Talk:Spaceship Earth (Epcot)/Archive 1

Ambiguity of "Spaceship Earth" ???
At some point someone changed it so that when searching wikipedia for "Spaceship Earth" you get directed to the Buckminster Fuller concept article. While quaint in its intention, a quick Google search can show you that anyone looking for "Spaceship Earth" is most likely referring to this building/ride/show/attraction with it's 10.83 million visitors to the park each years, 914,000 images tagged as such on google search, and even recreations of its likeness in divine semisweet chocolate sculpture. Come someone who knows more about wikis please fix it? 76.173.47.230 (talk) 11:44, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Spaceship Earth Logo
This is the logo to World Book Encyclopedia! http://www.worldbook.com/ 128.114.60.116 (talk) 07:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Steve Wozniak
Did everyone miss that in the latest incarnation Steve Jobs has used his influence to make Apple computer the focus of the ride? The narration explains that computers were the size of rooms - until two guys in a garage in california changed everything (model of woz and apple computer) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.52.105.139 (talk) 02:17, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I guess that's true, if by "focus of the ride," you mean "one scene." -- blm07 であります！  03:03, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Thrill ride makeover?
There is rumor that Spaceship Earth will be replaced like many of the classic attractions at WDW with a thrill ride. Fans of Spaceship Earth are fighting this.

The rumors that say Spaceship Earth will be turned into a thrill ride are absolutely false. On the contrary, Siemens has decided to leave the ride as-is with Jeremy Irons still narrating. The only major thing that will change will apparently be to the Global Neighborhood, though what they will do to it has yet to be determined.

It won't be a thrill ride but it is being majorly renovated inside and the new post-show area is already open. So Siemens has obviously completely changed their minds.

Timeline / narrators
I tried to clean up the timeline, maybe I did it wrong, but I also added information to it. The original narrator is probably Vic Perrin, and since 1994 the narrator is still Jeremy Irons. --blm07 06:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Walter Cronkite was the narrator before the current narrator, Jeremy Irons. Dr. Root 04:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Vic Perrin (1982-1986) (probably)
 * Walter Cronkite (1986-1994)
 * Jeremy Irons (1994-present)

That is it. -- blm07 23:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

This is unclear to me.
The sphere is wider at the bottom than at the top.

Is it ovoid? Maybe it could be rephrased more clearly. 64.72.6.147 19:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)HansOfTheBloodyAxe

Laser Advertisement
When I recently visited EPCOT, at the end of the fireworks show, all of the exterior lighting to the sphere was shut off, and there was a Siemens advertisement (just and unanimated "Siemens") in large white letters. Is there enough information about this to put into the article? Is this the wrong article for it? SquareShot97 04:35, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Laser show
The time I was there, there were fireworks in the area of the world showcase, and after the fireworks, there was a laser drawing in green of the continents, put on the surface so that it resembled a spinning globe. Would this deserve a spot, or more generally, that the building often has lasers projected onto it to form artwork? 130.101.20.142 14:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:2007logo.png
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Pentakis Dodecahedron = isosceles triangles?
The Wikipedia page for Pentakis Dodecahedron states that all faces are isosceles triangles, not equilateral triangles as stated on this page in the section on "The Structure." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentakis_dodecahedron

This is not my area of expertise, so I am unable to offer a suggested correction or explanation, but I felt it would be helpful to point this out.

- tim

tim20000@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.35.176.176 (talk) 06:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Sse1.png
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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:17, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Possible Copy-Pasta
The last paragraph of the article's history section looks to me like it might have been (at the very least) copied and pasted from Disney's official propaganda, or was (at the very worst) inserted by Disney PR people to quell fears that Spaceship Earth was turning into a thrill ride. Or whatever. Here is the paragraph:

"Ten time Emmy®-award winning composer Bruce Broughton conducted a 63-piece orchestra and 24-voice choir for a new musical score for Spaceship Earth at Walt Disney World Resort. Walt Disney Imagineers have been re-imagining the iconic Epcot attraction since early 2007, and have added new show scenes to the attraction’s story line, along with new lighting effects, costumes, set decoration, and a new narrator – Academy® Award-winning, English actress Dame Judi Dench. Narration is also available in multiple languages. "

The first thing that tipped me off was the trademark for the Emmy award and the Academy award - something that marketers are always sure to include in their material, but not something that a Wikipedian would include (or know how to include - special characters are a pain in the ass to type). The second thing that tipped me off was that it describes the changes to the ride in broad, sweeping terms that don't actually describe anything, and refers to Disney ride engineers as Walt Disney Imagineers®. I'm going to de-commercialize this paragraph, and ask that anyone who can actually provide a real description of the changes to the ride to do so. Brash (talk) 22:18, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Consistency
In "The structure" it says that the Spaceship Earth is NOT a geodesic dome, yet at the top of the page it claims that it is. Then if you go onto the internal link for "geodesic dome" it has a picture of Spaceship Earth. Some clarity, or at least some internal consistency would be useful here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.235.135.143 (talk) 20:03, 23 November 2008 (UTC)


 * It's not a geodesic dome. Wonders of Life is, though. Spaceship Earth is a geodesic sphere, or simply a geosphere. Malpass93 (talk) 20:17, 23 November 2008 (UTC)