Dec 21, 2023
Round 2
East Coast
Favourite Extinct Attraction
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Submarine Voyage
The Age of Information
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Round 2
East Coast
Favourite Extinct Attraction
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Submarine Voyage
The Age of Information
Round 1:
East Coast:
Favourite extinct attraction
The Age of Information
KiteTails
Personally, my favourite extinct Disney attraction is this:
It’s called The Age of Information, and it was a show at EPCOT’s CommuniCore. It opened in 1982 and closed in 1994, when I was, I think, just four months old. But it’s so eerily prophetic.
When Disney promoted EPCOT with the tagline, “the 21st century begins today”, they uh… they meant it I guess, because just eleven words into this song come the words “smart telephone”, and it only gets more prophetic.
“When you want to go shopping/It will bring the store to your front door” - Amazon?
“If you want data/You’ll get that data/And only the data you need” - Google?
“You will talk to two or quite a few/On a teleconference call” - Zoom!
“It will mail your voice like a letter” - Voice notes!
“Send your heartbeat clear cross town” - Health apps!
It’s just so weird to me. It’s fascinating and I love it. It’s such a shame that Disney got rid of it and it was left forgotten until very recently (we’re talking only five years ago now!), when the granddaughter of the guy who carved the figurines found all the information and decided to preserve it.
Read more about it here:
The Display Closed in the early 1990s, one area of Communicore West can easily be crowned as the definitive definition of a prophecy that ca