Anyone else binge watch the whole expidition epcot playlist.

And thus, a theme park legend was born.

Time to have an Expedition Theme Park marathon

When I ride Spaceship Earth nowadays, I listen to the Walter Cronkite narration audio to match up to the ride. Instead of partaking in the interactive part on the descent, I'm listening to Tomorrow's Child and looking up at the triangular screens on the ceiling imagining that they're lit up.

I remember the version with Jeremy Irons and remembered being super annoyed when they changed it. Because I loved the part where it showed the Boy and girl talking to each other through the computer. The idea of people talking to each other in different sides of the world just amazed me. Although I do applaud that they added the development of the PC. That was a much needed addition.

As someone who has been to Epcot many many times, I actually remember the change from the Jeremy Irons version to the next version. Although the current version is very good, they should've kept Jeremy Irons as narrator.

Last time we went on it the ride had an emergency shutdown, stopped for about 10 minutes. We were at the very top with the projection of Earth on the ceiling. I took some pictures with my camera with the flash of a dark area in front of us. There is an entire maintiance workshop up there! Tools, torches, welding machines and all. A really cool discovery in an otherwise unpleasant situation.

my cousin and her boyfriend both work at epcot, and we were talking about how they projected the death star for rouge one, they said that it used so much power they had to close all the shops around spaceship earth. that may be a reason why they dont use it as much

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Got to go into the VIP lounge in 1995 when my dad worked for AT&T. It was a nice little space.

OMG I almost forgot about the "Tomorrow's Child" song at the end! I also remember the old theme that used to play in the outer space section at the top, and it's still engrained in my memory. I remember when the Roman Empire section had a tiny projection of a chariot turning a corner and riding off in the distance. It has since been removed or no longer in use. I always get a kick out of seeing the female scientist with the Afro in the computer section. I call her "Dr. Foxy Brown"! lol

Just watched for the first time, at the start of 2021, because I've watched everything else already.

So, funny story time. When I took my trip to Disney World around... I wanna say 2011/2012, my dad, my brother and I went to Epcot. It was pouring almost all day, so I can attest to the rain thing with Spaceship Earth first hand. When we made our way inside and got into the ride, my dad and younger brother took the cart in front of me. My brother isn't much younger than me (I was around 14 at the time), but my dad is known to have spells of mischief that can infuriate my brother. Unfortunately, one of those happened during the start of the ride. As shown in the video, the ride initially asks what language you speak. This is the language set to play through the speakers through the entire ride and, as my dad found out, cannot be changed once selected. If you hit English, like I did, you hear English coming through the speakers the whole way, no chance to change it. My dumbass dad chose Spanish. Thinking there would be an "Are you sure" option, he thought it would be funny to trick my brother. My brother nearly threw a fit, and I had to play translator the entire ride by basically relaying what was coming through my speaker to them the whole time. I loved the ride but it was bothersome to have to keep leaning forward to tell my brother and dad what was going on. Thankfully, my dad didn't try anymore stunts like that the whole trip. This was, after all, after he told us we wouldn't need any ponchos for the whole day he was CERTAIN would not be raining the whole day. If we hadn't begged him to buy that tiny umbrella we would have been drenched from sunrise to sunset. TL;DR: Don't ride Spaceship Earth with an asshole dad onboard.

My journey Starts, gonna start binge watching from old too new haha

Great video- thank you!!!!

YES!!!! I love it. I love it so much. thanks Sam. This is great. I have learned even MORE than I thought I knew about my home from home :)

Ray Bradbury wrote the story for Spaceship Earth!?! Hey Disney where's the Martian Chronicles and Farinhit 451 ride?

Really enjoyed this vlog loved all the facts and figures, thank you for sharing, we have found out so much more about a place we love to visit.

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Epcot is my favorite Disney park. It's changed a lot since the 80s but it's still great.

It’s kind of sad that this is the only opening day attraction still operating in Future World today.

I would love to join you in Disney's River Country! The question is getting in!

in the early years they used to project a laser generated image of the globe on the sphere after the firework show ended...so they have been using it for projections from very early on

Great video, very informative, and put together 😊

I honeymooned at EPCOT in July 1983. What annoyed me the most is that the phrase "Spaceship Earth" was coined by futurist/inventor Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic dome was the structure used at EXPO 67 as well as for the construction of EPCOT's Spaceship Earth. I visited EPCOT's customer information center during my honeymoon trip and was given a brochure about the construction of Spaceship Earth that did mention Buckminster Fuller having been consulted during its design. However... Bucky Fuller didn't just coin the term "Spaceship Earth". He wrote a seminal book in the late 1960s... "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" which (by telling the history and potential of scientific advancement) offers a roadmap for achieving the "world of hope and prosperity for all" that the CEO of Disney can be heard talking about in your video of the park's opening day ceremony. I asked the customer information center staff why Bucky's book was not sold in the book store part of the gift shop people visit after exiting the Spaceship Earth ride. I received (as I recall it) an "I have no idea" answer. To be honest, this is one of the great mysteries of the Disney culture post-Walt's life. Walt Disney worked with leading edge rocket scientist Wernher von Braun in 1955 to create three TV specials that taught the America people that space travel was no longer science fiction... that we now had the technology to go into space for real. (Search on "Disney Man Into Space" to find the episodes of the Wonderful World of Disney). But the Disney organization of the 1980s and since failed to partner with Buckminster Fuller (even after using his phrase) or any of the scientists he inspired to see the potential for true world peace. Here in 2020, it may be time to ask this question again. Thank you for your excellent historical video... and for jogging my memory about what Disney could have done (and maybe still can do).

What a great video!! We both learned SO much!! Thanks for making/sharing it!!!

I love this ride! But the last time I went on it, it didn’t scan my face...it scanned my shoulder... so it looked like I had a butt for a face (I was wearing a tank top) Like, rude lolol!!

I am a Pisces through to my core and my ex is a Leo also through to his core. It is a cosmic coincidence that we are both on this list and I must say I agree with each sign’s explanation as to why they’re unforgettable. I will also solemnly say that it is painfully true as I find myself remembering him almost daily. We were in each other’s lives for years and it has left a void in me that can’t be filled or stitched back together but I am the kind of Pisces that if he is very badly hurt by someone will completely disconnect from that person and make-believe that they never even met. Call it a coping mechanism but I have done this my entire life. It’s like staying “friends” just made the fact that we were no longer together THAT MUCH MORE real and I just couldn’t/can’t deal with that. So I live on with pain and even though there is a void in me that I have to endure I have slowly but surely grown from the experience and emotionally I am no longer a complete wreck. I still believe in love.

This is by far my favorite park. I’m so excited to go to Disney on Wednesday for my choir trip.

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I miss the old Epcot of the 1980s and 90s.

That was a great video really enjoyed it remember so much of that

Love EPCOT!

This is the best channel

Just subscibed! Your videos are so well put together, and the content is fab! Deffo up there with Defunctland and Brightsunfilms. Keep up the great work and ignore the morons who have a problem with your accent!

I remember seeing the Disney wand and the 2000. I visited for the millennium celebrations. I thought it looked amazing on the outside. The first time I visited was in 1989. Both times I found the ride inside a let down as to what it looked like on the outside. It’s just my personal opinion but I would not go on it again. Love that Death Star look. Great video!

Man... I'm watching more and more of your videos, and enjoying every single one of them... I am going to correct you on two points in this one. 1: There was not a disagreement as to the direction of the park. There was really no plan at all for Epcot anymore once Walt passed away. They had plans for two separate parks, one with a futuristic theme and one with an international theme. These two were legitimately going to be two separate parks before Marty Sklar and one other Imagineer decided to push the models together. This is why Epcot is about twice as large as Magic Kingdom (Since opening in 1971, Magic Kingdom was always intended to be the largest park with the most to do, as it was seen as the main attraction of the property). It was an absolute coincidence that the edges where they joined the models together happened to line up almost perfectly. They merged the two models with a river, where the resin that symbolized the water hid the joint line between the models. That river eventually ballooned into the lake that's there now when the sink hole formed between Communicore and World of Motion. Considering the themes of these two parks, and Walt's plan for the future, they decided to call it EPCOT Center, as a tribute to the ideals of Walt's idea. 2: Yes, a lot of the rain water collected by Spaceship Earth is drained directly into the World Showcase Lagoon. However, a majority of it is either heated up or cooled down depending on the atmospheric temperature (I believe 72°F is the threshold) and used as part of the park's air conditioning system. After the ideal temperature is reached, the water flows through a pipe network that runs through all of the buildings at Epcot, controlling the temperature inside the buildings, before finally draining into the lagoon. During droughts, the process can be reversed, taking water from the lagoon to use for the climate control system.

So here is all of the attractions Spaceship earth 1982-Today Communicore 1982-1994 Inoventions 1994-2019 Living with the land 1982-Today Seacabs 1986-2000 Seabase 1986-Today Sorin 2005-Today Kitchen Kaberet 1982-1994 Food rocks 1994-2004 Journey into imagination 1983-1998 Journey into your imagination 1999-2001 Journey into imagination with figment 2002-Today World of motion 1982-1994 Test track 1999-today Horizons 1983-1999 Mission space 2003-today Wonders of life 1989-2007 Univerese of energy 1982-1996 Ellens energy adventure 1997-2017 El Rio de tempo 1984-2005 Grand Feasta Tour Starrin the three combareos 2006-today The seas with Nemo and friends 2001-Today Mealstrom 1988-2014 Frozen ever after 2016-today American adventure 1982-Today Correct me if im wrong

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What I find really bizarre is that no video of the original 1982 to 1986 version of the ride seems to exist. (A soundtrack does exist which is on one of MartinVids uploads with still photos of the ride at that time). It's surprising because there's plenty of video footage from that time of other rides in the park and of people walking around the park between 1982 and 1986.

What’s your intro song? I love it.

When we went on this ride in October my aunt was in the car with me and right before the caveman scene she thought that the ride was broken but since I had been on it and seen videos of it I told her that it wasn’t broken but that fire hadn’t been discovered yet. Also I created a jetsons like future

Hey I remember the light/laser show as a kid in the early 90s they used lasers on Space ship Earth showing Earth's continents. It was at the end of show as everyone would head towards the exit

Good job!!

Great video! Thanks!

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I was there in the summer of 2007 when they were taking the Mickey Wand down. All of our pictures have half of Mickeys hand 😂

This is such an awesome channel!

For the 35th anniversary they used projections on the icon to celebrate.

Great video! But I think a remake would also be nice. I keep coming back to this video every few weeks and I wish there was more

I do remember Space Ship Earth being used in the laser light show and fireworks display they'd do every night. This was in the late 80s though.

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That classic Epcot logo!

There was also a employee lounge similar to Siemens when ATAT sponsored the ride

This deserves Disney's attention. But Chapek and Iger only seem interested in burying all of their predecessors accomplishments

Thank you well done

Siemens is actually back sponsoring it, at least last time i checked. It said so anyway when i was there a year or so ago. Maybe even less than that.

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your vids are very good and informative thankyou

Haven’t been there since the second update. Maybe I should go back. Lol.

I love Disney characters and magic kingdom of Christmas ever

My understanding is that the original attraction narration was provided by Vic Perrin, not Lawrence Dobkin. I have personal audio recordings from April 1983 and June 1984 that sound like Vic Perrin's voice (and align with several YT references to Vic Perrin's narrations including The Out Limits TV show).

Love the smell of burning Rome...

It is not a sphere. Due to the restrictions of the metalworking, the "Geosphere" is 164 ft wide and 180 ft tall. Not a sphere. It weighs 1,000,000 lbs.

Can I ask what is the name of that intro song? Sounds like it is from 1910's or 1920's.

Hey Sam, have you ever thought about remaking these older videos? Your narration and style have definitely I Prove since then and I’d love you to redo these old ones

You forgot the audio narration version by William Daniels. Late 90s, I think? I seem to distinctly remember Mr Feeney telling me about communication as a kid. I also remember the Cronkite version, but not Irons, go figure

Wonderful video!!

In the create your own future segment, is that the same Cam Clarke who voiced Liquid in the Metal Gear series?

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WHAT?! SIEMENS ENDED THEIR SPONSORSHIP?! THAT'S ABSOLUTE B.S.!!

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The Jeremy Irons version was the best one. I really really dislike the Judi Dench version. Her voice just does not work with that ride at all.

An unknown fact - Disney didn’t design the city. He got most of his ideas from Jacque Fresco, but their relationship fell apart when Disney was interested more in making money than educating the public.

I rode this ride a few days ago and noticed the Siemens logos had been removed from the entrance and history tells that means the attraction is going to close (Wonders of Life, Horizons, World of Motion etc.) but I asked a cast member and she said Disney has secured a new sponsor and the ride will be getting a renovation soon.

Am I the only one who called spaceship earth a giant golf ball??

Dont forget about the inclusion and removal of the wtc in sse

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Suprised you didn't mention when they changed it to the death star for the release of rogue one, good vid though

Why they never showed how the Chinese invented paper is beyond me...

Yeah Europa Parks is mutch better

I wish Walt had lived long enough to see Walt Disney World through. The original EPCOT could have been a true marvel with who-knows-what technological advancements. Instead we got the most boring and dated park at WDW.

Epcot seems to be such a boring overly educational park

this is the only bad one i have seen..tell the story of epcot and dont even say waht it stands for? dont mention that it was walts biggest dream? ya dropped the ball big time on this one..but only one i have a prob with!!

Narrator's speech defect of glottal-stop "T" sound made in the back of the throat instead of the front of the mouth, is very disappointing and irritating. It sounds lazy and uneducated. Instead of "mountain", it is "mou ' un". Really?