This was literally all i could think of the last time i went to disney, i was just in epcot and just staring at these buildings that used to be so alive and interesting but now its bare and boring. So sad that my days of magic are done at disney as ive gotten older but thank you for this video i cant wait to watch it 5 times
It's not just you getting older. The parks are predatory and there's no vision. There's also the wider problem of modern sentiment being so bleak. Nothing compares to the post-Soviet space age where everyone had great optimism for the future and was enraptured by science and technology.
Nowadays it’s a heavy use of nothing but thrills and not a steady diet of both small thrills and big thrills which modern Disney certainly lacks, and I’m sure they’ll drop an IP in because it doesn’t matter about theming it’s about money
That's me at 24:56! Even in its weaker final state as it tapered off into nothing, Innoventions was an area I held very close to my heart. I was there all day on closing day, not wanting to believe time had finally caught up with it. You put together an excellent retrospective here 💜
I just visited EPCOT for the first time in 15 years, and truly the central hub of the park just felt… empty. I hope that they can someday bring back the fun futurism flair that EPCOT once had.
I was a cast member in 2018 and i picked up a shift in future world and my break room was in the back part of innoventions and you could see a lot of the walled off exhibits, it was really strange seeing all these effectively abandoned attractions
“The loss of any sense of character” - ooof. That’s just life post-2010, sadly. You could tell and feel when these buildings were in the 90s or 2000s. And now you can tell it’s in the 2020s, but not in a good way :/
Everything is so bland now. Disney, the internet, retail, everything Last century we had the Roaring Twenties. This century we have the Boring Twenties.
innoventions was in such a sad state for a while so i wont necessarily miss it, but it makes me so mad that they did absolutely nothing to make a new and interesting space. the thing i will miss most about epcot before the recent renovations is the innoventions music as you walk by, and i much prefer the colorful and kinda wacky buildings as opposed to the sleek apple store-esque new look. also its so funny you posted this video when you did. ive been thinking about innoventions and mid 00s-early 10s epcot a lot recently and just so happened to search for a video on innoventions today and here this was
I did my College Program in 2009 at Innoventions. As soon as I saw the thumbnail I clicked. I helped open up the T Rowe Price exhibit, The Great Piggy Bank Adventure, that year, and was absolutely heart broken when I wasn’t selected to open “Sum of All Thrills.” That form of Innoventions is frozen in my memories. So thanks for the trip down memory lane.😊
the thing i remember most about that "where's the fire" thing is that in the que for it there was a video of a christmas tree burning and it freaked me out and made me not want to go near christmas trees
I went recently with a friend and I remember sitting in the cafe thinking that the new views and decor look like they could belong to any generic modern company without any of the typical Disney charm. The loss of character was a great way to phrase this!
I agree with the point that smaller attractions should be there to balance out the bigger ones. I was in Epcot years ago and got dehydrated. I felt like I couldn't really stomach a ride like test track, so I went into innoventions instead. Was it the greatest thing ever? No. But having guests who aren't on big rides be forced into bland building 432, another gift shop, or sitting on a bench in the heat is certainly worse.
After watching this video, I think I understand why if finally died. It was the world's perspective that changed. In the 80's and 90's, the world's vision of the future was "the future will be great, and here's how all this companies will shape it!", and that's why all the attractions were colorful and dazzling, and you will only ENJOY, not worry. But after the 00's the vision rapidly changed to "that bright future was a lie. Future sucks, and it's YOUR fault, so here's how to fix YOUR mistake", and that's why the new attractions are related to recycling and climate change. So we went from thrilling and exciting future where everything is done for you, to a sad list of chores where you have to do everything, so of course it eventually is gonna get boring.
Thank you for bringing me back 30 years! I remember 12 year old me being in awe of all of the infotainment aspects of Epcot. I even got to ride the magic carpet on our way out of the park after the fireworks, a memory I’ll never forget.
If there's one thing I miss about Innoventions it's the vibe/ energy of the plaza with the neon, fiber optics, palm trees and of course the fountain. The current plaza feels so dead now. It's nice to sit there in the morning but that's basically it. Also removing the old music is a travesty.
I've seen a few videos and was like, WOW, it was so cheap. The thing about the festivals is you go to each country to taste their food, NOT to go to a cafeteria.
My only memories of Inoventions was going through it to avoid the sun for a minute and playing Cars 2 on Xbox 360 for like half a race before my mom told me to get off of it
I worked at Innoventions from 2012 all the way up to the day it closed. I miss it so much. That was the best time of my life. I cried when I left that building for the very last time.
It looks like Disney completely dropped the futurism that made Epcot cool to begin with in favor of this incredibly depressing "the future is now" modern minimalism. Those "gardens" in the center as shown absolutely pale in comparison to any actual garden like anywhere. But, hey, I guess a multibillion dollar corporation is gonna multibillion dollar corporation and cheap out everywhere they can
I wish they could’ve modernized the technology to today’s standards. The problem of having a pavilion dedicated to technology is that it becomes outdated very quickly.
Whatever you can say about Eisner, he had a passion for Disney that was not solely tied to it asa vehicle for profit. Call it love or ego, he wanted it to modernise and succeed with him at the helm. Modern Disney seems to only care about the bottom line. If they can do it cheaper, they will.
This reminds me of an old virtual reality exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago that I went to as a kid in the 90s and early 2000s. I like how the tech is older (now), but somehow seems more optimistic than things today...
Alec Tronic was 100% creepy. I was a CM for many years and saw plenty of backstage AA figures, no guest should ever see an animatronic like that. I imagine that ruined the magic for a lot of people.
George, I haven’t watched this video yet (starting it now) but just wanted to let you know I recently discovered your channel and it’s great man! Keep up the great work!
I have a lot of nostalgia for Innoventions, one thing that wasn't mentioned is that the space was also used at one point for the hub of a Kim Possible ARG/ scavennger hunt around the park. I remembered a lot of the attractions in this video and am sad to see them all go forever :(
I worked the original exhibits at East and West. Innoventions was seen as a refreshing needed change. But with Disney, paying sponsors pulling out signals the end. Great job on your research. I was fact checking your information since I was there. I am impressed
My favorite part of the 2000s/2010s Innoventions was the great piggy bank adventure - it was a really basic way to learn about personal finance and saving while being a fun collection of games. A perfect example of the “edutainment” of old EPCOT
In the mid 90s, as a teen, at Innoventions West there was a guitar game that I loved. It had to be the inspiration for what became Guitar Hero. There were three songs to choose from, and they were based on difficulty. Kickstart My Heart was the hardest. Hey Jealousy was the mid level. I can't remember what the easy selection was. Does anyone else remember this exhibit?
In retrospect, I never had much of an emotional connection to Innoventions (outside of the music loop), but I'd rather have it than the literal nothing that is there now.
Your genuine criticisms and refusal to either just praise or just deride Disney is really nice to see! A lot of folks go for one or the other for the sake of “the algorithm” or whatever so having someone say “hey! There are in fact at least a few good things! They’re the minority, but still!” Is nice
I remember my last trip to disney, EPCOT has always my favorite park- I wanted so badly to go explore innoventions based on old clips I had seen on disney channel I think? Only to be greeted with the awful highway re-themeing, it was very empty and most of the stations did not work or needed the help of a cast member who was not present.
I miss the OG EPCOT with Comunicore, Horizons and Universe of Energy. Such a tragedy that Eisner destroyed an amazing park because his son was bored!!! 🤬
Disney has just…taken the magic out of EVERYTHING. it’s so sad. Even if I could afford it, I don’t think I’d want to go back. EPCOT was my favorite since I was a kid. The last time I went back was 2012 and it was already a wasteland.
A lot of this really kinda sums up a lot of Disney's them parks nowadays and then some. More so when it comes to lack of actual originality and character in the theme parks. Mostly originality in the attractions. And that's been more and more inexcusable for a company that keeps on being more and more needlessly greedy and so anticonsumer when it comes to these parks.
I first visited EPCOT in the late 90s, so I only ever experienced that area as Innoventions. I was not impressed with the area at all, spent very little time there, and mostly avoided it during my subsequent visits. That said, it does look like Disney found a way to take an area that offered little to guests and make it offer nothing at all. It boggles my mind that the same people who created the amazing Pandora area in Animal Kingdom have produced such a drab and dreary revamp of this part of EPCOT.
90s was the peak…. And really the end. Innovations really never left the turn of the century. The “aughts” they tried to keep something in there… then the 2010s was already gone.
This video just reminds me how drastically attendance spiked the minute vloggers appeared on the scene around 2018-19 I was a regular during the beginning of the 2010s and it's night and day comparing the parks popularity from then to now.
it's really disappointing to see it dead. but companies don't want to advertise now. look around. most advertisements really aren't that. a LOT of trade shows have died off. they just want you to buy and not think about it.
I love your channel and really appreciate the content and level of effort for you put into your videos! I was wondering if you had ever thought about doing a video on the history of Disney World’s resort hotels? Keep up the great work and I hope you have a wonderful day.🇺🇸⭐️
Michael Eisner might think that it's boring but honestly seeing video phones, watches, Lego Dacta and Sega would have been the highlight of the park for me. I lived for that stuff back then.
I loved when it had Sega Arcade and Console games, it also had my very first experience in Virtual Reality goggles where you play a first person shooting game where you shot eggs :)
having never been to Disney in Florida I would have to ask why on earth would I want to waste money to go to Epcot and ultimately spending time queuing for the marquee attractions when there is very little else to do
Me as a german kid porn in 95, we didnt even had something like that, even if we had something like this, never would i have the money to actually get to a park, usually i came in contact with the disney world paris adds on the televison. But i am amazed and could only imagine how good it must have been to actually be there. Still i do enjoy your videos of a world i never could reach, good entertainment while i am eating keep up the good work
Sum of all thrills was actually really cool but the extremely low capacity sealed its fate. Now the problem is there are far too many people out there who will not criticize Disney under any circumstances. I guess they don’t realize that if you love Disney you have to be willing to call them out for the failures and the obvious disregard for what used to be the high standards that made the “Disney Difference” The fact is Disney is in real danger of irreparable damage. Universal has made them look more like six flags than Disney. I have real concerns about the future plans for the parks as a result of the disaster that is the Epcot refurb. 🤷🏻
If Epcot had awesome attractions currently in place of the awesome attractions it had in the past no one would care so much about how Disney let this park fall from, just sad
I was wondering where all this stuff was on my last trip!!! I hadn’t been in like 15 years and I just remembered some cool area with new inventions and there being a Segway lol
Epcot in the 80s and 90s were epic. Sadly I feel Epcot really lost its identity and more and more feels like just another theme park. Still have some cool things like world showcase but even that area feels less unique now. I really wish they would have kept Epcot different from everything else but alas it's not.
when i went sometime around 2000-2004ish, there was this thing where you could learn how to make paper towels and take one home that you made. it was pretty interesting lol
Mentally I’m still hyped about Epcot. Growing up on Disney channel I always saw these kickers that got my hyped to go to WDW. But as the saying goes Never meet your Heroes and sometimes I feel it’s never worth going.
I was just there last week. It is sad to see how empty it is now. And Moana wasn't really anything special. It was ok, but not something I think you'll want to do more than a few times.
I never really went into Innoventions as a kid but I do remember there was a bug tunnel you could crawl through and I felt so embarrassed doing it bc I thought I was way too old and I was the only kid in the exhibit 😂
i remember growing up and CONSTANTLY seeing commercials on disney channel for the design your own rollercoaster thing, and being so devastated when i was finally able to go and it wasn't there anymore. not even just that, but that everything around it was just kinda... empty and boring
I got to experience the Agrabah VR magic carpet ride, back in the day; it was so cool. What a sad state CommuniCore Hall is in! Should've turned it into Thor's Mead Hall for the money they sank into it.
When I went, it was in Innoventions; because of all the SEGA products. As a kid who had the Sonic 2 level select and debug codes memorized, seeing that Sonic statue was like seeing Jesus.
as a kid who was always afraid of 1) natural disasters (especially hurricanes as hurricane sandy hit my area pretty hard) and 2) house fires, i remember innoventions being horrifying when i was younger LOL
I see a lot of nostalgia for the Disney land/World prior to the 90s revamp. Was there a big demand for change in the parks prior to Eisner altering it? Was attendance declining?
This is definitely something that only could have existed in the time that it did. I bet it was awesome to experience as a kid, but I can’t even imagine spending my 2025 disney vacation going to a family friendly interactive tech expo sponsored by corporations selling new products lol. Definitely would put this on my time machine travel list tho
i only ever knew the Anaheim one. I miss it. It was just a show floor with few people and a little video game section that still had PS2's. I feel like Disneyland isn't much of a "just hangout" place anymore.
Whats sad to me is that everything that was great about Epcot happened before I was born. I love slow moving dark rides. Im not a thrill seeker. Disneyland is my home park and i don't want to go to WDW because its not interesting.
The death of Innoventions also coincided with the decline of major product conventions(Comdex, CES, E3, etc.) Product releases over the Internet became the norm.
Every one of these Disney history videos goes like: Here’s a really fun and imaginative attraction that was decently executed and beloved by a lot of people. “Oh wow that’s so cool, I wish that was at the parks today. Why would they change something so creative?” Micheal Eisner thought this was outdated and needed renovation “Ohhhhhh”
To this day my teddy bear wears a rubber bracelet (as an anklet) from Habit Heroes. For a long time I had stickers from Stormstruck and the Great Piggy Bank Adventure on my Mickey ears, but I lost that pair years ago... 😞And I loved Sum of All Thrills, in fact that was the ride that really got me comfortable with big rollercoasters as each time I went I could make it just a little more intense until it got to the point I was rarely rightside-up lol.
Ironic that this one space has served as a monument to two of the biggest dark spots in Disney history: the identity crisis of the late 90s and the bland, sterile commercialism of modern Disney
Sitting here trying to work out a way to explain the lack of Attraction I’ve had to innoventions as an international tourist…… You’re on the dream Holiday you’re in the park .Surround by rides characters lights smell sounds and that certain Disney feel. When I walked into the building (DL CA) and checked out the iron man expo and the house of the future. Meanwhile I can hear muffled sounds of Tomorrowland. I looked around and saw black walls artificiall light and displays that I could see at a trade show of children’s museum. I felt like I was wasting the short therefore valuable time walking around what felt like a concept expo at at a state fair EDIT For anyone that’s also in Melbourne Australia and never saw innoventions. It’s just the government building at the royal Melbourne show
What era of Innoventions was your favourite? Or did you prefer CommuniCore?
CommuniCore
Innoventions
I liked interventions and all the different displays.
90’s Disney Kids had a lot to thank and blame Eisner’s teenage son for.
This was literally all i could think of the last time i went to disney, i was just in epcot and just staring at these buildings that used to be so alive and interesting but now its bare and boring. So sad that my days of magic are done at disney as ive gotten older but thank you for this video i cant wait to watch it 5 times
Cry harder
It's not just you getting older. The parks are predatory and there's no vision. There's also the wider problem of modern sentiment being so bleak.
Nothing compares to the post-Soviet space age where everyone had great optimism for the future and was enraptured by science and technology.
@jilp2002 I hope you remember that phrase while standing in Kamalahs bread lines.
@@jilp2002 i dont get what you are even mad at? Why are you mad that i grew up and disney lost its childhood charm on me 😭
it's disney, they got woke and lose imagination
I loved your point about how theme parks need these small thrills to flesh out the experience.
Nowadays it’s a heavy use of nothing but thrills and not a steady diet of both small thrills and big thrills which modern Disney certainly lacks, and I’m sure they’ll drop an IP in because it doesn’t matter about theming it’s about money
That's me at 24:56! Even in its weaker final state as it tapered off into nothing, Innoventions was an area I held very close to my heart. I was there all day on closing day, not wanting to believe time had finally caught up with it. You put together an excellent retrospective here 💜
I just visited EPCOT for the first time in 15 years, and truly the central hub of the park just felt… empty. I hope that they can someday bring back the fun futurism flair that EPCOT once had.
I was a cast member in 2018 and i picked up a shift in future world and my break room was in the back part of innoventions and you could see a lot of the walled off exhibits, it was really strange seeing all these effectively abandoned attractions
The design of those 90s Innoventions exhibits were so cool, I wish someone would recreate them in VR.
I could actually try and start that if someone can find me the layout maps and measurements (blueprints would be best)
“The loss of any sense of character” - ooof. That’s just life post-2010, sadly. You could tell and feel when these buildings were in the 90s or 2000s. And now you can tell it’s in the 2020s, but not in a good way :/
Everything is so bland now. Disney, the internet, retail, everything
Last century we had the Roaring Twenties. This century we have the Boring Twenties.
innoventions was in such a sad state for a while so i wont necessarily miss it, but it makes me so mad that they did absolutely nothing to make a new and interesting space. the thing i will miss most about epcot before the recent renovations is the innoventions music as you walk by, and i much prefer the colorful and kinda wacky buildings as opposed to the sleek apple store-esque new look.
also its so funny you posted this video when you did. ive been thinking about innoventions and mid 00s-early 10s epcot a lot recently and just so happened to search for a video on innoventions today and here this was
They could of showed what could be in 2030 and beyond. SO sad.
I did my College Program in 2009 at Innoventions. As soon as I saw the thumbnail I clicked. I helped open up the T Rowe Price exhibit, The Great Piggy Bank Adventure, that year, and was absolutely heart broken when I wasn’t selected to open “Sum of All Thrills.”
That form of Innoventions is frozen in my memories. So thanks for the trip down memory lane.😊
the thing i remember most about that "where's the fire" thing is that in the que for it there was a video of a christmas tree burning and it freaked me out and made me not want to go near christmas trees
I went recently with a friend and I remember sitting in the cafe thinking that the new views and decor look like they could belong to any generic modern company without any of the typical Disney charm. The loss of character was a great way to phrase this!
I agree with the point that smaller attractions should be there to balance out the bigger ones. I was in Epcot years ago and got dehydrated. I felt like I couldn't really stomach a ride like test track, so I went into innoventions instead. Was it the greatest thing ever? No. But having guests who aren't on big rides be forced into bland building 432, another gift shop, or sitting on a bench in the heat is certainly worse.
I agree
After watching this video, I think I understand why if finally died. It was the world's perspective that changed. In the 80's and 90's, the world's vision of the future was "the future will be great, and here's how all this companies will shape it!", and that's why all the attractions were colorful and dazzling, and you will only ENJOY, not worry. But after the 00's the vision rapidly changed to "that bright future was a lie. Future sucks, and it's YOUR fault, so here's how to fix YOUR mistake", and that's why the new attractions are related to recycling and climate change. So we went from thrilling and exciting future where everything is done for you, to a sad list of chores where you have to do everything, so of course it eventually is gonna get boring.
I remember playing the Twilight Town portion of Kingdom Hearts 2 in Innoventions. It’s a good memory
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Thank you for bringing me back 30 years! I remember 12 year old me being in awe of all of the infotainment aspects of Epcot. I even got to ride the magic carpet on our way out of the park after the fireworks, a memory I’ll never forget.
If there's one thing I miss about Innoventions it's the vibe/ energy of the plaza with the neon, fiber optics, palm trees and of course the fountain. The current plaza feels so dead now. It's nice to sit there in the morning but that's basically it. Also removing the old music is a travesty.
I've seen a few videos and was like, WOW, it was so cheap. The thing about the festivals is you go to each country to taste their food, NOT to go to a cafeteria.
The idea of seeing Sonic the Hedgehog in a Disney park will never not be weird to me
My only memories of Inoventions was going through it to avoid the sun for a minute and playing Cars 2 on Xbox 360 for like half a race before my mom told me to get off of it
I worked at Innoventions from 2012 all the way up to the day it closed. I miss it so much. That was the best time of my life. I cried when I left that building for the very last time.
It looks like Disney completely dropped the futurism that made Epcot cool to begin with in favor of this incredibly depressing "the future is now" modern minimalism. Those "gardens" in the center as shown absolutely pale in comparison to any actual garden like anywhere. But, hey, I guess a multibillion dollar corporation is gonna multibillion dollar corporation and cheap out everywhere they can
I wish they could’ve modernized the technology to today’s standards. The problem of having a pavilion dedicated to technology is that it becomes outdated very quickly.
I am still super sad the foundation of nations is gone. I don’t want to go back to Epcot any more.
These are the best theme park videos on the platform. Makes my day whenever I see one was uploaded!
Thank you! I really appreciate that.
Whatever you can say about Eisner, he had a passion for Disney that was not solely tied to it asa vehicle for profit.
Call it love or ego, he wanted it to modernise and succeed with him at the helm. Modern Disney seems to only care about the bottom line. If they can do it cheaper, they will.
I loved the Sega area. In 1994 this was all mind blowing
This reminds me of an old virtual reality exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago that I went to as a kid in the 90s and early 2000s. I like how the tech is older (now), but somehow seems more optimistic than things today...
Sometime you should do a video on Epcot as a whole. You capture the vibe really well.
Alec Tronic was 100% creepy. I was a CM for many years and saw plenty of backstage AA figures, no guest should ever see an animatronic like that. I imagine that ruined the magic for a lot of people.
George, I haven’t watched this video yet (starting it now) but just wanted to let you know I recently discovered your channel and it’s great man! Keep up the great work!
the VR aladdin thing got moved to DisneyQuest and was one of the coolest things to me as a kid.
I've heard it said that the version that ended up in DisneyQuest was a lesser version, but I don't know too much about the differences
I have a lot of nostalgia for Innoventions, one thing that wasn't mentioned is that the space was also used at one point for the hub of a Kim Possible ARG/ scavennger hunt around the park. I remembered a lot of the attractions in this video and am sad to see them all go forever :(
I worked the original exhibits at East and West. Innoventions was seen as a refreshing needed change. But with Disney, paying sponsors pulling out signals the end. Great job on your research. I was fact checking your information since I was there. I am impressed
IT'S LIKE A THOUSAND SEGA GAMES ALL UNDER ONE ROOF!
god i wish i was old enough to remember visiting that era of innoventions
My favorite part of the 2000s/2010s Innoventions was the great piggy bank adventure - it was a really basic way to learn about personal finance and saving while being a fun collection of games. A perfect example of the “edutainment” of old EPCOT
I agree
In the mid 90s, as a teen, at Innoventions West there was a guitar game that I loved. It had to be the inspiration for what became Guitar Hero. There were three songs to choose from, and they were based on difficulty.
Kickstart My Heart was the hardest. Hey Jealousy was the mid level. I can't remember what the easy selection was.
Does anyone else remember this exhibit?
Fascinating I would love to learn more about this
In retrospect, I never had much of an emotional connection to Innoventions (outside of the music loop), but I'd rather have it than the literal nothing that is there now.
Your genuine criticisms and refusal to either just praise or just deride Disney is really nice to see! A lot of folks go for one or the other for the sake of “the algorithm” or whatever so having someone say “hey! There are in fact at least a few good things! They’re the minority, but still!” Is nice
I remember my last trip to disney, EPCOT has always my favorite park- I wanted so badly to go explore innoventions based on old clips I had seen on disney channel I think? Only to be greeted with the awful highway re-themeing, it was very empty and most of the stations did not work or needed the help of a cast member who was not present.
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Yet another banger from George Browning
I miss the OG EPCOT with Comunicore, Horizons and Universe of Energy. Such a tragedy that Eisner destroyed an amazing park because his son was bored!!! 🤬
Eisner had a bit of a point. the real death was when Bob Cheapek took over the parks. the guy was an epic penny pincher.
Disney has just…taken the magic out of EVERYTHING. it’s so sad. Even if I could afford it, I don’t think I’d want to go back. EPCOT was my favorite since I was a kid. The last time I went back was 2012 and it was already a wasteland.
If you still want this experience, go to The California Science Center in Exposition Park, it’s pretty much a West Coast version of EPCOT.
excellent work as always, george!
A lot of this really kinda sums up a lot of Disney's them parks nowadays and then some. More so when it comes to lack of actual originality and character in the theme parks. Mostly originality in the attractions.
And that's been more and more inexcusable for a company that keeps on being more and more needlessly greedy and so anticonsumer when it comes to these parks.
The world's most profitable media company yet they keep cost-cutting.
Used a touch screen for the first time ever at Innoventions - in the 90s it seemed pretty exciting!
I first visited EPCOT in the late 90s, so I only ever experienced that area as Innoventions. I was not impressed with the area at all, spent very little time there, and mostly avoided it during my subsequent visits. That said, it does look like Disney found a way to take an area that offered little to guests and make it offer nothing at all. It boggles my mind that the same people who created the amazing Pandora area in Animal Kingdom have produced such a drab and dreary revamp of this part of EPCOT.
90s was the peak…. And really the end. Innovations really never left the turn of the century. The “aughts” they tried to keep something in there… then the 2010s was already gone.
This video just reminds me how drastically attendance spiked the minute vloggers appeared on the scene around 2018-19 I was a regular during the beginning of the 2010s and it's night and day comparing the parks popularity from then to now.
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it's really disappointing to see it dead. but companies don't want to advertise now. look around. most advertisements really aren't that. a LOT of trade shows have died off. they just want you to buy and not think about it.
Great video of my favourite topic - EPCOT (Center).
I love your channel and really appreciate the content and level of effort for you put into your videos! I was wondering if you had ever thought about doing a video on the history of Disney World’s resort hotels? Keep up the great work and I hope you have a wonderful day.🇺🇸⭐️
Michael Eisner might think that it's boring but honestly seeing video phones, watches, Lego Dacta and Sega would have been the highlight of the park for me. I lived for that stuff back then.
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I loved when it had Sega Arcade and Console games, it also had my very first experience in Virtual Reality goggles where you play a first person shooting game where you shot eggs :)
Innoventions was my favourite part of the park and I was so disappointed when I could finally afford to go 5 years ago and it was gone
The Astuter Computer Revue was hilarious. “That’s why I’m a router, for the computer, everybody needs a friend~”
George Browning with another classic
Me, out of instinct, at the start of the video: "God damn it, Eisner."
having never been to Disney in Florida I would have to ask why on earth would I want to waste money to go to Epcot and ultimately spending time queuing for the marquee attractions when there is very little else to do
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I was born in 2001 and can’t believe innoventions was ever cool. I’m so mad I missed it!
Me as a german kid porn in 95, we didnt even had something like that, even if we had something like this, never would i have the money to actually get to a park, usually i came in contact with the disney world paris adds on the televison. But i am amazed and could only imagine how good it must have been to actually be there. Still i do enjoy your videos of a world i never could reach, good entertainment while i am eating keep up the good work
'Then ceo micheal eisner'
Ohhh i seeee
Sum of all thrills was actually really cool but the extremely low capacity sealed its fate.
Now the problem is there are far too many people out there who will not criticize Disney under any circumstances. I guess they don’t realize that if you love Disney you have to be willing to call them out for the failures and the obvious disregard for what used to be the high standards that made the “Disney Difference”
The fact is Disney is in real danger of irreparable damage. Universal has made them look more like six flags than Disney.
I have real concerns about the future plans for the parks as a result of the disaster that is the Epcot refurb. 🤷🏻
If Epcot had awesome attractions currently in place of the awesome attractions it had in the past no one would care so much about how Disney let this park fall from, just sad
I was wondering where all this stuff was on my last trip!!! I hadn’t been in like 15 years and I just remembered some cool area with new inventions and there being a Segway lol
Epcot in the 80s and 90s were epic. Sadly I feel Epcot really lost its identity and more and more feels like just another theme park. Still have some cool things like world showcase but even that area feels less unique now. I really wish they would have kept Epcot different from everything else but alas it's not.
when i went sometime around 2000-2004ish, there was this thing where you could learn how to make paper towels and take one home that you made. it was pretty interesting lol
Communicore is just the cafeteria at your office. Imagine taking a vaction for that.
some of my favorite childhoood memories were made there
Mentally I’m still hyped about Epcot.
Growing up on Disney channel I always saw these kickers that got my hyped to go to WDW.
But as the saying goes Never meet your Heroes and sometimes I feel it’s never worth going.
I know that when I, personally, go to an amusement park, "identifying fire hazards around the home" is HIGH on my list to do.
I was just there last week. It is sad to see how empty it is now. And Moana wasn't really anything special. It was ok, but not something I think you'll want to do more than a few times.
I never really went into Innoventions as a kid but I do remember there was a bug tunnel you could crawl through and I felt so embarrassed doing it bc I thought I was way too old and I was the only kid in the exhibit 😂
i remember growing up and CONSTANTLY seeing commercials on disney channel for the design your own rollercoaster thing, and being so devastated when i was finally able to go and it wasn't there anymore. not even just that, but that everything around it was just kinda... empty and boring
I got to experience the Agrabah VR magic carpet ride, back in the day; it was so cool. What a sad state CommuniCore Hall is in! Should've turned it into Thor's Mead Hall for the money they sank into it.
I think they also eventually put the agrabah VR attraction in DisneyQuest because I remember doing it there
When I went, it was in Innoventions; because of all the SEGA products. As a kid who had the Sonic 2 level select and debug codes memorized, seeing that Sonic statue was like seeing Jesus.
also, eisner was a fuck but he gave us a hell of a lot of interesting attractions and ideas that we look back fondly upon.
12:47 The only time you'd see a Sonic Statue in a Disney park. Dang, I'd wished I could have seen that😢
Words that were never spoken: "I want to go to Disney World and learn about waste management."
as a kid who was always afraid of 1) natural disasters (especially hurricanes as hurricane sandy hit my area pretty hard) and 2) house fires, i remember innoventions being horrifying when i was younger LOL
I have experienced sum of all thrills i still have the little plastic card the gave
I see a lot of nostalgia for the Disney land/World prior to the 90s revamp. Was there a big demand for change in the parks prior to Eisner altering it? Was attendance declining?
This is definitely something that only could have existed in the time that it did. I bet it was awesome to experience as a kid, but I can’t even imagine spending my 2025 disney vacation going to a family friendly interactive tech expo sponsored by corporations selling new products lol. Definitely would put this on my time machine travel list tho
i only ever knew the Anaheim one. I miss it. It was just a show floor with few people and a little video game section that still had PS2's. I feel like Disneyland isn't much of a "just hangout" place anymore.
Whats sad to me is that everything that was great about Epcot happened before I was born. I love slow moving dark rides. Im not a thrill seeker. Disneyland is my home park and i don't want to go to WDW because its not interesting.
The VR headsets I got so hyped for.
Sega having a site there was insane.
Innoventions was amazing! Today we are completely used to technology like Zoom, but back then, the idea of videoconferencing was so wild
The death of Innoventions also coincided with the decline of major product conventions(Comdex, CES, E3, etc.) Product releases over the Internet became the norm.
Oogh the footage of the festival at communicore is just saaaad. It looks Worse than the Dealer’s room of an anime/comic book convention.
I absolutely love it... i miss it
Every one of these Disney history videos goes like: Here’s a really fun and imaginative attraction that was decently executed and beloved by a lot of people.
“Oh wow that’s so cool, I wish that was at the parks today. Why would they change something so creative?”
Micheal Eisner thought this was outdated and needed renovation
“Ohhhhhh”
To this day my teddy bear wears a rubber bracelet (as an anklet) from Habit Heroes. For a long time I had stickers from Stormstruck and the Great Piggy Bank Adventure on my Mickey ears, but I lost that pair years ago... 😞And I loved Sum of All Thrills, in fact that was the ride that really got me comfortable with big rollercoasters as each time I went I could make it just a little more intense until it got to the point I was rarely rightside-up lol.
They managed to turn Communicore from an 80's shopping center to a 21st century shopping center
Ironic that this one space has served as a monument to two of the biggest dark spots in Disney history: the identity crisis of the late 90s and the bland, sterile commercialism of modern Disney
Sitting here trying to work out a way to explain the lack of Attraction I’ve had to innoventions as an international tourist……
You’re on the dream Holiday you’re in the park .Surround by rides characters lights smell sounds and that certain Disney feel. When I walked into the building (DL CA) and checked out the iron man expo and the house of the future. Meanwhile I can hear muffled sounds of Tomorrowland. I looked around and saw black walls artificiall light and displays that I could see at a trade show of children’s museum. I felt like I was wasting the short therefore valuable time walking around what felt like a concept expo at at a state fair
EDIT
For anyone that’s also in Melbourne Australia and never saw innoventions. It’s just the government building at the royal Melbourne show