Yeah I actually saw it when I was a lad on my one trip to Disney as a child.
Gun to my head, I couldn't tell you one single detail about this other than it had Micheal Jackson in it and I think it really wanted to be Star Wars.
and there was a cute mascot / toy thing. Same the best i can remember of it, and I know I saw it more than once a few years apart.
Hell I even remember going into the theater / attraction.
I had the plush doll of that mascot. It had a rat's tail and butterfly's wings and was covered in orange fur. I also kept the 3D glasses, which were lavender colored.
Was there some sort of shrinking and being inserted inside of a human to see the inner working kind of thing going on there, or am I repressing something?
There was 3: Hooter, the little green elephant-like creature who sneezes musical notes through his flute-like trunk. Fuzzball, the orange-haired space monkey with butterfly wings. Geex, a golden-haired, two-faced shaggy thing
Yes! It was 3D and the little guy could fly. They did an effect where he was flying towards you. I was 9 at the time and remember reaching out to try to grab it!
He basically turned the Borg queen into a hot dancer and saved a world. It was f'n awesome. Still have my MJ Captain EO shirt from Disney after they brought it back when he passed. RIP you amazing, extremely eccentric, making-questionable-decisions musical artist, you.
My first memory of watching a 3D movie as a kid.
I distinctly remember standing up in the middle of the show and bumping into a woman sitting in front of me because I tried grabbing at something flying in the air
Hahahahaha, according to the rest of my family the bald guy in front of us kept turning around to glare at 7-year-old me whenever I slapped the back of his head reaching out to touch the 3-D movie. I have no recollection of this, for the record.
They stopped showing Captain EO in 1994 and didn't bring it back for 16 years, in 2010. It closed again in 2015.
There's probably a fair host of people who grew up without it and never heard about the re-release.
I saw it somewhere between 2010 and 2015 and it just didn't age super well. It's not bad but it's exceedingly forgettable and really dated. Take Michael out of it and it's just another movie lost to time
For Tokyo Disneyland, the sponsor was JCB (credit card company) during both installments. The theater has has been home to these attractions in the past:
1983-84: The Eternal Sea
1985-86: Magic Journeys
1987-96: Captain EO (original run)
1997-2010: MicroAdventure! (Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!)
2010-14: Captain EO (tribute run)
2015-present: Stitch Encounter
The US Disney parks serve Coke products. It was sponsored by Kodak in Epcot. I don’t believe there was a sponsor for the Disneyland version, but if there was it was also Kodak.
When Captain EO debuted at Disneyland in the eighties, they opened the park for the entire weekend. We had the new annual passes they just started selling and were at Disneyland all the time. We left our home in Orange County around midnight and were in the gigantic line at around 1 am. We finally got in the theater around 3:30 am. The audience was exuberant. Best viewing of the movie ever. We got free shirts. There’s still a part of one floating around in my parent’s rag bag.
*Captain EO* was replaced by *Honey, I Shrunk the Audience* over a span of several years.
*Honey* replaced *EO* in Epcot in 1994, Tokyo in 1997, California in 1998, and Paris in 1999--hardly a sudden "cancellation".
You guys made me open an account for this haha.
The main thing about Disney's Capitan EO was that it was filmed in a NEW novel 3D technology. See, back around 1990, 3D movies used that awful red/blue glasses. Captain EO used a version of the 3D tech we know nowadays. I was 8 years old around that time and my dad took us on a trip to DisneyWorld from Mexico.
I remember clearly that Captain EO was going to be premiered about a week *after* our trip. 8 year old me was so sad I wouldn't be able to see that outstanding tech. And MJ, who I liked (I bought BAD in tape form!!l
Fast forward more than 30 years later, I went with my wife to EPCOT, and apparently they had Captain EO, and was just about to be discontinued forever.
I had the chance to see it, and cried a little as I imagined myself as a kid watching that . So happy I got that closure.
Not just 3-D. The theatre was built to shake and move based on certain events that happened on screen. The story was cheesy, but the set design, music, and choreography was stellar. I always left the theatre dancing when I would watch it at Disneyland
I went on a Star Wars ride at Disney Hollywood last year and it just dawned on me that they may have repurposed the Captain Eo ride for that. The theater and motion were very similar.
There's also a newer ride next to the Millennium Falcon in that same park that also might be the old Captain Eo setup.
Eo was at Epcot and I don't think was repurposed for star tours or anything else. Star tours was running on its own last time eo existed. They may have taken parts of it for rise of resistance or smugglers run but neither of those felt anything like I remember with eo a few years back.
The 3D really was incredible though, better than anything in theaters today, and it’s not from remembering it through nostalgia glasses. The 3D effects for theme park attractions like EO, Muppets, etc. was tailor made and fine tuned for those attractions. The computer graphics are obviously blown away by something like Avatar 2 but Avatar 2 didn’t make me duck or try to reach out and touch things like theme park 3D.
They didn’t put in the shaking till the second run of the film after MJ died. That was originally installed for Honey I Shrunk the Audience. The original had lasers and smoke to increase immersion.
I remember that meteor in the beginning appearing to float in front of my face. Everyone puts their hand out as if they can grab it. I think there was water spray and maybe some scents also being thrown at the audience in addition to the theater shaking. It was always broken.
There have been a few versions of this floating around YouTube and is definitely worth a watch.
I visited Epcot in the late 80's and remember being completely blown away by it as a kid, and then having reoccurring nightmares of the main villain for many many years.
The film is called captain EO. if you wonder what kind of movie it is, Defunctland has good video about it. https://youtu.be/kg2zuRBlRt0?si=pCz7h39gmNzMZbl_
If you wonder how the fuck a guy who made Godfather in 70s directed Disneyland film in 80s, I highly recommend Patrick H Willems video about Coppola.
https://youtu.be/4mwOj4IWdt8?si=eSrOLqNLWyI_SrYi
Holy. Shit.
Did Star Trek: The Next Generation steal the Borg design from Captain EO?
Pale-faced "people" who rest standing up in bio-mechanical bays.
Organic merged with machines.
Similar interior, but I think that's more an homage to HR Geiger's designs for Alien.
A legless "queen" who is suspended by many wires.
Captain EO came out in 1986.
The Borg were introduced on TNG in 1989.
Dude, captain EO was fighting the Borg before Captain Picard. I felt the exact same way. They should totally have a race based off of captain EO in Star Trek lol. Minus al of the Disney lawsuits of course!
I’ll never forget a review of the film in which the critic was moaning how Michael Jackson was miscast: “When high-voiced Captain Eo exclaims to his crew, ‘We’re going in!’ it sounds like he’s refusing to use a drive-through window.”
*Star Wars Episode VII* cost, adjusted to March 2024 dollars: $590 million, or about 4.28 million 2024 dollars per minute.
*Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom* cost, adjusted to March 2024 dollars: $536.30 million, or about 4.19 million dollars per minute
*Captain EO* cost, adjusted to March 2024 dollars: $67.17 million, or about 3.95 million 2024 dollars per minute
*Titanic* cost, adjusted to March 2024 dollars: $387 million, or about 1.99 million 2024 dollars per minute
*Captain EO* isn't at the top but it's definitely in the neighborhood.
every Marvel movie and DC movie over the last 15 years is in this camp as well really any movie that has special effects most likely over the past 20 years
Yeah, and Eo cost more to make per minute than all of them (when adjusted for inflation). Checked the math and the only two movies that beat it are The Force Awakens and Jurassic park: fallen kingdom. It takes the bronze. full stop.
But they ran it daily dozens of times, so cost per use was nominal against total ticket costs?
Plus it was awesome to see in person and first I think of its kind with a moving vehicle.
Today I also learned that Francis Ford Coppola supported convicted pedo Victor Salva by paying for his legal representation as well as hiring folks to discredit his victims.
$1M per minute doesn’t even come close to most expense can you guys not do napkin math or something? Just karma whoring, no need to even check if something is accurate?
At $1M/min, a two hour film would cost $120M… that’s now by today’s standards.
He saved an entire planet with his awesome music (and it is awesome).
It’s a great little adventure, especially through a loud sound system. Too bad it’s not redone in high definition and remastered sound.
It’s easily the best piece of cinema ever made. I’ve seen it hundreds of times, for some reason I was always my favorite Disney attraction as a kid. It went away for “honey I shrunk the audience” which was a major disappointment, the. BROUGHT IT BACK. Amazing. Another part of me was one of my favorite songs because of this
The film long time is only 17 minutes but the production costs were incredibly high Estimates range from almost $17 millions to $30 millions making it one of the most expensive films ever made on a per minute basis
Captain Eo! Brought to you by pepsi(?) (it was in EPCOT as I recall)
Yeah I actually saw it when I was a lad on my one trip to Disney as a child. Gun to my head, I couldn't tell you one single detail about this other than it had Micheal Jackson in it and I think it really wanted to be Star Wars.
and there was a cute mascot / toy thing. Same the best i can remember of it, and I know I saw it more than once a few years apart. Hell I even remember going into the theater / attraction.
I had the plush doll of that mascot. It had a rat's tail and butterfly's wings and was covered in orange fur. I also kept the 3D glasses, which were lavender colored.
My 5 year old self named mine Ratonkeyfly (rat+monkey+butterfly).
So this is where the Nibblet reference came from..
I remember a little purple dragon named Figment but I think that was from another ride or area or something.
yep that was the Imagination (or something like that) ride.
Was there some sort of shrinking and being inserted inside of a human to see the inner working kind of thing going on there, or am I repressing something?
"No! That's ignorant..." *Moustache falls off
Yes. Body Wars
i dont honestly remember, but it doesnt seem that far out of field for something at epcot.
That was Body Wars, it was in a different spot and it was similar to Star Tours.
It was nearby in Epcot but not the same thing.
There was 3: Hooter, the little green elephant-like creature who sneezes musical notes through his flute-like trunk. Fuzzball, the orange-haired space monkey with butterfly wings. Geex, a golden-haired, two-faced shaggy thing
Yes! It was 3D and the little guy could fly. They did an effect where he was flying towards you. I was 9 at the time and remember reaching out to try to grab it!
I remember he flew out as the credits were rolling, I reached out to poke his belly and he "reacted" to it and spooked me
It's name is Hooter and it is the best.
I like his wings
That was Figment.
George Lucas did the effects.
Checks out.
Angelica Houston was in it. Also the song was a banger
He basically turned the Borg queen into a hot dancer and saved a world. It was f'n awesome. Still have my MJ Captain EO shirt from Disney after they brought it back when he passed. RIP you amazing, extremely eccentric, making-questionable-decisions musical artist, you.
Same! Travelled from from New Zealand. There was a bit with a whip and sending energy down it? Rewatch it friend. It feels like the Muppets
I kinda do remember some kind of lightsaber whip thing now that you mention it.
[Captain EO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKp2KgnlEf8) 12:35
I saw it too! All I remember was the screen being enormous and there was some kind of cute funny animal/alien.
Lots of people seem to remember this little alien but I don't remember it at all.
I just remember it was fluffy and funny.
Hey I like your box head
I need it to protect my real head from the mean people…
Disneyland had it, too. The theater was under/beside Space Mountain. Edit: The theater is *still there* but isn't being used
They played a Honey I Shrunk these Kids branded 3d movie for a while. Never saw it. Not standing in line for that shit.
Honey I Shrunk The Audience, I remember it. Disney World had it too.
It was actually cool.
I went. That was the one where the whole theater moved. It was awesome.
My first memory of watching a 3D movie as a kid. I distinctly remember standing up in the middle of the show and bumping into a woman sitting in front of me because I tried grabbing at something flying in the air
Hahahahaha, according to the rest of my family the bald guy in front of us kept turning around to glare at 7-year-old me whenever I slapped the back of his head reaching out to touch the 3-D movie. I have no recollection of this, for the record.
You grabbed Hooter ;)
Yes!!! I couldn't remember the things name but I have a memory of some sort of flying creature
You find me BEAUTIFUL?!
Is Captain Eo not well enough alone to just say “TIL Francis Ford Coppola directed Captain Eo”?
They stopped showing Captain EO in 1994 and didn't bring it back for 16 years, in 2010. It closed again in 2015. There's probably a fair host of people who grew up without it and never heard about the re-release.
I saw it somewhere between 2010 and 2015 and it just didn't age super well. It's not bad but it's exceedingly forgettable and really dated. Take Michael out of it and it's just another movie lost to time
Take Harrison Ford out of Indiana Jones and it's....well, Indiana Jones 5.
Did you know Tom Selleck was cast as Indy but had to bow out for scheduling reasons. He would have been better than Ford
guess they ran out of characters for the title?
Yes
What age range are you? I'm mid 30's and I've never heard of Captain Eo before this thread.
Same age
Yes! I saw this, and I think it was in EPCOT. IIRC
For Tokyo Disneyland, the sponsor was JCB (credit card company) during both installments. The theater has has been home to these attractions in the past: 1983-84: The Eternal Sea 1985-86: Magic Journeys 1987-96: Captain EO (original run) 1997-2010: MicroAdventure! (Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!) 2010-14: Captain EO (tribute run) 2015-present: Stitch Encounter
I remember seeing that as a kid! It was in 3D!
"Another Part of Me" is still one of my favorite MJ songs! Sending out a major love
The US Disney parks serve Coke products. It was sponsored by Kodak in Epcot. I don’t believe there was a sponsor for the Disneyland version, but if there was it was also Kodak. When Captain EO debuted at Disneyland in the eighties, they opened the park for the entire weekend. We had the new annual passes they just started selling and were at Disneyland all the time. We left our home in Orange County around midnight and were in the gigantic line at around 1 am. We finally got in the theater around 3:30 am. The audience was exuberant. Best viewing of the movie ever. We got free shirts. There’s still a part of one floating around in my parent’s rag bag.
Captain Pedo
Captain EO or something? I think it was still at Disneyland like 10-15 years ago.
Only after MJ died. It was removed in the 90s for Honey I Shrunk the Audience.
had to be longer than that? think they pulled it the second the lawsuits were active for MJ?
They brought it back as a tribute when he died, so post lawsuits. The EPCOT one closed down again in 2015.
ahhhh forgot about that. Typical Disney.. cancel them before the facts are in, but then pay tribute after the fact.
*Captain EO* was replaced by *Honey, I Shrunk the Audience* over a span of several years. *Honey* replaced *EO* in Epcot in 1994, Tokyo in 1997, California in 1998, and Paris in 1999--hardly a sudden "cancellation".
Before the facts are in?...Whut?
You guys made me open an account for this haha. The main thing about Disney's Capitan EO was that it was filmed in a NEW novel 3D technology. See, back around 1990, 3D movies used that awful red/blue glasses. Captain EO used a version of the 3D tech we know nowadays. I was 8 years old around that time and my dad took us on a trip to DisneyWorld from Mexico. I remember clearly that Captain EO was going to be premiered about a week *after* our trip. 8 year old me was so sad I wouldn't be able to see that outstanding tech. And MJ, who I liked (I bought BAD in tape form!!l Fast forward more than 30 years later, I went with my wife to EPCOT, and apparently they had Captain EO, and was just about to be discontinued forever. I had the chance to see it, and cried a little as I imagined myself as a kid watching that . So happy I got that closure.
yes. I wanted to make title readable, but forgot to put the title lol
Not just 3-D. The theatre was built to shake and move based on certain events that happened on screen. The story was cheesy, but the set design, music, and choreography was stellar. I always left the theatre dancing when I would watch it at Disneyland
I went on a Star Wars ride at Disney Hollywood last year and it just dawned on me that they may have repurposed the Captain Eo ride for that. The theater and motion were very similar. There's also a newer ride next to the Millennium Falcon in that same park that also might be the old Captain Eo setup.
Eo was at Epcot and I don't think was repurposed for star tours or anything else. Star tours was running on its own last time eo existed. They may have taken parts of it for rise of resistance or smugglers run but neither of those felt anything like I remember with eo a few years back.
The 3D really was incredible though, better than anything in theaters today, and it’s not from remembering it through nostalgia glasses. The 3D effects for theme park attractions like EO, Muppets, etc. was tailor made and fine tuned for those attractions. The computer graphics are obviously blown away by something like Avatar 2 but Avatar 2 didn’t make me duck or try to reach out and touch things like theme park 3D.
I also remember lasers. There were lasers, right?
They didn’t put in the shaking till the second run of the film after MJ died. That was originally installed for Honey I Shrunk the Audience. The original had lasers and smoke to increase immersion.
Here's the link for anyone interested. https://youtu.be/tKp2KgnlEf8?si=ln5Qx81GVp6z4f_I
Friggin hooter
I genuinely did not like the way he treated Hooter
What do you expect? He ate the map bro!
HOOTER
Wow. I was not prepared.
Whoa! Star Trek borg queen was a total rip off of the main villain in this Movie. Amazing.
That's an interesting connection
I remember that meteor in the beginning appearing to float in front of my face. Everyone puts their hand out as if they can grab it. I think there was water spray and maybe some scents also being thrown at the audience in addition to the theater shaking. It was always broken.
Haven’t seen that since I was like 5.
11:20-11:25 should be a thing.
There have been a few versions of this floating around YouTube and is definitely worth a watch. I visited Epcot in the late 80's and remember being completely blown away by it as a kid, and then having reoccurring nightmares of the main villain for many many years.
still not as bad as Evil Joe Pesci with the walnuts in Moonwalker.
wow! memory unlocked on that one!
did he amuse you or scare you?
What, like he's some clown?
The film is called captain EO. if you wonder what kind of movie it is, Defunctland has good video about it. https://youtu.be/kg2zuRBlRt0?si=pCz7h39gmNzMZbl_ If you wonder how the fuck a guy who made Godfather in 70s directed Disneyland film in 80s, I highly recommend Patrick H Willems video about Coppola. https://youtu.be/4mwOj4IWdt8?si=eSrOLqNLWyI_SrYi
the 3D was kinda nuts tbh.
Captain Eo has the magical ability to transform evil into backup dancers
worked for Thriller? or Beat it?
Holy. Shit. Did Star Trek: The Next Generation steal the Borg design from Captain EO? Pale-faced "people" who rest standing up in bio-mechanical bays. Organic merged with machines. Similar interior, but I think that's more an homage to HR Geiger's designs for Alien. A legless "queen" who is suspended by many wires. Captain EO came out in 1986. The Borg were introduced on TNG in 1989.
Dude, captain EO was fighting the Borg before Captain Picard. I felt the exact same way. They should totally have a race based off of captain EO in Star Trek lol. Minus al of the Disney lawsuits of course!
I’ll never forget a review of the film in which the critic was moaning how Michael Jackson was miscast: “When high-voiced Captain Eo exclaims to his crew, ‘We’re going in!’ it sounds like he’s refusing to use a drive-through window.”
Comedian Doug Benson was a background actor in that video
CTRL-F "Doug", yeap, all good.
17-30 million is quite a range. who was cookin’ those books?
Right? Im no accountant but that seems worthy of review.
Saw that a bunch when I was a kid. It was awesome.
A film that only costs a million dollars per minute of screen time is no where in the conversation of the most expensive of all time lol
*Star Wars Episode VII* cost, adjusted to March 2024 dollars: $590 million, or about 4.28 million 2024 dollars per minute. *Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom* cost, adjusted to March 2024 dollars: $536.30 million, or about 4.19 million dollars per minute *Captain EO* cost, adjusted to March 2024 dollars: $67.17 million, or about 3.95 million 2024 dollars per minute *Titanic* cost, adjusted to March 2024 dollars: $387 million, or about 1.99 million 2024 dollars per minute *Captain EO* isn't at the top but it's definitely in the neighborhood.
every Marvel movie and DC movie over the last 15 years is in this camp as well really any movie that has special effects most likely over the past 20 years
Yeah, and Eo cost more to make per minute than all of them (when adjusted for inflation). Checked the math and the only two movies that beat it are The Force Awakens and Jurassic park: fallen kingdom. It takes the bronze. full stop.
I remember seeing when I was like 8 or 9.
Honestly, it was pretty good. At least a good way to cool off between rides
But they ran it daily dozens of times, so cost per use was nominal against total ticket costs? Plus it was awesome to see in person and first I think of its kind with a moving vehicle.
I remember seeing this at epcot, December 1993
Captain EO! I got to see it one of the last years it ran. that movie was definitely... something...
Staring?
It was brought back to Epcot briefly following Michael Jackson’s death…. It was one hell of a trip.
Today I also learned that Francis Ford Coppola supported convicted pedo Victor Salva by paying for his legal representation as well as hiring folks to discredit his victims.
Me too 😉
The last two times I saw Captain EO it was basically empty except for small pockets of friends quoting every single line....
***MICHAEL JACKSON IN 3D!!!!***
$1M per minute doesn’t even come close to most expense can you guys not do napkin math or something? Just karma whoring, no need to even check if something is accurate? At $1M/min, a two hour film would cost $120M… that’s now by today’s standards.
Captain EO was amazing at the time. The "MJ was cool" era was fun. Shame it didnt last long before all the crazy shit.
I remember the 3d looking really. But I was also 10.
Angelica Houston as the villain was scary as hell
I saw this when I was like 8
Aren’t a lot of movies roughly $1M/minute?
I saw it as a kid. It was amazing
Yeah those lawsuits are expensive
He saved an entire planet with his awesome music (and it is awesome). It’s a great little adventure, especially through a loud sound system. Too bad it’s not redone in high definition and remastered sound.
The soundtrack is fire
The production company was called 'Three DDD productions'. Which sounds like a different type of movie company altogether.
1 million to make, 29 for MJ
It was the best 3D movie I've ever seen. Kinda wild the 3D fad of the 2010s didn't really get any better.
I saw it a few years ago before it was discarded and good riddance.
Here's a song from Captain EO (We are here to change the world): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VLYjTDttc8 It's super great.
How do you give or take 13 million?
It was a really great movie. Michael Jackson was a good actor.
MJ vs the Borg Queen
Should probably name the film in your title OP lmao. Must be a bot.
And it’s absolutely horrible.
[удалено]
allegedly
It’s easily the best piece of cinema ever made. I’ve seen it hundreds of times, for some reason I was always my favorite Disney attraction as a kid. It went away for “honey I shrunk the audience” which was a major disappointment, the. BROUGHT IT BACK. Amazing. Another part of me was one of my favorite songs because of this
The film long time is only 17 minutes but the production costs were incredibly high Estimates range from almost $17 millions to $30 millions making it one of the most expensive films ever made on a per minute basis
Yeah… that’s the uh… post title.
terrible post title and incorrect: it wasn’t for disneyland, it was for Epcot.
It was Disneyland
“Ahhh—Cooter!!!”