30/01/2025
🎟Ride Spotlight🎟
🚀Spaceship Earth 🌎
is not only the Icon that greets you at the front of EPCOT, it’s a fun, relaxing, informative ride. It’s Disney storytelling at its best!
🚀🌎Spaceship Earth debuted in 1982 as part of the opening of EPCOT. The original narrator was Lawrence Dobkin, who was replaced in 1986 by Walter Cronkite. The attraction underwent another rehab in 1994. At that time, Jeremy Irons replaced Walter Cronkite as the narrator. At this time the ending was changed, more audio animatronics were added, and the song, Tomorrow’s Child, was replaced with an instrumental musical ending. In 2008, the fourth edition of the ride opened with the current narration by Dame Judi Dench.
🌎The geosphere is 165 feet in diameter and weighs 16 million pounds. It encompasses 2.2 million cubic feet of space and has an outside surface diameter of 150,000 square feet. It is covered by 11,324 triangular panels and held aloft by 6 support legs that are sunk over 100 feet into the ground.
🌎Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury and a host of other consultants and advisors worked with the Disney Imagineers to develop it.
🌎The hieroglyphics on the walls in the ancient Egyptian scene of the attraction are authentic recreations of actual hieroglyphics. The words being dictated by the Pharaoh were taken from an actual letter sent by a pharaoh to one of his agents.
📖Johann Gutenberg is examining a page of the Bible that is an exact replica of a page of the Gutenberg Bible on display in the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA.
🌎Other scenes include Michelangelo painting, the Press for newspapers, super computers, the Phoenicians working on the alphabet and more!
🌎Spaceship Earth’s structure is made out of alucabond, a carbon – aluminum compound, which is easily cleaned and can withstand the Florida climate.
🚀🌎 It has a unique gutter system so that guests passing by do not have rain dumped on them. The panels were developed to suck in the water as it hits them and in turn it replenishes the water around the World Showcase Lagoon.
🌎 What was your favorite part of Spaceship Earth?