Innoventions (Epcot)

Innoventions
File:Innoventions1.png Logo for Innoventions at Epcot
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Attraction type	Walk-Through with Interactive Attractions
Designer	Walt Disney Imagineering
Replaced	CommuniCore
Wheelchair accessible
Assistive listening available

Innoventions is a pavilion at Epcot in Walt Disney World, Florida. It focuses on technological advancements and their practical applications in everyday life. Innoventions is a portmanteau of the words "innovation" and "invention".

Innoventions first opened in 1994 which prominently displayed Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Sega CD, and Sega Pico games in an arcade style. There were some "virtual reality" displays (which was basically more advanced video games at the time). Innoventions in Epcot replaced the original tenant of its two semi-circular buildings, CommuniCore. Epcot's version is divided into two buildings known as Innoventions East and Innoventions West. In 1999, Innoventions had a major renovation for the park's Millennium Celebration, and added the subtitle "The Road to Tomorrow". In 2007-2008 Innoventions underwent another major renovation, dropped the subtitle "Road to Tomorrow," and changed its general aesthetic again while also launching the companion website http://innoventions.disney.com/site/

An entrance to the Innoventions pavilion, as it appeared in February 2005. Since this photo was taken, the sign tower in front of the building has been removed, as well as the Mickey wand on Spaceship Earth in the upper right.

Current exhibits

Innoventions East

• Don't Waste It!, presented by Waste Management, Inc.
• Environmentality Corner
• Test the Limits Lab, presented by Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
• StormStruck, presented by FLASH (Federal Alliance for Safe Homes)
• The Sum Of All Thrills, presented by Raytheon
• Take a Nanooze Break, presented by Cornell University and National Science Foundation

Innoventions West

• Where's the Fire?, sponsored by Liberty Mutual
• Play It Safe, sponsored by Liberty Mutual
• Smarter Planet sponsored by IBM
• Segway Central
• SlapStick Studios, sponsored by the Velcro Companies
• Club Cool (formerly Ice Station Cool), sponsored by Coca-Cola
• The Great Piggy Bank Adventure, sponsored by T. Rowe Price

Former exhibits and sponsors

Innoventions East

Previous logo of Innoventions used from 1994-2007.

• Apple Computer (September 21, 1994 - January 31, 1998)
• Bill Nye - The Science Guy (April 15, 1998 - June 1, 1999)
• House of Innoventions (Closed October 2009)
• Communications Dream Forum, sponsored by Motorola (October 1995 - May 1, 2003)
• Discover the Stories Behind the Magic (September 24, 2001 - Late 2002)
• Disney Interactive (Spring 1996 - September 3, 1997)
• Disney's Internet Zone, sponsored by Disney.com (Closed July 2007)
• EPCOT Discovery Center (Fall 1996 - October 3, 1998)
• Family PC (Fall 1995 - June 1, 1999)
• Fantastic Plastics Works, sponsored by Society of the Plastics Industry (August 2004 - March 2008)
• Forests For Our Future, sponsored by TAPPI
• General Electric (July 1, 1994 - June 1, 1999)
• General Motors (July 1, 1994 - June 1, 1999)
• Hammacher Schlemmer (July 1, 1994 - September 1997)
• Honeywell (July 1, 1994 - Fall 1996)
• Look Into the Future (October 1, 1999 - February 19, 2001)
• Magic House Show (July 1, 1994 - Winter 1994)
• Masco's Magic House Tour (July 1, 1994 - Spring 1995)
• Mission: SPACE Launch Center, sponsored by Compaq/HP (May 2001 - 2003?)
• Mr. MIDI (June 1995 - September 1995)
• Oracle Corporation's Information Highway (October 1995 - September 3, 1997)
• Web Site Construction Zone, sponsored by GO.com (October 1, 1999 - February 19, 2001)
• Opportunity City, sponsored by Disney Online and the Kauffman Foundation (2004 - November 1, 2006)

Innoventions West

• Rockin' Robots' sponsored by KUKA Industrial Robots
• Alec Tronic
• Beautiful Science, sponsored by Monsanto Company
• Bill Nye - The Science Guy
• The Broadband Connection, sponsored by AT&T
• Discover Magazine
• Eclectronics
• Enel/Infobyte VR Presentation
• Inspired by Vision
• Knowledge Vortex, sponsored by Xerox
• LEGO Dacta
• Medicine's New Vision, sponsored by The Radiological Community
• Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Sega Pico, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, sponsored by Sega
• Silicon Graphics
• Time Warner
• Videonics
• Video Games of Tomorrow, sponsored by Disney Interactive
• Walt Disney Imagineering Labs
• The Ultimate Home Theater Experience, sponsored by Lutron
• Tom Morrow 2.0's Playground
• Epcot 25th Anniversary Gallery

Tom Morrow 2.0

Tom Morrow 2.0, singing and talking about the various areas of Innoventions.

Epcot's Innoventions' mascot for 2000-2007 was a small Audio-Animatronic character named Tom Morrow 2.0, the former host of Disney Channel's "Imagineer That!" shorts. He was removed in the 2007-2008 renovation. He will return when he's restored in the new renovation.

Area music

The area music played at Epcot is about 20 minutes long and begins with a musical piece by David Arkenstone entitled "Papillon (On The Wings Of The Butterfly)" from his album In the Wake of the Wind. The rest of the music was created by Walt Disney Imagineering and is not commercially available.

See also

• Epcot attraction and entertainment history
• Innoventions (Disneyland)

External links

• innoventions.disney.com
• Walt Disney World Resort - Innoventions