The ride has been updated five times since Walt Disney’s original incarnation, but the changes are mostly factual, tweaking a 1970s card to the ’80s to a nebulous date in the 21st century. That final scene is a little snippet into a future without dread, one where the characters sing about a “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,” The Progress family plays virtual reality video games, watches a HD flat-screen television, and uses voice-activated lights - all things that are quite feasible in this day and age, but back when the ride was created, they were hopeful dreams of the future. The show ends with a big time skip to the 21st century, where the Progress family gathers around their living room for Christmas. Each of the scenes takes place in a different decade of the 20th century, with a patented Disney Audio Animatronic named John Progress enthusiastically explaining the technological innovations made in the era - be that electric lights in the 1900s, appliances in the kitchen during the 1920s, or dishwashers in the 1940s. Image: Walt Disney WorldĬurrently exclusive to Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, The Carousel of Progress, originally constructed for the 1964 New York World’s fair, and now tucked away at Tomorrowland, is essentially a darkened theater where the main “carousel” stage spins around to show off four different scenes. (Note: it may also be a good place to breastfeed, I didn’t test that.) Sitting in a dark room for 20 minutes is a welcome reprieve from the hot Florida sun, but on top of that, the attraction captures a moment of blissful optimism that might make you believe in a better future for a snippet of time. What I found wasn’t a boring place to breastfeed, but a quaint pocket of hopeful retro-futurism that spoke to the ethos of Walt Disney’s vision of the future more than any other attraction in Tomorrowland. Rated one star out of five, the micro-review of Carousel of Progress read, “boring, but it’s my go-to place to breastfeed.”ĭetermined to test the legitimacy of the guidebook, I carved out precious Disney park time to ride the Carousel of Progress. My first memory of Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress wasn’t the ride itself, but from a guidebook entry I found at an AirBnB.
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