Innoventions (Disneyland)
For other uses, see Innoventions (disambiguation)
| Innoventions | |
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 Entrance to Disneyland Innoventions in original 1998 color scheme. | |
| Ride statistics | |
| Attraction type | Interactive Exhibits |
| Ring show | Transportation Sports Home Information Entertainment |
| Previous attractions | Carousel of Progress (1967-1973) America Sings (1974-1988) |
 Wheelchair accessible | |
 Assistive listening available | |
 Closed captioning available | |
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.
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.
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.
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
- 1998-2000 - Honeywell sponsored playground
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- 2000-2007 - Pioneer "Virtual Resort", guests experience a virtual reality vacation
Tom Morrow
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.
Music
- 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 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.
