| has gloss | eng: World of Motion (October 1, 1982 – January 2, 1996), sponsored by General Motors, was the former tenant of the Transportation pavilion at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort. It was an opening day attraction at EPCOT Center in 1982 and it closed in 1996 to make way for Test Track, a new thrill ride through a GM testing facility. Visitors would board moving four to six person Omnimover vehicles, and would be taken through scenes that were populated with Audio-Animatronic figures and projection effects. Of the science & technology-themed long dark rides in the original Epcot, the World of Motion was the "funny" one, with a gently irreverent tone, unlike its at-times humorless counterparts. It was a whimsical look at the history and achievements in transportation, showing scenes from the invention of the wheel, right up to the present day and beyond. |
