E82

E82 is quickly becoming an amazing blog! I'm lovin' it mostly because of the kick ass original merchandise designs. Give it a look.

Base Camp

Hey look, Chief isn't dead after all!! :) Sorry for the extended absence folks.

Anyways, here is a clip of what we liked to call our "Base Camp". This was shot by yours truly on my huge JVC VHS camera. Ill dig the thing out and put the actual model number etc.. if anyone cares. And the beginning where it appears messed up is how it actually is on my VHS tape, not something from me converting it to mpeg. I left it in there because I think its neat seeing Hoot in a psuedo slow motion. Heh.

So Hoot describes in the video where this location actually is, but yeah, it was situated underneath the kitchen and daughters room area. It wasnt super convienent, I remember having to crawl to get to this spot, but it seemed like the best "not common maintenance travel area" we could find that we could put our stuff down and go out on little trips to take pictures, record audio, etc... and then come back. That way we didnt have to lug our backpacks and gear with us everywhere.

Enjoy, and in the days/weeks to come I will be posting more video clips shot by me. And then Hoot will become even more famous, because he is in alot of them. :) Ohh, and once again I am embarassed to hear my own voice and stupid laugh in this clip. :(

Desert Father AKA Captain Nemo

This just in from the MVT mail sack!

Regarding the Desert Farm Father who we refer to in previous posts as "Captain Nemo".

"As a fan of Horizons since my first trip to EPCOT in the fall of 1983 or 84, I have been wondering a lot about the things you have been documenting. Keep the information coming! Before MVT came into existence, I was forced to ask these questions to anyone I could find with a connection or knowledge to Disney and the parks. One friend who grew up in the Orlando area and has made and keeps many great "Disney" connections with many Imagineers and cast members, has helped me answer questions over the years... that is how I came upon his name.

His name is Pete Renoudet. He was the voice of many AA characters at the Disney parks, including the voice of Captain Nemo on the WDW version of 20,000 leagues (Go figure!!!). Most Notably, he was also the voice of Henry in the Country Bears and Abraham Lincoln (Succeeding Royal Dano).

In a 2007 interview, Pete describes that his presence in Horizons was a last minute change. The voice we hear is not his, as he was only used as the model for the AA and was filmed for the video on the videophone. (This could be another reason why the mask doesn't seem to fit the AA head... IT WASN'T THE ORIGINAL "MASK"!!!)

This and a lot more about him was posted in the interview. Here is the link for your confirmation purposes.

http://www.mouseclubhouse.com/Interviews/pete-renoudet/pete-renoudet-parks.htm

Read, Enjoy, and congratulate yourself on the Captain Nemo connection! That was amazing.

One of the die-hards!

Michael Garay (aka Menutia)"

Awesome contribution! Chief and I would like to grant you a position here at The MVT headquarters. From this day forth, Menutia, you will be known as "Minister of Missing Persons and Submarine Rides @ Mesa Verde Times". Congratulations, sir.

Easy Living Background solved

Eric_W, Minister of Space Travel Affairs at Mesa Verde Times, has made an incredible discovery. I'm re posting his links from his comments on the first "For Kali" picture:

http://tinyurl.com/yj3k3fk

http://davidszondy.com/future/city/skyscraper.htm

Read his full comments here

Art Deco Background for Kali Part Three

This was the very right of the painting. Notice the Nickelodeon (upper right) sign that's part of the next scene. You can see the glass block window of the kitchen and an open animatronic control cabinet in the lower right. Our secret hide out was on the left behind that red area:)

Art Deco Background for Kali Part Two

Maybe this is Zeppelin Earth?

Art Deco Background for Kali Part One

Mesa Verde Times reader Kali has requested some Easy Living, art deco, background painting shots. Ask you shall receive!

This one was taken from the very left of the scene.

How many of you would agree that this a tribute to Spaceship Earth, art deco style?

What do YOU think?

I just talked to, his Holiness, Bishop Kyle of Centauri . He's going to write down some thoughts on Horizons to share with the rest of us. This gets me thinking so stick with me here 'cause the PBR is taking effect.

Someday all of us Horizons fans will be dead. There will be no one alive who actually experienced this amazing piece of future optimism. Chief and I will be in Hell, with a few of you, and the world will be void of any single person that can pass on what it was really like.

Blogspot will probably be around OR Islamic Scholars, Jewish Scholars, the Vatican, Universities world wide, or some poor "future dork" in his mom's basement will keep Mesa Verde Times on record well into the future.

So........if this blog is to serve as a time capsule for Horizons, we need your input. You found us for a reason so let's get down to the business of spilling your memories and thoughts for future generations.

Anything goes. Unedited. mesaverdetimes@gmail.com This is important.

These are fun

In the Mesa Verde living room. You can almost see my chicken bag! Chief is grabbing his! Prince (Bionic Fonzi) is just relaxing. He's waiting for the purple rain.

Clowns, man. Clowns:)

I FOUND IT!

To me, kind folks, this is the Dead Sea scrolls. I dug around, I found it, and I'm happy as hell. This simple two page spread holds SO much history for me for it is part of the seed that lead to the adventures of Hoot and Chief. Let's go back in time to 1983.

Story time with Uncle Hoot is about to begin. Please do NOT remain seated and do not keep your hand and arms inside the vehicle.

10th grade 1983. Hoot Gibson is in the waiting room of the principals office. Another idea that seemed good to me at the time went wrong. I was sitting there flipping through some sort of scholastic magazine when I came across this two page spread. IT WAS HORIZONS!!!!!! In true Hoot fashion I loosened the staples and preserved this wonderful piece.

I was called in by the nice office people who knew me by name. It was my turn, once again, to face my good friend Ms Gibb.

Ms Gibb ran through the usual banter about how my future life depended on my grades (which turned out to be bullshit). The speech turned into blah blah blah because I was reading this fantastic article over and over again. "HOOT GIBSON! Are you listening to me"? I wasn't. We had been through this song and dance sooooo many times and being an honest person I said "no...sorry".

Ms Gibb grabbed this very piece of paleo-future from my hands, looked at it, and said "this is your problem, Hoot. All you care about are these comic books". WHAT!??? This came from a magazine in her own office! She didn't even read it! This was an ad for GE and Horizons!!!!!!!!!! It was intended to give kids hope and to inspire learning!

Little things like this make you question authority.

Luckily I still have this piece of history. I've kept it all these years. Enjoy it, my friends.

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.

ATTENTION!

You all really need to see this amazing post!

http://www.imagineeringdisney.com/blog/2010/1/9/abandoned-disney-series.html?lastPage=true#comment6866451

See if you can figure out who's who.

Two More Tools (hehe)

We haven't been able to locate Bionic Fonzi to ask him if it's ok to post his pictures. For now he'll be the King of Pop.

In this shot Chief finds a hidden speaker and is overjoyed to say the least! Fonzi did the moonwalk and damn near fell down the hole:(

Good times.

Cool tools

Various tools of tomorrow, the kind of things we Cave Men couldn't begin to understand. AH! His welding glasses are on the floor.
I wonder what that rainbow colored thing is.
Next to his ass is a yellow pad. Probably an Electro-pants mat to prevent chaffing.