World of Motion

So you got plus three.

The ones you missed there, It's Fun to Be Free was on World of Motion.

Wonders of Life Pavilion was where Body Wars was.

You were close.

Cranium Command had Buzzy.

Don't remember that.

Epcot's Transportation Pavilion was called World of Motion.

If You Had Wings, Welcome to the Podcast, was the attraction that was in that building before Buzz Lightyear.

Yes.

Uh, so, um, that leads me to another Walt Disney World curiosity, and that was that show, the Bird and the Robot, uh, that was in World of Motion, right? To kinda start-

That's right.

That was in the-

Talking

... that was in the General Motors, in the, in the post-show of the General Motors World of Motion Pavilion.

Disney had done the, uh, uh, the World of Motion ride, and then after people got off the ride, they had to walk through a, uh, an area called the Transcenter at the time, and there were a series of, uh, experiences there.

And one of them, the General Motors, uh, manufacturing engineers wanted to do a display explaining robotics, and that's, that's kind of got...

Universe of Energy was where now we see Cosmic Rewind.

The World of Motion was like the past, present, future of motion.

So that was where Test Track is now.

And then Magic Journeys was a film over there at the Magic Eye Theater.

I don't remember Horizons as much, but I know that it was a great ride.

One of the other great rides for me was World of Motion, because I love history and I loved cars and technology, and this kinda just rolled everything up into one for me.

Uh, you also in World of Motion had a lot of, uh, animatronics, which I thought were very cool as a kid.

Uh, and CommuniCore really was it for me, because this was all about tech.

This is where one of the first video calls was made, and now, you know, we just pick up our phones and FaceTime everybody.

Um, but because I love tech, I lived in Future World.

That was, that was it for me.

And so now you kinda look at it, like, I just thought it was very cool, like, you had the land, the sea, energy, health, uh, World of Motion.

Hmm.

October 5th, 1982, the World of Motion dedicated at Epcot Center.

Just four days after Epcot's grand opening, the World of Motion pavilion, sponsored by General Motors, holds its official dedication ceremony.

Guests boarded Omni movers to journey through the humorous history of transportation until the ride permanently closed in 1996 to w- make way for Test Track.

October 8th, 2003, a big day at Magic Kingdom.

And what does it say? Dreamfinder or something.

Oh, World of Motion.

I knew it was one of the old rides that doesn't exist anymore.

Oh, I like that.

And that's why it actually does also fit perfectly in where it is in terms of the park.

Everything that branched out around it really is – it shows how humans have evolved in further ways, whether it was with World of Motion and the idea of how transportation was furthered and – And continuing going on with that, eventually with imagination, the land and farming and agriculture and the seas and everything with that and eventually horizons down the way, universe of energy, it's all furthered.

To get to those places and to really move forward with that, it really did require communication.

Communication was at the center of it all.

And I'm going to stretch it out as long as I can.

Well, that's a good reminder, too, because even I think about rides in the 80s and I complain like, oh, the whole movies of World of Motion aren't that clear.

You can still pretty easily find footage of almost any ride from that era.

But the 50s, it's like...