Does anyone remember this ride from Epcot?

[branv]

I went to Epcot when I was 14 for the first time, and then again in 2004 when I was 30. I LOVED Epcot back then, I found Epcot the way it is now kind of lifeless in comparison I get that technology is just advancing so fast that they can't keep up and make it edgy, but back then all of the items there seemed so eye popping! Horizons was awesome! Now, was Horizon the same one where you saw this huge DNA strand? Cars sound the same, but I don't think it was that same ride. I just loved those touch pads for selecting what scenes you wanted to see.

 

[MICKEEP]

I miss Horizons also. I can almost smell the orange grove now.

Thanks for the pictures!!!!

 

[SueM in MN]

I went to Epcot when I was 14 for the first time, and then again in 2004 when I was 30. I LOVED Epcot back then, I found Epcot the way it is now kind of lifeless in comparison I get that technology is just advancing so fast that they can't keep up and make it edgy, but back then all of the items there seemed so eye popping!

I agree

Horizons was awesome! Now, was Horizon the same one where you saw this huge DNA strand? Cars sound the same, but I don't think it was that same ride. I just loved those touch pads for selecting what scenes you wanted to see.

Yes, you remembered right. Here it is.

 

[bicker]

Just think how fortunate we were to have actually SEEN Horizons. Gone now, and WDW visitors who never saw it (nor will ever see it ) don't know what they missed.

I think about all those folks who visited WDW in the past, who never got a chance to enjoy Mission: Space, Test Track or Soarin'. Walt Disney World has always been special, and one of the reasons why we keep going back year-after-year is that going once means you cannot possibly catch all that is magical about the place.

 

[have2getaway]

Originally Posted by branv

I went to Epcot when I was 14 for the first time, and then again in 2004 when I was 30. I LOVED Epcot back then, I found Epcot the way it is now kind of lifeless in comparison I get that technology is just advancing so fast that they can't keep up and make it edgy, but back then all of the items there seemed so eye popping!

I agree. I also miss World of Motion. I feel these were more like traditional Disney animatronics. I guess the whole concept of Epcot is to innovate new ideas, but I will still miss these attractions!

 

[pixiedust23]

I miss Horizons so much I can almost smell the oranges!

 

[staylor]

I'm so glad you posted this. I remember Horizons from when I was 18 (18 years ago). I thought I was loosing my mind though, because I could not remember the name of it and I knew is wasn't Spaceship Earth. I remember getting to pick your final scene. I thought that was so cool.
Staci

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I think your talking about Spaceship Earth a.k.a the big golf ball.

 

[Mickeyistheman]

I remember Horizons, but I also remember a ride that you got to pick the way it ended? You had like s4 little buttons you could push. Is that also Horizons or is it something else?

 

[kellyf2626]

I miss Horizons also. I can almost smell the orange grove now.

Thanks for the pictures!!!!

This is what I miss! That smell was unbelieveable!

 

[SueM in MN]

I remember Horizons, but I also remember a ride that you got to pick the way it ended? You had like s4 little buttons you could push. Is that also Horizons or is it something else?

that was Horizons.
At end, your car got to pick which place to go; the space colony, an undersea colony or a desert colony. There were buttons for everyone in your car to pick and whatever the majority was, that's where you went. Some blinders (not the best word, but the only way I can think to describe it) came out to block your side view so you only saw what was ahead of you. Then a movie appropriate to whatever place you chose came up on a screen directly ahead of you.

 

[swtnikki]

I miss Horizons, World of Motion, & the orginal Journey into Imagination. Old school Disney's the best!

 

[goofyernmost]

Now, was Horizon the same one where you saw this huge DNA strand? Cars sound the same, but I don't think it was that same ride. I just loved those touch pads for selecting what scenes you wanted to see.

Although there was, apparently some DNA connection with Horizons (I personally don't remember it, but that means nothing) the large DNA structure that was outside is in front of and part of "Wonders Of Life". Since it was next door to Horizons it might have been associated with it in one's mind.

I liked Horizons but I liked World of Motion better. I loved the orange smell but was always disappointed with the choose the ending part of the ride. I never really understood what it was supposed to be doing.

 

[music54]

i remember smelling the oranges !!!

 

[SueM in MN]

Although there was, apparently some DNA connection with Horizons (I personally don't remember it, but that means nothing) the large DNA structure that was outside is in front of and part of "Wonders Of Life". Since it was next door to Horizons it might have been associated with it in one's mind.

The DNA strand at the Wonders of Life is a large sculpture outside the buidling.
The one at Horizons was a movie projection on a big screen (like an IMAX screen) that you went by as your ride car continued thru the ride.

 

[catherines_mama]

Yes, that was Horizons. And at the end you got to pick your future (sea, space or land). I LOVED that ride too, it was really neat!

 

[DannyDisneyFreak]

I have videos my dad took like 15 years ago when we went to Epcot of Horizons, I wish it was still running. Does any one remember where you used to be able to pick up these telephones and talk to the robot in the center of the room, I think it was somewhere called comunicore???, it was where there was a attraction about communication with a lady and a robot named EO I think??? Any one know what this was?

 

[Marilyn Mc]

I like Horizons better than Mission Space. I miss it!

 

[SueM in MN]

I have videos my dad took like 15 years ago when we went to Epcot of Horizons, I wish it was still running. Does any one remember where you used to be able to pick up these telephones and talk to the robot in the center of the room, I think it was somewhere called comunicore???, it was where there was a attraction about communication with a lady and a robot named EO I think??? Any one know what this was?

There is a picture of the
robot you could talk to and some of the displays from the Communicores on this site.

The show you are talking about was called Backstage Magic and it showed how computers were used to run everything at Epcot. At one point, a wall was opened, letting you look thru a large glass window into the computer control room for Epcot. I don't remember the lady host's name, but she was a hologram of a WDW CM who told how computers work, along with her assistance IO (for Intake and Output).

 

[disgram]

Horizons was one of my favorites when we first were going to Epcot... the last time I saw it was at the 25th anniversary when they had that horrible birthday cake castle!!It was my DGD first time and she loved Horizons..