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December 10, 2007

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A Steve in Spaceship Earth

Posted Dec. 10, ’07, 12:32 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » People

Spaceship EarthThere was a rumor floating around last week that EPCOT Center’s Spaceship Earth ride (the giant golf ball-shaped center of that part of the park) would include a scene based on the creation of the personal computer. Early whispers suggested that a figure representing Steve Jobs—and Jobs alone—would be shown, but one blogger who got a chance to go on the ride has provided photographic evidence of the new addition.

The narration reputedly only introduces the scene saying “In the late Seventies, in a garage in California…”, but the shot from this angle looks to me more like Steve Wozniak than Jobs, based on the hair, build, and okay, even the shirt. The computer in the mockup looks pretty much nothing like the Apple I, if that’s what it’s intended to be, although if the Apple I and original Macintosh had a child out of wedlock, it might kind of resemble that bizarre box-shaped setup.

But I gotta ask: why not both Steves? Is Disney being coy, or is Steve simply eschewing the personal limelight, as he is wont to do (especially given his position at Disney, which might make it look a bit self-aggrandizing)? Either way, we now begin the MacUser pool on which attraction Apple personnel will show up in next: Phil Schiller in the Pirates of the Caribbean? Jony Ive in Tomorrowland? Bertrand Serlet in It’s a Small World After All?

[via Gizmodo]


1 Comments

Philip Michaels said:

Visitors to Disney's California Adventure will know that the two Steves are already represented in a Disney theme park. California Adventure features a movie called Spirit of California, which profiles all the wondrous things that have happened in the golden state. And one scene features a pair of scruffy 1970s computer geeks -- one a suave fellow named "Steve," the other a bumbler named "Woz" -- who are going to show off their homemade computer. "Steve" confidently tells "Woz" that one day, they'll sell millions of their personal computers. Whoopi Goldberg -- the narrator of the movie-- appears and agrees that they might just do that. Then, because subtlety is dead, she bites into an apple.

Your time to witness the Spirit of California grows short -- Disney's apparently going to replace that exhibit with a Little Mermaid ride.

December 10, 2007 3:51 PM

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