Meet the World is a very interesting attraction as it borrowed from many others. It is most similar to The American Adventure as it explores the history of Japan and incorporates projecting screens with the set pieces along with the show scenes dropping in and out like American Adventure as well. It also borrows from Carousel of Progress but instead of the theater rotating around the set and show scenes, the sets rotate themselves and you stay put. The post show included a walking speedway that took you through Panasonic’s “Electro Home”, the home of the future which was very similar to RCA’s House of the Future that debuted with Magic Kingdom’s Space Mountain.
The attraction was created by a who’s who of talent which saw Claude Coats as the Designer, the Sherman Brothers writing the song “Meet the World with Love”, Blaine Gibson sculpted the animatronics and famed Disney Animator Randy Cartwright designed the Crane in the show. It was created for Epcot and Tokyo Disneyland but problems such as glossing over World War II was thought to be a major issue with many guests visiting Florida being retired veterans. Another issue was the building at the Japan pavilion at Epcot was improperly built and could not house the entire attraction so plans were scrapped all together for the Epcot version and Meet the World would serve as a unique attraction at Tokyo Disney. The attraction opened in 1983 with the opening of TDL and closed in 2002, being replaced by “Monsters since Ride and Go Seek” seven years later.
The videos online have always been very dark, blurry and hard to make out but I found one that looks to have been professionally made with a wide scope around the theater.
Here is the link:
The attraction is in Japanese, here is a clear presentation of the attraction’s English audio. The scenes in the video are a little longer so you can see everything so the audio won’t sync properly with the video. The audio does does begin around the 5:06 mark.
Here is a video of the post show “Electro Home” home of the future:
I know that most of us here have never experienced this attraction but I would like to know everyone’s opinion of it after watching.
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