MUST READ!!!!

Horizons/Carousel of Progress fans! Mike Cozart of Tomorrowlounge '67 just started the MOTHER of all....... I'm not gonna blab about it, read it for yourself and be amazed at the fact that Horizons almost made it to Disneyland!

AMERICA SINGS MEGA POST FINAL #6 --America Sings replacements that never were!!

I WILL have this.....

Check it.

Excellent graphics

Mesa Verde Times pal Evan Alporque came up with these kick ass graphics in Photoshop. If you use them in your projects, for texture maps etc, please give him credit and $400 in Thai currency. Enjoy!

Space Crystal Lab panel.

Lab Patch.

Shuttle Port Santa Maria seating chart.

Easy Living wallpaper.

Sea Castle improvised Menu.

All fine examples of someone using our pics to better the world. Thanks, Evan!

Moving Forward

Here are a few things that'll be coming up on MVT:

* More pics of our adventures. Still a bunch more.

* A few more "Hoot and Chief Action Comics" to help tell a few tales.

* "The Prologue and the Promise": What really happened to that painting as told to us by a Disney Pigshot...I mean..BIGSHOT.

* GERO, the Horizons robot you may remember and where he REALLY came from.

* WEDCON 2011 and our involvement with it.

* Audio loops recorded live and through Spike Trippers special 3-D system.

Stay tuned!

Ghosts and Gardens

"Maybe you got hit in the head with some frozen meat........"

Riding Horizons was like having an out of body experience. However, instead of floating like a ghost through your own time, you had a very short vision of the future unfold before your eyes. You tried to soak it in but you couldn't move or change your perspective to figure out what was going on. You had a basic narration to guide you but it wasn't nearly enough.

Soon your dream state was over and you had the rest of your life to try to make sense of what you saw. Strange gadgets, Strange footwear.

Chief and I are your Patrick Swayze in "Ghost". We learned to manipulate the "out of body" situation and turn it into an "out of ride vehicle" situation. Just like Swayze did when he learned to move objects and shit after he was dead. Chief and I are each Patrick Swayze.



Granny had a sweet garden on the patio of her Nova Cite apartment. Plenty of strange veggies growing everywhere and no sign of actual dirt! Why get dirty in the third century if you don't need to? She had tables to work on, a cup of tools, some gloves and a vintage pair of 1983 office scissors! Let's take a look at what's for dinner.

OOPS! During the time the above and below pics were taken, the long green leaf vanished, the huge garlic got turned over and the scissors moved leaving a dirty spot! Proof that other ghosts were acting a fool here.

Anyway, you can see a wide variety of foods that could be grown in a small space.

Check out the red onion there in the middle. It has the same greens as the carrots. Is that a cross breed of onion and carrot?! The future is a very bold place.

Mesa Verde Times turned 2 years old on March first. Welcome to Mesa Verde Times 2.0.

ANYTHING is worth a shot

Our good friend Keir just sent this:

http://www.petitiononline.com/Epcot/

It might be a long shot but what the hell. You never know:)

If I had one little bit of input for Disney it would be "please make it impossible to jump out of the new ride vehicles because my foot still hurts and Chief and I aren't spring chickens anymore". Amen.

The King Remains Seated

I stole this picture from THIS collection.

Horizons Recreation

Here's the first glimpse into an entire digital Horizons recreation by a friend of Mesa Verde Times!!

http://horizonsresurrected.blogspot.com/

The goal here is to recreate the attraction and let viewers navigate around at will!

Will you finally be able to jump out of your vehicles and explore!????????? let's hope so.

PS. Follow this blog and help us assist Chris with whatever he needs to finish this amazing work. Follow the blog!

Birthday PAN-O-RAMA

Like I mentioned before I was prone to hitting the "panorama" switch on my camera. Well hell! It was dark and then the switch was right where my thumb rested.

Anyway it made for a few interesting shots:)

Happy Birthday Davey...again

Back to the hardest scene to sneak into. The famous "Birthday Scene".

In the future babies can levitate or maybe the gravity's out of whack. In any case this was a cool little scene to behold. Most riders (we included) only paid attention to the holograms. It was only when we made it in that we realized the awesome attention to detail.

The UFO cake was almost impossible to see from your ride vehicle let alone the cool little alien....

.....with the rocket strapped to his back:)

It just dawned on me that we never told just how we got into this scene. I believe another Hoot and Chief Adventure Comic is in order!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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!

Just in Time For The Holidays!

Mesa Verde Times pal, Casey, sends us these delicious offerings:

"Howdy again. This is probably on your radar already, but I just today
realized that some of the crazy apples are in Innoventions - I took
the below picture today."



"This is inside of some weird fridge of tomorrow or something display.
If you hadn't seen it before, there you go. If you had, promptly
ignore me."

We hadn't seen it for sure as we don't go to Epcot anymore. Here's another from Casey from the newly re-opened "One Man's Dream" Exhibit

Now we have a reason to visit Hollywood Studios! Thanks, Casey!

Jstone said it best

Here we go

In my last post I said it was the end. Please understand that I meant it was the end of our story. There's really no more to tell on top of this amazing adventure. We did what we did and we made this blog for every Horizons fan on the face of the Earth.

Folks have sent emails concerned that this blog is over........it's hard to explain. It's not about lack of content because we have plenty more for you.

There was really no climax for Chief and I, which if there was, would make an excellent story. The attraction closed and we stood empty. For years. After the fact we collected tons of material and it doesn't really fit into our adventure story but it's all part of the history of Horizons.

We loved the attraction. Risked our lives. Took pics and video to preserve it and 12 years later blogged about it.

YOU will never stand empty. This blog will live for years to come and we'll continue to post our pics and later findings.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Back to Nova Cite. Right behind us is the Mesa Verde Scent cannon. In front is Mom's apartment garden. We'd sneak around (on hands and knees) 'til we reached a door which lead to a huge room behind the backdrop. There, was stored huge glass panels for the Peppers Ghost effect. Endless coolness.


See those boxes full of "things"? We picked through them and found artifacts some of which followed us home. The boxes lay dank and dirty long forgotten by the people who were supposed to use their contents to keep scenes nice and neat.

Horizons was on it's death bed. No longer cared for. The family that had created her was gone.

Chief and I knew that this was the end but we kept at it. To care for Horizons at least in memories. We started to go mad with collecting everything we could.......