Discover Spaceship Earth
Our tips:
- Come at the end of the day
- Design your own future
- Lightning Lane
Spaceship Earth
Spaceship Earth is the giant sphere at the entrance to EPCOT, in the World Celebration area. Inside, you take a gentle journey through time past the great moments in the history of communication. The attraction has been there since the park opened on 1 October 1982.
The concept
You board a vehicle on a continuous system (Omnimover) and travel slowly through the sphere. Along the way you see sets with Audio-Animatronics figures: from people painting on cave walls to Gutenberg's printing press, the newspaper and the TV pictures of the moon landing. Actress Judi Dench narrates the story.
The Experience
The ride lasts about 16 minutes and stays gentle the whole time. Composer Bruce Broughton wrote the music, with an orchestra of 63 musicians and a choir of 24 voices. Listen carefully: each scene has music in the style of its era, which flows seamlessly into the next.
Discover Spaceship Earth
Come at the end of the day
Spaceship Earth is right by the entrance. Lots of visitors hop on straight away; later in the day the queue is often shorter.
Design your own future
On the way back down, you answer a few questions on the screen in your vehicle. Afterwards you see what your future might look like.
Lightning Lane
This attraction is part of Lightning Lane Multi Pass, which lets you choose a time slot in advance and skip the regular queue. You buy passes in the My Disney Experience app; according to Disney, visitors from Europe can only do this after arriving in the US.
Visitor information
There is no height requirement: everyone can ride. Children under 7 must be accompanied by someone aged 14 or over. The ride passes through dark, enclosed spaces; if you're not comfortable with that, you'd better skip it. Wheelchair users transfer to a ride wheelchair and then to the vehicle.
The symbol of EPCOT
Spaceship Earth is EPCOT's figurehead. Be sure to see the sphere after dark too, when it lights up in all sorts of colours. A lovely, relaxed start to your day in the park.
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