The script - Part one Entry and Looking Back at Tomorrow

Horizons 2 Script

Lobby

In the lobby area of the ride building several announcements can be heard, they are as follows and cycle at random:

Announcer: Welcome to the Futureport We here at (insert sponsor name or Epcot) hope you enjoy your journey today, Don't forget to visit the check in desk to receive your Futurepass before boarding!

Announcer: Can Tom Fitzgerald please report to the front desk, your ticket to Sea Castle onboard Century 3 is waiting.

Annoncer: Horizons 2 now docking, Please check all your personal belongings before proceeding to the dry dock.

Queueline

The queueline area of the ride features a single TV hexagon displaying clips of the 3 destinations with the following voiceovers:

Announcer: Sea Castle, the first floating city out in the pacific, invites you all for an undersea adventure, daily departures via Horizons 2 and Century 3.

Announcer: Mesa Verde, the deserts most advanced farming site, now hiring programmers and operators for harvesters. Bullet trains leave every half hour.

Announcer: Take a holiday to Brava Centauri, The newest space colony, or stay onboard to experience life on Mars. Shuttles depart daily.

Boarding

Once on the 'drydock' the following announcements are heard:

Announcer: Please take children by the hand and look down as you step onto the belt, It moves at the same speed as the ride vehicles.

Announcer: Please remain seated and keep hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times, your door will automatically close.

Intro

As your vehicle leaves the drydock fluorescent tubing will light across the wall going by faster simulating time travel, at the same time the following is heard:

Announcer: Horizons 2 now departing, TimeJump initialized, Destination, The future.

Grandmother: That sounds like quite a trip.

Grandfather: My Wifes right about that! But half the fun is the journey there, so lets go back to where it all began, the 1800s

Looking back at tomorrow

The first scene is the Jules Verne scene which replicates the original.

Grandfather: Theres the grand old man himself, Jules Verne, floating round in his famous Moonshot.

Grandmother: He had the right idea, he was just a little ahead of his time.

Grandfather: Yeah, come on we'll show you what we mean.

This is followed by the 50s scene.

Grandmother: Ah the good old 50s.

Grandfather: A bit far out dont you think? but it looks like good fun!

Grandmother: well everyone has fun dreams of the future, I know I sure do.

Then the 60s and 70s.

Grandfather: The 60s and 70s truly had some fantastic views of the future.

Grandmother: Flying cars, robot servants and easy living, they were really dreaming big.

Grandfather: but with todays technology were getting closer to it, they had the right ideas, just maybe not the right style.

Grandmother: I dont know, I kinda like it, it has a certain charm.

Tomorrow in the 80s

This is where classic scenes from the ride will be presented, from each section of the ride.

Grandfather: Lets take a look at what our parents and grandparents thought the future would be like.

The vehicle enters nova cite.

Grandmother: Hey look, there's my Grandparents, it looks like Grandmas talking to my mother on that hologram device.

Grandfather: We sure had some good ideas for communications in the future.

Grandmother: Thats very true, I wonder what my grandfathers doing?

Grandfather: Looks like some kind of instrument, maybe a keyboard?

Grandmother: Cmon lets go catch some sun.

The vehicle moves into Mesa Verde farm scene.

Grandmother: and theres my Mother! Looks like shes operating the harvesters out there in the field.

Grandfather: Flying harversters, well I never, Things were still pretty far out even back then.

Grandmother: Sure, but its not an impossibility, were just not quite there yet.

The vehicle moves into the sub repair bay at seacastle.

Grandfather: Would you look at that, im an undersea welder!

Grandmother: Well you did always have a strange obsession with the sea.

Grandfather: Theres just as much to explore below as there is above, and theres a lot of raw materials down here, whats not to love?

Grandmother: Hey look on the screen over there, that's me!

Grandfather: It sure is! It seems theres only one more frontier to explore.

The vehicle then moves into the Brava Centauri scene

Grandmother: Would you look at that view out there!

Grandfather: Space sure is breathtaking, back then we sure had some bizarre ideas for space fashion.

Grandmother: You may think that, but to them it must have seemed practical.

Grandfather: You should see the breakthroughs we've had since!

Grandmother: Yes! its been quite a ride! from the expansion of the internet, to entertainment and virtual reality, all the way to sending a satelite to Pluto, we have made some truly amazing leaps.

The vehicle then enters the first oval room area.

Space part 1

I decided to start work on the new Brava Centauri, heres what I have so far.

This section simulates the ride vehicle (Horizons - 2) entering the docking bay of Brava Centauri. The scene before will feature Brava from a distance as a small model of the station. The visible craft is Horizons 1 and will be mentioned in the voiceover with its design date being the opening date of the original ride. The bay 3 is a subtle reference to horizons prototype name of Century 3. I decided to keep the original Brava logo although I couldnt get the text to curve so it is absent. In the background is a large solar array for powering the station. Horizons 1 will be seen again in the next scene with the family exiting from it into the station.

Floor 2

The second floor (Futureworks) is hands on activities about the future and to a lesser extent time travel. I will go into detail about each section.

The house of the future:
A replica of the scene from the ride with a tablet on a pedestal allowing people to control the room e.g. open and close windows or cupboards etc.

The garden of the future:
Exploring how gardens could be utilised in the future for both leisure and for self sufficiency through small scale farming.

The eye to the future:
A large telescope looking out into Future World through the buildings 'eye'.

Your Future:
A place where visitors can make their own idea of the future through pre-sets and then leave a memory of what they would like to do in the future.

Time travel and the future, a history: Small models with descriptions and little video clips/photos of various time machines and futuristic worlds from science fiction movies. Ranging from Jules Verne's time machine through the TARDIS and DeLorian and looking at views of the future in space and on earth.

Design a time machine:
alows guests to design their own time machine using a similar system to test tracks sim car designer and a few preset options.

Horizons one and Horizons two

Heres an aerial shot of the original next to the new one, all credit for the aerial view to Horizons1.com

Exterior 2

I have now added in the bushes and done some other adjustments.

I have also attempted to get an idea of size and location by sticking it onto an aerial view of the park in my ideal location for the ride. It would have to be quite a bit larger than the original to facilitate the whole ride on a single floor. but looking at the surrounding area, it looks to me like that wouldnt be too much of an issue.

The Exterior

After a big hiatus I have completed some work on the rides exterior. The planters, paths and sign are all now in place, there is still some work to do on the building (adding doors and such) but I hav not worked out where the maintenance doors will be yet so this is still a work in progress.

As you can see, I have arranged the planters in the shape of the Horizons logo. I thought this might look tacky initially but having tried a couple of different approaches I actually like it like this. The sign sits in front of the large sphere but does not obscure it. That was one of my key focuses, the original ride building had the tall trees obscuring it. I plan to put the trees somewhere to the side so as to have the building visible as guests come up to it down the central partition. This will also serve a practical purpose for the telescope in the large 'eye'. The paths lead right round the building much like the original for maintenance and fire exits. As the ride uses the original system, fire exits are through the back of the vehicles. I plan to add more to this as I go along.

The sign is now complete, made to replicate the original almost exactly, the base it sits on is very simplistic but I think that it doesn't need to be complex, as long as it can hold the sign and look good doing so, which I feel it does. The working title is present of Horizons: Looking Back Into The Future, this is of course subject to change if I think of a better title (maybe just Horizons would suffice or New Horizons). There is still a lot more work to do, but I think its coming along quite nicely.

The New Space

Taking the wonders of life Pavilion and turning it into a space pavilion I don't think would be too difficult. I have come up with some ride ideas using the previously existing wonders of life rides as a base in order to save on installing new buildings etc. The first part, and the part that would probably be the biggest cost impact is moving mission space to wonders of life. The idea being the pavilion would be themed around a space station on Mars. Mission space would now be the first thing visitors would come to as they take a trip to Mars base, an optional cinema would be included for guests who didn't want to or couldn't ride mission space, even the green path. The cinema would also be a fast track 'warp gate' to the station for guests who wanted to avoid the ride and the film. Once guests exit from any of these routes they enter Mars base through Airlocks. This puts them into the dome structure which would be redone as a large research station with science themed activities and areas. Another idea is a space food restaurant serving dried food in foil bags. The domes roof would be a planetarium projecting views of the stars, space and Mars onto the roof.

Using the old cranium command theatre a new ride about a robot rover exploring the surface of Mars and collecting information, with the guests inside its 'brain'. Another ride would be a space flight through the planets and solar system using the space and similar ride system to body wars. Finally to exit the pavilion guests would exit through a cinema themed as a space bus with a short film showing the return to earth.

what do you all think of these ideas?