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3291.4 #11 (DL Qual #5)
August 5, 2012 10:05 AM
Good morning MW! This day in Disney history, August 5th, 1967. Adventure Thru Inner Space opens in Tomorrowland. Guests are transported in their "Atomobiles" through a microscope where they are shrunken down & sent off to explore the inside of an atom. It features the voice of Paul Frees & the song "Miracles from Molecules" written by the Sherman Brothers. For a virtual ride through, click here: 🎬 http://is.gd/tu6dq1 For a look back into 1967, click here: http://is.gd/N3anL0 🎥
Best part is that both versions of Star Tours have put in the Monsanto Mighty Microscope (the giant thing pictured above) into a scene of the attraction's flight. On the classic version, it was in the hanger as you took off incorrectly. In the current revamped version, it is seen in the Death Star before you go through the shield of the docking bay. Also, the comets in the original version looked very much like the snow flakes from Inner Space. Link here: http://tinyurl.com/8lzomkw - shadowgamer
1954.3 #37 11:00AM
Another informative reply! Awesome! Thank you!! - Duchess_SMK 3291.4 #11 11:04AM
Wow you guys are good. I'll have to remember to look for that. - Westcoast 63.2 #3523 1:53PM
Yes!! History class is back! Thanks :) - RickChavez
2192.2 #30 10:08AM
You know you did good when the trouble maker in the back sits up and pays attention! ;) thanks Rick! - Duchess_SMK 3291.4 #11 10:43AM
Hah!! - DisneyDawn 415.6 #310 12:21PM
Make out ride of my youth...lol - msdizmaui
519.0 #223 2:39AM
Lol. Mine was kingdom of the dinosaurs at knotts. I rode that ride about 10x in a row once. The other 2 people we went with weren't exactly thrilled. - aidensmama 336.6 #445 2:40AM
😨 - SquishyGlamazon 115.5 #2811 2:43AM
💏😂 - aidensmama 336.6 #445 2:47AM
I would have to say Mission to Mars was mines! - wickedprince 204.3 #1571 2:56AM
Quality content!!! Thank you for sharing this with us SMK! - PrinceTeaJack
786.3 #120 10:33AM
Thanks TeaJack9! 😉 - Duchess_SMK 3291.4 #11 11:29AM
I believe this was the first "Omnimover" ride as well. - Alicewhoareyou
536.3 #210 12:31PM
Pretty cool that that ramp part of the queue is still the same all these years later! - Bunnie
282.0 #721 1:14PM
I really loved this ride. I miss the "old" rides but I must say the virtual tour of this is pretty good. - SUUZinOC
715.3 #140 3:04PM
Freakin awsome!!! You always find the coolest facts!!! Thanks as usual lady!!! 😘 - CourtyAstroBlisters
440.2 #282 10:15AM
Thanks doll! And you always leave the sweetest comments! 😘😘 - Duchess_SMK 3291.4 #11 11:02AM
This is an attraction I've always wanted to go on! 5 years too late :( - thelittlestmouse
76.1 #3336 10:17AM
I missed out too! :( - Duchess_SMK 3291.4 #11 11:36AM
I LOVED this ride! Thanks for the great reminder of the past!! - JustGoofyDad
2130.7 #32 10:22AM
Happy to conjure up happy memories! 👋 - Duchess_SMK 3291.4 #11 11:38AM
This was a favorite as a kid. I wish it was still there. Nothing like sixties syfy. Disney, please bring back an updated version. - ScooterMike
1959.8 #35 10:26AM
I miss this ride. Thanks SMK! - LBChica
1500.3 #52 10:26AM
One of my all time favorites. - Evilstitch
330.3 #474 10:28AM
Thanks for the fact! These are fun!! - BubbaLoo
826.2 #109 10:29AM
Thank you again SMK. You're awesome! I have fond memories of Adventures Through Inner Space. - MyPark
944.4 #91 10:29AM
I miss this soooooo much!!!!! It was my favorite as a kid an the first ride of the day - KissDclown
1088.1 #77 10:34AM
I always wanted to know what this ride was like in person. Glad those of you who were lucky to ride it enjoyed it! - AshleyLynn22
747.6 #136 10:47AM
Be sure to watch that ride through video girl! It's pretty neat to imagine you are there! - Duchess_SMK 3291.4 #11 10:51AM
Oh I did! I love it! - AshleyLynn22 747.6 #136 1:31PM
This was my favorite ride as a kid!! I loved that I would shrink and then go exploring in space!!! I also loved that you could see part of this ride while on the People Mover. I was so sad when it closed and I could ride up the microscope anymore 😢 Thx for this awesome post!!! - caramiapoohAKAface
1463.1 #54 10:54AM
Flashback ! I loved this ride. 😊 - WishIWereThere
227.4 #1281 11:05AM
I don't remember this but feel like I should...I am old enough to! Thanks for the awesome post yet again! 😊 - MinnieMousewife
570.4 #194 11:14AM
Muchas gracias for the history lesson. - VfxGenie
1353.7 #59 11:16AM
A lot of people mid pronounce 'Atomobiles' as 'automobiles'. Anyways, wish I was alive to see this - BaseballMickey_CM
2862.7 #16 11:20AM
I used to love this ride as a kid. Thank you for the post. - JediMickey714
12.5 #6144 11:21AM
I'm sorry, but I would trade Star Tours back for this in a heartbeat. I so wish I was around for this! - ScubaSteve028
812.6 #114 11:31AM
This was my favorite ride in Tomorrowland when I was little. - Alicewhoareyou
536.3 #210 11:33AM
Thanks SMK! I love these posts!! I think I remember this. - LilSterner
2656.0 #18 11:40AM
Thanks for posting this! I always went on this one. Used to be concerned as a small child as to how we came out of the microscope, lol! - ElectricMayhemMom
312.3 #546 11:53AM
I loved this attraction when I was a kid. The entire concept fascinated me. - VeloMouseGirl
549.7 #202 12:03PM
This ride worried me as a little girl cuz I really believed we were shrunken in size. - jjdq
326.7 #491 12:18PM
Guessing I'm not the only one who was alittle bothered by this when I was little-it seemed so REAL! Thx for posting Duchess :) - DisneyDawn
415.6 #310 12:23PM
Thanks, Duchess! Nice to know! - LaTruce
1653.7 #45 1:11PM
I really miss that ride that and the people mover. doess anyone know why they took people movers out? i have alwas wondered.
- tinkertonnie
161.5 #2132 1:18PM
And this was a total make out ride 😘 - Bunnie
282.0 #721 1:33PM
This was one of my favorites when I was little. They had it at WDW for a while, not sure if it's still there. - PrincessKristin
776.6 #124 1:53PM
It was the makeout ride when I was in high school. heehee. - PrincessDuckie
588.4 #188 1:58PM
When my department head first started he worked there for a time. He said grad night there was always interesting. - lostgirl7988
541.6 #208 2:04PM
I road this when I was 5 on my 1st trip to Disneyland in 1978. I only remember a few things from that trip, and this ride is one of them. Because I thought it really made you shrink when you road it. Most people I've asked don't remember this ride. So thanks for the history about it. Brings back great magical memory's. - Heatherluvsdisney
224.6 #1303 2:30PM
i went on this many times as a young kid but I am much older than you since i graduated high school in '78. I remembered that this closed in 1985 for the first edition of startours. - Plumiegirl 3345.9 #10 2:42PM
Wish i had the chance to experience this. Thanks gor this history lesson Duchess - SpaceRAYnger
2422.6 #25 2:50PM
Loved this ride as a kid! Great post! - duckchub
290.3 #668 2:58PM
Awesome.. - DavidDisney
36.3 #4126 3:06PM
Great information! Thank you!!! - Boundin
425.4 #299 4:41PM
Both of these are great! Thanks for sharing. - DisneylandRxR
13.2 #5985 5:07PM
I remember that ride!! The eye always scared me! - MinnieJ
281.8 #722 5:15PM
Thank you for this post! I didn't even know about this ride! I was born long after it closed, lol. It was awesome learning about an attraction I'd never heard of! - LoveDisneyDucklings
28.6 #4444 5:37PM
I was so afraid of this as a lil girl! Creeeppyyy! - snowwhite76
4.0 #13494 6:06PM
Haha! This is great! This was my parents favorite ride (I have no idea why), and I hated it because that creepy eyeball always freaked me out. Thanks for sharing! - MarieC
265.5 #870 6:15PM
This was my favorite attraction as a little girl!! - JenAnneWho
300.7 #610 7:27PM
Loved that ride! People always seemed to try and get away with stuff in there! - pharaoh
251.3 #1002 9:00PM
Loved this ride...always a short line to. - DisneylandDadwithalazergunpewpew
3.8 #14772 10:06PM
I loved watching the shrunken people move up the tube as I waited in line. I also loved that humongous snowflake! - susieQzee
480.9 #247 12:03AM
I vaguely remember this ride as a child. All I remember is snow flakes. There are a lot of things from my childhood that I question whether they were real. Posts like these help me to know I'm not completely bonkers. Great post. 😄 - aidensmama
336.6 #445 2:09AM
Hahaha! 😄 I suffer from the same insecure feeling of reality! So many attractions and such that I can vaguely remember experiencing as a child, when our imaginations are bigger than ever. We didn't get to go to DL very often in my family, so it seemed that things changed dramatically from visit to visit. Of course then you start to wonder what was real and what was over imaginative DL magic induced child brain. - poppet 19.7 #5086 5:19AM
Awesome and as informative as usual Duchess! Thank you for sharing this bit of Disneyland history with us! It never ceases to amaze me how much the park has changed over the years. - poppet
19.7 #5086 5:23AM
I remember the one snowflake that was close enough to touch and that there were always bits of it missing. - Experiment818
1598.0 #48 6:34AM
Ruining the snowflakes wasn't nice, but there weren't cameras so you could get out and see that they were made of styrofoam if you were say an adventurous kid. - Westcoast 63.2 #3523 1:49PM
It was a wonderful adventure when it was new. Thanks for the link - Tealtownfan
693.4 #144 6:45AM
I always wondered how it was that the shrunken people going up the tube looked like the people in line...and how they unshrunk ( is that a word?) us when we came back out. - MyEeyore
229.2 #1259 12:46PM
My hubby talks about that ride. Don't remember it. Neat pic - Splashmountgirl
332.3 #463 1:12PM
if you take a look at the the queue for Inner Space and for Star Tours,
you can tell that they virtually left it untouched when creating star
tours...you can even see it in the pictue above - Dave
8660.7 #2 1:20PM
The retro video is so cool. Brings back memories. I like the drip fountain thing in the lobby. The shrunken cars with people in them were so fake looking I'm surprised anyone was fooled and scared. - Westcoast
63.2 #3523 1:51PM
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