[CaptainTony]

Don't mean to get all sentimental here, but I really miss the Horizons exhibit at Epcot.... it was the first thing we did at EC on my first trip there, so it was always a sentimental favorite, but I just thought the ride was so imaginative...

Don't get me going on the orange air freshener, either... I still cannot walk down the aisle at the grocery store without thinking about that orange grove in the desert....

Anyone else feel the same out there?

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[minnie*mickey]

i remember the last time i rode it, it actually broke down because of a thunderstorm, we were stuck on the slanted part...
but anyways i did love it, part of the disney history

[Shadow Jedi Rhy]

Preach it Cap. I must say I feel exactly the same way, I even have an orange spray that I use to get the same smell although it's just not the same. Hopefully it'll pop up in some respect someday cause I truly miss it.

[WDWChrissy]

I was only able to go on the ride once. My first trip to WDW, in 1990 or 1991. I don't remember much of the ride, except being able to "pick" the ending. I thought that was pretty cool.

[Mickey Crazy]

Your right CaptainTony , I miss this ride also. However I do get to keep some of the memories as I recorded some of the ride with my camcorder during one of our visits.

[JennD]

Horizons was definitely one of my favorites. I miss it!! The orange part was the best! I also loved the part where you got to choose your own adventure - I think the choices were space, desert, ocean, and one more that I can't remember. Horizons was my favorite and I'm still sad that its no longer a ride at EPCOT.

[BDANtheman29]

For a video of Horizons, click here.

Brendan

[gnease42]

That is one ride I'll miss. Hadn't ridden on Horizons since I'm thinking 1986. When I went back after not going in forever in 1999, I had JUST missed it. They OFFICIALLY closed it up I think January of 1999. I went March of 1999. I got to look at the building at least one last time. Least I have a video. Think I still have an audio track around here too.... hmmmm

Geoff

[CoasterKev]

was it an orenge grove. i don't remember. the last time i went on it my brother stopedthe ride( Iwont give details but it was nothin Inapropiet). I will miss this ride.

The fore choices were Land, Sea, Air, and space.

If i ever get my park open (if disney will relece the rights) i would love to build a section called Tragic Kingdom. It would be filled with Lost disney rides Horizens, journey into imagination, dream flight, Rainbow ridge Mine train/ Natures wonderland, Dream flight. things like that but i dont know haw Disney will feel about a small Theme park having thir old rides. But if they give permition the full name for the area would be Walt' Disney's Tragic Kingdom. Then Horizens Would retern "Tomorrows Child" can enjoy what we are all missing.

[mairejain]

didnt they close because the sponsor pulled out?

(i always closed my eyes on the adventure part (where you choose one of the four) because it made me sick).

does anybody else remember the gm ride with the cars and stuff? cant remember the name, but that closed before horizons, if im not mistaken.

[LetsGetDngerous]

I wonder what WDW does with the stuff after they close a ride.. would it be even possible for Disney to open up the old World of Motion again once people tire (no pun intended) of Test Track, which I already have, having rode it at least.. oh.. once.

[gnease42]

Sorry... doubt they can redo TT as World of Motion. They'd have to pull some of the animatronics out of POTC at Disneyland. That's where they moved a good bunch to.

Far as horizons, GE pulling it's sponsorship was one of the MANY leading causes to it closing up. I remember hearing rumors of sinkholes and other structural problems....

Geoff

[BDANtheman29]

About removing Test Track for the old World of Motion - GM would NEVER go for that, and neither would Disney. They spent a fortune to get this beast going, and it still has its flaws. As said on "Secrets: Inside Walt Disney World," they said "It is widely believed throughout the industry that the Test Track is the most expensive ride ever built on Disney property."

Brendan

[gnease42]

ya... when your running what, 3 years behind schedule the costs keep getting larger and larger.... Part of the problem was using the existing building I've heard... That's one of the reasons why they bulldozed horizons and built the new structure...

Geoff

[gnease42]

Hey captain! request granted....

Geoff