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{{Short description|Former exhibition at Disneyland}}
''For other uses, see [[Innoventions|Innoventions (disambiguation)]]''
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===History===
A second Innoventions opened at Disneyland on [[July 3]], [[1998]] in the New Tomorrowland. Innoventions in Disneyland occupies the Carousel Theater, which housed previous attractions Carousel of Progress (1967-1973, now located at the [[Magic Kingdom]]), and America Sings (1974-1988).
The first floor is currently to being redesigned into the Dream Home in alliance with [[Microsoft]], [[HP]], [[Lifeware]],and [[Taylor Morrison]]. Keeping with Walt's vision of bringing cutting-edge and inspiring ideas to Tomorrowland, the Innoventions Dream Home will introduce Disneyland guests to newly available technology from the participating companies that will enhance their lives today, while providing them a glimpse of the emerging digital advances they may find in their homes in the future. The attraction will provide guests with a "high-tech, high-touch" opportunity to experience technology in an entertaining, low-risk environment showing them how the power of technology can connect them to the people and things they care most about.


'''Innoventions''' was a two-story exhibit in [[Tomorrowland (Disney Parks)|Tomorrowland]] at [[Disneyland Park (Anaheim)|Disneyland]] in [[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]], [[California]]. Opening on July 3, 1998 as part of the New Tomorrowland, it featured rotating exhibits focusing on near-futuristic technologies.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Geryak |first1=Cole |title=Disney Extinct Attractions: Innoventive Houses of the Future |url=https://www.laughingplace.com/enwiki/w/blogs/disney-extinct-attractions/2016/09/02/disney-extinct-attractions-innoventive-houses-future/ |website=The Laughing Place |access-date=17 July 2020 |date=September 2, 2016}}</ref> The attraction operated for nearly 17 years, closing on March 31, 2015. It occupied the Carousel Theater, a round two-story building in which the outer half of the first floor rotates. A similar [[Innoventions (Epcot)|attraction]] of the same name existed in [[Epcot]] at the [[Walt Disney World Resort]] until 2019.
The technology companies will showcase a wide range of technologies and products in the exhibit, including the latest in mobile phones, PCs, digital music and gaming. The Innoventions Dream Home demonstrates how home technology can be simple, intuitive and fun while helping guests understand how to seamlessly interconnect their home, the surrounding community and the world, helping consumers stay closer to the people, places and entertainment that are most important to them. The alliances also help ensure that the Innoventions Dream Home remains on the forefront of technology with the newest devices and products as part of the exhibit.


==History==
Guests will actively engage in this experience as they help members of the fictional Elias family prepare for a trip to World Soccer Championships in China, where their son is competing. Elias family members rotate throughout the house, randomly interacting with guests in the various rooms. Upon exiting the house, guests can learn more about the companies that collaborated to create the Innoventions Dream Home, exploring the technologies for themselves first-hand.
From 1967 to 1973, the building housed [[Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress]]. This attraction was moved from Disneyland to its current location in [[Magic Kingdom]] at the Walt Disney World Resort in 1973, at the request of its sponsor, [[General Electric]]. [[America Sings]] occupied the building from the following year until 1988. [[Audio-Animatronics]] from the show were used in Disneyland's [[Splash Mountain]]. The upper level of the building continued to house the ''[[Tron]]'' SuperSpeed Tunnel segment of the [[PeopleMover]] until that attraction eventually closed in 1995.


The attraction used the same rotation mechanism built in 1967 for the Carousel of Progress. In the attraction’s early years, the outer portion of the first floor would stop rotating during the evening, but in later years, it stopped rotating altogether and guests enter on the second floor.
===Current exhibits===
* 2000 - Present - [[St Joseph's Medical]]'s Healthy University, where guests visit different stations themed as part of a school that promotes healthy living. Guests can calculate their BMI, learn about exercise on a stationary bike, play virtual sports games, and have a chance to see themselves 50 years in the future.
* 2002 - Present - [[Disney Synergy]] exhibit where guests can play Stitch games or take a look at an [[AirScooter]] personal helicopter.
* 2002 - Present - [[Xbox]] games in a free arcade. You also can play [[VMK]] there until it shuts down on May 21, 2008.
* 2005 - Present - [[Honda]] [[ASIMO]] theater, a 15-minute presentation on the state-of-the-art ASIMO robot
* 2007 - Present - [[Siemens AG]] '''Project Tomorrow''', featuring some of the same games as its counterpart at [[Spaceship Earth (Epcot)]]. Currently, Project Tomorrow features:
**Power City, a large digital "shuffleboard-style" game that has guests push "power pucks" into targets to provide energy to neighborhoods and create the largest city possible. The more neighborhoods that are powered, the higher the city's population becomes. The largest city attainable is Tokyo, which requires the population to reach 10 million.
**Body Builder, a 3-D game allowing guests to build a digital human body. It features the voice of [[Wallace Shawn]] as "Dr. Bones."
**Super Driver, a driving simulation video game featuring vehicle accident and avoidance systems.
**A large glass globe with digitally projected images coming from within it. Below it are consoles that take photographs of guests, ask a series of questions about each guest, and superimpose the automatically cropped images of their faces onto an animated vision of the future. These consoles utilize the same system as the one used during the descent of '''Spaceship Earth'''
* 2004 - Present (was on break for 2005 - 2008) Segway track, where guests 16 and older can learn how to ride a Segway.


===Former exhibits and sponsors===
===Final years===
In 2012, the Tom Morrow Audio-Animatronic was removed from display and was no longer part of the attraction.
* 1998-2000 - Honeywell sponsored playground

* 1998-2004 - General Motors simulator attraction
From 2013 until its closure, its focus mainly shifted to character meet-and-greets featuring superheroes from the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]].
* 1998-2007 - [[Hewlett Packard]]-sponsored (formerly [[Compaq]]) free [[computer game]] arcade

* 2000-2007 - [[AT&T]]- Hyperlink Hopscotch, previously an interactive cartoon show.
The attraction closed March 31, 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/disneyland-653380-star-attraction.html |title=Disneyland's Innoventions set to close March 31; will 'Star Wars' go in? |newspaper=[[The Orange County Register]] |date= March 7, 2015|last=Pimentel|first=Joseph|page=Local 9|access-date=2015-03-06}}</ref>
* 2002-2008 - Stitch's Picture Phone, where guests could talk to Stitch in Hawaii via video phone.

* 2004-2005 - Segway track, where guests 16 and older could ride a Segway
===Tomorrowland Expo Center===
* 2005-2007 - VMK Central (closed on June 3, 2007, scheduled to be a limited time only, but lasted much longer , though you can still play [[VMK]])
The building was redesigned and reopened on November 16, 2015 as the '''Tomorrowland Expo Center'''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Glover|first=Erin|title=Star Wars Enhancements, New Experiences Coming Soon to Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts|url=http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/08/star-wars-enhancements-new-experiences-coming-soon-to-walt-disney-world-and-disneyland-resorts/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817135447/http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/08/star-wars-enhancements-new-experiences-coming-soon-to-walt-disney-world-and-disneyland-resorts/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 17, 2015|work=15 August 2015|publisher=The Disney Parks Blog|access-date=16 August 2015}}</ref> The first floor of the building hosted [[Star Wars Launch Bay|''Star Wars'' Launch Bay]], a ''[[Star Wars]]'' exhibit featuring peeks behind the scenes and character meet and greets with [[Darth Vader]], [[Kylo Ren]], [[Boba Fett]], and [[Chewbacca]], while the second floor hosted "Super Hero HQ", featuring meet and greets with [[Marvel Entertainment|Marvel]] characters [[Thor (Marvel Comics)|Thor]] and [[Spider-Man]] and an exhibit featuring [[Iron Man]]'s suits based on the film.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Martin|first1=Hugo|title=Spider-Man to join fellow superheroes at Disneyland|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spider-man-at-disneyland-20151013-story.html|access-date=October 16, 2015|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 14, 2015}}</ref>
* 2000-2007 - [[Pioneer Corporation|Pioneer]] "Virtual Resort", guests experience a virtual reality vacation

In the Super Hero HQ location, guests were able to meet [[Captain America]], [[Thor (Marvel Comics)|Thor]], and [[Spider-Man]]. Guests were also able to embody [[Iron Man]] in The Iron Man Experience, which had guests partake in a simulator that enabled them to fly. Guests were also able to purchase Marvel merchandise.

Star Wars Launch Bay originally gave guests the opportunity to meet [[Darth Vader]], [[Chewbacca]], and [[Boba Fett]]. January 2016 saw the addition of [[Kylo Ren]] (who replaced Darth Vader until mid-October 2016). In addition to this, [[Jawas]] were introduced roaming around the Cantina area with [[Boba Fett]]. [[Rey (Star Wars)|Rey]] was later added and greeted guests daily. There was also a variety of exhibits, such as props and costumes used in the films, and an area to buy ''Star Wars'' merchandise.

Super Hero HQ closed in April 2016.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pimentel|first=Joseph|title=Captain America coming back to Disneyland, Super Hero HQ to close|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hero-707197-marvel-disney.html|newspaper=The Orange County Register|access-date=January 11, 2017|date=March 7, 2016}}</ref>

On March 30, 2023, it was announced that a new Disney Vacation Club lounge, called Star View Station, would be opening later that spring.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Concannon |first=Heather |date=2023-04-19 |title=New Disney Vacation Club Member Lounge Opens at Disneyland Park |url=https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2023/04/new-disney-vacation-club-member-lounge-opens-at-disneyland-park/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419214846/https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2023/04/new-disney-vacation-club-member-lounge-opens-at-disneyland-park/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=Disney Parks Blog |language=en-US}}</ref> On April 19, the new lounge opened on the top floor of the Tomorrowland Expo building, themed to old Tomorrowland. The bottom floor was used as an exclusive Disney Visa character meet-and-greet, as well as a space for the Disney Imagination Campus program. Many of the exhibits from the Star Wars Launch Bay remained on the bottom floor, although this attraction was closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and has yet to reopen.{{cn|date=February 2024}}

==Attraction==
The first floor hosted the Dream Home in alliance with [[Microsoft]], [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]], and [[Taylor Morrison]]. Keeping with Walt Disney's vision of bringing cutting-edge, inspiring ideas to Tomorrowland, the Innoventions Dream Home introduced Disneyland guests to then-newly available technology from the participating companies that would enhance their lives, while providing them a glimpse of the emerging digital advances they may find in their homes in the future. The attraction provided guests with a "high-tech, [[high-touch]]" opportunity to experience technology in an entertaining, low-risk environment showing them how the power of technology could connect them to the people and things they care most about.{{cn|date=September 2023}}

Guests who entered the Innoventions building were greeted by Tom Morrow, an Audio-Animatronic voiced by [[Nathan Lane]], who was the fictional mayor of Tomorrowland. He explained Innoventions in a comedic style and performed an updated version of the [[Sherman Brothers]] song "[[There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow]]" from the original [[Carousel of Progress]].

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Dlp innoventions.jpg|Innoventions
File:Dlp innoventions queue.jpg|Queuing area
File:Dlp innoventions preshow.jpg|Pre-show area
File:Dlp innoventions kitchen.jpg|Kitchen of Tomorrow
File:Dlp innoventions bedroom.jpg|One of the bedrooms
File:Dlp innoventions office.jpg|Office of Tomorrow
File:Dlp innoventions air scooter.jpg|The Air Scooter
File:Dlp innoventions center.jpg|The technology tree
File:Dlp innoventions xbox row.jpg|Xbox Row
File:Disneyland Innoventions Power City 2014.JPG|Power City (part of Project Tomorrow)
</gallery>

==Former exhibits and sponsors==
* 1998–2000: Honeywell sponsored playground
* 1998–2000: Silicon Graphics sponsored ''[[A Bug's Life]]'' Exhibit (designed and produced by Santeler Marketing Group)
* 1998–2004: [[General Motors]] simulator attraction
* 1998–2007: [[Hewlett Packard]]-sponsored (formerly [[Compaq]]) free [[computer game]] arcade
* 2000–2007: [[AT&T]]–Hyperlink Hopscotch, previously an interactive cartoon show.
* 2000–2007: [[Pioneer Corporation|Pioneer]] "Virtual Resort", guests experience a virtual reality vacation
* 2000–2013: St. Joseph Hospital's Healthy University, where guests visited different stations themed as part of a school that promoted healthy living. Guests could calculate their BMI, learn about exercise on a stationary bike, play virtual sports games, and have a chance to see themselves 50 years in the future.
* 2004–2005, 2007–2008: [[Segway PT|Segway]] track, where guests 16 and older could ride a Segway
* 2005–2007: VMK Central (closed on June 3, 2007, scheduled to be a limited time only )
* 2005–2009: Talk to Stitch, an interactive experience in which guests could talk to [[Stitch (Lilo & Stitch)|Stitch]] from [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]]'s ''[[Lilo & Stitch]]'' using technology similar to that of [[Turtle Talk with Crush]] at [[Disney California Adventure]]
*2005–2015: [[Honda]] [[ASIMO]] theater, a 15-minute presentation on the state-of-the-art ASIMO robot
* 2007–2015: [[Siemens AG]] '''Project Tomorrow''', featuring some of the same games as its counterpart at [[Spaceship Earth (Epcot)]]. During its run, Project Tomorrow featured:
**Power City, a large digital "shuffleboard-style" game that had guests push "power pucks" into targets to provide energy to neighborhoods and create the largest city possible. The more neighborhoods that were powered, the higher the city's population became. The largest city attainable was Tokyo, which required the population to reach 10 million.
**Body Builder, a 3-D game allowing guests to build a digital human body. It featured the voice of [[Wallace Shawn]] as "Dr. Bones."
**Super Driver, a driving simulation video game featuring vehicle accident and avoidance systems.
**A large glass globe with digitally projected images coming from within it. Below it were consoles that took photographs of guests, asked a series of questions about each guest, and superimposed the automatically cropped images of their faces onto an animated vision of the future. These consoles utilized the same system as the one used during the descent of '''Spaceship Earth'''


* 2008-2011: The Neighborhood at Innoventions, where guests watched and sometimes participated in live shows about [[Taylor Morrison]] homes, [[Yamaha Corporation|Yamaha]] musical instruments, [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] multi-format programming (in the form of a trivia game show), [[Honda]], or [[Southern California Edison]], depending on which of the five zones into which they entered.
===Tom Morrow===
[[Image:DL 010.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Tom Morrow, "Mayor of Tomorrowland" and host at Disneyland's Innoventions]]
Disneyland's Innoventions features a full-size Audio-Animatronic host simply known as Tom Morrow, voiced by actor [[Nathan Lane]]. He bears resemblance to [[The Timekeeper]] from the [[Magic Kingdom]] attraction of the same name. Additionally, an early attraction, [[Rocket to the Moon]], features a pre-show with Mr. Morrow.


* 2008–2015: [[Taylor Morrison]] / [[Microsoft]] Innoventions Dream Home (sponsored by [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]], [[Microsoft]], and [[Taylor Morrison]]), a house filled with the latest technology that was either on the market or soon to be available. The house was inhabited by the fictional Elias family, which hosted an open house to show off their newly acquired technology. Gadgets included
===Music===
**Four [[Microsoft Surface]] tables which were connected in a single dining room table
* Tom Morrow sings "[[There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow]]", the theme song of the former tenant, the Carousel of Progress. The song was written by [[Sherman Brothers|Richard and Robert Sherman]] for that attraction's premiere at the [[1964 New York World's Fair]]. The Tom Morrow version has new lyrics. The original recording of the song, as sung by [[Rex Allen, Jr.]], can be heard as exit music at the ASIMO show within Innoventions.
**A 100-inch, 1080p rear-projector screen
**Control4 panels in every room connecting to photo frames, lights, window shades, and speakers (previously Life|ware)
**A "Magic Mirror" that placed virtual three-dimensional pieces of clothing on a body-mapped subject
**A bedroom that came to life with the story of Peter Pan
**A kitchen featuring a countertop voice-activated cookbook, an internet-connected bulletin board, and Siemens appliances, including the Liftmatic Oven
**[[Michael Jackson: The Experience]] and video games in the party tent
* 2013–2016: ''[[Thor (Marvel Comics)|Thor]]: Treasures of [[Asgard (comics)|Asgard]]'', a promotional exhibit to commemorate the release of Marvel's ''[[Thor: The Dark World]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Graser |first=Marc |date=August 20, 2013 |title=Thor Is Headed to Disneyland |url=https://variety.com/2013/biz/news/thor-is-headed-to-disneyland-1200582567/ |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=August 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820201305/http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/thor-is-headed-to-disneyland-1200582567/ |archive-date=August 20, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2013–2016: ''[[Iron Man]] Tech Presented by [[Stark Industries]]'', a promotional exhibit to commentate the release of Marvel's ''[[Iron Man 3]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Glover|first=Erin|title=Iron Man Tech Presented by Stark Industries Coming to Innoventions at Disneyland Park|url=http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2013/03/iron-man-tech-presented-by-stark-industries-coming-to-innoventions-at-disneyland-park/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330235838/http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2013/03/iron-man-tech-presented-by-stark-industries-coming-to-innoventions-at-disneyland-park/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 30, 2013|publisher=The Disney Parks Blog|access-date=28 March 2013|date=28 March 2013}}</ref> [[Paul Bettany]] provides the voice of [[Edwin Jarvis#J.A.R.V.I.S.|J.A.R.V.I.S]].<ref name="IGN" />
* 2014–2015: ''[[Captain America]]: The Living Legend and Symbol of Courage'', a promotional exhibit to commemorate the release of [[Marvel Studios|Marvel]]'s ''[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Slater|first=Shawn|title=Meet Captain America from 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' This Spring at Disneyland Park in Anaheim|url=http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2014/01/meet-captain-america-from-captain-america-the-winter-soldier-this-spring-at-disneyland-park-in-anaheim/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110232039/http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2014/01/meet-captain-america-from-captain-america-the-winter-soldier-this-spring-at-disneyland-park-in-anaheim/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 10, 2014|work=10 January 2014|publisher=The Disney Parks Blog|access-date=14 February 2014}}</ref>


==External links==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
* [http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/parks/attractions/detail?name=InnoventionsAttractionPage Disneyland Resort - Innoventions]


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Latest revision as of 14:50, 13 November 2024

For the former Epcot attraction, see Innoventions (Epcot).
Innoventions
Entrance to Innoventions before closure
Disneyland
AreaTomorrowland
Coordinates33°48′43″N 117°54′59″W / 33.812°N 117.9165°W / 33.812; -117.9165
StatusRemoved
Soft opening dateJuly 3, 1998
Opening dateNovember 10, 1998
Closing dateMarch 31, 2015
ReplacedWalt Disney's Carousel of Progress (1967–1973)
America Sings (1974–1988)
Replaced byTomorrowland Expo Center (2015–present)
Super Hero HQ (Upper level)
Star Wars Launch Bay (Lower level)
Ride statistics
Attraction typeInteractive exhibits
Music"There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow", written by the Sherman Brothers
Hosted byTom Morrow (Nathan Lane) (former)
Audrey Wasilewski (former)[1]
J.A.R.V.I.S. (Paul Bettany) (former Stark Industries exhibit)[2]
Ring showHonda (Transportation)
Taylor Morrison (Home)
Southern California Edison (Information)
Disabled access Wheelchair accessible
Assistive listening available
Closed captioning available

Innoventions was a two-story exhibit in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Opening on July 3, 1998 as part of the New Tomorrowland, it featured rotating exhibits focusing on near-futuristic technologies.[3] The attraction operated for nearly 17 years, closing on March 31, 2015. It occupied the Carousel Theater, a round two-story building in which the outer half of the first floor rotates. A similar attraction of the same name existed in Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort until 2019.

History

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From 1967 to 1973, the building housed Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress. This attraction was moved from Disneyland to its current location in Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort in 1973, at the request of its sponsor, General Electric. America Sings occupied the building from the following year until 1988. Audio-Animatronics from the show were used in Disneyland's Splash Mountain. The upper level of the building continued to house the Tron SuperSpeed Tunnel segment of the PeopleMover until that attraction eventually closed in 1995.

The attraction used the same rotation mechanism built in 1967 for the Carousel of Progress. In the attraction’s early years, the outer portion of the first floor would stop rotating during the evening, but in later years, it stopped rotating altogether and guests enter on the second floor.

Final years

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In 2012, the Tom Morrow Audio-Animatronic was removed from display and was no longer part of the attraction.

From 2013 until its closure, its focus mainly shifted to character meet-and-greets featuring superheroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The attraction closed March 31, 2015.[4]

Tomorrowland Expo Center

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The building was redesigned and reopened on November 16, 2015 as the Tomorrowland Expo Center.[5] The first floor of the building hosted Star Wars Launch Bay, a Star Wars exhibit featuring peeks behind the scenes and character meet and greets with Darth Vader, Kylo Ren, Boba Fett, and Chewbacca, while the second floor hosted "Super Hero HQ", featuring meet and greets with Marvel characters Thor and Spider-Man and an exhibit featuring Iron Man's suits based on the film.[6]

In the Super Hero HQ location, guests were able to meet Captain America, Thor, and Spider-Man. Guests were also able to embody Iron Man in The Iron Man Experience, which had guests partake in a simulator that enabled them to fly. Guests were also able to purchase Marvel merchandise.

Star Wars Launch Bay originally gave guests the opportunity to meet Darth Vader, Chewbacca, and Boba Fett. January 2016 saw the addition of Kylo Ren (who replaced Darth Vader until mid-October 2016). In addition to this, Jawas were introduced roaming around the Cantina area with Boba Fett. Rey was later added and greeted guests daily. There was also a variety of exhibits, such as props and costumes used in the films, and an area to buy Star Wars merchandise.

Super Hero HQ closed in April 2016.[7]

On March 30, 2023, it was announced that a new Disney Vacation Club lounge, called Star View Station, would be opening later that spring.[8] On April 19, the new lounge opened on the top floor of the Tomorrowland Expo building, themed to old Tomorrowland. The bottom floor was used as an exclusive Disney Visa character meet-and-greet, as well as a space for the Disney Imagination Campus program. Many of the exhibits from the Star Wars Launch Bay remained on the bottom floor, although this attraction was closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and has yet to reopen.[citation needed]

Attraction

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The first floor hosted the Dream Home in alliance with Microsoft, HP, and Taylor Morrison. Keeping with Walt Disney's vision of bringing cutting-edge, inspiring ideas to Tomorrowland, the Innoventions Dream Home introduced Disneyland guests to then-newly available technology from the participating companies that would enhance their lives, while providing them a glimpse of the emerging digital advances they may find in their homes in the future. The attraction provided guests with a "high-tech, high-touch" opportunity to experience technology in an entertaining, low-risk environment showing them how the power of technology could connect them to the people and things they care most about.[citation needed]

Guests who entered the Innoventions building were greeted by Tom Morrow, an Audio-Animatronic voiced by Nathan Lane, who was the fictional mayor of Tomorrowland. He explained Innoventions in a comedic style and performed an updated version of the Sherman Brothers song "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" from the original Carousel of Progress.

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  • Innoventions
    Innoventions
  • Queuing area
    Queuing area
  • Pre-show area
    Pre-show area
  • Kitchen of Tomorrow
    Kitchen of Tomorrow
  • One of the bedrooms
    One of the bedrooms
  • Office of Tomorrow
    Office of Tomorrow
  • The Air Scooter
    The Air Scooter
  • The technology tree
    The technology tree
  • Xbox Row
    Xbox Row
  • Power City (part of Project Tomorrow)
    Power City (part of Project Tomorrow)

Former exhibits and sponsors

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  • 1998–2000: Honeywell sponsored playground
  • 1998–2000: Silicon Graphics sponsored A Bug's Life Exhibit (designed and produced by Santeler Marketing Group)
  • 1998–2004: General Motors simulator attraction
  • 1998–2007: Hewlett Packard-sponsored (formerly Compaq) free computer game arcade
  • 2000–2007: AT&T–Hyperlink Hopscotch, previously an interactive cartoon show.
  • 2000–2007: Pioneer "Virtual Resort", guests experience a virtual reality vacation
  • 2000–2013: St. Joseph Hospital's Healthy University, where guests visited different stations themed as part of a school that promoted healthy living. Guests could calculate their BMI, learn about exercise on a stationary bike, play virtual sports games, and have a chance to see themselves 50 years in the future.
  • 2004–2005, 2007–2008: Segway track, where guests 16 and older could ride a Segway
  • 2005–2007: VMK Central (closed on June 3, 2007, scheduled to be a limited time only )
  • 2005–2009: Talk to Stitch, an interactive experience in which guests could talk to Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch using technology similar to that of Turtle Talk with Crush at Disney California Adventure
  • 2005–2015: Honda ASIMO theater, a 15-minute presentation on the state-of-the-art ASIMO robot
  • 2007–2015: Siemens AG Project Tomorrow, featuring some of the same games as its counterpart at Spaceship Earth (Epcot). During its run, Project Tomorrow featured:
    • Power City, a large digital "shuffleboard-style" game that had guests push "power pucks" into targets to provide energy to neighborhoods and create the largest city possible. The more neighborhoods that were powered, the higher the city's population became. The largest city attainable was Tokyo, which required the population to reach 10 million.
    • Body Builder, a 3-D game allowing guests to build a digital human body. It featured the voice of Wallace Shawn as "Dr. Bones."
    • Super Driver, a driving simulation video game featuring vehicle accident and avoidance systems.
    • A large glass globe with digitally projected images coming from within it. Below it were consoles that took photographs of guests, asked a series of questions about each guest, and superimposed the automatically cropped images of their faces onto an animated vision of the future. These consoles utilized the same system as the one used during the descent of Spaceship Earth
  • 2008-2011: The Neighborhood at Innoventions, where guests watched and sometimes participated in live shows about Taylor Morrison homes, Yamaha musical instruments, ABC multi-format programming (in the form of a trivia game show), Honda, or Southern California Edison, depending on which of the five zones into which they entered.
  • 2008–2015: Taylor Morrison / Microsoft Innoventions Dream Home (sponsored by HP, Microsoft, and Taylor Morrison), a house filled with the latest technology that was either on the market or soon to be available. The house was inhabited by the fictional Elias family, which hosted an open house to show off their newly acquired technology. Gadgets included
    • Four Microsoft Surface tables which were connected in a single dining room table
    • A 100-inch, 1080p rear-projector screen
    • Control4 panels in every room connecting to photo frames, lights, window shades, and speakers (previously Life|ware)
    • A "Magic Mirror" that placed virtual three-dimensional pieces of clothing on a body-mapped subject
    • A bedroom that came to life with the story of Peter Pan
    • A kitchen featuring a countertop voice-activated cookbook, an internet-connected bulletin board, and Siemens appliances, including the Liftmatic Oven
    • Michael Jackson: The Experience and video games in the party tent
  • 2013–2016: Thor: Treasures of Asgard, a promotional exhibit to commemorate the release of Marvel's Thor: The Dark World.[9]
  • 2013–2016: Iron Man Tech Presented by Stark Industries, a promotional exhibit to commentate the release of Marvel's Iron Man 3.[10] Paul Bettany provides the voice of J.A.R.V.I.S.[2]
  • 2014–2015: Captain America: The Living Legend and Symbol of Courage, a promotional exhibit to commemorate the release of Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Full Voices of the Disney Theme Parks presentation from D23 Expo 2011". YouTube. 2011-08-27. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
  2. ^ a b Goldman, Eric (12 April 2013). "Disneyland Introduces Their First Marvel Exhibit with Iron Man Tech". IGN. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  3. ^ Geryak, Cole (September 2, 2016). "Disney Extinct Attractions: Innoventive Houses of the Future". The Laughing Place. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  4. ^ Pimentel, Joseph (March 7, 2015). "Disneyland's Innoventions set to close March 31; will 'Star Wars' go in?". The Orange County Register. p. Local 9. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
  5. ^ Glover, Erin. "Star Wars Enhancements, New Experiences Coming Soon to Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts". 15 August 2015. The Disney Parks Blog. Archived from the original on August 17, 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  6. ^ Martin, Hugo (October 14, 2015). "Spider-Man to join fellow superheroes at Disneyland". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
  7. ^ Pimentel, Joseph (March 7, 2016). "Captain America coming back to Disneyland, Super Hero HQ to close". The Orange County Register. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
  8. ^ Concannon, Heather (2023-04-19). "New Disney Vacation Club Member Lounge Opens at Disneyland Park". Disney Parks Blog. Archived from the original on April 19, 2023. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  9. ^ Graser, Marc (August 20, 2013). "Thor Is Headed to Disneyland". Variety. Archived from the original on August 20, 2013. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
  10. ^ Glover, Erin (28 March 2013). "Iron Man Tech Presented by Stark Industries Coming to Innoventions at Disneyland Park". The Disney Parks Blog. Archived from the original on March 30, 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  11. ^ Slater, Shawn. "Meet Captain America from 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' This Spring at Disneyland Park in Anaheim". 10 January 2014. The Disney Parks Blog. Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
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