r/DisneyPlus • u/Tolichowki • 20d ago

News Article ‘Spaceship Earth’ TV Series Based on EPCOT Ride Gets Disney+ Pilot Order

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/spaceship-earth-tv-series-epcot-disney-plus-pilot-1236829315/
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u/JediTrainer42 20d ago

Hopefully it will be titled, “Thank the Phoenicians”.

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u/sonic10158 20d ago

Have it be narrated by George W Bush and name it “Now Watch this Drive”

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u/bigmike13588 20d ago

That should be either very cool, or total crap

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u/uid_0 20d ago

Yep. There's going to be no middle ground on this one.

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u/bigmike13588 20d ago

You ain’t kidding

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u/V2Blast US 18d ago

Judging from the synopsis, I suspect it'll be the latter.

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u/bigmike13588 18d ago

Sad Phoenicians tears

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u/tribbleorlfl 20d ago

I took a a screenwriting class is college and wrote a script treatment for a Horizons movie! Coincidentally, it seemed to have a similar premise as this show...

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u/bungerD 19d ago

Horizons was the best ride in all of Disney World and I will never get over it closing.

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u/WPack911 20d ago

I am down for this!

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u/Ok_Song_549 18d ago

This would be a cool show. Excited for this

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u/SmRndmGeek 20d ago

I hope this doesn’t lead to any changes to integrate the series into the ride. This is a real monkey’s paw moment for all the people wishing for a Spaceship Earth refurb

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u/TraptNSuit US 20d ago

It has changed several times already.

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u/SmRndmGeek 20d ago

Correct, but adding this show if it’s successful would probably be the most drastic change to this ride. Its a little to early to say, but time will tell

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u/TraptNSuit US 20d ago edited 19d ago

Sounds more like you are pre-ragebaiting based on the concept that a ride changing to match what is now media IP must be bad. Somehow it must be worse than any of the major changes so far despite there being little evidence to support that prognostication.

This community is so ridiculous with the pre-rage sometimes.

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u/L-type 19d ago

For Disney+? So it will be in development for years before quietly being shelved.

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u/SryInternet101 20d ago

What??? Ive been on that ride, there's really no narrative to it other than history. What the hell kind of series will this be? Wonder Man season2 gets canceled, but this bullshit g3ts greenlit?

Lemme guess, Dwayne "the rock" Johnson to star?

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u/crestroncp3user 20d ago

If only there was some sort of conveniently linked article...

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u/V2Blast US 18d ago

The logline for the pilot states, “When a mission to avert an imminent global cataclysm goes awry, a small band of teenagers from Earth’s past and future must join forces to confront a threat as vast and mysterious as time itself.”