What was the Timekeeper?

[sistertrip]

Can anybody describe the Timekeeper for me? I'm not sure if I ever saw it...too late now, I guess.

 

[Chuck S]

Timekeeper was a circlevision film, there was a robotic host named Timekeeper (voiced by Robin Williams), and his sidekick 9-eye, a "smart" droid with the 9 cameras that supposedly would show on the circlevision screens. The opening scene sends 9-eye back in time to the French exposition, where we meet Jules Verne and H.G. Wells discussing the possibility of time travel. They notice 9-eye spying on them, Jules Verne grabs 9-eye as Timekeeper returns 9-eye and Verne to the present day.

Jules Verne is transported with 9-Eye to various modern day modes of transportation, including race cars, high velocity trains, submarines and helicopters. Then Timekeeper returns Jules Verne to the 1900 Paris exposition where we met him. 9-Eye is transported about 100 years into the future, where we see the Eiffel decked out for it's 300th anniversary, and low and behold, we again meet Jules Verne and H.G. Wells flying in what appears to be the working model of Wells' Time Machine.

All in all, I enjoyed the show, and am sorry to see it close.

 

[Robo]

It was a favorite attraction of mine.
Lots of humor and Disney "heart".

("There's Suzanne Summers being pulled by a Blender Fish.")

I'd love to see this attraction MOVED and re-opened at Epcot.
A good "fit" to bridge FW and WS.

 

[Chuck S]

Yep, you're correct, my mistake...I had a brain freeze. I'll correct the synopsis.

 

[loriandmatt]

Chuck S is spot on in his description (ok, except the orson thing - chuck, i hope you took Robo's ribbing with your chin up - it was a bit funny.)

i gotta say, just my 2 cents sistertrip - you didn't miss much. there are other circlevision attractions at WDW (canada and china for example) were you can at least see beautiful images. timekeeper was blah. i did it once, and passed it by so so many times after that and feel no remorse now that it is gone (or will be before i get there again) that i didn't check it out one more time.

(now if they take out the noodle place right there behind it on your way back over to main street - then i will be upset. one of the hidden gems of MK, always a shady spot to sit, and darn good noodle bowls too. cheap, tasty and filling. now how many things at WDW can you say that about?!?!?)

- lori

 

[wdwoldtimer]

Well Orson did H.G.'s War of the Worlds thing on the radio so it's pretty easy to mix the two up. Come to think of it, has anyone ever seen the two of them in the same room? Maybe they are one in the same...sort of like Michael and LaToya Jackson.

 

[Chuck S]

Well Orson did H.G.'s War of the Worlds thing on the radio so it's pretty easy to mix the two up. Come to think of it, has anyone ever seen the two of them in the same room? Maybe they are one in the same...sort of like Michael and LaToya Jackson.

You're right, for some reason I was thinking of War of the Worlds instead of "The Time Machine" when I originally typed the synopsis.