I think you’re totally right.
Not to keep harping on about the music, but it’s a huge thing during intense emotion.
Do you remember any songs that played on the radio in the car yesterday? Probably not.
But do you remember the song that was playing when you had you first kiss/heard someone you loved had died/ate a McRib? Highly likely.
The McRib bit is just a joke. Sound fades into inexistence when remembering the McRib 
this is very on brand since the acquisition of the ice age films (that might not be what’s happened, but in march at AK there was a sqrat sculpture and the addition of the franchise to disney+)
It never was! 
It’s so true though.
Music pulls you to times and people and places you’d otherwise forget about entirely. At least that’s how it is for me.
Same.
Music and smells. It’s basically time travel!!
Maybe, but i guarantee that wasn’t factored in when they were writing this. And remembering vs making callbacks to it constantly even though no one you would meet would have any idea what you’re talking about? C’mon.
Run into a lot of 80s pop cultural references in space?
…wha— yo… that got dark lol
you people are insane.
Not really a spoiler, but in response to a blurred response. 
I went to Disneyland at the tender age of 5 (possibly 4), and I do have a very vivid memory of Pirates of the Caribbean. 
But I get your point.
I don’t know. Wasn’t that a bit of the premise of the movie to begin with? That Peter Quill had an emotional attachment to trappings of the 1980s because of what he went through with his mother? It would make sense that that would carry over into this attraction.
I agree with them 100%. Music for me has always evoked memories, I can hear a song and have it transport me back to college, back to my wedding year, back to when my children were born, in very vivid ways. Music transports you.
this is for youuuuuu
POC is a bit different as it’s very famous. But horizons certainly wasn’t.
(I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!!! lol)
(and for the record, I don’t actually care if i’m wrong. If ya love it, I really am happy for you. But you need to know…y’brain is broke 
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Yes I remember looking into it when it came up previously and there are lots of explanations online that make this really clear.
Every single one of the people that I’m friends with who are Disney Parks fans remember horizons extremely well. And sorry, but you’re just wrong on this one, it is widely considered one of the more famous and popular of the original Epcot attractions
While he didn’t know Captain Marvel per se we do know that others of that era were bouncing around space ……
can’t be that popular. It closed
That is way different than an 8 year old only visiting once.
Of course, Horizons wasn’t an “original” Epcot attraction. It opened a year later.
Oddly, I have no memory of this ride…as in personally riding it. I’m not sure why. All I can figure is that it was either down or too long a wait or something and so we never rode it. I did watch a POV of it, and still didn’t recognize it.
oh great. You see what you all did? You see this? You’re making Ryan being the only one to agree with me.
YOU DID THIS!!!
You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
It closed because the model for the park at that time was sponsorship, and GE decided to stop sponsoring the attraction. Michael Eisner was intent on putting a thrill ride in future world, and since horizons was the only attraction without a corporate sponsor at the time, he decided to close it. Had very little to do with its popularity.
As far as an 8-year-old remembering it, I first saw horizons when I was 10 and my sister first saw it when she was 7. It made a huge impression on both of us. I went three times as a kid - when I was 10, 12, and 14. When I went when I was 14 it was closed for refurbishment, so my memories of horizons are from when I was 10 and 12 - and I could describe the ride in pretty good detail even today.
I just ran through a time line. (@Randall1028 won’t be happy about this…or maybe he will…because it means I DON’T agree with him…)
So, first time we went to Epcot was shortly after it opened, and so before Horizons was operational.
In 1995, when I went with my wife for our honeymoon, Horizons was closed down briefly due to a loss of sponsorship, but reopened later.
In 1989, which is I believe the year was that I went with a friend, we only did MK.
We had another trip in there someplace, which is the only one where I guess we just skipped it for some reason.
Same!
I was there in July 1991 when I was 10.
The POV had nothing familiar in it at all.
Did your source say if it was open in July '91?
