Back when I first made these pictures, these pictures were just a collection of random pictures. After six future vistas, I stopped, and discovered that there was a system to what I had created. Basically, the first half are internal futures, and the latter half are external. In Horizons at Epcot, there were futures that were created by our past. They were shaped by the cultures and ideologies of yesteryear, and my first post was about that idea. This second post is the same as the latter half of Horizons, which shows how the future might be. These pictures are how we might adapt and change to our current needs, not to the needs of the past.
These are the last pictures I made in the Future Vista series. While I never made more pictures, I always thought I should do more in it. Maybe I will one day.
The Future of Nature .
Look out! It's the Eisner era Tomorrowland! CRACK-A-THOOM!
In all honesty, this picture came from how unique Space Mountain looked when covered with rusty bronze. And, maybe because I didn't have to endure 90's Tomorrowland, but I liked the idea of a Montana of the future. Several elements of the '98 Tomorrowland were incorporated into this picture and expanded into a natural future vista. Decorative elements like the Innoventions triangle wedge and the giant marble water fountains are now slightly more useful than their real world counterpart, with a planter inside the globe and an incorporated water system. The Rocket Rods are now functional as a dune buggy system of transport. The Observatron spinner is now a rain machine, making a desert storm to nourish the land, instead of just randomly spinning.
The Future of Technology .
Tubes? Analog data? Forget Jules Verne, this is the oldest picture here!
Well, this picture is fairly obvious. Tron and the Matrix in a computer based future. In the early phases of this project, there was still a desire to only make pictures of how various decades would have seen the future, like Horizons did. Two pictures I had in mind were the future from the 80's and the 90's. The 80's, which I might make sometime in the future, was Star Wars. The 90's picture would have been computers, and the Matrix. But when Epic Mickey showed their Tron inspired Space Mountain, I knew I had to use it. The two ideas combined to form a new kind of cityscape, inside a computer. Here, data is processed and transmitted faster than the human mind can comprehend, blasting us into the future. Maybe I could do a blue scale version of this picture, to better tie in to TRON: Legacy.
Space...the final picture. For now, at least.
The future from space is another picture with a story. Another aspect of my Future Vista pictures is how most of the pictures represented some form of Tomorrowland. Hong Kong Disneyland's Tomorrowland was a complicated theme to locate. There is really just a large amount of space stuff here and there. Apparently, the theme was a space port, so I took it from there. The spinner ride, Orbitron, has become a collection of planets floating out in space, and Space Mountain is anchored to a small asteroid base. Space Mountain's design isn't particularly different, with the exception of the radio lights on the top. The other main feature of Hong Kong Tomorrowland, the Tomorrowland Terrace restaurant, serves as the other base of operations. In this future, it'll be easy to grab a bite and go spinning around the stars.