Disney Epcot Horizons - Complete POV Ride (1992) 

This is the 'Holy Grail' of closed Walt Disney World attractions. I really hope they build a new version of this ride someday. Really great footage for 1992!

Can't believe someone in 1992 was able to get this good of footage. Brings back some warm memories of EPCOT from when I was a kid. It would be nice if they could "Imagineer" a new version so I could take my son :)

Never rode Horizons, but it looks a lot better of an experience I had at Mission:Space

Man, I miss the days when Epcot was great. It used to be the best of all the parks. Now… not so much.

Fantastic video. Horizons was the embodiment of the EPCOT optimistic view of the future. People think it was naive, but I think we have lost that hope for a better future.

This was hands down my favorite ride at Epcot, my parents let me ride it over and over and over. It was the first time that I was able to wrap my head around the idea that things that seemingly outlandish things can become the norm in time.

This was my favorite ride. I was 7 when this was filmed, and I still remember when they closed it. I miss the old slow moving rides that would actually teach you a few things and gave you something to think about. Also I liked the carousel of progress music, it really tied magic kingdom and epcot together.

This was always my favorite at Epcot. What a waste to put a ride that doesn't need as much space there to replace it. It was a nice long ride the whole family could enjoy regardless of age or disability. I'd like to see Disney put this kind of effort into a slower paced ride again someday.

I'm so happy you shot this. You truly captured a piece of Disney history here. All that's missing is the orange grove smell!

Quite possibly the most perfect attraction that Disney has ever had. It fit in so well with the park. Horizons was EPCOT Center to me. This video makes me both happy and sad at the same time. Thanks for sharing. The memories have come flooding back, as Horizons was a significant part of my childhood at Walt Disney World. I have no problem with Mission: Space. In fact, I like it a lot, but I wish they could have found a place to put it besides replacing Horizons. #RIPHorizons

Was at a birthday party tonight and the birthday girls daughter who lives across the country skyped in with her husband and kids to sing happy birthday. We are living some of the futuristic things from Horizons! Cool!

This was back in a time when WDW was quite educational and inspirational. Now it's all about promotion of their movies.

Wow great video quality for a 1992 portable camera.

I don't cry at many things lost in time to myself. but this made me cry. I really hope they bring this back exactly the way it was.

7:25 - the smell of orange blossoms.

This ride was everything about Disney I fell in love with. Slow, smooth and lots to look at. A truly enjoyable & magical experience. Lost to modern high speed "wow machines".

Thank you very much for posting this. Disney management is slowly destroying what made Walt's dreams and imagination so exciting. I live 20 miles from WDW and go over every week. EPCOT needs attention and refocus on what the park was intended to be. Amazing how the Horizons attraction could open today and be for the most part up to date !!! The Space Shuttle section in this attraction, which at the time was on the Largest Omni Max Movie Screen in the World would make chills run up and down you spine when observed and coupled with the unique music. Again Kim, thank you for posting this.

Man this brings me back to being a kid again. This was my favorite ride at Epcot growing up. I've probably watched this a dozen times now. I appreciate the stroller down memory lane.

One of the best rides created by Disney. Too bad today's younger generation will never get this experience. Thanks for the memories!

What a wonderful trip down memory lane. The Early 90's was the best time for Epcot. I wish future generations could enjoy it with the same open mind and wonder as I did. Unfortunately with the new changes, that won't happen.

I never visited Epcot until 2017, but WOW do I wish I could have experienced this, and so many other early EPCOT Center attractions. Thank you so much for uploading this, it's the best POV of Horizons I've seen!

This used to be one of my favorite rides when I was a child. I'm 25 now, and seeing what EPCOT has turned into in many way breaks my heart. I miss these old rides so much.

I loved this ride as a kid. Every time I see my kids Face Time with my parents I think of this ride. I can still smell the oranges.

Favorite Disney ride ever. They will never top this one.

I was 7 the first time me and my family went to Disney and this was the one ride that my mom and aunt said I HAD to ride. We did and once it was over, I was begging their ears off to go again. And so we did.

Aww, it's hard to think that those two kids at the end and many others who were on the ride are now young adults...that's how long ago this was. It sure left a legacy.

This was such a great ride. I was surprised when it closed down. This era of Epcot was a lot of fun, and sorry to see rides like this are only available now on RU-vid.

Its a shame and very sad that Disney couldn't see a need to keep Horizons as a futuristic pavilion and show us what MIGHT be possible in the next centuries. This ride was very well done and complimented the ride from the World's Fair which showed us our past. I think Disney needs some different thinking in its enterprise. A lot of disappointments with Epcot.

Thank you for this! Just went to Disney this past week. I first went in 98 (at 8 years old) and 6 yrs ago in ‘13. This past week I could have sworn this was part of the Spaceship Earth ride and was disappointed that it wasn’t included anymore... of course my 8 year old memory has faded a bit, but this reminded me of that ride I thought was so cool!

It occurs to me I didn't get this ride as a kid, but I always enjoyed it. It was so full of technology and promise of better things, I really did love it all those years ago.

This is what epcot was all about.i think its lost its way recently .thanks for a great video !

I miss this so much. I hope Disney can make more slow rides similar to this. With today's technology I think it would be amazing.

Epcot Centre must be the only theme park where everything was better when it opened and it just keeps getting worse and worse. In fact, I can't believe it is still open.

I miss this attraction. It was a nice ride to get off your feet for a while, and I loved that you could pick your own ending after visiting several amazing visions of our future.

I remember being so amazed by the queue and the lights on the walls as we left the ride. This ride is almost like a dream.. I barely remember it, I was so young. Takes me back!!

Thank you so much for posting this. I've been thinking a lot recently about my childhood. I was an only child raised by just my mom. Me and her would take so many trips together. We went to Orlando 3 x starting in December 1990 (I was 10) and again in 92 and 94. I have so many fond memories of those times at Disney and loved loved loved Epcot and particularly loved the Horizons pavilion and ride. Experiencing this entire ride again as I sit here in 2020 really brings me right back to those times and I totally remember all of those future world scenes. Part of me truly misses those carefree days as a kid. If only I could just snap my fingers and go back 30 years and be right there sitting next to my mom on this ride again...

I'd love to see an updated version of this built for Epcot. Ironic that it's the old stuff that could breathe new life into this stagnating park.

I loved riding this and imagining that I could live in space or the ocean! The ending was spectacular!

Also, in the past, everyone thought in the future (somewhere around 2015) that we would have flying cars, household robots, and more technology. Meanwhile, in present day, we can't even make an iPhone that's waterproof.

wow it was so good to go through the horizons ride again! I clearly remember everything I saw

Thank you so much for posting this! Horizons was always my favorite EPCOT attraction. I'm glad the future is always moving forward, but I really miss the way we *used* to see it.

This is by far the best looking video of Horizons on the web, thank goodness for Hi8, and it's so great that you filmed this while all the GE logos were still in place, it really feels like a trip back to "the good old days". If you have videos of the other classic Epcot attracions I, and I'm sure plenty of other people would love to see them -thanks again for posting this, it was really a nice thing to see

I miss this ride!!!!!!

One of the better videos of Horizons I have seen, the one thing I will always remember from this ride is the smell of oranges when we go through the farming scene. Thanks for sharing

Kim, we miss you. You did so much to spread the word of Monorails as a feasible mass transit system around the world. RIP friend.

It's the 21st century -- where's my robot butler?

Thanks for doing this for all of us. If not for this kind of footage, these closed experiences would be lost forever. You're doing good work!

Wow. That was a bittersweet walk down memory lane. I visited this ride a ton of times in the years it was open- I was 23 when this was filmed- and this brought back fresh memories. Seems like it was just yesterday. Sadly, Epcot isn’t what it used to be.

I remember bits and pieces of this ride as a child. I specifically remember the chicken floating around, and a few other small parts. I do know that I thought the future was going to be super amazing, and that all that stuff would happen by the time I was 40. Only five years left. Make it happen world!

I want to thank you for uploading this. I love the idea behind the ride and it's such a shame that I never got a chance to ride on it. It is videos like these that will preserve the history of this ride. Also, I find it surprising that they got so much mileage out of the monorail system. Guess it goes to show that you don't need speed to inspire.

I don't know how I managed to miss this. My wife and I honeymooned at Disney a few years after this video was taken, and spent a large portion of that time at Epcot, but somehow never rode this. Thanks for sharing this record of it!

I would rather ride this than Mission Space.. If you like throwing up, ride Mission Space honestly.

I always wanted a living room like the one at 6:32. I really miss this ride.

wow. i was never able to experience this ride due to me not being born yet but this video is such great quality and shows what i sadly missed out on. the imagination and visuals in this ride are stunning and i so wish i could’ve been there to experience it in person.

My family took me to Epcot in 1985 when I was 12. It was absolutely epic to me at the time. Thanks for helping me remember.

Seeing the entire ride in its original glory really makes me wish that I had a chance to experience it myself. If only it didn't close when I was a year old. For 1992, the footage looks really good.

I miss this ride! Would be awesome if they can open an updated modern version of this ride some day!

Thanks for documenting this great ride. This really shaped my career choice later in life.

I'm among the next generation of Disney fanatics. I'm particularly interested in the animated films and the theme parks. My first trip to Walt Disney World was in 2002, just a few months befire I turned 5. I never got to see this ride. Thank you for allowing me to experience this. I've been looking for a decent quality video of it for a while now.

I loved this ride so much as a kid!

'I loved it', too! Great. I feel Like a kid again! Thanks for this great upload.

well, they predicted hydroponics/aquaculture and facetime!

This was easily my favorite attraction in EPCOT. Thank you for sharing this.

Great video. Especially for 1992. A ride very much missed. Wish it could be resurrected and still keep the charm . Thank you so much for letting us revisit this classic.

Honestly, this ride is better than even what virtual reality can achieve. Imagineering, stage magic and futuristic, innovative ideas blend together to create a peek into the future that is far from our grasp yet not from our eyes. It wasn't just the thinking, but the presentation of the vision of such a distant future that made this ride awe-inspiring, optimistic and forward-thinking. I bet Epcot and Tomorrowland meant so much more back then than today, not to say that the attractions are now much more dull, but that there is just a little less of the passion to visualize and possibly create the future mankind has ever dreamed of. It seems that Epcot gradually lost its meaning due to it originally being such an ambitious and experimental project, and that there was so much effort sadly wasted to keep the motto of a technologically bustling yet ecologically integrating society of tomorrow in motion and memory. Now, I'm not exactly upset that Mission: SPACE replaced such a captivating project, I just wish that WDW could try and preserve this in some way, and not just with this and other footage, but with something as equally engaging as Horizons and contributing to the original idea of EPCOT "I loved it!"

I wish they could bring this back. This is a huge Disney's Classic.

Thank you Mr. Pedersen for sharing this great video. I miss this ride, it was one of my favorites. I guess we will all be able to enjoy it anytime thanks to your video!

Thank you for this video. It was a joy to remember and for a moment ....... to hope!

I was born in 1995 and was never able to ride this- what a treat it is to experience it here-Thank you!

This brings back so many good memories. Thank you for sharing!!

Thank you! I went that year when I was 8. Flooded with memories of an optimistic future past. The aesthetic expectations of the future have changed so much since then.

I was born the year Mission Space opened so I never saw Horizons, but it looks a lot like The Carousel of Progress to me. I love seeing what people THOUGHT the 21st century would be compared to what it is

I remember the smell of oranges when we went through the fields. It was an amazing experience as a child I never forget it

I went on this ride when I was a little kid and was upset when I went back to Epcot in college that most of these original rides were replaced. Thank you so much for whoever recorded this in 1992! It's like a time capsule and a reminder of my childhood visit to epcot :-) !

I was there, July 19 1992, i remember the date because its my birthday =) thanx for the video, bring me good old memories

the 80's called, they want the original EPCOT back

Very interesting! Never got to see this ride before it was shut down. The Hi8 is awesome! The quality is impeccable! That's why I had a Hi8 camcorder back then too. Thanks for sharing!!!

I loved this ride as a kid.....back in 1992, I was 12. This ride and dreamflight were my favs!!

This was like watching info films in class in the early-mid 80’s. Loved it!

that was a great ride , first time I did Horizons was back in 89 on a school field trip , I mean they can show what it should look like , but it's a hit & miss

This was THE ride to go to EPCOT for. This video teleported me to simpler times. Remember riding it with my brothers over and over again. I LOL'd because anyone who rode this knows you do Space, or ocean...in this Vid, farmland. Thanks for uploading :)

Man this is like that ride in tomorrow land that takes you through all the past present and future. I forgot the name but that legit my favorite ride and this is just a bigger version of that. Wish i got to see this 😢

Thank you! I loved this ride when I went there 1 day in 1994, but when I went back with my kids, in 2009, I thought it was the old "Spaceship Earth. Some memories I couldn't place. It was awesome reliving this ride.

thumbs up if your watching this in the 21st centuary and angry that most of this stuff hasn't happened yet. cant wait to see epcot tomorrow but sadly I wont be seeing this amazing ride . I wish I could but understandable to move on. Great idea and thanks to this amazing person for making the pov so those of us to young to know its glory can feel as if they ride it as well much like with the original figment ride.

brings back memories thanks for posting. I will never forget this ride. The audio alone is refreshingly haunting.

That was awesome! I was able to share a part of my childhood with my husband. Thanks for sharing!

One of the best videos online of what was truly the greatest ride ever built. My eyes filled with tears watching this. I miss it so much. Thank you.

This ride is what gave me hope for the future! So many things came true, video calling being one of them, the genetic fruits, sending kids to college to become farmers (hipsters, LOL), drones! etc! Thanks kim!

Awesome video. It brought me back to the good ole days of Epcot. :-)

Love the "orange" smelling room! and the ability to choose where you launch to. I loved going through the tunnel of DNA.

so cool sad I was never alive to see this but if a time machine is invented I'm coming back to this and ride it. Thanks a lot!

My favorite pavilion in the old Epcot Center! Disney magic at it’s best! Today, it was replaced by that giant laundry machine called Mission:Space. Thanks for posting. Great memories, good times.

Great Video. Mission: Space will never be as popular as Horizons was!

Remember this well. Thanks for posting. Best part of the ride was the smell of oranges.

Reminds me a lot of Spaceship Earth! Thanks for sharing!

I have very fond memories of this attraction and even though it definitely needed to be replaced a part of me wishes it was still here to just see how far we've really come and be slowly trammed down memory lane 😅

Truly how I remember Epcot from the 80s as a young teen; this ride made more of an impression on me than anything else in the park, and I am very sad it is gone.

I loved this ride. I rode it once in 1989. It blew me away! As a 15 year old it just got my imagination going and I had never seen anything like that before. The production design on this ride was amazing. The set pieces and the experience seemed so real to me and I felt so excited about what the future was going to be like. 30 years later... wow 2019. Watching this video still gets me excited. Thanks for posting!

I miss this attraction the most of all the extinct attractions. It just takes me right back to being a wide eyed kid watching this video. Thank you so much.

Thank you for posting this!