YMMV / Spaceship Earth

• Audience-Alienating Era: For the building itself, the "2000/Epcot" wand structure from 2000 to 2007 made the sphere look a bit small and tacky.
• Awesome Music: "Tomorrow's Child" from the Walter Cronkite version is one of the most beloved Epcot songs. The only major downside is that the full version has never been commercially released, and the only way to hear it is through fan reconstructions that use old home videos uploaded to YouTube.
  • It should be noted that before "Tomorrow's Child" is heard in this version of the ride, aside from the sound effects and voices, and possibly even some diegetic music, the ride had basically no music score.
  • The 1994 version narrated by Jeremy Irons has the distinction of being the first one to have music throughout the entire attraction. It's equal parts dramatic, exciting, and grandiose. And the score to the final scene was based on a Johann Sebastian Bach piece! Surely, you don't get more epic than that.
  • Or, maybe you do, because in 2007's version narrated by Judi Dench, Bruce Broughton has created a score that truly sounds like the epitome of what Spaceship Earth really is. The music that plays when we reach the dome and start rotating backward is nothing short of excellent. And the bubbly retro-sounding cartoon music that plays during the interactive ending is quite the charmer.
• Fan Nickname: The "Giant Golf Ball", due to the Alucobond tile-covered design of that geodesic sphere. This was even Ascended Fanon with the Pal Mickey plushes that were once sold in Walt Disney World (Mickey referred to it as "a huge golf ball").
• Obscured Special Effects: The newsboy in the printing press scene used to be facing the riders. Apparently, he broke so now he's been facing away and calling out to "the street" behind him.
• Sweetness Aversion: Regarding "Tomorrow's Child", the soft-sounding lead singing, children's chorus, and optimistic lyrics are sometimes considered overly sweet, to the point that it's no wonder it's been missing since the Jeremy Irons version.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The ending portion of the ride in the Judi Dench version. The touchscreen stuff are considered to be pretty lame in comparison to all the old endings that still used set pieces with Audio-Animatronics. They don't even keep Dench for these parts to soften the blow!

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