Mission to Mars Ride Through 1992 - Restored Home Movie

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  • Опубликовано: 14 авг 2020
  • Long before Mission: Space opened in Epcot, Mission to Mars took guests from Tomorrowland for a visit to the red planet. An updated version of the Disneyland opening day attraction Rocket to the Moon, guests visit mission control before boarding their circular rocket for their voyage. Our video covers the entire attraction about a year before it closed to make way for Alien Encounter.

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  • @kchaney56
    @kchaney56 3 месяца назад +11

    I loved this ride as a kid and I got to be the last ride supervisor for this ride as they closed it.

  • @widescreennavel
    @widescreennavel 3 года назад +50

    Not a boring ride, a great, classic attraction. These original shows were produced by the finest and seminal Imagineers. All of them artists and engineers both. These attractions represent the ultimate in Disney production. They will never again be able to fully control the environments and the atmosphere again as they did here. What a gem.

    • @serenatwilite4005
      @serenatwilite4005 Год назад +8

      Buster Jangle I agree, too many people thinking this type of attraction is boring, is why Disney World ain't what it used to be. The younger crowd doesn't realize that this type of attraction, with the animatronics and imagineering is what had everyone talking about the magic when Disney World first opened. It 's the kind of thing that made Walt Disney such an icon. People had never seen things like this before. You couldn't imagine how they even thought to create something like this,, let alone make it so real. Now it's just about how fast you can go on a ride and how many times they can turn you upside down without dumping you out of the thing, or it's all about advertising their latest movie.

    • @lIII0IIIl
      @lIII0IIIl Год назад +2

      @@serenatwilite4005 this was a great ride…
      If you believed hard enough, the way the seats moved and vibrated actually gave a sense of movement that jived with that was being shown on the screens.

    • @LDTV22OfficialChannel
      @LDTV22OfficialChannel 5 месяцев назад

      In a simpler sense, I agree big time.

    • @laurieallen8040
      @laurieallen8040 3 месяца назад

      Plus great animatronics

  • @transtremm
    @transtremm 3 года назад +61

    Wow, I can’t believe we have the waiting area documented on video, brings back some great memories.

  • @Sparty-pi3jq
    @Sparty-pi3jq 3 года назад +49

    This took me back to a much simpler time in my life! No kids, no career and going to Disney every year with my parents and siblings. Thank you so much for this!!

  • @Christopherleefe
    @Christopherleefe 11 месяцев назад +10

    Another classic Disney attraction gone but not forgotten thank you for the uploading of this historic ride The space program will not be the same

  • @DannyD714
    @DannyD714 3 года назад +17

    disney needs to bring back more "group experience" attractions like this. everything these days is high speed coasters and slow moving conveyor belt rides.

  • @ameliabrown3987
    @ameliabrown3987 10 месяцев назад +14

    This video is wild. I used to be a cast member this whole area is now storage/a breakroom where I have spent a lot of time. It's so cool to see it actually being used as an attraction.

    • @BenLaurence
      @BenLaurence 8 месяцев назад +3

      I need details 😆 what is left in this old building? How much of stitch’s great escape remains?

    • @ameliabrown3987
      @ameliabrown3987 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@BenLaurence All of the animatronics are gone, but pretty much everything else is untouched. Just a lot of boxes of merchandise everywhere 😅

    • @BenLaurence
      @BenLaurence 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@ameliabrown3987 rip stitch 😭

    • @FilmThePoliceFTP
      @FilmThePoliceFTP 2 месяца назад

      All of them? You know for an fact? There's one room where every time it's shown the tube shield is up so I always thought it was to cover the creepy skinned stitch

    • @ameliabrown3987
      @ameliabrown3987 2 месяца назад

      @@FilmThePoliceFTP Could be. I just never saw any but yeah, it could be hidden in theory

  • @taylorshelton3267
    @taylorshelton3267 3 года назад +17

    I have only ridden this ride three times once at Disneyland in 1987 and twice in tomorrow land at the magic kingdom which was at the walt disney world resort. This ride made space travel look so cool to me as a kid that I almost wanted to be an astronaut. Thanks for the good memories.

  • @MountaineerProductions
    @MountaineerProductions 3 года назад +31

    I've never seen such good footage of this ride before!! This is amazing!!

    • @markpanzarella5899
      @markpanzarella5899 3 года назад

      Great memories

    • @markpanzarella5899
      @markpanzarella5899 3 года назад +2

      Don’t care what attraction. Where crowds that low..

    • @elvingarcia3010
      @elvingarcia3010 3 года назад

      @@markpanzarella5899 New Phil Hartmans The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter Through Original 1994 - Restored Home Movie

  • @charless6763
    @charless6763 18 дней назад +1

    Made a point to go on this "ride" with my friends every park visit back in the 80s. Loved the throwback vibes to an earlier era of designers that defined Tomorrowland.

  • @ttintagel
    @ttintagel 4 месяца назад +4

    This is the first attraction I went on as a space-obsessed kid on my first WDW trip. Thanks for the rocket trip down memory lane!

  • @DementedCaver
    @DementedCaver 3 года назад +14

    I never noticed it when I was younger, but that lead scientists face looks like it was poured out of the same mold as the lead character in Carousel of Progress. :D

  • @Tom_Morrow1994
    @Tom_Morrow1994 2 месяца назад +3

    I wish a video of Flight to the Moon was posted on RUclips.😢

  • @chrishead8345
    @chrishead8345 3 года назад +13

    Dang... I remember going on this in ‘73 or ‘74. I was pretty young and this was SO COOL. It wasn’t quite so cool when I rode it again in the ‘80s, but it did still have a lot of the retro-future styling and colors that the rest of Tomorrowland had,. Such great memories. Thank you,

  • @robpash2204
    @robpash2204 3 года назад +8

    My buddy and I would hide in the spaceship room while everyone else exited and enjoy a second blastoff. Good times.

  • @patrussomusic4987
    @patrussomusic4987 3 года назад +17

    This ride in the late 70’s/early 80’s was a lot of fun! I always loved going on it. The seats would move simulating g forces on takeoff and landings - very high tech lol

  • @KiwiEvilFruit
    @KiwiEvilFruit 3 года назад +7

    I absolutely love the look of the lobby!

  • @c0ldsore_0mg
    @c0ldsore_0mg Месяц назад

    I always thought I was imagining this ride as a kid in the 80’s. This is awesome to see. Brings back memories

  • @Dave_Medeiros
    @Dave_Medeiros 3 года назад +12

    First time seeing this only thing I remember from this period was when alien encounter was installed in 1994. Thank you so much for posting this

    • @elvingarcia3010
      @elvingarcia3010 3 года назад

      The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter Through Original 1994 - Restored Home Movie

  • @patrussomusic4987
    @patrussomusic4987 3 года назад +35

    Did that dad actually tell his kid Mars is the next planet closest to the sun?!?!!

    • @mr.dan7144
      @mr.dan7144 3 года назад +2

      Thanks for pointing that out. LOL

    • @JohnDoe-sg1pd
      @JohnDoe-sg1pd 3 года назад +1

      “In our galaxy” 🧐

    • @patrussomusic4987
      @patrussomusic4987 3 года назад

      @@JohnDoe-sg1pd omg - I didn’t catch that part! That’s hysterical LOLOLOL

    • @LupusLifestyle
      @LupusLifestyle 3 года назад +1

      No wonder I failed Geography, or Astronomy, or whatever. Should've never listened to them when I got on this ride 😭

    • @swampdonkey4919
      @swampdonkey4919 Год назад

      @bellboy That's true.

  • @veronicak1517
    @veronicak1517 3 года назад +14

    This was my first job at Disney World. Oh it was so bad. The rotation was this, “If you had Wings, and Circle vision theater. One time Mr. Johnson sprung a leak in his neck. “That’s very interesting”

    • @DementedCaver
      @DementedCaver 3 года назад +9

      As a kid I loved all three of those attractions, but I can understand why working at this attraction and seeing the same thing over and over would be a special kind of torture. ;)

    • @serenatwilite4005
      @serenatwilite4005 Год назад +1

      I'm wondering what happened when Mr. Johnson sprung a leak in his neck? Part of what is so creepy about these animatronic people is that it seems like you never hear about them getting messed up and even real human beings mess up, say the wrong thing or trip occasionally. You think about how they're forced to operate over and over again, hour after hour, day after day, and yet you never hear anybody talk about anything going wrong. It makes them seem like some kind of creepy superhumans. I think it really is creepy to watch them.

    • @ttintagel
      @ttintagel 4 месяца назад

      The first time I saw him, something was up with his neck. There was nothing leaking, but it was at an ever-so-slightly wrong angle.

  • @chuc98
    @chuc98 3 года назад +7

    Oh that darn albatross! Loved this vid!! Had become dated but really miss this...and the enclosed air conditioned waiting area! 1992 was the last year I got to experience this!

    • @elvingarcia3010
      @elvingarcia3010 2 года назад

      The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter Through Original 1994 - Restored Home Movie

  • @user-et2fj8xm5l
    @user-et2fj8xm5l 3 месяца назад +1

    Loved this and inner space

  • @gregbeard1744
    @gregbeard1744 3 года назад +7

    This is definitely one blessing to come out of the lockdown. Great video 😊

  • @Al_NERi
    @Al_NERi 7 месяцев назад +3

    I liked these cool, relaxing and somewhat cerebral attractions of yesteryear,s Tomorrowland. It was a fun break from the often hot and frantic activity joining cues outdoors in other parts of the park.

  • @PhotoBales
    @PhotoBales 6 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for posting this! I really miss this attraction!

  • @AroundIndiana
    @AroundIndiana Год назад +2

    We used to go every year growing up through the 80s-90s-2000s and somehow I never went on this.

  • @mcw0530
    @mcw0530 Год назад +1

    Thank you! Nobody else was able to bring back these memories!

  • @TheMissouriSpartan
    @TheMissouriSpartan 3 года назад +5

    This is awesome! All those giant cameras and camera bags from the 90s. lol

  • @scottdustin2076
    @scottdustin2076 3 года назад +5

    i see this once way back in the 1970s now i know why i never went back on this

  • @maryroberts2099
    @maryroberts2099 10 месяцев назад +3

    First ride I went on, during my first and only trip to WDW, in 1985

  • @salaciousbum1161
    @salaciousbum1161 3 года назад +11

    I remember getting on this when I was like 5 years old at Disneyland. I was so bored. As an adult now I think concept like this would be cool now with the technology nowadays and added graphics.

    • @swampdonkey4919
      @swampdonkey4919 Год назад +1

      I went on it when I was 7 (1987). It was really too much (or just too boring) for me to pay attention to what was going on, but I remember being impressed by the animatronics, and I thought the hyperspace sequence was pretty cool. I liked the strobing lights and the moving seats.. I didn't hate it, and I'm sad it's gone now.

    • @Mike-01234
      @Mike-01234 Год назад +1

      @@swampdonkey4919 Went for my 18th birthday in 1987 with my girl friend probably one of the last times I went we lived near there so we would go all the time by then I lost interest in it. We did go to Magic Mountain number of times and Knotts during Halloween.

  • @Mike-01234
    @Mike-01234 Год назад +1

    Grew up 20 min from Disneyland in the 1970's and 80's used to go there all the time had annual passes. This ride was cool quit going when I turned about 20 years old started working full time. Then I moved out of state couple of years later those were some good times.

  • @LakeHowellDigitalVideo
    @LakeHowellDigitalVideo 3 года назад +15

    It may have been dated, but Mission To Mars was still infinitely better than Stitch's Great Escape. Although, I think Alien Encounter was the best version of this attraction.

    • @humbertoribeiro3192
      @humbertoribeiro3192 2 года назад +2

      Stitch Great Escape was a very good attraction. Alien Encounter would have lasted longer if it had been opened at Epcot or in original Disneyland.

  • @user-cf2ch6zd9b
    @user-cf2ch6zd9b 3 месяца назад +1

    Far from my favorite attraction at Disneyland, but I always went on it, nice to see it again, it's been decades since I went on it.

  • @mongul305
    @mongul305 6 месяцев назад +2

    so far the only video I can find related to this ride.

  • @kimopuppy
    @kimopuppy 3 года назад +5

    I thought I was the only one filming rides at Disneyland with my Super 8 sound. I have a 3 min reel of Big Thunder shortly after it first opened I just have to digitize it with the sound

    • @DannyD714
      @DannyD714 3 года назад

      i went to your channel and couldn't find it. still a work in progress i guess.

  • @Strato13
    @Strato13 3 года назад +2

    Great video!
    Though I remember the ol' visit to MTM at Disneyland in California was always met with a collective sigh from my siblings, and cousins back in the day lol..

  • @sharlenetatsch5599
    @sharlenetatsch5599 3 года назад +1

    I remember this ride, but I did the one in Disneyland thanks for sharing brought back great memories.

  • @TrainerCTZ
    @TrainerCTZ 4 месяца назад +1

    I could never figure out the exact movement of the seats. Sometimes they felt like they were stretching. Completely forgot the preshow animatronics. NEVER forgot the horrifying experience that replaced it!

  • @ArtBellJr
    @ArtBellJr Год назад +2

    Kid asking: "Are those real people?". This is the Magic of Disney that is priceless.

    • @ttintagel
      @ttintagel 4 месяца назад +1

      And calling out, "Hello. Mr. Johnson!"

  • @Aceman-pz4de
    @Aceman-pz4de 3 года назад +3

    They Should Bring This Back!!!

    • @humbertoribeiro3192
      @humbertoribeiro3192 2 года назад +1

      Mission to Mars digivolves to... Mission:SPACE! 😂

    • @serenatwilite4005
      @serenatwilite4005 Год назад +1

      It seems to me like the Space 220 Restaurant at Disney World, has a little touch of the same concept. Possibly this attraction helped to inspire that restaurant.

  • @johnnyb980
    @johnnyb980 3 года назад +1

    I loved this ride as a kid in the late 70s/early 80s. You could let your imagination run wild, but by the mid 80s it was only loved for its short wait time & its air conditioning on a hot humid Florida summer day.

  • @slob5041
    @slob5041 17 дней назад +1

    Glad it got replaced with alien encounter

  • @GymbalLock
    @GymbalLock 3 года назад +4

    This was one of my favorite rides back in the 1970s and always looked forward to the Hyperspace sequence. Too bad the camera operator didn't actually film the hyperspace effect in the top or bottom screens

  • @KD-hi6hh
    @KD-hi6hh 3 месяца назад +1

    Loved this attraction !

  • @Marchant2
    @Marchant2 4 месяца назад +1

    If you were to change the colors of that orange-infested waiting area, you'd have a futuristic looking lobby.

  • @AXander1978
    @AXander1978 3 года назад +6

    what's sad is that even though it dated badly the show itself is still working perfectly it seems...

    • @kevinodonnell4094
      @kevinodonnell4094 3 года назад +3

      Not exactly a lot of moving parts that can break...

    • @swampdonkey4919
      @swampdonkey4919 Год назад

      @@kevinodonnell4094 It seems that way until you take into account the animatronics, film projectors, analog sound system, and moving seats. Physical media degrades over time, that's why obscure old grindhouse movies look and sound so awful. This one was probably a lot easier to maintain than the other ones, anyhow.

  • @lohphat
    @lohphat 4 месяца назад +2

    I remember when it was Voyage to the Moon before the Viking Mars lander caused the change to Mission to Mars.
    This sort of immersive non-film tie-in attraction is what I miss.
    Pressler and Iger have turned Disneyland into a poor copy of Universal Studios.

  • @mike2865
    @mike2865 2 месяца назад +1

    Checking to see if im in video. I had an annual pass in 92 and went there a lot

  • @Baer79
    @Baer79 2 года назад

    Got to love the 90's! Seeing the dork with the man purse on nailed the video!

  • @richardlucero3085
    @richardlucero3085 Год назад

    Thanks. For the memory. I remember as a kid. And it was sponsored by. Mc Donald Douglas. I and other kids. Dream of going into space. I wish this Rode was still around. For my kids and Grandkids. But part of Mission to Ma5s. Still lives.

  • @ct6852
    @ct6852 2 года назад +5

    For a while I thought I hallucinated this ride. Good to see it again. Does anything like it still exist at Disneyland?

    • @adambruins
      @adambruins 11 месяцев назад

      Star tours kinda

  • @garcia207
    @garcia207 Год назад +2

    This is more believable than the transport to the Galaxy Edge hotel at Disney World.

  • @juliusweil9464
    @juliusweil9464 3 года назад +32

    7:35 "The round room of absolute boredom"...HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

    • @mkaplan1383
      @mkaplan1383 2 года назад

      Until 1994......
      "Bring back life form, priority one. All other priorities are rescinded. You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. It's structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Last word: I can't lie to you about your chances, but... you have my sympathies." 🙂

  • @DZstudios.
    @DZstudios. 3 года назад +8

    That bird

  • @cornjobb
    @cornjobb 9 месяцев назад +2

    love that stupid bratty kid saying "this is IT?" in front of the command center

  • @4uidrum
    @4uidrum 8 месяцев назад +2

    Wow, this is great. I went on this ride a few times back then. Funny.... the ending reminds me of the SpaceX boosters returning to earth and turning on their rockets to land. Maybe Mission to Mars was Elon's inspiration for SpaceX going to Mars? ;)

  • @brianolson6366
    @brianolson6366 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful

  • @epaddon
    @epaddon 3 года назад +8

    The show had aged badly by this point. Some occasional adjustments in the narration or the pre-show or even the filmed program might have helped liven it up a bit for long-time visitors as I was in 1993 when I last saw it, just five months before it was gone.

  • @citizenofcorona8783
    @citizenofcorona8783 Год назад

    I remember riding this.

  • @chrishintz1077
    @chrishintz1077 9 дней назад +1

    A character soon ( only 50 years, folks) to morph into a RUclips channel: mr. Morrow. If only he knew at the time. ;)

  • @mr.dan7144
    @mr.dan7144 3 года назад +3

    OMG. The styling, the animatronic proportions, why it's Thunderbirds are Go! Dang!

  • @MikeRuh01
    @MikeRuh01 3 года назад +2

    I remember as a kid riding this. It was something I liked it. But it wasn't my favorite because it seemed like more educational and I wanted to Ride Space mountain instead.

  • @Songwriterbehindthecurtain
    @Songwriterbehindthecurtain Год назад +1

    I didn’t know before alien encounter and witch’s great escape it’s mission to mars.

  • @trainsplanesandotherthings5187
    @trainsplanesandotherthings5187 3 месяца назад +1

    To think these people died 100 years ago...

  • @kcarter5823
    @kcarter5823 3 года назад +3

    FANNY PACKS!!!

  • @chestercopperpot9294
    @chestercopperpot9294 3 года назад +2

    I remember thinking how badly dated and boring the ride was when we went on it.

  • @muffinman9462
    @muffinman9462 20 дней назад +1

    there was a video of super 8 film ofa landing on mars...its been taken down now...anyone remember it?

  • @nyc3631
    @nyc3631 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for sharing this! Is the narrator during the ride the same voice actor as Henry from the CBJ?

    • @nickhenline1532
      @nickhenline1532 3 года назад +3

      I knew I knew that voice! Pete Renaday is his name

  • @boomka
    @boomka 3 года назад +2

    So did you drove or did you flew?

  • @JoshuaOrro-MustangPrinceOR-YTB
    @JoshuaOrro-MustangPrinceOR-YTB 3 года назад

    :( i'm sad this closed a year before my first Disneyland visit

  • @swampdonkey4919
    @swampdonkey4919 Год назад +1

    I wonder how many kids had nightmares about Mr. Johnson.

    • @ttintagel
      @ttintagel 4 месяца назад +1

      Speaking as one of those kids, at least one.

  • @tomsimpson5317
    @tomsimpson5317 2 года назад

    Wish I could have worked at Disney in the good old days

  • @JavaCake
    @JavaCake Год назад +1

    Mr. Johnson looks like John from Carousel of Progress lol

    • @ttintagel
      @ttintagel 4 месяца назад +1

      Same head mold.

  • @HauntFreak13
    @HauntFreak13 Год назад

    Before Alien Encounter, there was…

  • @sbwification2
    @sbwification2 9 месяцев назад +1

    Hyper Space Penetration 11:54.

  • @ZanHecht
    @ZanHecht 3 года назад +2

    Anyone know what the "295" number on the wait time sign was? It also shows up on the screen in the control room.

    • @christalbot210
      @christalbot210 3 года назад +1

      That was the flight number. It's mentioned in the audio a couple of times, so it never changed. I have no idea if they came up with this number as some behind the scenes reference or not (I don't THINK so).

  • @Richard-fv7rq
    @Richard-fv7rq 3 года назад +4

    Everything/everyone looked so different in 92 but it was only 28 years ago! What replaced this ride?

    • @Texaslawhorn
      @Texaslawhorn 3 года назад +6

      Alien Encounter and then Stitch's Great Escape. Now it's primarily used for a character meet-and-greet with Stitch.

    • @Richard-fv7rq
      @Richard-fv7rq 3 года назад +3

      @@Texaslawhorn Thank you.

    • @Hehhnsbz2334
      @Hehhnsbz2334 2 года назад +4

      @@Texaslawhorn I'd take a dated Mission to Mars over Stitch's Great Escape any day of the week.

  • @a5dr3
    @a5dr3 3 года назад +3

    Anyone know where any of those animatronics ended up?

  • @elvingarcia3010
    @elvingarcia3010 3 года назад +1

    The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter Through Original 1994 - Restored Home Movie

  • @VeilRemoved
    @VeilRemoved Год назад

    I think mission space in epcot may have taken from this ride

  • @GenXAdventures
    @GenXAdventures 3 года назад +21

    It would be great if an updated version was made with Tesla and SpaceX as the sponsor!

  • @serenatwilite4005
    @serenatwilite4005 Год назад +2

    Why are those guys talking about how bored they are in the beginning? If it's so boring what are they doing there? I want to slap them, go someplace else. They act like they think they're too good for this attraction, but they're bellying up to the bar like everyone else shame on them.

  • @christopherleefe7770
    @christopherleefe7770 Год назад +1

    I wish that this attraction was brought back but I guess that won't happen anymore wishful thinking

  • @williammontjoy
    @williammontjoy 11 месяцев назад

    Dollar general mission to space

  • @dawnsprague252
    @dawnsprague252 2 года назад +1

    Did this move?

    • @debl4635
      @debl4635 2 года назад +1

      The ride itself didn't move, but there were inflated and deflated seats.

  • @Greencloud8
    @Greencloud8 2 года назад

    I swear she said Walt Disney world

  • @WysteriaGuitar
    @WysteriaGuitar 3 года назад +2

    I went on this several times as well as Mission to the Moon before it and I can tell you it was pretty boring.

  • @MRATOMIC-yz2cx
    @MRATOMIC-yz2cx 3 года назад +1

    Yea this ride does look pretty boring!

  • @journeyquest1
    @journeyquest1 2 года назад

    Elon Musks favorite ride. Been on this ride several times.

  • @christopherliebler
    @christopherliebler Год назад

    Hands down the ride was horrible did it many times don't know why LOL ironically they really do have missions to Mars called 20in back look into that that's the real deal

  • @freddaniali
    @freddaniali Год назад

    Now it's called Disney's "Mission to Wokeville"!