My whole family and I are trying to remember this attraction was that we remember seeing in Epcot. I had to be really young when this came out because I remember it vaguely. I'll try to give you the best description I have. For some reason my mother and I remember it in Innoventions. Okay here it is:

You walk in and see a lot of computers. There is plexi-glass between you and the room and some little guy gets reflected on to the glass. I remember being higher than the actual room so it was like we were looking down into it. I don't really remember much else.

I thought at first I was totally making this up but my parents vaguely remember something too. So are we dreaming this or was there really an attraction like this in Epcot?

You're not making it up, I just read an article about that over the summer, either on MousePlanet or AllEarsNet, I can't remember which. Anyone remember where that article was? I never saw the attraction myself. :(

I believe this was the Astuter Computer Revue, starring Alec Tronic.

Aaaah, you beat me by a nanosecond. Astuter Computer Revue. Though I'm still looking for that article I read....


Found it! It was in this article: http://allearsnet.com/tp/ep/ccore.htm

Scroll down, there's a picture of 'ol Alec. Andrew, you didn't remember that off the top of your head, did you? I'm suitably impressed.

Thank you!! littlej- If you find the article can you post it? Thanks!

Your wish is my command - I edited my post with the link. :)

Okay I have done some research and it looks like Astuter Computer Revue closed January 2, 1984. Two years before I was born. So it looks like what I remember was what took it over-Backstage Magic.

Andrew, you didn't remember that off the top of your head, did you? I'm suitably impressed.
I never saw the ACR in person, but there was a little "history of Disney robots" display in Disneyland's Innoventions a few years ago and it was mentioned there. So more or less off the top of my head, yeah. :D

This was the version I saw -

"It quickly became the Backstage Magic show and introduced us to Julie and I/O and was a more serious look at the history of computers and explained how they were used at Walt Disney World."

I grew up fascinated with big iron computers, and seeing this room in Epcot was candy to me!

Now was I/O a dot? I remember a dot.

Hmmm, I think I vaguely remember seeing that too, my first trip to Epcot. I/O sounds very familiar!

Now was I/O a dot? I remember a dot.

I guess you could call him a dot - a shimmering, star shaped dot.

Thanks Dan. I wish I could find a video!

I have a tiny, 2 second clip on and old OLD vhs promo tape for WDW, back when there were only 3 parks. I'd love to see a version of the entire show too!