I'm a photographer, so I tend to treat video as photography at 30 pictures per second. That, and I've watched movies and television for over sixty years.
Quite a CV, eh?
I'm beginning to transition between taped attractions to actually writing and editing video (again.) And I'm finally posting my Road Trip video....
I am publishing a video every Saturday morning.
Come visit my site for more info. backroadjunkie.com/backroad.htm
Thanks so much for sharing!! Older videos of the full length show are difficult to find in as good quality as this, and I really appreciate you taking the time to put this up.
I miss this parade so much. It was beautiful! They need to bring this feel back to Epcot. The newer updates seem to lack heart and colour. Feels a bit sanitised and generic.
This is great footage! I’d actually love to see both the 2000 and 2009 videos in their entirety if you ever choose to put them up. It’s interesting to see the differences before and after they reskinned the bears, and this is one of the best quality videos of the 2000-ish era that I’ve found.
Thanks. Sure, I can do that. Just recaptured my early 2000's video. I'll try to get both posted soon... There's some very good photos of the show I shot in 2012 on my website...
The problem was, World Showcase wasn't designed for a parade, nor did Epcot want it clogging up the area. That's why it was cancelled at the first opportunity. If you look at the other three parks, there's ways to get around the parade if you were trying to get someplace. But the parade in Epcot was a nightmare if you were trying to get around to say, a dinner reservation. A parade in Future World might have worked, except the monorail beam is pretty low... I'm pretty sure they would have cancelled it after the Millennium Celebration, if not for the 100 Years Of Magic plans. I'm pretty sure it would have been cancelled in 2002, except the 100 Years celebration was extended by a year. But yeah, the Tapestry parades were a lot of fun...
I forgot to watch this video and other later uploaded videos of this ride before I watched videos of Frozen Ever After and broke my own word in doing so. my bad!
All of this was before Lilly Belle was taken out of passenger service due to mechanical issues and assigned to the welcome show. Since 2016, Lilly Belle has returned to service following an extensive overhaul, but the welcome show is no more.
Used to have a love/hate relationship with Pirates as a child. When the pirate ship fired cannon balls into the water around us. I remember thinking the water was bubbling lava and if I fell in I'd burn alive. I was not a bright kid back then. Combine that with the saying Dead Men Tell No Tales. I did not feel safe. But I love the ride now! I think every ride needs some level of peril. Makes the happy moments mean something... Anyways! Great footage! Love the trip back in time! Thanks :D
Well, it was never beyond Disney to scare the crap out of us kids! Did it help that they introduced the "Dead men tell no tales" by showing you the dead men who did tell tales? 😁
Honestly, I don't know what happened to them, lol. They got moved out of American Adventure to the World Showcase Plaza, probably not the best move for an a capella group. Lots of noise from the Friendship boats, and even Test Track.
Does it still have the "Your Future" ending? If you're talking about the original and the Your Future endings, it was because of a change in sponsorship from AT&T to Siemens. The AT&T version was horribly out of date, and I can't blame Siemens for wanting an upgrade. Going digital meant it could actually be updated, though I don't know if it ever was. The best thing about the Siemens update, was they requested (and got) the Epcot Wand removed from over Spaceship Earth... 😁
Yep. But AT&T was the parent company of Bell Labs when it got broken up, so the transition was pretty much a non-event. I don't think anything got changed except the signage. That was way before I started going to WDW...
That, I don't remember. But the load queue is pretty dark, lol. Maybe I can find it with one of my attraction walkthoughs. But I do know the portraits were changed out during that 2007 refurb, and I think that's the first time the mansion was really updated...
Everytime I was on this attraction after my first ride. I was always on edge trying to remember what part the truck would 'charge' at us. I never knew which turn it would be in. Until it happened. Truly an effective jumpscare everytime before it was toned down in 2.0 Thanks for posting this amazing footage!
Thanks for watching! While I was editing the video, I realized Test Track turned 25 years old a couple months ago. I thought it was a pretty impressive achievement in 2000. And a lot of times, I'm even impressed with the video considering it's NTSC video. I'm even more impressed that I recovered 99.5% of the video I'd lost. There's a lot of the video I didn't use or rejected 20 years ago that looks okay today, lol. I am deciding which attraction videos deserve upgrades...
Love me some land that we can learn with and live with! Never done the Behind the Seeds tour yet. Hopefully one day! Thanks for posting! Love the ride and love Epcot :)
It's an interesting tour. Definitely a different way of looking at the greenhouses, but it is an hour long, so make sure it fits into the schedule. They used to take online reservations (maybe they still do), probably recommended for high-volume days and weekends. And I would suggest riding the attraction first to see what the greenhouses currently look like. Make sure a virus didn't come through and kill all the greenhouses, lol. (I think they solved that problem.) Oh, you're also onstage, so all the guests tend to look at you as they go by. 😁
Love that this show is still around after over 50 years of service. It is still a wonderful thing that makes Disney World feel like it is more than an average themed resort. Even without an Electrical Parade on land or a Spectromagic in the park. There is still this. ❤❤❤
That, is cool. 😁 For the thousands of cast members and guests that are on these videos, I've always wondered if someone would see themselves from 20 years ago. I have another ToD video of the late parade online...
@@Backroad_Junkie I saw the post but haven’t watched it. Thank you for posting these. I’ve never seen video of me in the parade and I literally had tears when I watched this.
I remember this version the best. While the Chocolate Tour has changed a lot decade to decade. Something about this version was and will always be special to me. Thank you for sharing! Great Quality for the 2000s! :D
I almost forgot I had this video. The five clips used in this video is every single clip I have of Hershey's. I would have spent more time in Hershey, but I found (in the hotel propaganda) I was 10 miles from the Flight 93 National Memorial, and spent the morning there. I was actually impressed with the Chocolate Tour. Probably the best dark ride I've seen outside of a Disney Park. One of the best parts about it, is they give out fun-sized Hershey Bars at the end of the ride, lol...
@@Backroad_Junkie Yes! Love the free candy at the end! Had my first Mr. Goodbar at the end of the ride. Really can make you hooked! If you ever get the chance to revisit Hershey again. You need to visit the Park and stop by the ZooAmerica! Great stuff there as well! :D
Well, I've never been able to find the Millennium version of Nations with the voice overlay, so I doubt one would exist for this version. It was only around a few months. But Disney has re-released updated soundtracks under the same catalog number, so it could exist, I just haven't found or heard of it...
So cool seeing footage of the old school pirates! As much as I love the movies and the addition of Barbossa and Captain Jack, the original was something special
I started going to the parks in 2000, so never saw the original version. Couldn't figure out the vitriol this version got. It seems to have been universal considering this version was only opeb 2 years before being replaced. It's funny that the attraction didn't really change, they just put Figment into all the scenes, lol. But the lesson was, don't mess with people's Figment...
truly love you placed this on hence ME OPENING ANIMAL KINGDOM AND FESTIVAL OF THE LION KING AND STILTWALER DANCING OUT THE JAMMIN JUNGLE PARADE!!!!! HOW ELSE YOU OPEN IT THE DAY OF MY BFF IN NYC 9/11!!!! THE LORD WAS WITH US THEN AND NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve just been rushed with emotions watching this again. I’m in tears and cannot stop crying. This parade was beautiful and I will love and cherish it forever. The music, the design, the people, the message….. You could not get any better than this. Tapestry, May peace go with you forever and ever, as you Celebrate the Future Hand in Hand!!
Reminded anew at all the talent and hard work it took to bring this show to so many people. The actors, the dancers, the puppet operators, the drummers, the costumes prop, and puppet constructions, the storyboarding (a parade that didn't just rush by), and of course the wonderful memorable music. And not to promote the latest Disney properties, but a celebration of joy. They will never do anything better, and I hope all those people involved know how much delight they brought, and remember the experience fondly.
Switched over in 2006, I think. The biggest problem with LwtL, was actually Soarin'. (No seriously.) And the new food court, which may have been the best counter service in Epcot, something Future World really needed. (When the best you could do before World Showcase opened was Electric Umbrella, you ate at the hotel before going to Epcot, lol.) When the secondary attractions in the Land Pavilion was Food Rocks and Circle of Life, crowds were pretty much predictable. There weren't any. Then huge crowds arrived with Soarin', and suddenly LwtL went from almost a walk-on to sometimes ridiculously long stand-by times, all due to guests arriving before their Soarin' FastPass times. The infrastructure could handle the overflow (that is, the attraction had enough boats to handle the guests), but you needed a cast member who knew the spiel. You could have all the boats in Epcot, but couldn't use them because you didn't have the cast member to do the narration. So, automating the audio was the way to go...
Actually, I'm pretty impressed with how much of the video looks okay. 1080p is 2.25 times the size of NTSC 480i video. So each frame is enlarged, sharpened, and the black and color space adjusted. All the video was captured on (close to) high-end consumer level Mini-DV camcorders (and looked great on an NTSC television, lol), so it was above potato quality to start with. But a lot of it scaled up pretty nicely...
I just read that Disney is completely going change this ride as well as it's a Small World Ride!!!!! They are ruining sooo many things!!! They are making It's a Small World into a Walk Through and they are also changing Pirates of the Caribbean!
I'm pretty sure the iasw rumor is just that, a rumor. Probably an incorrect one. But yeah, a lot of attractions are being removed/reimagined, probably for the wrong reasons. Splash Mountain, Pirates, Peter Pan, Country Bears... It's a growing list. 🙁
It's a Small World was already ruined by that guy walking through the Asia room in his underwear and sitting in front of the Taj Mahal and then swimming out of the Welcome room fully naked and then getting apprehended by the police!
