Future World

The cutting edge of tomorrow- all that's new in science, energy and health.


SPACESHIP EARTH PAVILION

You can't miss the huge silver ball that is the symbol of EPCOT. The Spaceship Earth ride is inside this big, round building. It features a trip on a time machine: Travel through time and space within the 180 foot tall silver geosphere spiral that guides you through the history of human communications, with scenes of life in the 21st century's 'Global Neighbourhood'.

TEST TRACK (Min height 40 inches)

Test Track is EPCOT'S fastest ride where you find out what it's like to be a Test Dummy: The sporty test cars travel on a track that's almost a mile long. Your car has no steering wheel or break pedals as you zip around curves, zoom down a street and bounce on bumpy roads. At one point you nearly crash into a truck.
A rare sneek peek into the safety, technology and testing that General Motors puts into each vehicle before it gets to a dealer's showroom.


INNOVENTIONS PAVILION

Discover tomorrow's technology today at Innoventions, a hands-on exposition of the world's newest products and inventions.
Visit a house of the future, step into cyberspace, test the latest developments in computers and explore the breakthroughs in virtual reality. (Play the hottest new Video games!)
Innoventions is divided up into two showcases:
Innoventions East and Innoventions West.


FOUNTAIN OF NATIONS WATER BALLET

The fountain at Innoventions Plaza comes to life during the spectacular water ballet, choreographed to music. Performed every 15 minutes.


THE LIVING SEAS PAVILION

Your sea exploration begins with a short movie, and then you get into a 'hydrolator'- an elevator that goes in water. You descend fathoms into the Living Seas, the World's largest aquarium and marvel at thousands of species of Tropical fish, dolphins, turtles, sharks and manatees whilst exploring the incredible man-made coral reef.
Believe it or not, the hydrolator moves less than one inch, even though it feels like you are going way down to the bottom of the sea. After a quick ride through the aquarium you enter an area called Sea Base Alpha, where you can take a closer look at the creatures and try out the hands-on exhibits.


THE LAND PAVILION

The building called The Land looks like a big greenhouse. The attractions focus on food and where it comes from.


LIVING WITH THE LAND

A picturesque boat ride that takes in a desert, a rain forest and a prairie then heads to a greenhouse area. Along the way you learn lots of food facts as your tour guide explains everything your boat floats past.


FOOD ROCKS

A musical tribute to nutrition featuring popular musicians who have been turned into food and perform old songs with funny new words.


THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
(Located in The Circle of Life Theatre)

Simba, Timon and Pumbaa star in a movie about protecting the Earth's environment, combining animation and live action that explains how everything is connected in the great Circle of Life.


JOURNEY INTO IMAGINATION PAVILION

This attraction is a tour of the imagination. The Journey into Imagination Ride discovers how one spark of imagination can trigger a world of innovation. Your host is Figmant, a magical creature who looks like a little purple dragon, assisted by his friend Dreamfinder, they explain how the five senses (sight, smell, sound, touch and taste), send messages to the brain.
(Rumoured to be closing early in 1999 to be replaced by another attraction).


THE IMAGE WORKS

A hands-on and feet-on playground of the future. The Rainbow Corridor is a tunnel with neon tubes in all the colours of the rainbow. Walk through it and you reach Stepping Tones where you step on coloured lights to trigger different sounds.
The Magic Palette has a special pen and screen to create images, and at the Electronic Philharmonic you can conduct an orchestra by raising and lowering your hands, and on the Making Faces computer you can make yourself look really crazy.


(Located at the Imagination Institute)

You won't believe your 'size' in this 3D adventure. The shrinking ray fires and the chaos begins, but this time you are the one who gets shrunk along with the rest of the audience even the theatre seems to shrink.
You get spooked by 3D mice, a lion and a scary snake. Then one of the kids picks up the theatre and carries it around.


LEAP FROG FOUNTAINS

Outside the Journey into Imagination Building, streams of water leap from one spot to another.

WONDERS OF LIFE PAVILION
Featuring:-

BODY WARS
(Min Height 40 inches)

Get shrunk to the size of a blood cell and take a turbulent thrill ride through the Human body in this flight simulator style attraction.
Race through a larger than life version of the heart, lungs and brain on a mission to rescue a scientist trapped in Inner Space who is threatened by white blood cells that mistake her for an infection after being shrunk for a special mission inside the body to remove a nasty splinter.

CRANIUM COMMAND

Enter the brain of a twelve-year-old boy named Bobby. Enjoy the hilarious antics of famous comedians playing the roles of his heart, brain, stomach and even adrenaline as Buzzy the pilot tries to get the parts of the brain to work together to guide him through a day at school.

FITNESS FAIRGROUNDS

Hands on activities with different exhibits including Anatomical Players (Improvisational skills), Met Lifestyle Revue (Health Survey), Coach's Corner (a computer evaluates your baseball, golf and tennis swings), Frontiers of Medicine (update on research), Wondercycles (bikes that let you watch a film while riding), 'Goofy about Health' (an animated show) and Sensory Funhouse (test your senses by trying to guess what certain objects are without being able to see them).


THE MAKING OF ME

This sensitive film on the beginning of life includes footage of a developing foetus, (Discretion Recommended). This 14-minute show is shown in a theatre in the middle of the Wonders of Life pavilion.

HORIZONS PAVILION

Ride tomorrow's dreams today. This ride through attraction looks at life in the 21st Century through the eyes of past visionaries. The ride takes place in a special car that travels sideways.
You'll see, feel, even smell what life might be like in the next millenium.
You have to decide whether to end your trip to the future by having an adventure on land, in the sea, or in outer space. Everybody in the ride car gets to vote and the majority rules.
(Rumoured to be closing in January 1999 to be replaced by another attraction called Journey's in space).

THE UNIVERSE OF ENERGY PAVILION

Explores the world of energy in the past, present and future in a hilarious show 'Ellen's Energy Adventure'. A contestant on a TV game show 'Jeopardy' and all the questions are about energy.
Bill Nye the Science guy decides to teach her all about energy on a trip back in time featuring Audio-Animatronics dinosaurs.