Yesterday's Tomorrow
Flashback: Ticket Booths
A Vibrant Community
Your Future Is Calling
Hello, and thank you for calling the Intergalactic Movie Line, Tomorrowland's direct link to worlds of entertainment. Now playing at the Solar System Cineplex – Attack of the 50-foot Earthling, presented in CosmoScope.
You have reached the Psychic Robots Network. We knew you'd be calling. Please deposit 25 quarks for the first minute, 15 quarks for each additional minute. They're in your left pocket. Thank you.
Hello, dear. Thanks for calling. (Distracted by noises in background) Hayley Comet! Be quiet. Can't you see I'm on the phone? (Back to conversational tone) Kids these days, they think the worlds revolve around them. You were saying…?
You've reached the Star Command Crime Watch Hotline. Be on the lookout for Rusty Rip-off, the robot robber. He was last seen at Rockettower Plaza South, wearing a hat. That is all.
Hiya, babe! It's your agent, Johnny Jupiter. You called? Anyway, I have to call you right back. I'm in a meeting with my #1 client – er, I mean #2 client, Sonny Eclipse. You're always #1 in my book, baby. You know that. Let's do launch! (CLICK)
You've reached Omega-5277. I'm either not home or just screening my calls. And if this is that spacey creep, Zigorx – STOP CALLING ME! I told you, I don't date Martians who are 300 years older than me – at least, not slimy ones like you! Anyone else, leave me a message and I'll call you right back. Love ya. Bye!
Earth Crust Pizza. We deliver anywhere in the Solar System in less than two light years or your order is free. Can you hold, please? (Hold Music: "Now is the Time" – instrumental version) Thanks for holding. I had to take that incoming call from Saturn. They hardly ever give us a ring!
Hi! This is Colleena Lunar, your friendly Rocket Realty representative. If you want space, Rocket Realty's the place! And do I have a space for you! It's a lovely two-bedroom sky-rise in the Hoverburbs, a short commute from downtown Tomorrowland. Remember, in the Hoverburbs, real estate is always looking up!
This is Tomorrowland News Network's Corona Borealis with your local time and weather. As always, it's going to be a great big beautiful tomorrow, and at the tone, the time will be – now! (BEEP)
Of course, "Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" and "Now Is the Time" are references to songs from the Carousel of Progress. Other bits make reference to Sonny Eclipse, the lounge lizard playing Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe, as well as elements found in graphics and other details throughout Tomorrowland.
For those of you wondering, "Why an old-fashioned pay phone in futuristic Tomorrowland?" remember the design of this Tomorrowland was inspired by past visions of the future. Everything here is meant to represent advanced technology, but through the imagination of machine age visionaries. They never could have dreamed of the mobile phones we use today. Instead, they would have pictured a fancier version of the phones with which they were already familiar.