First Audio Clips

We finally got around to capturing our audio collection!

Keep in mind that these are live recordings. There are great studio tracks out there but these are unique in that you'll get the feeling of being in the ride at a certain place.

1998 is long gone so close your eyes and imagine you're inside Horizons.

This first batch contains the three tracks from the "Travel Posters" which were on your left just before you entered the load area.

Sea Castle

Mesa Verde

Brava

Thanks again to the boys at Cartoon Basement for hosting these. Much more to come!

Mesa Verde Control Booth

Look at these two crappy shots! They were all I had when Horizons closed and, like I've said before, who would want to go on living if this was the only record of this scene? Not me.

The girl however looks better in these older shots for some reason.

Hmmm.

In the future we will have no need for Plasma, LCD, or HD. Mankind will actually revert back to TV tube technology. It's true. The Orion Company will lead the global market and produce these monitors from corn based plastics.

SEE! Here are three of the four Orion computers at work in the control booth. Sell your Apple stock NOW! Box up your HD flat and mail it to Hoot and Chief at once! I'm serious because in 2083 you're going to look very uncool:(

They have printers in the future too. They got tired of not having a hard copy of images so a printer rebirth began.
Seriously though, here I go again praising the level of detail in this attraction. Simply amazing.

"Average Front Range 4200. Moderate Temp".

I loved Horizons.

Cool Buses

Here is another clip from the Chief cam. We are behind the Mesa Verde Grove once again, and I film the awesome backdrop painting with its 'Cool Buses', heh! In this one I have the camera light on a bit more, so you get a somewhat better look at the space underneath and behind the grove. Yet you get to hear me bitching again about how the light eats up the rear battery on my camera so fast. I catch Hoot in the act of setting up his camera to capture our first cool 'In The Grove' shot we posted about last year.

Then I get some video of the awesome 'Orange Machine', hehe. And I had seen the name on the side of the thing probably a dozen times or more by this point, you would think I could remember its proper name. :)

Then I get a shot of the Nova Cite backdrop painting and test our spy area that we would use sometimes to look for empty cars. And at the end of me filming that you get to see Hoot setting up his camera to film that same spot, which we posted footage of last year as well. Enjoy!

Grove Control Tower: Monitor 1

So here we are underneath the Grove Control Tower, trying to get shots of the fake monitors. This one was shot by Hoot, and the other two monitors (like this one) were shot by me. I will be posting those soon. Enjoy!

Grove Shot 2

Here is another grove shot, from a wider angle so you can see pretty much the entire grove. And in this shot you can see two flying harvester projections on the wall. Enjoy!

Mesa Verde Detail

I love the painting behind the model showing life in Mesa Verde! As with the rest of the art in Horizons the detail simply floors me. Lorange juice on the veranda! I don't care what they teach you in Sunday school, Heaven looks exactly like this!

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...

Athene Disks

There were three disks laying on the Athene. The label pictured here says 250, athene Micro Video Disk Pack, Advanced Chemistry Unit 4. Get it?

1. Athene was the goddess of wisdom in Greek Mythology. That's an easy one.

2. The subject is "Advanced Chemistry" because of the Chemistry going on between the Daughter and the Beach Boy! Amazing!

3. You would think all three disks were the same. This disk is Unit 4, the others are marked Unit 3 and Unit 2 with Unit 1 running on the computer! THEY TOOK THE TIME TO MARK ALL OF THE DISKS IN THE SERIES!

It blows me away how cool this attraction was.

Stay tuned because there's more on the athene 2500

Groves Part 2

Here are my two shots of the groves. The top one is very similar to Hoots shot, but slightly different so I thought it was still worthy of posting.

Groves

Here's the pic I used for the title of Mesa Verde Times. I didn't put the usual "MESAVERDETIMES.BLOGSPOT.COM" Because this is a sweet wallpaper.

We only add that text to our pics to help people find this blog. Stray images get sent around and we find the lost sheep Horizons fans.

Notice the control room ceiling at the lower left. This was taken from the catwalk.

Blurry but dreamy

To give new Horizons fan Rainie an idea of what the overall scene looked like. The daughter is in the control booth over seeing the Harvesters. I think the Harvesters were unmanned or unwomaned. This scene was about how, in the future, we can turn the fragile desert ecosystem into groves of hybrid fruits.

The Farmer

Our daughter the farmer. Follow me on the detail in this scene. I know I beat the subject to death but humor me here.

She's married to the Captain Nemo looking guy so she has her wedding ring on. She has red hair which her daughter also has.

WHO.....WHO would have ever noticed this stuff????!!!!!!!!! Did the average guest see it? No way. When Chief and I were teens we never noticed it and I doubt anyone from Brazil did either.

BUT how amazing is it that it was there? Very.

I miss this attraction so much:(

Lettuce Move On

Another from the kitchen. This time, the vegetables and fruits are being kept fresh under plastic domes.

How perfect WAS this house?!

Nemo's Computer

We see here that Captain Nemo's kitchen computer is actually a light and yes that is Mickey Mouse wrapping paper. Hidden Mickey's SUCK !

I like this shot because of the hanging plants in the background.

It's a little blurry but it's a good start. Young Hoot Gibson is checking out the contents of the family fridge with the most annoying animatronic kid ever created.

Remember when I said that we, the riders, were seeing a glimpse of the future that was largely unexplained to us? This kitchen is a great example. How many average riders knew that the fridge was voice activated? I had no idea until this adventure began.

So much detail. What about the other appliances?

Kitchen Kaberet

Chief and I want to move on the the Mesa Verde Kitchen scene. THIS is the only pic I had of it when Horizons closed the first time! Imagine how my life would be today if this were all I had! I'd be drunk and homeless in a gutter, folks. I'd be telling the other homeless dudes "IF I ONLY HAD ONE............MORE................PICTURE!"

Wow I have a lot of pictures of this scene. This should adequately show how much detail went into this attraction. 80% of this scene wasn't visible from the ride vehicle. Seriously.