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Innoventions
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| Innoventions | |
| Theme | Technology |
Innoventions is a pavilion in Future World at Epcot in Walt Disney World, Florida and in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in California.
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| Innoventions: Road to Tomorrow | |
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| Logo for Innoventions at Epcot | |
| Epcot | |
| Land | Future World |
| Attraction type | Walk-Through with Interactive Attractions |
| Opening date | 1994 |
| Hosted by | Tom Morrow 2.0 |
| Audio-animatronics | 1 |
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Innoventions in Epcot replaced the original tenant of its two semi-circular buildings, CommuniCore. Epcot's version is divided into two buildings known as Innoventions East and Innoventions West. In 1999, Innoventions had a major renovation for the park's Millennium Celebration, and added the subtitle "The Road to Tomorrow".
- Environmentality Corner
- Disney's Internet Zone, sponsored by Disney.com
- Fantastic Plastics Works, sponsored by the Society of the Plastics Industry
- The House of Innoventions
- Test the Limits Lab, sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
- Where's the Fire?, sponsored by Liberty Mutual
- ThinkPlace, sponsored by IBM
- The Great American Farm, sponsored by the Farm Bureau
- Rockin' Robots, sponsored by KUKA Industrial Robots
- Segway Central
- Apple Computer (September 21, 1994 - January 31, 1998)
- Bill Nye - The Science Guy (April 15, 1998 - June 1, 1999)
- Communications Dream Forum, sponsored by Motorola (October 1995 - May 1, 2003)
- Discover the Stories Behind the Magic (September 24, 2001 - Late 2002)
- Disney Interactive (Spring 1996 - September 3, 1997)
- EPCOT Discovery Center (Fall 1996 - October 3, 1998)
- Family PC (Fall 1995 - June 1, 1999)
- Forests For Our Future, sponsored by TAPPI
- General Electric (July 1, 1994 - June 1, 1999)
- General Motors (July 1, 1994 - June 1, 1999)
- Hammacher Schlemmer ((July 1, 1994 - September 1997)
- Honeywell (July 1, 1994 - Fall 1996)
- Look Into the Future (October 1, 1999 - February 19, 2001)
- Magic House Show (July 1, 1994 - Winter 1994)
- Masco's Magic House Tour (July 1, 1994 - Spring 1995)
- Mission: SPACE Launch Center, sponsored by Compaq/HP (May 2001 - 2003?)
- Mr. MIDI (June 1995 - September 1995)
- Oracle Corporation's Information Highway (October 1995 - September 3, 1997)
- Web Site Construction Zone, sponsored by GO.com (October 1, 1999 - February 19, 2001)
- Opportunity City, sponsored by Disney Online and the Kauffman Foundation (2004 - November 1, 2006)
- Alec Tronic
- Beautiful Science, sponsored by Monsanto
- Bill Nye - The Science Guy
- The Broadband Connection, sponsored by AT&T
- Discover Magazine
- Eclectronics
- Enel/Infobyte VR Presentation
- Ice Station Cool, sponsored by Coca-Cola
- Inspired by Vision
- Knowledge Vortex, sponsored by Xerox
- LEGO Dacta
- Medicine's New Vision, sponsored by The Radiological Community
- Sega-Genesis, Sega CD, Dreamcast
- Silicon Graphics
- Time Warner
- Videonics
- Video Games of Tomorrow, sponsored by Disney Interactive
- Walt Disney Imagineering Labs
Tom Morrow 2.0, giving a speech about technology atop his podium
- The Ultimate Home Theater Experience, sponsored by Lutron
- Tom Morrow 2.0's Playground
Epcot's Innoventions' mascot is a small Audio-Animatronic character named Tom Morrow 2.0, and was the host of Disney Channel's Imagineer That! shorts.
The area music played at Epcot contains a musical piece by David Arkenstone entitled "Papillon (On The Wings Of The Butterfly)" from his album "In the Wake of the Wind".
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| Disneyland Innoventions Logo | |
| Disneyland | |
| Land | Tomorrowland |
| Attraction type | Rotating Building with Interactive Exhibits |
| Soft opening date | July 3, 1998 |
| Opening date | November 10, 1998 |
| Hosted by | Tom Morrow |
| Audio-animatronics | 1 |
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 America Sings (1974-1988) and Carousel of Progress (1967-1973), now located at the Magic Kingdom). Utilizing the existing Carousel Theater's moving platforms, Innoventions is the only spinning building in Disneyland and makes one full revolution every 17 minutes, 40 seconds.
- 2000 - Present - Pioneer "Virtual Resort", guests experience a virtual reality vacation
- 2002 - Present - Disney Synergy exhibit where guests can play Stitch games, or even talk to Stitch himself
- 2002 - Present - Disney Interactive and ESPN videogames in a free arcade
- 2005 - Present - Honda ASIMO theater, a 15-minute presentation on the state-of-the-art ASIMO robot
- 2005 - Present - Virtual Magic Kingdom Central (VMK Central), a location where theme park guests can play VMK and learn about the online game in a live show.
- 1998-2000 - Honeywell sponsored playground
- 1998-2004 - General Motors simulator attraction
- 1998 - ? - Hewlett Packard-sponsored (formerly Compaq) free computer game arcade
- 2000 - ? - AT&T- Hyperlink Hopscotch, previously an interactive cartoon show.
- 2004-2005 - Segway track, where guests 16 and older could ride a Segway
- 2005-2006 - ISMO, where a demonstration on humanoid robots is held
Disneyland's Innoventions features a full-size Audio-Animatronic host simply known as Tom Morrow, voiced by actor Nathan Lane.
- Grand opening: November 10, 1998
- Ring show:
- Transportation
- Sports
- Home
- Information
- Entertainment
- Previous attractions:
- Carousel of Progress (1967-1973)
- America Sings (1974-1988)
- Building speed: 6" per second/17 minutes for full rotation
- Ride system: Moving building with interactive exhibits
- In the Disneyland Innoventions phone booths, a parody of the extinct attraction Adventure Thru Inner Space could be heard for a time. It was a parody of Paul Frees's narration of the attraction. These have been removed recently.
- At Disneyland, Tom Morrow sings "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow", the former theme song of 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.
Innoventions, Inc., unrelated to the Innoventions attractions, is a manufacturer of computer memory test equipment based in Houston, Texas. It was incorporated in 1984: Innoventions, Inc.
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