Tomorrowland Transit Authority 1994 Home Video
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- If you enjoyed our recent podcast episode about the Tomorrowland '94 refurbishment, this video is for you! We take a quick walk through Tomorrowland (where some evidence of construction is still present) and then go for a great nighttime ride on the Tomorrowland Transit Authority.
Wow, this really gets you emotional. How fun the CMs were, how beautiful it looked at night, the music... This is so special, thank you!
Amazing to see it so lit up! Back when maintenance was a thing!
The view of "Dreamflight" at 10:42 reveals that the one flaw of that ride was not properly taking into account how to utilize the Peoplemover preview window views the way If You Had Wings had brilliantly done.
Great footage. How lovely to see people engaging with each other rather than looking into their cell phones all the time!
Alien Encounter! And the old bg loop! 🥺❤️
The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter Through Original 1994 - Restored Home Movie
This looks much better than it does now. Everything’s so lit up I love it.
The first time I ever rode the people mover was in the summer of 1994 at WDW. I must of rode it a million times for the whole week I was there. I still love it today. I remember the video both. They where so high tech at the time.
HOLY COW!!!! The Space Mountain music sounded the same back then as it does now!! :D
The music in the queue has been the same since 1985
It’s crazy to think I wasn’t even born yet! I was born in October of that year. Oh how I would’ve loved to see WDW in the early 90s. My first trip was in ‘99
Video Conferencing! Mind Blown. LOL! Great Flash back!
“I can see some really dumb people”
wow, they have the short-lived Raymond Scott music loop. plus an early version of the intro narration! i think they were talking about how the land is still under construction.
They are playing “power house” in the Tomorrowland music loop! Short lived BGM!!!!
Yeah, the whole thing was Raymond Scott music. I can't figure out why because I can't tell what the narration is saying most of the time. What tone were they going for? It doesn't fit the Jules Verne thing of that version of Tomorrowland.
I just found this info someone posted in 2003:
"As you wander through "new" Tomorrowland, does it strike you odd that the soundtrack to the boiler-plate and rivited "Future That Never Was" is the same sleepy New Age music that park has been playing since the 1980s?
It wasn't always this way.
When the rehabed Tomorrowland first opened, it moved to the quirky beat of original Raymond Scott recordings. Scott was the prolific composer of jazz music that would later be remembered by most as being the underscore of several Warner Brothers cartoons. The "B" section of his masterpiece "Powerhouse" usually accompanied cartoon visuals of any assembly-line process or factory.
After a number of months, the scratchy original recordings of Scott's work gave way to newly recorded music which sounded exactly like Raymond Scott songs but were in fact close approximations of the tunes, changed enough it would seem to avoid having to pay royalties. This music cheerily played for several months more, until it too suddenly disappeared, only to be replaced once again by the New Age loop which was played in the "old" Tomorrowland.
I was baffled, as Scott's tunes were the perfect aural counterpart to Tomorrowland's new look. And Esquivel's take on "Harlem Nocturne" was still blaring away in Space Mountain's exit tunnel.
Several years later I discovered the Raymond Scott website (raymondscott.com) and on a page detailing public performances of Scott's works, found this entry:
Tomorrowland - DisneyWorld[sic]: (Orlando, FL) six Scott Quintette compositions and recordings blatantly used as musical template for constantly-running soundtrack loop at renovated theme park attraction; infringement settled out of court (1995-96) So there it was -- Disney was too cheap to pay for Scott's songs and was busted for it.
And it turns out this wasn't the first time the Mouse had tried to rip off Raymond -- the score for "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" also illegaly used elements of Scott's "Powerhouse," forcing a lawsuit and ultimately a settlement.
So here, presented for your enjoyment, is the mysterious, Raymond Scott-like second "New" Tomorrowland Area Loop.
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Having repeated all that, I can tell you the following:
1) The Scott soundalikes were composed by George Wilkins.
2) Disney's use of Raymond Scott's original recordings was NOT illegal, as their agreement with ASCAP/BMI allows for unlimited use of 3rd-party music, provided that the music cannot be *synchronized* to anything, and used for background ambience only.
3) Having Wilkins write and record the soundalikes, however, may have treaded heavily into the immoral -- and *dangerously* into the realm of plagiarism. As the original writer above notes, Scott's widow *won* a lawsuit against the ripoff music used for "Honey I Shrunk The Kids".
4) The curious fact that you heard the Scott soundalikes as late as August 2001 suggests a temporary substitution was made for some reason by Media Design, as the New-Age loop is still in general use there."
TreadwellJay more 1930’s Buck Rodgers crossed with later sci-fi of 1950s than Jules Verne, look for the 1930’s serialized movie shorts of Buck Rodgers, this Tomorrowland has traces of that all over it.
@@bigbrianDASHncDOTcom Yeah, I'm familiar with those, and they did not have jazz in them. ;)
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I miss seeing the rotating planets on the Astro Orbiter. Pity they havent moved for years.
I thought I had just made that up in my head that they used to move, wow.
@@JavaCake everything is crap since 2008
@@JavaCake Citizens of Tomorrowland, join Buzz Lightyear on a daring space mission to save the universe from the evil Emperor Zurg! Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin!"
Ahh the Disney my wife and I loved . Can’t walk in there now doesn’t feel like Disney to us . Feels like corporate greed . 😢😢😢
Like when the 2009 narration used temporary spiels inside Space Mountain during the two month period between when the new narration was activated and when the roller coaster reopened, the Pete Renaday narration also used temporary spiels that were modified once the New Tomorrowland makeover was completed.
"Oh you can see people in another land."
"I can see some really dumb people."
HA GOTTEM
Those were the days
Absolutely awesome 👍👍👍
We love Tomorrowland.
Citizens of Tomorrowland, join Buzz Lightyear on a daring space mission to save the universe from the evil Emperor Zurg! Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin!"
The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter Through Original 1994 - Restored Home Movie
Narration: Citizens of Tomorrowland, join Buzz Lightyear on a daring space mission to save the universe from the evil Emperor Zurg! Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin!"
Isn’t it funny how Disney keeps updating the “yesterday” areas in the magic kingdom, but keeps Tomorrowland the same for 30 years?
4:00 I wonder why they never kept that spiel by Jeffrey Jones for the duration of Alien Encounter's tenure at the park.
Why they took all the theming down in Tomorrowland is beyond me
Least it was the last ride on Walt Disney World.
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