It's in the Details #10

 In this series, we'll be looking at details that are hidden all around you at the parks. The Imagineers do a great job placing in many hidden gems and things to try that one has to take a moment to notice, or explore. Many of these are obvious and in plain sight, and some are hidden quite well, you just have to know where to look.

  This week's It's in the Details covers a small detail placed in an attraction as a tribute. In Animal Kingdom is the excellent time travelling ride Dinosaur, you're led to a secret basement time travel facility at the back of the Dino Institute, where you're on a journey to capture an Iguanadon, while evading a hungry Carnotaurus. Originally called Countdown to Extinction, it was changed to Dinosaur in 2000 to correspond and promote the movie of the same name; it opened with Animal Kingdom on April 22, 1998. As you begin safety checks in the Time Rover, to far right of the facility, on the wall above several electrical boxes and interfaces, is a label for the current sector within the facility:

SECTOR CTX-WDI-AK98

 It's fairly easy to break down given the previous information I gave:

CTX = Countdown to Extinction

WDI = Walt Disney Imagineering

AK98 = Animal Kingdom '98

    It serves as a tribute and reminder of the attraction's opening and origins.

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It's in the Details: Mission:Space Part 2

In this series, we'll be looking at details that are hidden all around you at the parks. The Imagineers do a great job placing in many hidden gems and things to try that one has to take a moment to notice, or explore. Many of these are obvious and in plain sight, and some are hidden quite well, you just have to know where to look.

Make sure to check out Part 1 for even more hidden gems from Mission:Space!

Mission:Space Part 2

Within the cabin of the ride vehicle is quite a visual overload. Buttons, switches, lights, and screens. A pair of buttons to either side of an individual's console makes several repetitious sounds, but the best detail: the word Imagineer is hidden in the code to the center right of the screen.

Also within the cabin, on each console with the control stick, is various information and technical data in Russian, Chinese, and other languages. Not sure what they say, but definitely a funny (if sort of sad), touch.

Another Horizons tribute, found in the gift shop at the end. Under the checkout counter, is this stylish version of the Horizons logo.

Do you know of more hidden details in Mission:Space? Share below!

It's in the Details: Mission:Space Part 1

In this series, we'll be looking at details that are hidden all around you at the parks. The Imagineers do a great job placing in many hidden gems and things to try that one has to take a moment to notice, or explore. Many of these are obvious and in plain sight, and some are hidden quite well, you just have to know where to look. All of them are done to enhance the guest experience, or as a tribute, often to previous attractions, for discoverers to understand.

For the first post, we'll highlight some of the details one can find at Mission:Space. As it's the first post, we'll highlight several, but we'll spread the future out with one to a post.

Mission Space Part 1

Right as you enter, there's an accurate model of the moon, with markers representing various landings by the USA and USSR on its surface. There's a placard explaining the colors: Red for Apollo 11, Blue for Manned missions, and White for Unmanned.

The attraction was created with references to the 2000 Disney Film, Mission to Mars. They were meant to be supplemental, the attraction a basis for the film. As such, you'll find many references and actual props from the film, such as this model of the spacecraft.

Previous to Mission:Space, was the much loved and missed attraction, Horizons. The debate over Mission:Space and the doom of Horizons rages in many places, but WDI was smart to include tributes. In the center of the (once spinning) living module (also from the movie), is the small icon of the former attraction.

 Check out It's in the Details: Mission:Space Part 2 for even more hidden gems!