I saw this when I was 6 with my family in 1988; and I remember feeling a bit off during the whole thing. A feeling of foreboding that haunted me enough to come looking for it over 30 years later. Rewatching it now that I'm older I understand the movie completely. It's a warning to hang onto your childhood imagination as long as you can. Thanks for sharing.
I was working at WDW in 1983, just after EPCOT opened, and would spend many a day off sitting in the back of the theater watching this show - and all the people freaking out! For most of us, it was the best 3D we had ever seen and it was a joy to watch all the guests reaching and reacting as the items floated out in the air. Magical! Now if I can only find that original Kodak pre-show slideshow. I remember it was terrific, too. Before any EO or Shrunk stuff was used.
Before cellphones and internet. Has nothing to do with drugs or tripping. The days where you got up, put on your shoes and walked out into the woods with your whole life ahead of you. Im 39 and first saw this when I was 6. Love it
I spent a week at Epcot in 1984 and I could not get enough of this movie at the Magic Eye theatre. I started driving a truck at age 24 in 1984 as I was about to begin training at a truck driving school after this time I spent at Disney world and to this day in 2017, this movie and music is what I most fondly remember. I wish I could go back to that week. in hindsight things were so much more simple then. Update 2022: Since pretty much all has fallen apart since I originally posted this 5 years ago, I so long to go back into the Magic Pavilion and watch this over and over again. Out of everything they did away with at Epcot they should’ve kept this. 38 years after I first walked into this pavilion and heard this, and constantly heard this theme playing from everywhere in the park, it has offered me comfort to no end and gets even more mesmerizing as each year passes. One of the only times I wish I could go back to 1984 and not have a care in the world.
As a opening World Key castmember we got to enjoy this during cast previews and testing weeks before it opened to the guests - Will always hold special memories for me.
I first went to Disney world in 1984 and spent a week there and ended up spending the majority of my time at Epcot center. I loved Epcot and I was absolutely enthralled with this movie! I must've seen this 30 times at the Magic Eye Theatre while I was there. All of Epcot was so much fun and I've been back there I don't know how many times over the years but when all of the existing attractions at Epcot were changed or retired that was it for me. The magic was gone amd I've never been back. The Magic Journeys song is forever in my soul. I remember that it would softly play all over the park in the background from hidden speakers behind flower beds and elsewhere. So long ago...
Still watching in 2020. This was also my first 3-D movie, and I know every line of dialogue and every note of music. Disney really messed up when they destroyed the original Journey Into Imagination pavilion. It was phenomenal.
This was the first honest-to-goodness 3D movie I ever saw. Not one of those cheap ones with the red and blue paper glasses, but a real 3D effect. It was absolutely amazing and holds a special place in my heart, and always will. Thank you so much for putting this together.
This film was so eerie when I was a child. And after he grabs the ring, it all went downhill for me lol. I would cover my eyes during the witch part, all the masks were nightmare fuel, the terrifying emptiness of space, nasty feet in the face, and then a bunch of creepy clowns. God I love this movie. Cheers to, Martin.. the best alive in preservation! Wishing you ultimate in health and safety! :)
My parents use to take us to Walt Disney World every year at least once. I got to see this several times when it was at the Magic Kingdom. I can still remember the dandelion seeds looking like they were floating around. I wish Disney would release this on Blu-Ray 3D as a special feature to something.
Wow! Thanks for sharing this. This was the second attraction I trained on as a Tomorrowland Cast Member at Disneyland. So awesome to see and hear this again after all these years. From 3:21-5:21, especially, brings out some real deja vu. I remember the sound system capturing that part so vividly in what was still an outdoor Space Mountain stage theater at the time. Special times in my life. Thanks!
The music and instruments with its mix of synthesizers and flutes is just pure genius. I Feel people see something they cant quite understand and they see it as creepy. in reality this feels more Dreamlike and innocent than anything else.
You're right that it's dreamlike and ephemeral, I just wish that the music had a little bit more joy in it. It sounds like somebody trying to hypnotise you and put you to sleep.
Not just 1982 EPCOT....but also early 80's Space Place Theatre in Disneyland.....Now I know one of the few reasons why my parents loved the Space Place in Tomorrowland so much.....I've been chasing this video my whole life, especially since I got The Sherman Bros greatest hits album in the 90's......
I remember watching this once at Disney World and being terrified at the witch and demonic type faces that came afterwards. I started crying and buried my face in my laps lol 😂. My mom, who was pretty upset, took me out of the theater and then complained to the employees for the film being intense for children haha. For being the 80’s, I’m truly surprised that Disney let this film play out as it did. I had nightmares about it afterwards. It’s so crazy being able to see this so many years later. Thank you to this channel!
I'm a huge Captain Eo fan and always read that this was the show it replaced. Seeing it here for first time on RUclips makes me feel high. What a trippy video. No wonder it only lasted at Disneyland for 2 years.
I LOVE this movie and the music!! I wish they would bring it back and make the Journey to Imagination venue the way it was. When they changed everything, they ruined it.
Thank you for posting! I saw this once in 1993, and the melody, “did it take a million years”, and the image of kids in a meadow have stuck with me for 25 years. So glad I finally could watch it again.
I loved this as a teen and saw it as many times as I could. The music and instrumentation made it so dream-like. Amazing. They moved it to the Magic Kingdom for a short time, and I was sad to see it go.
they had just moved Magic Journeys when I was born so I never got to see it at the Magic Eye Theater, but I did get the opportunity to be terrified and confused when I was a kid when my parents took me to see it at the Magic Kingdom.
What an amazing gift you're giving us here. We used to drive to Daytona each year from Montréal and each year, it was Magic Kingdown or Epcot Center or Universal Studies (later). That movie was so impressive to me, not much because of the 3D effect (that I liked), I was not speaking english at the time so not the script but the mysterious, a bit creepy aspect of it. Nice movie, very intriguing for a child. I loved it so much.
Wow, I havent seen this since I saw this with my parents in Epcot Center when I was 6. I still vividly remember the opening scene with the kids, the low angle of the white horse, the balloons, and the witch made me close my eyes, scaring the heck out of me. Thanks for sharing. Very nostalgic! I could not remember the rest of the film since 1983. :)
This played at Disneyland briefly at the old Space Stage area in Tomorrowland area from 1983-1985. From a production standpoint this movie has aged quite well, but it was never the storytelling equal of Captain EO. Magic Journeys is still an innocent masterpiece that is haunting and fun.
It was the second attraction I trained on as a Disneyland Cast Member in Tomorrowland. I liked having the chance to work it, but shifts started later because they had to wait until it got darker to make it more effective since it was still an outside stage. Made it a little different experience as a CM not starting earlier on a shift.
This also opened at Disneyland in August of 1982. It was the original 3D show that opened in what was called back then the Magic Eye Theater. The theater was rebuilt for Captain EO in 1985-86. The screen was lowered in front of the stage that was built for live performances in 1977 near the cue area for Space Mountain.
It opened in DL on June 16, 1984, not August 1982. August 1982 would mean it opened in DL PRIOR to EPCOT CENTER in October 1982, which is what they made it for in the first place.
I never got to see this, but only heard the song via a Disneyland/Disneyworld soundtrack cassette purchased at the Disney Store sometime in the 90s. Even (especially?) in 2D, it’s wicked trippy.
Thank you so much! This has always been one of my favourite presentations at EPCOT Center, along with the „Voices of Liberty“, It‘s fun to be free“, Norway, France, „The Future Corps Brass Band“.
The first 3D film I ever saw, back in 1983. I kept looking round assuming that everybody else would be looking at me, as everything seemed to be floating directly in front of me and nobody else :)
It's been so long since I saw that show! I always kind of liked it. My brother and law hated it. Mom thought it was weird. Maybe they were right. I did always love the song though. That's why I put down that I liked this.
Re: Creepiness. I don’t know if creepy is quite the right word for it, but if you were born in that peculiar sweet spot when the late 70’s transitioned into the early 80’s, this is exactly what your most vivid dreams are like.
"Its a 4D movie thats basically a bunch of kids hallucinating you dont need to make the music that good ok?" The Sherman Brothers for some reason: That one epic flaming piano video
I was just so enthralled by this movie at the Magic eye theatre in 1984 that I must’ve saw this close to 3 dozen times the week I spent there. The music from this still brings me great comfort 38 years later and brings me back to a time where it seems that everything was much simpler then.
From 4:01 to 5:17 the music for some reason to me is like an unsettling reminder of how bad the imagineers fucked up Journey Into Imagination. It’s like it’s funeral song.
At parts the music sounds like an 80s John Carpenter horror movie. (And I love this, don't get the wrong idea! I wish I'd watch it for real. Never was able to.)
Wish we could make a version of this for modern day VR headsets, do the rest of the disney 3d offerings, this movie without 3d misses the point right lol (if I had access to each eye video track I could make it)
This is the first time I've ever seen this. Can anyone please help me figure out why the song sounds so familiar and/or why I'm getting nostalgia induced goose bumps? My first trip to EPCOT was in 1989.
This show ran in the Magic Kingdom after it left EPCOT Center. You could have seen it there between 87 and 93. It replaced the Mickey Mouse Review, and was replaced by Legend of the Lion King. Today, Mickey's Philharmagic plays in that theater.
+Dan Warren Possible, but I think I would've remembered that. I was only 7, but remember that trip very well. But that would've been the only time I could've seen it. Well, I did visit Disneyland in 1986, but I would've been 3, and only held onto one memory of that trip thanks to photo albums. That wasn't it. Maybe the music reminds me of Charlotte's Web, or something else the Sherman Bros might've written.
UmmYeahOk the music is on the old Disney world soundtrack albums, and it was also likely played in the park well after the attraction closed. Like you, I too know this know by heart, yet I never saw the show. I'm just realizing that now. I must know it from listening to old DW soundtracks or when in future world at Epcot.
It may be possible that you heard this music's instrumental in the Image Works or in some background loops that contained Magic Journeys and were never edited out until 1998. That and maybe it's MK run in Philharmagic.
I saw the film at least 3 times (twice at Epcot, once at the Magic Kingdom), but I have a dim recollection of hearing a version of the theme playing in at least one of the parks on the omnipresent speakers. It's a beautiful piece of music.
No, pitch sounds exactly like what it was; albeit tinnier. Also there are recordings of the theme song elsewhere on the InterWeb that sound like the same pitch.
The Magic Eye Theater within the Kodak Imagination Pavilion. Where Caption EO, and later Honey I Shrunk the Audience subsequently played. Sadly now nothing more than a 2D preview theater for Pixar Films.
I swear this was a liquid crystal shutter power glasses movie because the 3d was unbelievably good. I have seen it since with the polarized lenses and it isn't as bright and it is like bugs life. The powered glasses like my Sony TV make by far the best 3d image next to Oculus Rift or something. There should be a way to find out?
This was always for polarized glasses. Also, disagree entirely with regard to image. The liquid crystal glasses generally give me splitting headaches due to the flutter. There is no such flutter with the polarized glasses.
I saw this movie ONCE in 1982 and I NEVER forgot it. This is the second time in 40 years I've ever seen it.
I saw this when I was 6 with my family in 1988; and I remember feeling a bit off during the whole thing. A feeling of foreboding that haunted me enough to come looking for it over 30 years later. Rewatching it now that I'm older I understand the movie completely. It's a warning to hang onto your childhood imagination as long as you can.
Thanks for sharing.
I was working at WDW in 1983, just after EPCOT opened, and would spend many a day off sitting in the back of the theater watching this show - and all the people freaking out! For most of us, it was the best 3D we had ever seen and it was a joy to watch all the guests reaching and reacting as the items floated out in the air. Magical! Now if I can only find that original Kodak pre-show slideshow. I remember it was terrific, too. Before any EO or Shrunk stuff was used.
Before cellphones and internet. Has nothing to do with drugs or tripping. The days where you got up, put on your shoes and walked out into the woods with your whole life ahead of you. Im 39 and first saw this when I was 6. Love it
I love how this has everything strange but magical that was in the 80s. And God dose it perfectly capture my nostalgia.
This was back when EPCOT was the best theme park in Central Florida. Now it's nothing more than another kiddy park. Soccer moms win again.
I spent a week at Epcot in 1984 and I could not get enough of this movie at the Magic Eye theatre. I started driving a truck at age 24 in 1984 as I was about to begin training at a truck driving school after this time I spent at Disney world and to this day in 2017, this movie and music is what I most fondly remember. I wish I could go back to that week. in hindsight things were so much more simple then. Update 2022: Since pretty much all has fallen apart since I originally posted this 5 years ago, I so long to go back into the Magic Pavilion and watch this over and over again. Out of everything they did away with at Epcot they should’ve kept this. 38 years after I first walked into this pavilion and heard this, and constantly heard this theme playing from everywhere in the park, it has offered me comfort to no end and gets even more mesmerizing as each year passes. One of the only times I wish I could go back to 1984 and not have a care in the world.
Robert Maleschusky , I agree , I remember watching this at Epcot, back in the day, it definitely made me think. It sparked my creativity !
The music is epic and also part of my youth as well.
Thanks for posting. Now if we could experience this in VR! Then we could really relive our childhood memories!
I love to see ALL extinct rides (Horizons, World of Motion, etc) in VR.
As a opening World Key castmember we got to enjoy this during cast previews and testing weeks before it opened to the guests - Will always hold special memories for me.
I first went to Disney world in 1984 and spent a week there and ended up spending the majority of my time at Epcot center. I loved Epcot and I was absolutely enthralled with this movie! I must've seen this 30 times at the Magic Eye Theatre while I was there. All of Epcot was so much fun and I've been back there I don't know how many times over the years but when all of the existing attractions at Epcot were changed or retired that was it for me. The magic was gone amd I've never been back. The Magic Journeys song is forever in my soul. I remember that it would softly play all over the park in the background from hidden speakers behind flower beds and elsewhere. So long ago...
Still watching in 2020. This was also my first 3-D movie, and I know every line of dialogue and every note of music. Disney really messed up when they destroyed the original Journey Into Imagination pavilion. It was phenomenal.
This was the first honest-to-goodness 3D movie I ever saw. Not one of those cheap ones with the red and blue paper glasses, but a real 3D effect. It was absolutely amazing and holds a special place in my heart, and always will. Thank you so much for putting this together.
Rick Kinney - You can kinda see what Captain Eo took, and used very well.
This film was so eerie when I was a child. And after he grabs the ring, it all went downhill for me lol. I would cover my eyes during the witch part, all the masks were nightmare fuel, the terrifying emptiness of space, nasty feet in the face, and then a bunch of creepy clowns. God I love this movie.
Cheers to, Martin.. the best alive in preservation! Wishing you ultimate in health and safety! :)
Same here. This creeped me out at the time, but fun to see now again and remember how weird things were back then.
Closing lyrics: Did it take a million years?
Was it all that it appears
Or a never-ending climb
Through a fleeting speck of time?
The gorgeous music starting at 3:24 always made e aware that I was truly at Disney World and made me so happy 🥰.
My parents use to take us to Walt Disney World every year at least once. I got to see this several times when it was at the Magic Kingdom. I can still remember the dandelion seeds looking like they were floating around. I wish Disney would release this on Blu-Ray 3D as a special feature to something.
IIRC, after it left Magic Kingdom. didn't it play at Epcot for a bit before being replaced there by "Captain EO"?
and I realized after the fact I had the locations reversed Epcot was First THEN it moved to MK.
It's the magical song and music that really makes the movie !
Wow! Thanks for sharing this.
This was the second attraction I trained on as a Tomorrowland Cast Member at Disneyland. So awesome to see and hear this again after all these years.
From 3:21-5:21, especially, brings out some real deja vu. I remember the sound system capturing that part so vividly in what was still an outdoor Space Mountain stage theater at the time.
Special times in my life. Thanks!
This had a great effect on me as a child and for many years and really takes me back.
The music and instruments with its mix of synthesizers and flutes is just pure genius. I Feel people see something they cant quite understand and they see it as creepy. in reality this feels more Dreamlike and innocent than anything else.
+Magic Journeys Honestly the vocals and the music sound like a mix of the Space Mountain wait line music and church lol
You're right that it's dreamlike and ephemeral, I just wish that the music had a little bit more joy in it. It sounds like somebody trying to hypnotise you and put you to sleep.
It's not creepy at all, it's mysterious in a good way.
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Children today should watch films like this in my opinion. I certainly loved watching it when I was about 8 years old.
Not just 1982 EPCOT....but also early 80's Space Place Theatre in Disneyland.....Now I know one of the few reasons why my parents loved the Space Place in Tomorrowland so much.....I've been chasing this video my whole life, especially since I got The Sherman Bros greatest hits album in the 90's......
I remember watching this once at Disney World and being terrified at the witch and demonic type faces that came afterwards. I started crying and buried my face in my laps lol 😂. My mom, who was pretty upset, took me out of the theater and then complained to the employees for the film being intense for children haha. For being the 80’s, I’m truly surprised that Disney let this film play out as it did. I had nightmares about it afterwards. It’s so crazy being able to see this so many years later. Thank you to this channel!
Viewed many times in both California and in Florida. It was always my favorite thing at either Disney park as an adult or a juvenile.
Truly Magical it was journey that I remember the first time I saw it up to this day!
I'm a huge Captain Eo fan and always read that this was the show it replaced. Seeing it here for first time on RUclips makes me feel high. What a trippy video. No wonder it only lasted at Disneyland for 2 years.
I LOVE this movie and the music!! I wish they would bring it back and make the Journey to Imagination venue the way it was. When they changed everything, they ruined it.
Now this is a part of Epcot I remember, simple but extraordinary! Thank you for posting!
Thank you for posting! I saw this once in 1993, and the melody, “did it take a million years”, and the image of kids in a meadow have stuck with me for 25 years. So glad I finally could watch it again.
I remember this as a child...Thankyou!
I loved this as a teen and saw it as many times as I could. The music and instrumentation made it so dream-like. Amazing. They moved it to the Magic Kingdom for a short time, and I was sad to see it go.
Actually, it ran longer in the MK than in EPCOT Center:
EPCOT: 1982-1986
MK: 1987 - 1993
Kind of surprising.
they had just moved Magic Journeys when I was born so I never got to see it at the Magic Eye Theater, but I did get the opportunity to be terrified and confused when I was a kid when my parents took me to see it at the Magic Kingdom.
I love finding forgotten memories like this on RUclips. So many sequences I vividly remember. I'd love to see a restored version of this.
80's summarized in one video, trippy, creepy and cool at the same time.
It's a shame that future generations of children couldn't be traumatized by this film like the kids from the 1980's.
What an amazing gift you're giving us here. We used to drive to Daytona each year from Montréal and each year, it was Magic Kingdown or Epcot Center or Universal Studies (later). That movie was so impressive to me, not much because of the 3D effect (that I liked), I was not speaking english at the time so not the script but the mysterious, a bit creepy aspect of it. Nice movie, very intriguing for a child. I loved it so much.
Thanks for putting this up. When it was shown at Destination D, I fell asleep during it from the relaxing music.
Wow, I havent seen this since I saw this with my parents in Epcot Center when I was 6. I still vividly remember the opening scene with the kids, the low angle of the white horse, the balloons, and the witch made me close my eyes, scaring the heck out of me. Thanks for sharing. Very nostalgic! I could not remember the rest of the film since 1983. :)
This played at Disneyland briefly at the old Space Stage area in Tomorrowland area from 1983-1985. From a production standpoint this movie has aged quite well, but it was never the storytelling equal of Captain EO. Magic Journeys is still an innocent masterpiece that is haunting and fun.
It was the second attraction I trained on as a Disneyland Cast Member in Tomorrowland. I liked having the chance to work it, but shifts started later because they had to wait until it got darker to make it more effective since it was still an outside stage. Made it a little different experience as a CM not starting earlier on a shift.
This also opened at Disneyland in August of 1982. It was the original 3D show that opened in what was called back then the Magic Eye Theater. The theater was rebuilt for Captain EO in 1985-86. The screen was lowered in front of the stage that was built for live performances in 1977 near the cue area for Space Mountain.
It opened in DL on June 16, 1984, not August 1982. August 1982 would mean it opened in DL PRIOR to EPCOT CENTER in October 1982, which is what they made it for in the first place.
Thanks for posting, this was such a great memory from my childhood.
This thing was an exquisite break in the AC from the summer sun at Epcot. It was frigid in that theater, and the 3-d was pretty amazing.
I never got to see this, but only heard the song via a Disneyland/Disneyworld soundtrack cassette purchased at the Disney Store sometime in the 90s.
Even (especially?) in 2D, it’s wicked trippy.
To this day one of my all-time favorite Disney 3-D movies! One of my all-time favorite 3-D movies period.
Thank you so much! This has always been one of my favourite presentations at EPCOT Center, along with the „Voices of Liberty“, It‘s fun to be free“, Norway, France, „The Future Corps Brass Band“.
The witch creeped me out so much as a kid . Dad always made me sit through it though
Things I'll never get to experience. I was born after this was gone. As a fan of Walt Disney World there are attractions I never got to see.
That movie makes me feel spellbound.
OMG! I didn't remember this until the brass ring bit on the carousel! I'm trippin' balls here!
This is awesome! I have been looking for this for years. Thank you!
mmmm.. watching this, I think it was a perfect place for those who are tired of being all day in the sun at Disney
This is so trippy, I half expect "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" to start playing.
My mom is the girl in the yellow dress and used to put this on to scare me and my sisters when we were younger
The first 3D film I ever saw, back in 1983. I kept looking round assuming that everybody else would be looking at me, as everything seemed to be floating directly in front of me and nobody else :)
Only part I remembered was the witch. Stayed with me all these years.
Great job on this old classic. I loved it then, and love it now.
I remember this as s child, wow ! Haven’t seen this since the day I sat in the park and watched it, I always remembered the wicked witch.
It's been so long since I saw that show! I always kind of liked it. My brother and law hated it. Mom thought it was weird. Maybe they were right. I did always love the song though. That's why I put down that I liked this.
Re: Creepiness. I don’t know if creepy is quite the right word for it, but if you were born in that peculiar sweet spot when the late 70’s transitioned into the early 80’s, this is exactly what your most vivid dreams are like.
Not creepy at all. Wonderful, I'd say.
That was a Fantastic Kodak Moment ! 🤓
Great show. I wonder if Disney will ever bring this back for it's 60th anniversary since EO and Honey I Shrunk the Audience is no longer playing.
@recursiveidentity unlikely since Disney is well known for archiving all its films. Only a few VD films have slipped through the cracks.
@recursiveidentity They showed the 2D version at Destination D Attraction Rewind in november 2014.
You're welcome.
There was a "deflickered" version somewhere. Its gone now.
wow, i remember being scared about the witch and taking my 3D glasses off.
"Its a 4D movie thats basically a bunch of kids hallucinating you dont need to make the music that good ok?"
The Sherman Brothers for some reason: That one epic flaming piano video
I wonder where the location for the scenes such as the meadow with the kids and the ocean with rocks were shot at?
Next up, HR Puffnstuff meets Puff the Magic Dragon in 3D and smellovision.
LOL
One of the best things that Disney ever did. A beautiful and mysterious film that doesn't treat kids like snowflakes.
Wonderful, I saw it many times, I could Never forget it. Thanks for sharing
I was just so enthralled by this movie at the Magic eye theatre in 1984 that I must’ve saw this close to 3 dozen times the week I spent there. The music from this still brings me great comfort 38 years later and brings me back to a time where it seems that everything was much simpler then.
もう一度見たい
From 4:01 to 5:17 the music for some reason to me is like an unsettling reminder of how bad the imagineers fucked up Journey Into Imagination. It’s like it’s funeral song.
Proof that acid was way better in the 1980's than it is today. I still remember my mom knocking my 3D glasses off for the witch scene.
こういうのがあったんですね、初めて知りました。（聞いたことあったかもしれない）
ＵＰありがとうございます。
もう一度、その場で見たいです。
Amazing. Thx Martin.
At parts the music sounds like an 80s John Carpenter horror movie. (And I love this, don't get the wrong idea! I wish I'd watch it for real. Never was able to.)
I was 8 when we went opening week and the witch in this video was intense. . For a kid it was scary-but cool!
What were the Imagineers smoking when they came up with this one? :)
+dougconley The same kush that made Snoop Dogg , Kid Cudi and Wiz Khalifa
That was my immidiate thought!!! So depressing! Like a bad high
Stole the words out of my mouth
You don't like it? I do.
This was a hard film to watch on acid: all fun and games until the clowns appeared.
This was the creepiest thing I’ve ever experienced at WDW.
I didn't really know much of this attraction, nor Captain EO, I knew more of Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.
So if you slightly cross your eyes while watching this, it’s kinda 3D.
The music reminded me of the Suspiria soundtrack *shivers*
"WiTch!!!"
Awesome....thanks for posting..:)
Alright! Gettin trippy w/ Disney!
This scared me every time...but I always asked to do it again
This makes me think of stories by Ray Bradbury.
Wish we could make a version of this for modern day VR headsets, do the rest of the disney 3d offerings, this movie without 3d misses the point right lol (if I had access to each eye video track I could make it)
I am assuming this must have been some inspiration for Soarin 23 well 22 years later :O
I wonder what Tony Baxter has to say about this film? Was Rolly Crump involved? :D
I would imagine Tony Baxter would say something like, "The 1980's: The absolute best cocaine ever."
lol
This is the first time I've ever seen this. Can anyone please help me figure out why the song sounds so familiar and/or why I'm getting nostalgia induced goose bumps? My first trip to EPCOT was in 1989.
This show ran in the Magic Kingdom after it left EPCOT Center. You could have seen it there between 87 and 93. It replaced the Mickey Mouse Review, and was replaced by Legend of the Lion King. Today, Mickey's Philharmagic plays in that theater.
+Dan Warren Possible, but I think I would've remembered that. I was only 7, but remember that trip very well. But that would've been the only time I could've seen it. Well, I did visit Disneyland in 1986, but I would've been 3, and only held onto one memory of that trip thanks to photo albums. That wasn't it. Maybe the music reminds me of Charlotte's Web, or something else the Sherman Bros might've written.
UmmYeahOk the music is on the old Disney world soundtrack albums, and it was also likely played in the park well after the attraction closed. Like you, I too know this know by heart, yet I never saw the show. I'm just realizing that now. I must know it from listening to old DW soundtracks or when in future world at Epcot.
It may be possible that you heard this music's instrumental in the Image Works or in some background loops that contained Magic Journeys and were never edited out until 1998. That and maybe it's MK run in Philharmagic.
I saw the film at least 3 times (twice at Epcot, once at the Magic Kingdom), but I have a dim recollection of hearing a version of the theme playing in at least one of the parks on the omnipresent speakers. It's a beautiful piece of music.
Shame in me for being born one point five months after EPCOT Center opened and I don't think I've been there. Ugh... :(
Is the full music sans-speaking for this available? It needs to be.
Here you go! ruclips.net/video/XdKWok68RME/видео.html
The witch always terrified me as a kid. Always closed my eyes, nobody knew though because of the 3D glasses😅
Disney makes the worst Acid trips.
Or best!
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: weed.
More like LSD
This comment, though. 😂👍🏼
How was he allowed to set up a tripod in the theater? I wouldn't think they would allow something so obvious.
I'm........ confused?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the movie seem too low-pitched?
No, pitch sounds exactly like what it was; albeit tinnier. Also there are recordings of the theme song elsewhere on the InterWeb that sound like the same pitch.
Where was this in Epcot?
The Magic Eye Theater within the Kodak Imagination Pavilion. Where Caption EO, and later Honey I Shrunk the Audience subsequently played. Sadly now nothing more than a 2D preview theater for Pixar Films.
This movie is so weird… Imo the pre-show was the best part of this.
So in essence, this was an acid trip.
I thought it was just like a dream, nothing to do with drugs.
I just have one question:
What the Hell were they smoking when they made this? XD
Fr dude, he’s tf was this
uhhh.. probably not a good idea for me to smoke pot before watching this video..LOL
I swear this was a liquid crystal shutter power glasses movie because the 3d was unbelievably good. I have seen it since with the polarized lenses and it isn't as bright and it is like bugs life. The powered glasses like my Sony TV make by far the best 3d image next to Oculus Rift or something. There should be a way to find out?
It definitely didn't use active 3D back in 1983 when I first saw it.
This was always for polarized glasses. Also, disagree entirely with regard to image. The liquid crystal glasses generally give me splitting headaches due to the flutter. There is no such flutter with the polarized glasses.
Good old fashioned nightmare fuel.