Spaceship Earth is a geodesic ball that functions as a symbolic Epcot structure, at Walt Disney World Resort. One of the most recognizable structures of any theme park, it is also the name of a dark travel attraction placed within the scope of bringing guests to the time-engineed themed experience using the Omnimover system.
The 15 minute dark ride shows guests how advances in human communication have helped create the future one step at a time. Passengers travel back in time to witness the origins of prehistoric humans, then travel into the future to witness important breakthroughs in communication throughout history - from alphabetical invention to the creation of printing presses to the advancement of modern communications today, including telecommunications and mass communications. At the end of the journey, passengers have the opportunity to design their own future using a touch screen embedded into a race car.
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Structure
The structure is similar in texture to the United States pavilion from Expo 67 in Montreal, but unlike that structure, Spaceship Earth is a complete ball, supported by three pairs of legs. Architectural design conceived by Wallace Floyd Design Group. The structural design of Expo 67 and Spaceship Earth was completed by Simpson Gumpertz & amp; Heger Inc. from Boston, Massachusetts.
Geometrically, Spaceship Earth comes from a 2nd class geodetic polyhedron with a division frequency equal to 8. Each face of the polyhedron is divided into three equilateral triangles of feet to form each point. Theoretically, there are 11,520 total feet together forming a triangle forming 3840 points. In fact, some of the triangles are partly or wholly absent because of support and doors; there are actually only 11,324 silver sides, with 954 partial or full triangle panels.
The emergence of a monolithic ball is an architectural goal achieved through structural tricks. Spaceship Earth is actually two structural domes. Six legs are supported on a pile group that is pushed up to 160 meters to the soft earth of Central Florida. The legs propped up a steel box-shaped ring around the ball, around 30 degrees south of the earth. The upper structural dome sits on this ring. A rolling grille in the ring supports two helical structures of the driving and performance system. Under the ring, the second dome is hung from the bottom, completing the shape of the ball. The rings and truss form a table-like structure that separates the top dome from the bottom. Supported by and about three feet from the structural dome is a cladding scope where a glossy Alucobond panel and drainage system are installed.
The tilt is designed so that when it rains, no water flows from side to side. All water is collected through a one-inch gap on the sides into the sewer system, and is finally channeled to the World Showcase Lagoon.
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History
Design and construction
This structure was designed with the help of science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who also helped write the original storyline for attraction. The term "Spaceship Earth" was popularized by Buckminster Fuller, which also popularized the geodesic dome.
Construction takes 26 months. Extending upward from the table is a "quadropod" structure, which supports small beams that form a steel skeleton shell. The pipe keeps the aluminum leather panel away from the framework and provides space for utilities. Small service cars are parked in the interstitial space between the structural and cladding surfaces, and can take the vulnerable technicians aside to access the repair site. Manufacture of steel fabrication (conducted near Tampa, Florida) is an early example of processing and processing computer-assisted materials. Spaceship Earth was originally sponsored by the Bell System from 1982 to 1984, when it was split into a smaller company in 1984, and its parent company, AT & amp; T, being an independent company. AT & amp; Spaceship Earth T sponsored from 1984 to 2004. From 2005 to 2017, the German company Siemens is a sponsor of Spaceship Earth. The trip does not currently have a sponsor.
Opening
In October 1982, a fascinating experience began when the vehicle climbed up into the structure through a tunnel illuminated by a mist engine, and then climbed on a spiral path through a dark space that featured a series of historic sketches of light. This attraction features actor Lawrence Dobkin as a narrator along with a very simple and quiet orchestra composition throughout the attractions. Themes of communication over the centuries are presented in chronological order in settings inhabited by figures of Audio-Animatronics. The actor was seen (and listened quietly) reciting in the Greek theater. Charioteer carries a message from the Roman court, and Jewish and Islamic scholars discuss the text. With a typical Disney trick, a bhikkhu is seen asleep on a script he writes. Michelangelo, above his head, painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and Gutenberg became his printing press. Suggesting technological twenties of the twentieth century, the next scene fused together, overlapping as the circumference of the narrow run. A newspaper keeps paper, marquee movies and movie clips representing movies, and radio and television are represented. When the vehicle reaches a large space at the top of the rides system, guests see, on the ceiling of the spherical planetarium, the projection of stars, planets, the Milky Way, and, closest and largest, "outer space." The Omnimover vehicle then rotates 180 degrees, so passengers lie on their backs to the "sky" as they begin to descend on relatively straight lines. Travel stops intermittently because the wheelchair is loaded or unloaded.
In May 1986, the attraction was given a slight overhaul. The second version of this attraction begins with a bright tunnel that is enhanced by twinkling lights, intended to depict stars, with the engine mist removed. News reporter Walter Cronkite is the new narrator, reading from the updated texts. A theme song titled Tomorrow's Child is compiled to end the attraction, redesigned with images of projected on-screen children to help match the theme "Tomorrow's Child".
On August 15, 1994, the attractions were closed to receive major renovations. The third version of this tourist attraction keeps the tunnel as bright as it was in 1986, and retains most of the landscape depicted in the early and middle attractions. Three scenes leading up to the end of the show showing computers in boys' rooms in the 1980s, women's offices in the 1980s, and network operations centers in the 1990s, all removed and replaced with a scene depicting a boy- men and women use the Internet to communicate between America and Asia. Actor Jeremy Irons is a new narrator, reading from an updated script. The composition of the new orchestra is arranged for the beginning, middle, and end of the attraction. This score is based on Bach's No. Sinfonia. 2 at C Minor. The end itself is completely redone, with the abolition of the Space Station scene located on the planetarium of the tourist attraction (astronauts from the scene then appearing at Space Mountain posts, where they were used until 2009), replacing the old images that Earth projected on the planetarium with new images, and the replacement of late 1982 and 1986 scenes of travel with miniature architectural arrangements connected by discolored fiber-optic cables and flashing light arrangements that represent electronic communication channels. The attraction reopened on November 23, 1994.
Wand and update
In celebration of 2000, a large 25-degree magic wand held by Mickey Mouse's hand representation was built next to the ball. The inspiration for it comes from the Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence of Fantasia (though Mickey does not actually use the wand in that order). At the top of the structure is a large chunk of the 2000 figure. While the structure is not meant to be permanent, it is built to have a lifetime of about 10 years. After the Millennium celebration ended, the structure was left standing. In 2001, the 2000 figure was replaced with the word "Epcot" in a different script font from the park logotype.
On July 5, 2007, Epcot Vice President Jim MacPhee announced that Spaceship Earth will be restored to its original appearance, and that the structure of "magic wand" will be removed just in time for the 25th anniversary of the park on October 1, 2007. Siemens AG, a new sponsor from Spaceship Earth, is rumored to have asked for a stick removed because it does not fit their corporate image. This attraction closes on July 9, 2007, and on October 1 the stick structure, stars and stardom supporters disappear, replaced by palm trees and other plants. The components of the structure are then auctioned on eBay.
The closure also saw the fourth update, including new scenes and modifications to existing scenes, new costumes, lighting and props, a new musical score by Bruce Broughton, a new narrative by Judi Dench, and a new interactive ending. The new scene shows Greek classes, mainframe computers, and personal computer creation. The appeal opened for a soft launch preview beginning in December 2007. After some last-minute adjustments in January, the trip was officially reopened on February 15, 2008.
The "time machine" vehicle now has an interactive screen where motorists can choose their vision of the future. It resembles an idea similar to Horizon's now defunct attraction. At the beginning of the journey, the camera takes a rider image (using facial recognition technology) used at the end of the journey to conduct an interactive experience about the future of technology, featuring the rider's face on an animated character with narration by Cam Clarke. Visitors are now also asked where in their Spaceship Earth they live; this is used in the post-appearance area where the world map is displayed with the rider's face shown where they live.
In October 2017, Siemens, an old sponsor, ended their sponsorship of the attractions, as well as the fireworks Illumination show.
Experience the attractions
When the trip is built on the omnimover system, no uplifted events are triggered. Instead, the narrative plays as a show and music scene running in the loop. The manuscript, originally written by Ray Bradbury, has been updated to meet contemporary technological trends. The current host is Judi Dench, who tells the orchestra score by Bruce Broughton.
Show scene
The journey begins with a time-machine vehicle going up into a dark tunnel with stars twinkling around. The adventurous orchestral theme begins to play. As the score shifts to the theme of ostinato, the main motive that comes to represent digital disturbance, the photo guests who, unknown to the rider, will be used later on the way and in post-show.
When the vehicle arrives at the first story of the structure, it begins with a slow curve. A large movie screen stretches along the inside of the sphere, depicting ancient humans struggling to survive against hairy mammoths without any form of communication and language. As the screen faded behind them, guests entered a cave inhabited by early animatronic animated humans, representing early language development through cave paintings. The pictures on the wall come alive and start dancing as the car keeps going.
Modulating scores, presenting themes in phrygian mode, imply a middle eastern atmosphere. The guests were taken through a heated diorama of Egypt, which invented a portable communication system using hieroglyphs recorded on papyrus, as opposed to cave paintings that can not be transported when humans migrate.
Phoenician traders are seen carrying goods to distant lands. Narrative explains how every civilization seeks to communicate, but can not understand each other because of language barriers. But the Phoenicians, who traded with them all created a simple general alphabet, so that trade and communication became easier. Turning round the corner, the rider saw a lesson in mathematics taught in the piazza in the ancient Greek city, in a sequence that tries to show how mathematics helped create the 'birth of the high-tech life we ​​enjoy today.' Moving on to ancient Rome, the night scene included a traveler in a train delivering news describing how language was described as a tool for cultural unification with a vast network of roads stretching across Europe, eventually leading to Rome.
Suddenly, the scene turned dark when a crash and the smell of burning wood filled the air. The fall of Rome by attacking mercenaries also brought the destruction of most of the world's recorded knowledge, including the loss of scrolls in the Library of Alexandria. But the narrative gives hope when the vehicle reaches the next level, where Jewish and medieval Islamic scholars seem to preserve recorded information, and continue to advance in science.
Winding through exotic fabrics and fabrics, guests arrive at a monastery where the biblical manuscripts are being copied with great difficulty. The composition shifts to a lively hallelujah choir, sung to the melody of the exposition of the work. Gutenberg is seen working with the first moving type printing machine, allowing information to travel freely around the world. The European Renaissance is depicted, with an ensemble-rich animatronic ensemble, secular polyphonic, sculpting women, and fruit portrait paintings. The scenery ends when the car passes under the scaffold, where Michelangelo is seen painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
The time machine transitioned to post-Civil War North. Guests watched syndicated news reports that illuminate the planet's latest events with tremendous efficiency. Hard, industrial size printing machines show tremendous influence from the machine as advances in mass communication. As guests pass through the sounds of the press, the theme scores are displayed again, this time with uptempo ragtime pianos. The next look is a romantic version of the twentieth-century communications revolution - after passing telegraphs, radio, telephones, and films, motorists watched the 1969 Apo Lloe 11 lunar television show on the moon, featuring Walter Cronkite. Language has developed in such a way that it is no longer just spoken by humans, but by machines as well.
Guests turn round the corner and find themselves in a large mainframe computer as they climb onto the last hill. At the top, a slow start begins, progressing through a garage in California, where a man is seen building one of the first home computers. The score becomes suddenly percussive and dramatic as guests fly through the tunnel with computer code projected onto the wall. At crescendo, the car makes its final turn into Spaceship Earth cupola. The top of this structure is, in fact, a star-studded planetarium and a large projection of a rotating Earth. Before the omnimover vehicle starts moving down long long into the loading and unloading area, they rotate 180 degrees clockwise and the guests drive down the pull back end.
The rest of the journey moves past a seemingly infinite number of stars and enters into the luminous triangular nature. Guests can then use the touchscreen in their Omnimover vehicle to fill out a questionnaire to create a possible picture of their future, using images taken at the beginning of the journey.
Siemens then invited guests to visit Project Tomorrow as they got out of the car.
Post-show
Earth Station
The original post post for Spaceship Earth is called Earth Station . It runs from 1982 to 1994. It is an open exhibition space that includes:
- Guest Relations Center EPCOT
- Seven large projector screens are mounted on the wall of the exhibition hall toward the ceiling showing a visual preview of the various EPCOT Center attractions.
- WorldKey Information: An interactive kiosk that offers previews of EPCOT Center attractions. Guests can also talk to members of the live broadcast via a two-way closed-circuit video, or make restaurant reservations while in the park.
Global Environment
When AT & T renewed their sponsorship in 1994, they redesigned the exhibit space for Earth Station to Global Neighborhood . The original Global Environment lasted from 1994 to 1999. In 1999, the exhibition hall was renewed to become the New Global Environment for the Millennium Celebration. The exhibition hall closed in 2004 after AT & amp; T came out as a sponsor.
Project span id = Project_Tomorrow: _Inventing_the_Wonders_of_the_Future "> Tomorrow Project: Creating Future Wonders
Departure AT & amp; T as a sponsor in 2004 caused the exhibition to close. Siemens AG, a new sponsor of Spaceship Earth, having signed in 2005, created a new exhibition space called Project Tomorrow: Inventing the Wonders of the Future . The new exhibit hall once again uses the entire exhibition space that is only used by Earth Station. The new exhibition hall features an interactive exhibit featuring various Siemens AG technologies. These interactive shows and games allow guests to see the future of treatment, transportation and energy management. The space opened with two games, with two new games added in December 2007 and January 2008.
Project Tomorrow's current attractions are:
- An illuminated world that shows the birthplace of all Spaceship Earth visitors for the day.
- Body Builder - a 3-D game that challenges guests to reconstruct the human body. Shows the voice of Wallace Shawn as Dr. Bones.
- Super DriverÃ, - a simulated driving video game featuring vehicle accidents and avoidance systems. It simulates what should be the future of driving. You drive a "smart car" and try to stop the city from being destroyed.
- Power CityÃ, - a large and digital shuffleboard-style game game that has races around the board to move their city.
- InnerVisionÃ, - a game of coordination and reaction-time with elements similar to Simon and Dance Dance Revolution VIP Lounge
- October 1, 1982: Spaceship Earth opens with the opening of the EPCOT Center, sponsored by the Bell System. The narrator is Lawrence Dobkin.
- May 26, 1986: Attractions reopened from the first major renovation. AT & amp; T is now a sponsor, having been signed in 1984. A new narrative by Walter Cronkite. The final music was changed to Tomorrow's Child.
- August 15, 1994: Closing for a second major renovation. "Home computer", "Office Computer", "Network Operation Center", and "Space Station" scene deleted. The new final scene is installed and replaces the old ending scene. Earth Station is closed. The Children's Suffix Tomorrow is removed.
- November 23, 1994: Attractions reopened. A new travel narrative by Jeremy Irons. New travel scores by Edo Guidotti. The Global Environment replaces Earth Stations.
- September 29, 1999: Mickey Mouse arm holds a dedicated stick with "2000" above Spaceship Earth.
- November 24, 1999: The Global Environment is replaced by The New Global Environment , a new exhibition space serving as a live playground for the Spaceship Earth postal event.
- May 2001: Mickey Mouse's arm holds a modified stick to say "Epcot" above Spaceship Earth.
- January 1, 2004: The AT & T sponsor of the company expires.
- April 2004: The New Global Environment is deleted and the area is closed. AT & P reference removed.
- November 2005: It was announced that Siemens AG will sponsor Spaceship Earth for twelve years.
- April 11, 2007: The major changes taking place in Spaceship Earth are announced.
- April 25, 2007: New exhibit space at the Spaceship Earth event post called Tomorrow Project: Discovering the Wonders of the Future will open.
- July 5, 2007: Epcot Vice President Jim Macphee announces the timely removal of the stick structure for the park's 25th anniversary on October 1, 2007.
- July 9, 2007: Closing for fourth renovation. Removal of the stick structure begins.
- August 24, 2007: Removal of the stick structure has been completed.
- December 2007: Fourth edition guest preview begins.
- February 15, 2008: The fourth edition is open to the public. New narration by Dame Judi Dench.
- March 4, 2008: Spaceship Earth is rededicated.
- October 1, 2012: Spaceship Earth and Epcot are celebrating their 30th anniversary.
- October 1, 2017: Spaceship Earth and Epcot are celebrating their 35th anniversary.
- Lawrence Dobkin: October 1, 1982 - May 25, 1986
- Walter Cronkite: May 29, 1986 - August 15, 1994
- Jeremy Irons: November 23, 1994 - July 9, 2007
- Judi Dench: February 15, 2008-present
- Epcot attractions and entertainment history
- Mongello, Louis A. (July 2004). The Walt Disney World Trivia Book . The Intrepid Traveler. p.Ã, 125. ISBNÃ, 978-1-887140-49-2.
The concept of geodesic sphere comes from Buckminster Fuller, which also coined the term "outer space" in his 1964 book, An Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.
- Walt Disney World Resort - Spaceship Earth
- Earth Spaceship Intercot's page
- AT & amp; T Video archive opening of Spaceship Earth
The VIP room, operated by sponsors of the pavilion, is above the post-show area of ​​Spaceship Earth. Employees of the current sponsors and their guests can relax in the lounge while visiting Epcot. Sponsors can also hold receptions in the room as well as conduct workshops and business presentations. When Spaceship Earth was without a sponsor from 2004-2005, the room was used for private events such as weddings and conventions. The layout is small and curvy, with one wall consisting of large windows where visitors can look out onto the garden.
When Siemens AG took over as a sponsor, the waiting room was named "Base21." In 2012, the name was dropped and is now known simply as the "Siemens VIP Center."
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