History Ride / Horizons

** An additional fourth ending depicting a fly-through of Nova Cite (City) was originally planned, but it got cut toward the end of the ride's development due to time and budget constraints.

** [[WhatCouldHaveBeen An additional fourth ending]] depicting a fly-through of Nova Cite (City) was originally planned, but it got cut toward the end of the ride's development due to time and budget constraints.

* CreatorCameo: Tom, the young man at Sea Castle, [[TheDanza is played by]] Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald in voice and the videophone footage.

* SpiritualSequel: To ''Carousel of Progress''

* CutSong: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD7W8SB2Dpg original theme song]] for the attraction was written by Music/TheShermanBrothers before being replaced by another song sharing the "New Horizons" title.

''Horizons'' was an attraction at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Walt Disney World]]'s Epcot from 1983 to 1999. Sponsored by General Electric (and conceived as a loose sequel to previous GE/Disney collaboration ''Ride/CarouselOfProgress''), Horizons was essentially the thesis statement for the entire park, touching on every theme discussed in the rest of Future World and a celebration of Futurism in general up to that point. However, loss of sponsorship, executive demand for more thrilling attractions, and most importantly structural problems[[note]]There was a large sinkhole underneath the structure that emerged in 1998, and there were some problems with the roof. It would have eventually collapsed under its own weight if it was left standing.[[/note]] resulted in Horizons being replaced by ''Mission: Space''.

Though it was dismissed as dated and hokey in its later years, Horizons remains one of the most beloved extinct attractions within the Disney Parks community. In its twilight years, two fans even went far enough to sneak off the vehicles and document as much as they could, their adventures being chronicled at the blog [[http://mesaverdetimes.blogspot.com/ Mesa Verde Times]]. An attempt at a virtual recreation called [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110307030534/http://horizonsresurrected.com/ Horizons: Resurrected]] was made, but didn't get that far into recreating the ride before being taken down (the provided link is a [[Website/InternetArchive Wayback Machine]] archive), although the creator of the project intends to continue working on it and a 2019-published 360° Website/YouTube video of the recreation can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXDgmjqATYY here.]] Homages to the attraction have popped up throughout the parks from ''Mission: Space'' to ''Space Mountain'' and some props were sent to other parks such as both Disney Studios theme parks.

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* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Appearing in the Looking Back to Tomorrow sequence when looking at fanciful French imaginings of the future.

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