From the beginning

So, Horizons fans, I just paid a long overdue visit to the Hoot and Chief archives. After my retinal scan and delousing I led myself over to the Horizons Vault (#18-D-427) to find a couple of articles for you. I guess I didn't realize just how many we have. Get ready for years of information!




Here's a good start. It's the earliest I could find -1979. Give it a read and you'll find that Horizons wasn't even close in concept to what it would become four years later.

This article also shows that GE was in no way wanting a continuation of the Carousel of Progress! Maybe that idea was infused by Disney during the design process. Or maybe it's pure horse shit and Horizons had almost nothing to do with COP.

- More to come!

(updated 10:19 pm and six beers later)
I've been thinking about this article. THIS was the first step in creating Horizons! How vast is that? Very. This was the seed that started an amazing experience. Chief and I were 10 years old when this article was printed.

Man! Time is a funny thing.

The Time We Were Chased Part One

You all know by now that we MUST have been detected at least once. Well it happened for sure. Here's a little comic strip of how it went down. I'm no artist, folks, but this should do. here's the True Life Adventure.

Once upon a time we were walking behind the cars in Horizons. We'd gotten too comfortable with it.

We came across a FAT maintenance man!

Good Lord! He was waiting for the ride to close so he get busy sleeping.

He turned his flashlight on us and gave us chase! We were skinny and could run like rabbits!Chief remembered a door we had used many times. It led to the "Future from the 50's" scene. We were actually in the Sea Castle scenes.

In an act of pure brilliance Chief locked the door! This gave us plenty of time to find a hiding place.

We walked underneath the "Easy living" scene to find our trusted hiding place.

Here's the layout of "the Hole's: location. Imagine the Easy Living scene. Our "hole" was a square of the background painting cut away like a doggy door revealing an unfinished room. I don't know how we originally found it but we had been there several times since.

We were fucked...

After some time we heard the ride system fire up and the audio got louder.

I snuck out to the edge of the Easy Living set....

They were riding through looking for us!!!!!!!!!!

We had to get crafty and QUICK!

Do they make it out of there alive!!!!!!!!!? Find out in the next issue "The Time We got Chased Part Two"!

Close-up departure

A closer view of the right side. I'm not going to post all of the pics I took of this sign for now. I'll post all of them at the end though. Like I said, there are so many similar shots out there so I'll save mine for a massive bundle when I run out of material.

Speaking of that, I have posted 119 of my personal pictures so far not counting what Chief posted or the pics I grabbed from ebay. 119 and, folks, and we aren't even close to the end:)