Tomorrowland (location)

“A vista into a world of wondrous ideas, signifying man’s achievements … a step into the future, with predictions of constructive things to come. Tomorrow offers new frontiers in science, adventure, and ideals: the Atomic Age, the challenge of outer space, and the hope for a peaceful and unified world”

―Walt Disney

Tomorrowland
Attractions	Disney Springs Marketplace Tomorrowland Turtle Talk with Crush
Location	California
Inhabitants	Tom Morrow Tomorrowland Chamber of Commerce League of Planets Mister Johnson Nipper the Robot Dog Tomorrowland Transit Authority ORAC John Sarah Jimmy Patricia Rover Sam the Eagle Ollie the Owl Sam Flynn Snowflake EFX Ltd. Metropolis Institute of Time Travel Sonny Eclipse The Space Angels Buzz Lightyear The Little Green Men Imagination Institute Monsters, Incorporated Tomorrowland Metro-Retro Historical Society Tomorrowland News Network Tip Trendo Francis Stevens Zorn Quarkzed Wreck-It Ralph Loyal Order of Little Green Beings Galactic Association of Retired Aliens ASIMO & Bird Sleepless Knights of the Milky Way Space Man & Space Girl Dusty, Sparky & Suzy Etch The Merchant of Venus Corona Borealis Callina Lunar
Visitors	Stitch Timekeeper 9-Eye X-S Tech S.I.R. Skippy The Alien United Galactic Federation Wayne Szalinski Dr. Nigel Channing Mike Wazowski Sulley Roz Thor Dr. Jane Foster Spider-Man Captain America Iron Man Nemo Dan Truman Grace Stamper

Tomorrowland is the setting of the eponymous themed land in the Disney Parks.

Description

Tomorrowland is a futurist settlement located in California, built overtop of rocky California terrain with jutting rocks of red/orange and grey/blue colour. Tomorrowland is filled with advanced and experimental technology, along with visitors from other planets and dimensions with many setting in Tomorrowland causing it to be a melting-pot of humans, cyborgs, aliens, robots and other creatures. Tomorrowland was headquarters for the alien diplomatic organization the League of Planets, along with the interstellar-broadcast Tomorrowland News Network (with residents also picking up off-planet television signals).

Transit is made throughout Tomorrowland via its PeopleMover transportation system, controlled by the Tomorrowland Transit Authority and the artificial-intelligence ORAC. Tomorrowland was also filled with many maintained plants, and mechanical trees which the Tomorrowland Light & Power Company used to generate energy via synthesized photosynthesis. Tomorrowland has many prominent groups and companies, with those of the Tomorrowland Chamber of Commerce holding particular power. Tomorrowland also has a democratically elected mayor with the only individual known to have held this role being Professor Tom Morrow.

Features

• Alien Pizza Planet: This was a location for the chain, "Pizza Planet". It has a Moonliner next to its location, promoting the, "Spirit of Refreshment".
• Aunty Gravity's Galactic Goodies: This is a pastry-shop which is part of the Tomorrowland Chamber of Commerce.
• Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin: This is a business which is part of the Tomorrowland Chamber of Commerce. While the place in cannon of this building is unclear, it seems to be an attraction themed around the in-universe Buzz Lightyear franchise, though its inhabitants the Space Rangers have also been referenced as a Tomorrowland organization. Various toy items featured in the attraction have been identified as coming from Al's Toy Barn, a Californian toy-store owned by amoral toy collector Al McWhiggin.
• Avenue of Planets: The Avenue of Planets is a pathway which acted like Tomorrowland's, "Main Street".
• Carousel Theatre: The Carousel Theatre is a large rotating theatre which is home to the show, "Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress", starring the Carousel family of John, Sarah, Rover, Jimmy, Patricia and some other relatives. While it is known that the Carousel Theatre and its inhabitants are recognized in cannon, their place in it is unclear.
• Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe: Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe is an interstellar food-chain with a franchise in Tomorrowland. This particular restaurant is regular venue for the singer/astro-organist Sonny Eclipse and his invisible backup singers, the Space Angels.
• The Cool Scanner: The Cool Scanner is a small Coca Cola service with a, "Thirst Rangers" space-ship used to transport the soda across the galaxy.
• Hover-Burbs: The Hover-Burbs are a floating neighbourhood in Tomorrowland, connected to the rest of Tomorrowland by the People-Mover's Green Lines.
• The Merchant of Venus: A shop and relaxation zone in Tomorrowland which is part of the Tomorrowland Chamber of Commerce. The proprietor of the building also used the space to curate the Tomorrowland history exhibit, "An Interstellar Collection of Cosmic Recollection".
• Metropolis Science Institute: A facility used by scientists of Metropolis, such as the Metropolis Institute of Time Travel.
• Obervatron: The Observatron is an observatory/telescope like device which can rotate and play audio.
• Rockettower Plaza: Rockettower Plaza is a centrepiece of the Avenue of Planets and a major point of operations for the Tomorrowland Transit Authority, and League of Planets.
  • The League of Planets Astro-Orbiter: The Astro-Orbiter was created by the League of Planets as a symbol of interplanetary unity. Located on the top floor of the plaza building, it depicts various planets and allows for people to ride faux rockets around them.
  • The Lunching Pad at Rockettower Plaza: This is a dining-service at the bottom-floor of the plaza.
  • Rockettower Plaza Stage: The Rockettower Plaza Stage is a notable outdoor Tomorrowland venue.
• Space Station 77: Space Station 77, nicknamed, "Space Mountain" for its immense size and shape, is one of the two central space stations in Tomorrowland and is run by the League of Planets. While a Tomorrowland building, Space Station 77 also referred to a large space-station in orbit which the building was connected to via teleportation; composed of four structures resembling Space Mountain and a tower building in the centre.
• Starport Seven-Five: Starport Seven-Five or Tomorrowland Station MK-1 is one of the two primary space-stations in Tomorrowland. Nicknamed, "Space Mountain" for its immense size, the facility harbours a variety of space-ships used for transport across the universe, assisted by the Starport's, "Superspace Tunnel" teleportation systems, which sent ships to space-stations across the universe. The starport was located directly adjacent to the Tomorrowland Light & Power building.
• Submarine Lagoon: Submarine Lagoon, also known as, "Tomorrowland Lagoon" is a water-body bordering the ocean. The lagoon has historically held a fleet of nuclear submarines which departed on voyages from this lagoon.
• Tomorrowland Expo Center: The Tomorrowland Expo Center is a two-story building used as a venue for different showcases in Tomorrowland. It has historically been used by Mayor Tom Morrow to show off different technologies, and to have exhibits on different superheroes such as Iron Man of Stark Industries, Thor and Asgard held by Odin and Dr. Jane Foster, and the WWII history of Captain America. The Expo Center may have previously been a theatre for Carousel of Progress, and likewise may have been sold by its resident family to the characters of Sam the Eagle and Ollie the Owl.
• Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Centre: The Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Centre was a prominent expo centre which the PeopleMover passed overtop of, and which hosted various entities from Earth and other planets. Around the early 2000s, this convention centre held a disastrous expo for alien mega-corporation X-S Tech where an alien monster was teleported into the building and went on a rampage, killing various people before it was stopped. This building may have been replaced by Tomorrowland Urban Planning.
• Tomorrowland Launch Depot: Directly adjacent to Starport Seven-Five is the Tomorrowland Launch Depot. The store has a stylized clock on the outside. The inside of the launch depot has various elements connected to the ongoings of ENCOM and the Grid.
• Tomorrowland Light & Power: Tomorrowland Light & Power is an energy production service which is part of the Tomorrowland Chamber of Commerce, previously shown to be located directly to Starport Seven-Five. They are known to create energy through mechanical palm-trees which synthetically photosynthesize energy into coconut-shaped batteries.
• Tomorrowland Station: A station in Tomorrowland for the Disneyland Railroad. The Tomorrowland path of the railroad is affiliated with the, "Primeval World" diorama.
• Tomorrowland Super Highways: Also known simply as the Tomorrowland Speedway or, "Autopia/The Magic Highway", this is a highway system of 20th century cars and retro architecture. The area may have had a population of sentient automobiles, and thus businesses and services catering to said vehicles.
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• Tomorrowland Urban Planning: Tomorrowland Urban Planning is a stop on the PeopleMover, which may have replaced the Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Centre. Within Urban Planning was a display of Walt Disney's progress city, displayed by the Tomorrowland Metro-Retro Historical Society.
• Tomorrowland Towers Hover-Hotel: Located three-miles above Tomorrowland on the atmosphere three skyway exit, this is a pristine floating hotel seemingly attended by robots, and which has many luxury offerings.
• Upload Conduit: This is a large structure made by the company ENCOM. The structure serves as a portal between Tomorrowland and the digital world of, "The Grid". Namely, the building uploads users into the Lightcycle Power Run competition.

History

Background

Early History

Tomorrowland's earliest history seems to go back to the year 1986. Early projects in Tomorrowland included Moonliner Flight Systems where Professor Tom Morrow oversaw the Moonliner rocket being sent to the moon, and where Mister Johnson oversaw the Moonliner being sent to Mars. There was also Snowflake EFX Ltd. which used the, "Mighty Microscope" to miniaturize individuals and Atom-Mobile vehicles to a microscopic and sub-atomic level. Tomorrowland's Submarine Lagoon was used to send off nuclear-submarines under the North Pole where they may have found ruins of Atlantis.

New Tomorrowland

“The Tomorrow that Never Was...is Finally Here!”

―New Tomorrowland slogan

By around the 1990s-2000s, Professor Tom Morrow was elected the mayor of Tomorrowland. Tomorrowland also became headquarters fo the League of Planets, who created the League of Planets Astro-Orbiter as a show of Galactic Peace. The League of Planets was also involved in running Tomorrowland's space-port of, "Space Mountain". This resulted in many aliens coming to visit and live in Tomorrowland.

At some point between 1995 and 2000, Tomorrowland's Metropolis Science Center was visited by robotic Metropolis Institute of Time Travel members The Timekeeper & 9-Eye who showed off their time-travel technology in an incident where they also happened upon Jules Verne and brought him along for a time-traveling adventure which ended in Verne and H.G. Wells collaborating to make their own time-machine.

Stitch's Great Escape

After escaping from the Galactic Federation Prisoner Transport Centre of the United Galactic Federation, the alien outlaw Experiment 626 AKA Stitch who broke into the Tomorrowland News Network's space-shuttle, being used by Dave Nebula. During Galaxy Day celebrations in Tomorrowland, Stitch interrupted a show of Tip Trendo before teleporting himself into Tomorrowland with back-up dancers bought through the amoral alien company Robo-Mart. Stitch escaped and went on a rampage throughout Tomorrowland as a wanted criminal.

ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter

The alien teleported into Tomorrowland

After Stitch's rampage in Tomorrowland, Tomorrowland became noticed by the probes of X-S Tech, an evil alien mega-corporation who supplied the United Galactic Federation Prisoner Transport Centre and whom were parent-company of Robo-Mart. X-S Tech chairman L.C. Clench teamed up with the Tomorrowland Chamber of Commerce to hold a demo of X-S Tech's X-S Series 1000 Teleportation Tube in the Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Centre. This expo was opened by the X-S robot S.I.R. who demonstrated the technology on alien captive, "Skippy" who was mutilated by the technology, then disintegrated by it.

The apparent original plan was to demonstrate  X-S Series 1000 teleportation systems by teleporting one Tomorrowland citizen to X-S Tech's headquarters to meet with Clench, though the chairman changed the plans last minute and had his scientists Dr. Femus and Spinlock send him to Earth instead. Due to a planet in the trajectory of X-S' teleportation beam, a giant carnivorous monster was teleported into the convention centre instead where it attacked and killed several people. Clench's activities during this incident were unknown, but he was seemingly recovered later.

Later history

Notable businesses in Tomorrowland were related to the Pizza Planet and Buzz Lightyear franchises of restaurants and toys. "Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin" became a notable member of Tomorrowland's Chamber of Commerce while Pizza Planet used the Moonliner as decor outside of their restaurant.

Around the 2000s, Tomorrowland was contacted by the extra-dimensional city of monsters, "Monstropolis" and their energy company Monsters, Incorporated. Company president James P. Sullivan and his peer Mike Wazowski used human laughter to generate electricity, prompting them to use a building in Tomorrowland to transport guests to their factory in Monstropolis for a comedy-show to create energy.

Around the 2010s, the Tomorrowland Expo Center hosted exhibits on multiple, "Superheroes" such as Iron Man, Spider-Man, Thor and Captain America. After 2011, Thor's lover Dr. Jane Foster held an exposition on the culture and artifacts of Asgard to promote peace between realms after Thor's brother Loki tried conquering the Earth, with the exhibit being supported by Odin and having a bifrost portal to Asgard's throne-room.

At some point after c. 2010 (possibly into the 2020s), Sam Flynn of the company ENCOM created a building in Tomorrowland connecting to the digital world of the Grid.

Development history

Tomorrowland was originally set in the then distant future of the year 1986. This was chosen as it would mark the return of Halley's Comet, the comet which Sam Clemens was both born and died under. When 1986 came, light pollution from human technology caused it to be the least visible recording of the comet in known history.

In 1994, Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom oversaw an overhaul aimed at adding more cohesive world and story theming to Tomorrowland.

Appearances

Disney Springs Marketplace Co-Op

A sign of flights identifies an airplane as having arrived in Disney Springs from Tomorrowland. The flight ID is, "AA 155", referencing Disneyland's opening of 1955.

EPCOT

Innoventions

Innoventions indirectly references EPCOT via the robot Tom Morrow 2.0, connected to Tomorrowland citizen and mayor Professor Tom Morrow.

Turtle Talk with Crush

When asked where Nemo is, Crush will traditionally respond by saying that he is in, "Tomorrowland Lagoon".

Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland is the titular setting of this area in the Disney Parks.

Indirect references

Various attractions have indirect references to Tomorrowland, via direct references to its characters and stories.

• Main Street Cinema: The Disneyland Casting Agency posting does not directly reference Tomorrowland, though it does mention many characters and entities relating to Tomorrowland. Among these are Tom Morrow looking for ground-control for the Moonliner, astronauts for a space-station X1 movie, crew-members for a submarine voyage, and miniaturizing technicians to handle the Mighty Microscope for Snowflake EFX Ltd.
• Skipper Canteen: The Skipper Canteen's library contains several books referencing Tomorrowland, and written by Tomorrowland affiliated characters. Amongst these books are, "Mission to the Stars" and "Mission to the Red Planet" written by Morrow/T. Morrow (Tom Morrow), "Creatures from Space!" by Clench (Chairman L.C. Clench), "Keeping Time" by Williams (The Timekeeper), then "A Flight Through Dreams" &, "If You Had Wings You Could Fly", by B.L. (Buzz Lightyear).

Trivia

• The Starcade featured the Fix it Felix Jr. video-game, which is home to Wreck-it Ralph and Fix it Felix Jr. along with the arcade-game TRON.
• Tomorrowland was the only Magic Kingdom land not invaded by Hades in Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom. It was indirectly referred to in the attraction however.

Gallery

Rockettower Plaza Stage's screen showing Tomorrowland's name and logos for its various inhabitants including Monsters Inc., the Carousel Theatre, Space Mountain and Star Command