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Innoventions is a pavilion in Future World at Epcot in Walt Disney World, Florida that opened in 1994. It was formerly CommuniCore. A second Innoventions opened at Disneyland on July 3, 1998 in the New Tomorrowland. Epcot's version is divided into two buildings known as Innoventions East and Innoventions West, while Disneyland's 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. Epcot's version underwent a major re-innovention in 1999 for the Millennium Celebration, and added the subtitle "The Road to Tomorrow".
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History
Innoventions in Epcot replaced the original tenant of its two semi-circular buildings, CommuniCore.Attraction facts
Disneyland
- Grand opening: November 10, 1998
- *Soft openings: July 3, 1998
- Ring show:
- * Transportation
- * Health/Sports
- * Home
- * Work/School
- * 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
Current exhibits
Epcot
Innoventions East
- 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
- Opportunity City, sponsored by Disney Online and the Kauffman Foundation
- Test the Limits Lab, sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
Innoventions West
- 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
Disneyland
- 1998 - Present - Hewlett Packard-sponsored (formerly Compaq) free computer game arcade
- 2000 - Present - AT&T- Hyperlink Hopscotch, previously an interactive cartoon show.
- 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.
Former exhibits and sponsors
Epcot
Innoventions East
- 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)
Innoventions West
- 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
- Silicon Graphics
- Time Warner
- Videonics
- Video Games of Tomorrow, sponsored by Disney Interactive
- Walt Disney Imagineering Labs
- The Ultimate Home Theater Experience, sponsored by Lutron
- Tom Morrow 2.0's Playground
Disneyland
- 1998-2000 - Honeywell sponsored playground
- 1998-2004 - General Motors simulator attraction
- 2004-2005 - Segway track, where guests 16 and older could ride a Segway
Tom Morrow
Disneyland's Innoventions features a full-size Audio-Animatronic host simply known as Tom Morrow, voiced by actor Nathan Lane.
Tom Morrow 2.0
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.
Area Music
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".Critiscm
Many park critics have felt that Innoventions failed to live up to its original premise: to constantly give us a glimpse into the future. It has also been deemed "badly planned" and many of the attractions are either dated or faulty.Innoventions, Inc.
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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