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Although not yet complete, Tomorrowland opened . When the park opened it featured four attractions, The Grand Prix Raceway, Flight to the Moon, Skyway to Fantasyland, and America the Beautiful. Although the park was still under construction, it was billed as a look into the future of the space age. In 1975, Tomorrowland was finally completed. Popular attractions, Space Mountain, Star Jets (later renamed Astro Orbiter) The WEDway People Mover, and the The Carousel of Progress were added. This Tomorrowland more closely resembled the Tomorrowland of today. Between 1975 and 1994 Tomorrowland experienced relatively “minor” renovations. In 1975, due to the fact that Flight to the Moon was becoming dated, was re-branded Mission to Mars. The rethemed ride with final destination now being Mars instead of the moon (which humans had already gone to). The attraction If You Had Wings went through a series of sponsor and name changes, until finally in 1998 it closed for good.
In 1994 Tomorrowland was completely “reimagened” “re-imagined” and changed to resemble a spaceport, like the ones envisioned in the early 20th century. The color scheme of Tomorrowland was changed from it's classic blue and white, to a more metallic darker looking land. In conjunction with the retheming, two new attractions were added. The first, was the Timekeeper. This was a new film housed in the Circle-Vision 360 Theater, invited guests to travel through time with the Timekeeper and his droid “9-eye”. The second attraction added was the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. The new attraction was a “theater-in-the-round” attraction where guests were placed in the dark along with an escaped Alien. ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter was much darker in its tone then most Disney Rides, and a sign outside the building stated that it was not intended for children under the age of 12.
Also changing were the names of a lot of popular Tomorrowland attractions. The Grand Prix Raceway was renamed, the Tomorrowland Indy Speedway, Star Jets was renamed Astro Orbiter, and the WEDway People Mover was renamed the Tomorrowland Transit Authority. The “new” Tomorrowland, was billed as “the future that never was”, and was inspired by the visions of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.
The final major change to Tomorrowland came in 2007 with the opening of the Monsters, Inc Laugh Floor. The new attraction, based on the Disney movie Monsters, Inc replaced the Timekeeper ending a streak of Circle Vision 360 attractions housed there. Monsters, Inc Laugh Floor is an interactive show which utilizes the “digital puppetry” technology that allows the characters on the screen to interact with the audience.
==Attractions==