Click Here to Read: The Voice in Mission to the Moon and Mission to Mars From 1988 Disneyland Line
Click Here to Read: Tomorrowland: Mars And Beyond from the original 1957 press materials
Click Here to Read: Tomorrowland: Mars And Beyond from the original 1957 press materials
Past the Moon and onto the Mysterious Red Planet
04.05.11 - In a constant effort to keep pace with time and progress, Disney Imagineers replaced Tomorrowland's Flight to the Moon attraction with an exciting rocket trip to and around the mysterious red planet.
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Flugelsnoots, Gaffelnarks and The Zarkum Weed have come to Disneyland. These characters make up the Mad Mars Myths a part of the Park's new attraction, Mission to Mars, presented by the McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
In a constant effort to keep pace with time and progress, Disney Imagineers have replaced Tomorrowland's Flight to the Moon attraction with an exciting rocket trip to and around the mysterious red planet. Photographs taken by the United States' Mariner Nine Program were used to develop the attraction.
Guests first enter the pre-flight Mission Control Center where activities on the ground and out in space are being monitored. Among the film highlights viewed are scenes from America's Skylab missions from the early 1970's. Films and narration point out how these continuing Skylab missions help man improve the environment here on earth. Disney artists and technicians have made every effort, in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to make the new "Mission to Mars" adventure as authentic as possible.
After guests are escorted into the main cabin where their flight takes place, the cabin doors close and lights dim slowly as the voice of Third Officer Collins comes over the Spaceliner's public address system. "We are in final countdown and you can watch our lift-off on the lower screen in your cabin. I'll speak to you again after we're in space." Guests' eyes then turn to the upper and lower screens and two side screens in the round flight cabin. (Side screens have been enlarged from the original Flight to the Moon attraction, giving even more realism to some fascinating actual films of space flight and Disney-created sequences.)
This adventure encompasses many new and unique simulations, including a hyperspace-warp when passengers seem to be hurled through space in an anti-universe that is separate but parallel to our own. Guests are suddenly engulfed in sound and wild sights as the ship's deck and seats tilt while kaleidoscopic images stream across all of the cabin's screens. Sub-audible waves create a weird and disoriented out of this world feeling. After hyper-space-warp, the ship journeys close to Mars, and small, unmanned rockets equipped with cameras are launched, sending back television pictures of the planet's surface.
Guests get an exciting close-up view of the gigantic rift in Mars' surface called Mariner Valley, which is over three thousand miles long and ten times wider than the Grand Canyon. The camera drone also sends back pictures of the high point on Mars, Olympus Mons, the biggest volcano now known in the whole universe. It is 370 miles wide at the base and over 75,000 feet high at the top, which is two and a half times taller than Mount Everest, the highest point on earth. The photos from the drone viewed by guests were simulated in cooperation with Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and NASA, utilizing photos from the Mariner Nine program and specially created Mars' models.
During the flight, Officer Collins talks about life on Mars and points out that even today we have not found life on the planet but that for centuries there has been speculation about it. Disneyland space travelers are then treated to the Mad Mars Myths, a cartoon about fantastic concepts of life on Mars, produced by the Walt Disney Productions In-Flight Distribution Division! Side screens come alive with the antics of Flugelsnoots, whose principal occupation is making music which they constantly play through their noses. The Plains of Elysium on Mars are inhabited by the Gaffelnark which is quite intelligent but shy. The Zarkum Weed is shown as it grows very tall in the weak gravity of Mars, but it is kept in check by the Tharsis Bugs with their extremely voracious appetites.
At one point in the flight, guests have a slightly uneasy moment when the camera rocket is knocked out by a shower of meteoritic particles, and Officer Collins says, with a nervous laugh, "Everything's all right now, but that was a close call! Actually, the chances are a million-to-one against meeting another emergency like that, so please fly with us again. We are immediately returning to earth."
The ship's rocket engines roar again as the guests speed back to earth. Flames fill the lower screen and there is a distinct sound of a touching down.
In a constant effort to keep pace with time and progress, Disney Imagineers have replaced Tomorrowland's Flight to the Moon attraction with an exciting rocket trip to and around the mysterious red planet. Photographs taken by the United States' Mariner Nine Program were used to develop the attraction.
Guests first enter the pre-flight Mission Control Center where activities on the ground and out in space are being monitored. Among the film highlights viewed are scenes from America's Skylab missions from the early 1970's. Films and narration point out how these continuing Skylab missions help man improve the environment here on earth. Disney artists and technicians have made every effort, in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), to make the new "Mission to Mars" adventure as authentic as possible.
After guests are escorted into the main cabin where their flight takes place, the cabin doors close and lights dim slowly as the voice of Third Officer Collins comes over the Spaceliner's public address system. "We are in final countdown and you can watch our lift-off on the lower screen in your cabin. I'll speak to you again after we're in space." Guests' eyes then turn to the upper and lower screens and two side screens in the round flight cabin. (Side screens have been enlarged from the original Flight to the Moon attraction, giving even more realism to some fascinating actual films of space flight and Disney-created sequences.)
This adventure encompasses many new and unique simulations, including a hyperspace-warp when passengers seem to be hurled through space in an anti-universe that is separate but parallel to our own. Guests are suddenly engulfed in sound and wild sights as the ship's deck and seats tilt while kaleidoscopic images stream across all of the cabin's screens. Sub-audible waves create a weird and disoriented out of this world feeling. After hyper-space-warp, the ship journeys close to Mars, and small, unmanned rockets equipped with cameras are launched, sending back television pictures of the planet's surface.
During the flight, Officer Collins talks about life on Mars and points out that even today we have not found life on the planet but that for centuries there has been speculation about it. Disneyland space travelers are then treated to the Mad Mars Myths, a cartoon about fantastic concepts of life on Mars, produced by the Walt Disney Productions In-Flight Distribution Division! Side screens come alive with the antics of Flugelsnoots, whose principal occupation is making music which they constantly play through their noses. The Plains of Elysium on Mars are inhabited by the Gaffelnark which is quite intelligent but shy. The Zarkum Weed is shown as it grows very tall in the weak gravity of Mars, but it is kept in check by the Tharsis Bugs with their extremely voracious appetites.
At one point in the flight, guests have a slightly uneasy moment when the camera rocket is knocked out by a shower of meteoritic particles, and Officer Collins says, with a nervous laugh, "Everything's all right now, but that was a close call! Actually, the chances are a million-to-one against meeting another emergency like that, so please fly with us again. We are immediately returning to earth."
The ship's rocket engines roar again as the guests speed back to earth. Flames fill the lower screen and there is a distinct sound of a touching down.
From Disneyland Vacationland, Summer, 1975
Click Here to Read: The Voice in Mission to the Moon and Mission to Mars From 1988 Disneyland Line
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