A special treat....

One of our fans known only as "Sweet C" sent us these mouth watering pics! "Sweet C" says "I'd like them to be preserved on your blog along with your amazing material". Our pleasure!



The chicks turbin from the Sea Castle Restaurant scene!


Could this be the smoking jacket of Mr Easy Living himself?! I'm getting dizzy!


I can't breath......... a kid sized wet suit! My guess is that it belonged to the little girl whos hands where on her lap. (hence the holes)


THE BOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE GD BOOOOOOOT!


Jules Verne's jacket! I need oxygen and quick!


A white boot! Who did it belong to?? Mom in the shuttle scene? A member of "ABBA"?


The Asian girl of Sea Castle?


SCUBA GEAR!!!!!!! My HEART STOPPED!


This is simply amazing! This kick ass patch would have lost forever! Look at it!


The space suit worn by that guy on the grid thingy....in...I'm blacking out....

"Sweet C"......a million thanks. You have now earned the Hoot and Chief Achievemnt award. This stuff is just incredible.

Weightless Chief

Chief hugs granny as Pac Man looks on.

This is a great one. Imagine if you had no interests in Epcot, never, rode Horizons, and had never been to a Disney park...........WHAT would you think was going on here?????? It would look like a guy lifting up some old lady in outer space.

Notice the speaker by Chief's foot.

TV Controls

Here's the TV control panel. In the future we'll have 28559006 channels to choose from. Pink Floyd only had 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from.......choose from.......................choose from...

even more details

Getting closer to these articles sandwiched between the pastel puffy wall panels. What are they?

Sunnycide Gibson.......

During this adventure I had a HOT girlfriend called Sunnycide. She didn't really care for Disney rides but she came along once or twice just to be bad. She was into black magic and art shows in which people got naked and did drugs. She put up with my strange obsession for future living

and I her naked witch moon gatherings. We were a match made in heaven for sure!

Ahhhhhh...... so long ago.

Today, we've been married for almost 12 years. I never get tired of her smile and the way she watches me obsess about the future again:)

Space Family

Here's a shot from the star field behind the shuttle scene. I accidentally had my camera on "panorama" but it made for some cool pics.
<--------- See these two grey boxes? They controlled the speed of the two motors that made the kid float. If you thought he looked too much like the vampire boy in "Salem's Lot" you could just turn up the speed to "Kid in the dryer"!

Remember when Pooh Bear was floating around in there too?

The how to....

There are a lot of people wondering how we did this so I'll try to explain again. This is how it went in the early stages:

1. Chief would hang out right near the load area and watch people get on the ride.

2. Hoot would stay back where people entered the building.

3. Chief would count empty ride vehicles, there had to be at LEAST six ahead of us.

4. Hoot would signal Chief when somebody entered the building. We had to have at LEAST six empty vehicles ahead AND behind us to not be seen.

5. Most of the time Chief would count ten to twenty empty cars before I signaled him that we had six behind us.

6. We'd get on the ride and check our ride vehicle number.

7. As soon as we rounded the corner out of the load area we'd jump out and run like hell to get as far ahead as possible.

8. By keeping count of the cars we had a precise idea of how much time we had in a scene.

We got very good at knowing how much time we had from doing this over and over.

Later, this became old hat and we just stayed in the ride for 8 hours at a time:)We ate dinner there and even washed ourselves in the Mesa Verde Kitchen scene waterfall.

Ebay part 2

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Here we go again! I have one of these but only because someone gave it to me. Is this worth even $25? This IS more cool than the grapes but does it make any sense in your living room? Mine's in a box in the garage.

Hold the BUS!

ok. ok. I just talked to Chief and he made a great point about this blog. We're NOT trying to be the best Horizons blog or tribute site ever. Wikipedia beats our asses on info! These pics are nothing new and the info isn't either for that matter. Really! TONS more research went into other sites and much more was gathered in the way of cool video, information, and pics. Do we get it now?

I need to do a better job of illustrating that this blog is about the adventures of two dorks who couldn't stand to see Horizons close. Now that I look back it was pretty amazing and some of the stunts pretty stupid:) These dorks, Chief and I, just wanted to document as much as we could for ourselves before it all went away.

For the time and place, we were the boys. Nothing to lose, no regard for our own safety, passes to all of the theme parks, etc. We worked boring desk jobs, rented shitty apartments near all the parks, rode rides and roller coasters, and thought nothing of the future......until! Horizons.

Look, dear reader, We left our ride vehicles, crawled through filth, and spent 8 hours at a time inside Horizons while it was OPERATIONAL. Every pic we have here was taken while the show was being enjoyed by people visiting EPCOT CENTER. Every one. We weren't employees or anything. Just two dorks looking for adventure and trying to preserve something special to us.

Thank God we were sort of young and had the time and balls to do this. We want you to get a feeling for what we did:)

Another Angle

Here's the rock work from the back of the kitchen scene. That's Dad up there making a cake that 'lil Davey will never enjoy. It would probably be hard to ship a cake to outer space. Right? It's nice to know that Dad has time to make cakes while his wife is working on the farm!

Unfortunately this pic shows some disrepair happening probably from the moisture of the stream:(

Going deeper

The area under this rock work was hollow with a concrete floor. There were two I-beams that could have served as benches for adventurers to eat their lunch on. It also could have served as a nice storage place for cameras and equipment because of it's easy access. One might have called it base camp if one were so inclined.

In this pic we're going deeper and you can see the end of the rock work in the lower right corner.

Hologram call for....you!

Here's a mouth watering pic of the tiny animatronic figure in the Holophone effect! She was small but her arms moved. I love the background.

Look, folks, we have about a dozen pics of this 'lil figure and, on that note, I want you all to know one thing. This blog is for YOU. The handful of people who still love Horizons over 10 years later. Remember when EVERYBODY had a Horizons tribute site? Chief and I wanted nothing to do with that short lived mania so we held out. NOW is the time for the hardcore survivors to enjoy this collection and were overjoyed that we can serve to you on a silver platter:)

Requests

Let's share some memories! What was your favorite part of Horizons? Which tomorrow did you choose on the light up panel? What would you like to see pics of?

If there are things you'd like to see just ask. I probably have pics:)

West Bay

An overall view of the West Bay. Sorry the painting ends right there:(

Look closely and tell me if you spot any details. Share them! I'm a drunk now so I can't see EVERYTHING.

Next up: Barrier Island

10th post......West Bay, Sea Castle

10th post! Thank you to all the Horizons fans world wide for your support (both of you)!

Check out these cool R2-D2 looking elevators that carry guests up and down the main towers! What a view that must have been!

Space Mountain x2

Check out these cool structures. Looks like Space Mountain? I wanna think it's not a hidden pair of Space Mountains but rather a wedding pavilion. Maybe huh? Or maybe it's an event area of some kind.

Watercraft

Around the inner ring of the Bay were docks for the various watercraft. Here's the Solo Sub and a cool red sub that looks like it could hold two people.

How cool is THAT!?

Sea Castle, See fun!

That's a dorky title I know but hey it's me so.....

Here we are in the first scene of the lovely Sea Castle Resort. We're above water here and you can see the Bay through that window. What you can't.....damn that red haired girl was cute*.....see is the amazing level of detail on that backdrop painting. Horizons was FULL of small details that the the average visitor would never notice. Even if you rode it 200,002 times you'd never see it all. Wanna take a closer look? YES YOU DO.

*There's no way that guy landed her. Nope

Easy Living.....

....It's always been just around the corner This was one of my favorite figures even if he wasn't animated. Sure he smoked but he had it all! "Easy" as I call him (I don't know if he had a name) liked to look upon his Art Deco environment while enjoying a pack and a half of Lucky Strikes. His robot servant doesn't do a very good job of sweeping. That floor is filthy!

Understand

Here I am after sweet talking a girl employee into letting me wear her silver coat. Did I mention how handsome I am?

Now we understand what drove CHIEF and I to document the future. Here's my goal:

1. I'm not going to go through Horizons in any sort of order. I like to jump around and write about things as I remember them.

2. I'm not going to write about the history of the attraction. You can find that elsewhere. It makes no difference to me who designed or built it just that it was there.

3. CHIEF and I sold our souls to the devil to get Horizons to open one last time. An afterlife of eternal suffering awaits us both so PLEASE ask before you use any of of our material. (This means YOU Extinct Attractions Club!)

4. The views presented here are mine, Hoot Gibson, and have nothing to do with the Walt Disney Company.