An old Epcot ride?

[DisneyJules]

I have this image in my head from when I was about 4 or 5 years of age. I remember riding some attraction in Epcot with my mom. You sat in a Omnimover of some sort and at one point of the ride it looked like you were about to go into the sky. Sound familiar to anyone? For years now I've been trying to figure out which ride this was. Take flight perhaps? or maybe even "If you had wings?" Who knows, a child's mind is rather imaginative so I may have this image totally distorted.

 

[MulanMom]

Perhaps the ride you are thinking about is Horizons? It was where Mission:Space now stands. IIRC, there was one point in the ride where you travel through a room with a big domed screen and it would show the Shuttle lifting off. At the end, you were able to choose your experience...underwater, desert/land or space, and between the video and your seat shaking and vibrating, you can easily believe you are moving.

I miss that ride, as well as World of Motion and the original Figment ride.<sigh>

 

[DisneyJules]

It seems like most of the rides at Epcot which truly made it feel like Epcot are gone, how sad. For me a true epcot ride involves people movers and futuristic theme, that's just my opinion, but those are the sort of memories I have from my childhood visits to WDW. I miss Horizons too I just posted this in the community forum :
http://virtual-toad.com/

 

[flyinglizard]

DisneyJules- You were kinda right...

The attraction was "If You Had Wings". It was originally sponsored by Eastern Airlines and was themed to the Caribbean destinations that Eastern served.

You are also correct about the Omnimover. The ones from this attraction were blue.

There was a segment called a "speed tunnel" where the car tilts back and air is blown into your face to simulate speed. Films were projected onto a seamless dome screen- I can remember ice boats, soaring over mountains and I think a ski mobile race.

After Eastern dropped out of the sponsorship, the attraction continued under a different name and without the Eastern references. If it's important, I can research the date it closed, and what it was called after Eastern.

It was located, NOT in EPCOT, but where the present Buzz Lightyear is located in Tomorrowland.

"You Do have wings... Let EASTERN be your wings..."

 

[funhouse8]

Yes it was called If You Had Wings. We were at the MK one day and a group of teenagers were going around for their 75th trip. I can't image what their dreams were that night. LOL

 

[js]

As corney as it was I loved If You had wings. I also loved Horizons. I use to love when you were able to press the button on your "cart" and pick a smell and small video clip. I always picked the oranges.

 

[flyinglizard]

If you would like more info on If You Had Wings, with some pics too, go to - http://home.cfl.rr.com/omniluxe/wywmap.htm

 

[DisneyJules]

Thanks, I was there yesterday. Great site. It's what brought back that memory. It must have been that ride.

Funhouse, I can't imagine, yikes!

 

[paras4ri]

Originally posted by funhouse8
Yes it was called If You Had Wings. We were at the MK one day and a group of teenagers were going around for their 75th trip. I can't image what their dreams were that night. LOL

I have to jump in on this thread. Back when you needed tickets at MK this attraction was one of the few "free" ones...no tickets needed. I remember riding it many, many times when at WDW with my high school band back in 1977!!!!

 

[SueM in MN]

Originally posted by flyinglizard
After Eastern dropped out of the sponsorship, the attraction continued under a different name and without the Eastern references. If it's important, I can research the date it closed, and what it was called after Eastern.

It was located, NOT in EPCOT, but where the present Buzz Lightyear is located in Tomorrowland.

"You Do have wings... Let EASTERN be your wings..."

In 1986, Eastern was no longer a sponsor and the ride closed as "If You Had Wings" in June 1987. Delta became a sponsor and the ride re-opened as "If You Could Fly" in June 1987 after being closed for only about a week to remove the Eastern logos and replace them with Delta. The ride remained open that way until Jan of 1989, when it was replaced by Delta Dreamflight. Dreamflight changed into "Take Flight" after losing Delta as a sponsor in January of 1996. Take Flight closed in 1998 and was replaced with Buzz Lightyear.

 

[Gem85]

I remember something like this when I was younger but I remember it being called Dream Flight..and I believe it was a Delta ride. I remember being tilted upward and a big light made it appear as if I was going upside down...and the whole ride was based on the history of flight..Am I imagining this??

 

[SueM in MN]

Originally posted by Gem85
I remember something like this when I was younger but I remember it being called Dream Flight..and I believe it was a Delta ride. I remember being tilted upward and a big light made it appear as if I was going upside down...and the whole ride was based on the history of flight..Am I imagining this??

You're not imagining it. Read my other post right before yours for the history.

"Dreamflight" was a ride in the same location after "If You Had Wings" that kept that same speed tunnel element. The "Speed tunnel" is actually still part of Buzz Lightyear, but with a different "movie" in the same place.
Here's a
link to a page about "If You Had Wings" that shows the speed tunnel from that ride. It included land sailing across a desert, a jet taxing and waterskiing according to the website.

Another omnimover ride that had a speed tunnel was "World of Motion" which was in Epcot (where Test Track is now). The speed tunnel at "World of Motion" was the one with crop-dusting, bobsledding, and hurtling down a snowmobile trail according to this website . It's possible that this is what the OP is remembering if the ride was at Epcot.
The speed tunnel was actually pretty neat. Your ride car moved forward in the tunnel at the same time that a movie projected all around you on the walls had motion coming toward you, along with a wind blowing toward you. When you put all of the elements together, it gave an illusion that you were speeding thru the area when your ride car was still actually moving forward at the same (relatively slow) speed as before you entered the tunnel.