Treasures: TOMORROWLAND Discussion

[Mr. Toad]

Saw discussions for the other three but not this one.

I watched Man in Space today. Was really interesting. The animation was good. Ward Kimball hosted it. Thought it was interesting that all the people running the US space program in the 1950's seemed to be Germans. Although, it made some sense as Germany's rocket and missle program was way ahead of the States. If they had a few more months the Germans may have developed a program that would have won World War 2. Scary.

[Bill W]

I've watched Man in Space, Man and the Moon, Epcot, and the interview with Marty Sklar. Man in Space and Man and the Moon was interesting. Obviously, their ideas were a little off, but I'm sure played a tremondous role in the US space program of the 50s and 60s.

I thought Epcot was especially interesting. I don't understand how they thought the people mover transportation system could be effecient with a population base of only 20,000. Back in the day, the typical family would have been 4 people (think Leave it to Beaver), so that means only 5,000 households, and of course mom stays home all day. It was a neat idea and all, but how in the world could it be justified with so few people?

[herman_the_german]

A very nice review, with personal comments from Savant:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=10711

Check out the reviews for the other sets also.

[EarthX]

The flow from the 3 episodes on Disc One was really interesting.

Seeing them by themselves on TV, I hadn't realized how well each built upon the previous outings.

As a WWII buff, I did get a chuckle out of the fact that all those experts seemed to have been part of Germany's program in the 1940s.

The shift from Hot War to Cold War was swift indeed!

[Ludwig Von Drake]

Man and the Moon was very interesting. I also thought that the animation was very good especially the average man.

[jabroni76]

I saw the Ray Bradbury interview and I loved it. I haven't had the chance to watch the rest of the set, but that interview alone is definately worth my 24 bucks! How I love that author.. though I probably spelled his name wrong!

[STASHONE]

This is easily my favorite set after The Frontlines.

I was surprised to find that Ward Kimball's animation in many of the featured Disneyland segments is reminiscant of the stylized UPA cartoons produced in the 1950's rather than anything one would normally associate with a Walt Disney film.

I'm gonna watch disc 2 today if I have some free time this afternoon.

[Luke]

I most enjoyed the Mars episode, and Man and the Moon. The animation sequences were really great; the live action I found to be a mixed bag.

Full review, of course, here:
http://www.ultimatedisney.com/tomorrowland.html

[DDMAN26]

I watched Man in Space, fun and entertaing. Tonight I plan on watching Man and the Moon and Man and Mars.

[jebsdad]

I surprised even myself by checking the Tomorrowland set first after bringing all four sets home from Wal-Mart at 6 AM on 18 May.

I had owned all the contents for years, but I knew that the "Space" TV shows had been filmed in color - even though originally broadcast in black and white. It was important to me to see the shows in color - especially the Man And The Moon, which I had only seen previously in black and white. The color added a great deal to my enjoyment, especially the animation.

As with all four sets, I was thrilled to get such nice quality DVD picture and sound in these old programs.

The "Tomorrowland" portion of the TV anthology series was rarely shown, compared to the other "lands" - mainly because the shows were much more expensive to create. Many of the other lands were recycled cartoons, films, and featurettes.

I guess that's why the Tomorrowland shows fascinate me more than most of the other Disney TV anthology shows. Mars And Beyond still amazes me after watching it numerous times over the years due to the imaginative animation and just fun scenes. The scene of Donald shown in the long line of Martian creatures chasing the secretary is still one of my favorite Disney scenes of all time. It STILL makes me laugh, after 20 years of watching it at least once every year.

I give this set a grade of "A+" - all the other sets received grades of "A".

[rodneyf]

I loved this set. This was the first Treasure set that I went through this year. It was very entertaining and unique. I didn't expect that much from it at first, but I grew to love it. Walt was such a visionary and this set just shows how he really loved looking towards the future. It's a fascinating experience. the EPCOT idea is really interesting, and I loved all of the Man in Space features. They were really interesting.

[pezisgood]

It was alo the first one I watched, and I was amazed. Everything about it, the concepts, animation were great. I would say for me it ranks 2/4 so far(although I still have to view On the Front Lines).The part where the aliens were chasing the girl and Donald Duck was one of them was hilarious to me.

[Maerj]

Just watched "My Friend the Atom." They really wanted to inject radioactive particles into everything didn't they? Lots of great stuff on these sets, its nice to have the Epcot film as well. Cool concept!

[rnrlesnar]

I almost didn't order this set, but decided to get it just to complete the collection. To my surprise, it's one of my favorites. I've watched the first two shows and they were both very interesting and fun to watch. Most of on this board probably grew up after the moon landing, so to think of how people in the 50's reacted to this kind of stuff is really neat. Whats amazing is how many of the theories and assumptions that the scientist had back proved to be true. It would be great if that much excitement existed today for NASA. Just think of how much could have been already done if the effort that was used to get a man on the moon was applied today. Not to say there havent been amazing accomplishments since, but we could be so much further along.

[Maerj]

I saw the Ray Bradbury interview and I loved it. I haven't had the chance to watch the rest of the set, but that interview alone is definately worth my 24 bucks! How I love that author.. though I probably spelled his name wrong!

I really enjoyed that interview as well. It's cool that they got Ray to help with the creation of Spaceship Earth at EPCOT. I really enjoy hearing first hand accounts of what Walt was like, it gives a connection to the man, as close as we may ever get.

[Eeyore]

I've only watched the first two shows, have loved them both.

Favourite moment so far is the high tech repair of the fuel leak. "He slowly approaches it, be careful now, WHOOMP!"

Caught me totally off guard.

[Class316]

I dunno. I found it kinda boring. I guess the Atom one is pretty impressive. By the way for those who don’t know, the reason why the quarter was pointed out as silver is because all quarters, dimes, and half dollars dated 1964 and earlier are 90% silver.

It has its moments, but IMO it’s the weakest of all treasures. I have yet to watch the Epcot one. Looks interesting.

[MickeyMousePal]

Here's what I think of Tomorrowland.

Man in Space Ok
Man and the Moon OK
Mars and Beyond OK
Eyes in Outer Space OK
Our Friend the Atom Great
"EPCOT" TV Special Excellent
"The Optimistic Futurist" OK

Tomorrowland is the weakest in Wave 3 but I really enjoyed watching it.
I thought it was very educational and intresting to watch. I have two copies of Tomorrowland.