I haven't been on Space Mountain since the big update but I was very impressed by it. Overall it seems like they shit canned all of the goofy-ness that came with Fed Ex and the "New Tomorrowland" (The kinda junk that made RYCA-1 seem great in comparison) and brought back the same feeling that the original 1975 version had. The audio and art direction were a breath of fresh air in a park that usually makes me bitch all day.
The post show speed ramp still needs help though. It would have nice to see a new version of The Home of Future Living but it's just another low budget show built on the core of the shitty "RYCA-1 Dream of a New World" that replaced HOFL in 1985.
One Scene DID make me happy. The last show scene before the green screen television which features a futuristic living environment, a robot butler, and a backdrop painting of a future city. It ain't much folks but I'll be damned if it didn't give me a jolt of the Horizons feeling all over again. It was like having loved your granny very much, she dies, and years later you see a pretty good wax figure of her at a museum.
Look at these video grabs. The robot is just an old AA armature with some shit slapped on it BUT STILL, it's a robot serving drinks! In a 70's-esq bachelor pad!
Besides, we would have all bitched if they used our old pal here who happens to sport the same footwear.
Rounded bench seating, a sleek table with crazy future shit on it, clear acrylic chandelier....... are you seeing it?
The backdrop was first installed in 1985's "RYCA-1". That makes it only 2 years younger than Horizons. As you see it's a very 80's vision of tomorrow which is perfect in this case. I've never liked it until now.
Like I say, it ain't much but somebody deserves a prize for coming up with this scene. with my luck it was probably Jeff Kurtti.
Wanted to let you know, before they took them out, for a long time there was a suspicious set of glass sculptures in the glass cases in the back (of that scene). One was of a certain golfball, and I'm pretty sure the other was of a familiar pyramid. Unfortunately, I never got a good pic and haven't seen any otherwise, so I can't show them.
ReplyDeleteits a good day MVT has a new post!!! im goen on space mountion a,s,a,p now !
ReplyDeleteI think the ending was still all Alex Wright...
ReplyDeleteI never noticed the thing about the robots having similar feet. It had to have been intentional, you'd think.
ReplyDeleteSupposedly the inspiration for the exit ramp was Horizons.
ReplyDeleteI had lunch with the Imagineer who worked on that final scene. I'll dig up his name when I get back from our holiday family visit.
ReplyDeleteI like the "Horizons theme" of the new end. Except I was getting ran over trying to just take video the scene, the one time I've gotten to see the post show. Regular guests don't give a rat's behind about that cool $%@!. They just want to trample people and yell to try and get back on the ride quicker. Or maybe it is just a select few.
ReplyDeleteDid you guys see the "Mesa Verde" sticker on the luggage at the beginning of the ramp? If you google "Space Mountain" and "Mesa Verde" you'll find a picture. It's a piece of luggage with four stickers on it - Pluto, Luna Port, Alpha Centauri, and Mesa Verde.
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