The bandages won't be off until 1998, but one of the world's most popular visions of the future - Disney's Tomorrowland, in Anaheim, California - is getting a full-body makeover.
Walt himself devised the '50s original, which featured a car-centric Autopia and an all-plastic House of the Future.For 1998's revamp, Disney chair Michael Eisner more than half-seriously suggested Montana as the vista of the future. (Take a bow, Ted Turner.) But after toying with a technobucolic idyll, imagineers fell back on a Jules Verne-inspired "classic future." Some Jetsonesque relics will remain. The clunky People Mover is to be accelerated into one of the fastest Disneyland rides ever. And the technoidyll lives on, literally, the land is rich in edible plants. No eating the shrubs, kids.
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Renovating the Future
