* The Audio Animatronics within the attraction were updated, making the figures much more fluid.
* The whole ride was given a musical score based on Bach's Sinfonia No. 2 in C Minor
* The paperboy was given a deeper voice.
[[Image:Videophonescene.jpg|thumb|450px|The video phone scene in the 1994 version of Spaceship Earth]]
* The Network Operations Center scene was removed.
* The personal computer and paperless office scenes were removed.
**The scenes were replaced with a "global communications" scene. Here, an American named Jason and a Japanese girl named Kaiko communicated over videophone (the videophone translated their native languages).
* New laser effects were added to the ascent tunnel.
* In the outer space scene, the space station was painted black (in order to hide it) and the woman looking out of the station was removed.
*The two astronauts were removed from the space scene and relocated to [[Space Mountain]].
* The outer space scene received a new Earth projection.
* Where the space station scene had once been, new floating screens showed guests news reports from all over the world.
* Following the news, guests passed by a family playing a high-tech simulator game.
* New laser effects that covered and followed the ride vehicles were added.
* A new virtual classroom scene was added. The scene showed students and a teacher working with other classrooms from around the world.
* The Tomorrow's Child screens were removed and replaced with a new star field effect.
* A series of scenes which showcased the videophone were added.
**In the first scene a mother sang a lullaby to her daughter.
**In the second, a family was able to "attend" their daughter's graduation even though they could not physically be there.
**A third scene showed a family contacting a doctor using the videophone. Finally, a scientist in a cave was able to show his new discovery to a colleague in a futuristic city, which then beamed the information to another city.
* Guests then passed the futuristic city itself, which sat on the edge of an ocean and glowed with LED lights. As they passed, an information grid beamed out of the city, creating a vortex that followed guests down the decent ramp. The vortex then changed its shape when it passed a model of Spaceship Earth.