The experience is a precursor to the Mission: SPACE attraction, which will also be sponsored by Compaq and is scheduled to open in 2003. Disney’s Internet Zone provides a fun, family-oriented experience where guests can interact with new technology and Internet focused products. At INNOVENTIONS, Disney guests can experience the near future while they test and try products that are leading our world through the new millennium.
In keeping with Walt Disney’s legacy as an entertainment pioneer, we have created a technology playground for our guests at Disney’s Internet Zone, said Ken Goldstein, executive vice president and managing director, Disney Online. Our relationship with Compaq coupled with our engaging content has allowed us to offer exciting interactive entertainment at an attraction at a theme park that is dedicated to creativity, inventiveness and imagination.
The Disney Internet Zone presented a fun opportunity for us to use our innovative technology expertise to create an advanced, interactive entertainment experience, said Peter Blackmore, executive vice president, worldwide sales and services, Compaq Computer Corporation. And we look forward to the many more projects that Compaq and Disney have planned for the future.
The Mission: SPACE Launch Center features several elements that touch on the excitement and challenges of training for space travel, including an interactive timeline, a Hubble space telescope display, a multi-player maze game that lets guests guide a hovercraft around a planet, the Hab Lab, which recreates a gravity-free environment, and a model of the X-2 experimental rocket. Disney.com will produce an original Web site with multi-player activities to accompany the Mission: SPACE Launch Center, which is scheduled to be live later this year.
