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Okay, let's turn our attention to the
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skies over Disneyland and go a bit
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further to outer space. Here to talk
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about Disneyland Paris and Tokyo
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Disneyland, please welcome our next
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guests, Imagineer Ali Rubenstein, along
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with former NASA engineer and YouTube
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sensation Mark Rover.
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>> [music]
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>> It is nice to have here a huge following
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among Disney fans and you end up a fan
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yourself from way back just like me.
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Yeah. So I grew up like 10 minutes from
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here. I used to sneak up on my roof with
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binoculars and watch the Disney fire
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environment and uh so last year I had a
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chance to actually meet the imaginers
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and it's sort of like a dream come true
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cuz you have like you know the imaginers
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used to be magical in their brain they
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think of something that doesn't exist
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and the engineering is using that
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superpower and ability into existence.
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So like nowhere is this more true than
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the long tech roller coasters that we
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sort of take for granted today.
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tubular steel track, computer programmed
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operations to the world's first fully
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enclosed roller coasters. Like all those
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started the parade of the imagineer and
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that's amazing. Tonight we're here to
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talk about two iconic attractions in
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Paris and Tokyo that happen to ship the
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same space. Yes.
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Who here loves Friday space?
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That's great. I don't
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Okay, that's not entirely true, but um
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it's kind of funny that I'm the one out
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here talking about this about Space
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Mountain. It was my first uh visit to
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Disneyland
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50 years ago. Um I got all the way to
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the low platform of Space Mountain
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completely freaked out and made my
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father take me out the chicken exit.
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She still hasn't been.
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Okay, I have written that. It just took
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about 25 years and I had to become an
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Imagineer.
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>> What do you think? Good. Right.
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>> Well, yeah, of course. Now, it's one of
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my all-time favorite attractions and one
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of the best parts of being an Imagineer
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is occasionally I get to ride with the
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lights on.
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Friends, imagine receive the same
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privilege.
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>> All right, but back to the topic at
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hand. We have two space mountains that
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are about to re-energize our love for
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all things space. Let's start with Paris
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where I where I can announce tonight
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that we're bringing the attraction back
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to its original.
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[applause]
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Time for Space Mountain will close in
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2027, making way for Space Mountain.
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And for those of you who clearly like me
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do not speak French, that translates to
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From the Earth to the Moon. That's also
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the title of the Julesburg novel that
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served as our inspiration for this
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attraction.
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In addition to the name, we're going to
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bring out the original soundtrack.
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And I can tell you, if you don't already
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know, it is absolutely the most
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beautiful music. I think
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Mark, I have a feeling talking about
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Space Mountain is right in your Yeah. I
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Walt Disney
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song. Space is the next frontier. And
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you still see that today like Disney
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shows, the films, theme parks, and for
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decades, like long before I was born,
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Disney attractions reminded us like
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Peter ship and blast into space. And I
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feel like we've all had that moment
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like, you know, on our backs. We feel
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the stars at night and just being
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inspired with like the curiosity, like
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the wonder, the adventure of space
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travel. And like there's so much
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momentum right now with part of this
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mission. I love that Disney is like
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keeping that optimism, that momentum
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going and like fulfilling, you know,
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Walt Disney original legacy and vision
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still alive.
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>> I'm right there with you, Mark. Chicken
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at six eyes. It's now truly a dream of
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mine to go to space. I would literally
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go tomorrow if I could.
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>> Yes. Bruce, you want proof of that time?
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>> Probably not, but he will let me go to
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Tokyo. I do often. It's true. And that
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works for me because Tokyo Disneyland is
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where our brand new attraction, Space
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Mountain Earth Res.
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This is a whole new take on a classic
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attraction that will be an anchor or a
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re-imagined Tomorrowland. What you're
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seeing now is some new drone footage
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captured very recently, very recently at
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the park. I can tell you the
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transformation will be absolutely
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breathtaking. When you get inside the
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attraction, you'll board a rocket ship
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that literally blasts into space.
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What you're seeing here, there it is.
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What you're seeing here is an early
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animation of the brand new launch
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sequence.
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>> That is spectacular.
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[applause]
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It is spectacular. will not want to take
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the chicken exit. Her prize is a
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celebration of what makes our planet so
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beautiful and special. It will give you
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a perspective you've never experienced
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before on any of our spacecraft
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attractions. So, since we're talking
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about outer space, how about we switch
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gears to another type of spaceship one
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we're all riding right now. Spaceship
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Earth
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iconic attraction has ever.
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>> Yeah, it is a true marvel of
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engineering. It's a geodesscent sphere.
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It's perfectly round structure
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supporting the air by three massive
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buildings. It stands 180 ft tall with
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2.2 2 million cubic feet to the inside,
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all with no interior supports. And
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inside is one of the most complicated
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ride systems Imaginary has ever created.
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This continuously moving train of
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vehicles that spirals up into the
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structure and then turns around
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backwards, comes back down. Spaceship
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story has been updated several times
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since it debuted in 1982, but it hasn't
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actually been touched in nearly 20
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years. Yeah, the world's changed a
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little bit since then.
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>> Just a little. Yeah, just a little.
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Tonight though, I can share we're
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bringing this iconic attraction back
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into the present day and beyond. Today,
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Spaceship Earth focuses on the story of
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human communication. We're broadening
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that. Our new version of Spaceship Earth
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will be about human connection, which as
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you all know better than anybody, is a
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theme that this EPO celebrates.
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We'll be bringing new magic to every
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scene, but Spaceship Earth will remain
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classically Epcot, a journey through
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time, depth celebrating the progress
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made possible through human connection.
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[applause]
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Old school version
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is one of my favorites and I'm really
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looking forward to this for sure. Hey,
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thank you for helping rekindle our
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dreams of traveling in spaceships in all
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shapes and sizes. Al
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everybody.
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>> [music]
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