![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the English role of Nine-Eye was earned by Rhea Pearlman (best known for playing Carla Tortelli in the long-running classic American sitcom Cheers). Wells. However, a major re-cast for the American production has added some much-loved star power to Tomorrowland. The film itself features familiar faces, like French cinema star Michel Piccoli as Jules Verne, Italian actor Franco Nero as Leonardo da Vinci, and English actor Jeremy Irons as H.G. The Timekeeper himself would now appear at the controls with an LED screen displaying the current year. How brilliant that – whether you’re in the retro-futuristic European fantasy future of Paris or the sci-fi factory pomo deco industrial future of Magic Kingdom – your experience will still “fit.” In this New Tomorrowland, the (relatively simple) queue is merely a corridor lined with bubbling, glowing tubes (very “science center”). Step beneath the glowing, alien saucer entry and you’ll pass into the Science Center’s inner sanctum. The Circle-Vision theater, too, has been absorbed into the mythos of Tomorrowland as the Tomorrowland Metropolis Science Center! (The short lived “Transportarium” location name and “From Time to Time” attraction name were dropped six months after New Tomorrowland’s debut in favor of the science center location and “The Timekeeper.”)Īnd given that this is a sci-fi city, a mere Planetarium won’t do… This Science Center’s newest exhibit? Time travel. ![]() But, in the ’90s, downtowns across the United States were seeing major revivals, many racing to incorporate their own hands-on science centers filled with 3D theaters, simulators, Planetariums, and more, and downtown Tomorrowland is no different! Image: Disney (What could go wrong?)Īh, and the south showbuilding? Formerly home to Circle-Vision? It’s still there. Image: DisneyĪs the Tomorrow Transit Authority zips along the aerial highwys, its on-board announcer calls out the Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Center, where Martian technology conglomerate X-S Tech is showcasing its newest innovations in interstellar teleportation. That’s the “real” city’s “real” public transportation – and according to the on-board narrator, it’s just one line of many that criss-cross this bustling metropolis, with in-universe warnings about keeping eyes and tentacles inside the car.Īfter all, this is a world of landed alien saucers, neon signs in extraterrestrial languages, mechanical industrial palm trees, pearlescent domes, robotic newsboys, and alien-pianists playing at exterrestrial-owned nightclubs. Overhead, the trains of the Tomorrowland Transit Authority whisk by. Image: DisneyĮntering via the new Avenue of Planets, guests would be greeted by signed erected by the Tomorrowland Chamber of Commerce, the League of Planets, and the Sleepless Knights of the Milky Way. Instead, each of the land’s rides, attractions, shows, and even restaurants were designed to fit together into one continuous, overarching story of a “real” city – one of the most ambitious original mythologies Disney has ever designed. ![]() Though it’s hard to imagine today, there was not one single solitary cartoon intellectual property in New Tomorrowland at all. But this New Tomorrowland didn’t just look like a real, functioning sci-fi spaceport plucked from a comic book. Just as elaborately retro-futuristic as Discoveryland but remixed with industrial silver and alien textures, this was a sometimes-imposing alien-urban world of gears, columns, gunmetal, domes, spheres, and metallic rings. ![]() Instead, the land had been reimagined as a sci-fi, comic book cityscape a “city of the future” as envisioned in comics, radio operas, and B-movies of the 1930s. The land remained “Tomorrowland,” but you would’ve been hard-pressed to find any evidence of the real, possible future within. When Magic Kingdom’s renovated land finally made its debut, the Discoveryland name had been dropped. The Transportarium (Magic Kingdom, 1994) Image: Disney – “I Need You To Imagine” Podcast Extras (B|S|G|P).The Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management.The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (Orlando).The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (California).20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Submarine Voyage. ![]()
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