The next scene depicts ancient Egypt, and has a few Audio-Animatronic characters. The vehicles continue to move forward, to a room with prehistoric Audio-Animatronic humans in a cave dwelling, with pictures and symbols painted on the wall, our first form of communication-a way of passing on and recording knowledge so that others may learn from past experience. This signified a time in our history where communication was not yet discovered. Projections of a singular man with a spear and a projection of a mammoth show for a few seconds, then ripple away, to return a few seconds later somewhere else on the wall, and ripple away. So let us journey into that past, to seek those walls, to know ourselves and to probe the destiny of our Spaceship Earth."Ĭommonly (but mistakenly) thought to be voiced by Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dobkin was the first narrator (according to retired Imagineer Marty Sklar in a 2008 interview).Īs the incline levels out a bit, the ride vehicle enters the first scene: a very dark room with fog and projections of lightning bolts on the wall. In the dust from which we were formed, answers recorded on the walls of time. "Where have we come from? Where are we going? The answers begin in our past. In this dark, somewhat foggy area, guests would hear the voice of the ride narrator: As the vehicle started to round the final curve of the loading area, it would begin a slow, sharp incline up the track. Each car had two rows, so as many as four people could fit in one vehicle. The ride vehicles were the same as the current ones and would come around the corner. The original ride began with guests walking up into the loading zone (just like it is today). Spaceship Earth, voiced by Lawrence Dobkin (Octo– May 25, 1986) The ride is inside of the 18-story geodesic sphere, an icon of Epcot and which most people jokingly call "the giant golf ball." The track begins at the bottom of the geosphere and winds to near the top, and then winds back down again. On an Omnimover track, the ride vehicles are on a constantly moving track, similar to other Omnimover attractions such as Haunted Mansion and The Seas with Nemo & Friends. Spaceship Earth is a dark, slow attraction that tells the history of communication. Now, let's go back in time to the beginning of the iconic Spaceship Earth. There have been four narrators in the ride's history, and that is how we are going to refer to each version of Spaceship Earth. While the ride still has the same overall message and focus today, the story being told and the scenes depicting that story have changed over the years. This was an original EPCOT Center ride, opening with the park in 1982. This month, we are going to remember the history of the Epcot park icon, Spaceship Earth.
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