies and gentlemen allow me to present.....
Girl in the Window:
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Don't ask how or why I have this. Just enjoy
wdwms
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FYI, we just released the latest episode of our podcast which is also Spaceship Earth. It goes along great with Martin's video.
http://www.retrodisneyworld.com/podcast/podcast-episode-27-tomorrow-s-child-spaceship-earth
http://www.retrodisneyworld.com/podcast/podcast-episode-27-tomorrow-s-child-spaceship-earth
Slowjack
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I feel like it's a kind of initiation to an inner circle when someone first finds this thread and starts working through it. Prince Thomas, you now share the secret knowledge of the girl in the window. You are one of us now. Welcome, brother.
HMF
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I am especially overjoyed that you are discovering how great SSE used to be (and to an extent still is) considering you have only seen the current version. I only regret you were never able to experience it back in the day but many people say that they regret I never experienced Horizons in person.
Slowjack
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I think you intended to reply to @Prince Thomas ? I was there and saw it all. Horizons, Spaceship Earth Mk. 1 with Vic Perrin, Communicore with glass walls looking out onto ponds and greenery, UoE with the Radok panels, "Coming Soon" signs for Israel, Africa, etc., the rainbow tunnel upstairs in Journey Into Imagination, "Listen to the Land," double-decker buses circling the World Showcase promenade, Laserphonic Fantasy, The Bird and the Robot...
We shall never see the like again.
But yes, HMF, it's great that threads like this allow people who started going more recently to understand what it is they missed. Although I saw almost everything that ever was at WDW, I wish I could go back in time and visit Disneyland when it was still at the stage that things were being added and not replaced.