Spaceship Earth Complete Experience 4K-POV Epcot Walt Disney World

Описание: Spaceship Earth takes guests on a time machine-themed experience, demonstrating how advancements in human communication have helped to create the future one step at a time. Riding in Omnimover-type vehicles along a track that spirals up and down the geodesic sphere, passengers are taken through scenes depicting important breakthroughs in communication throughout history.

An opening day attraction, the ride has been updated three times—in 1986, 1994, and 2007.

History:
The opening day version of the attraction featured a network operations center with a data map of the United States in the modern telecommunications section. The top of the sphere featured a large lighted space station with two astronauts working on satellites and a woman sitting in the station operating controls. During the final descent, vehicles passed several monitors showing various events and activities. This version of the ride closed on May 25, 1986.

Debuting May 29, 1986, the second version of the attraction started off with the tunnel at the beginning of the ride enhanced by twinkling lights. Two new scenes were added before the network operations center, on the left side of the track, featuring a woman working in a “paperless office” and a boy at a computer in his bedroom. A new theme song, "Tomorrow's Child", was added to the ending descent, which was redesigned with projected images of children on screens to fit the theme. This version of the attraction closed on August 15, 1994.

The attraction's third version debuted on November 23, 1994 and featured a new orchestral soundtrack, based upon Bach's Sinfonia No. 2 in C Minor for the entire attraction. This version maintained most of the scenes in the first half of the attraction as they were, but removed three scenes towards the end: the boy's bedroom, the paperless office and the network operations center. These scenes were replaced with a single new scene depicting a boy and girl using the Internet to video call between America and Japan. The climax was redone, with the updating of the projected Earth and the removal of the space station and astronauts. The descent was also completely overhauled featuring new scenes depicting communication of the future utilizing pepper's ghost figures, a fiber optic model of the "City of the Future" and the removal of the "Tomorrow's Child" theme song. This version of the attraction closed on July 9, 2007.

The attraction's fourth and current version officially opened on February 15, 2008 when the ride was re-dedicated. This version features a new musical score by Bruce Broughton. Revised scenes include the former Greek play becoming a mathematics lesson as well as the replacement of the boy and girl's video call with new scenes depicting the creation of mainframe computers and the personal computer. "Intel" touch screens were installed in the ride vehicles where riders can choose their vision of the future. This resembles a similar idea to Horizons. At the beginning of the ride, a camera takes riders' pictures (using facial recognition technology) which are then used in an interactive cartoon played during the ride's descent (the descent's show scenes were completely removed for this version). Visitors are now also asked where they live; this is used in the post-show area where a map of the world is displayed with the riders' faces.

On October 10, 2017, Siemens ended it's sponsorship.

In celebration of the year 2000, a 25-story "magic wand" held by a representation of Mickey Mouse's hand was built next to the sphere. At the top of the structure was a large cut-out of the number 2000 and a red beacon light for airplanes since it approached the height limit. This structure was constructed to have a lifetime of about 10 years, and it was left standing after the Millennium Celebration ended. In 2001, the number 2000 was replaced with the word "Epcot" in a script font that differed from the park's logotype.

On July 5, 2007, Epcot's Vice President announced that Spaceship Earth would be restored to its original appearance, and that the "magic wand" eyesore would be removed in time for the park's 25th anniversary on October 1, 2007.

On August 25, 2019, it was announced that, as part of a multi-year renovation of Epcot, Spaceship Earth would be updated with a new narrative about the human experience and the art of storytelling under the new name Spaceship Earth: Our Shared Story. An ethereal "story light" would guide guests as they traveled through the attraction. The attraction was initially scheduled to close for this update on May 26, 2020, however this was indefinitely delayed (possibly cancelled) due to the temporary closure of all Walt Disney World parks.

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