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Epcot: Future World
Exploring tomorrow's technologies today!

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Compliments of Dawn Henthorn

Whether you're exploring a home of the future or experiencing the thrill and high-speed excitement of Test Track – the longest and fastest adventure at any Walt Disney World theme park – your imagination will be taking a journey into the future... because the future is NOW at Epcot!

Spaceship Earth

Inside the gigantic 180-foot silver geosphere that is Epcot's landmark adventure, guests experience a time-travel journey from the beginning of time — from the caveman days to the electronic age — documenting man's ability to overcome distance and language barriers through improved communication concepts and new technologies, including the printing press and industrial and electronic age communication.

After guests complete the 14-minute journey (which includes a slow, but steep ascent and descent) the adventure's sponsor, AT&T invites guests to sample its Global Neighborhood in an interactive computer-video wonderland that includes:

Interactive Wonderland: Guests explore the information highway with Alice and the Cheshire Cat – video shopping, movies-on-demand and film critic reviews, or viewer-choice sporting event broadcasts and the camera angles for viewing them.

Communications Breakthrough: A video-telephone game played against other guests where players are challenged to knock glass bricks from a computer-graphic wall with electronic "paddles" to build a communications link with other participants.

What's In a Word:Guests translate humorous idioms from one language to another, demonstrating the difficulty and potential of electronic translation.

Electronic Finger Paint, Portrait Puzzle and Color Match:Three games illustrating communications which do not depend on language. Story Teller Phones: Guests can phone friends or relatives and choose appropriate sound effects from a video wall to "fool" friends into thinking they are calling from a jungle, a haunted house or a cartoon world.

Innoventions

Innoventions continuously transforms itself to represent the ever-changing world of technology. Guests are entertained while they discover tomorrow's technology today through hands-on experiences that activate the imagination and renew our hope for a better tomorrow. Disney celebrates the breakthroughs in science and technology that inspire us in the new millennium — everything from exploratory medicine to personal global communications to the ultimate in home entertainment to the latest transportation advances.

Imagination!

Figment is back! The playful purple dragon has returned to Epcot to once again demonstrate the power of imagination. Guests are invited to an open house at the Imagination Institute led by Dr. Nigel Channing, who plans to show how the five senses can influence a person's imagaination. The colorful, energetic attraction stops for Dr. Channing's demonstrations in laboratories to discover how the human senses are being studied to help "capture and control" the imagination. The stops are interrupted, however, by the free-thinking Figment, a mischievous dragon who tries to show the ever-practical Dr. Channing and his guests that the imagination works best, not when it's controlled, but rather, when it's set free.

Guests will encounter stimulating experiences:

In the sight laboratory, Figment has fun with a vision chart to prove that there is more to the imagination than meets the eye!

Sniff, sniff... what's that aroma in the smell laboratory?

In the sound laboratory, guests enjoy a symphony of delightful melodies as Figment shows how thoughts can appear by way of the ear.

Don't miss "Honey, I Shrunk The Audience" 3-D attraction in the adjacent theatre. Nothing you hear about the attraction can prepare you for the visual surprises, sensory shocks and physical effects that literally jump off the screen and rock the theater during the 20-minute, 3-D misadventure with zany scientist Professor Wayne Szalinski! It is based on the two popular Walt Disney pictures – "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" and "Honey, I Blew Up The Kid" – and features the original Szalinski film family.

This amazingly incredible adventure reduces the 570-person audience to the size of a bread box and then shakes up the crowd with a few furry surprises. You definitely will not sleep through this one! Use FASTPASS on this attraction to avoid lines and save time.