The Abandoned History of Xanadu: House of The Future - Orlando's Extinct Futurist Space Attraction

[@louckykoneko]

something I will always love about old 'futuristic' things and scifi is the wildly varying expectations in how technology would develop. teleporting to work or taking the hovercraft? absolutely! a computer small enough to fit in a coat pocket? inconceivable!

[@katej23]

Literally watching this video from a small computer that fits in my pocket 😂

[@Sparty-pi3jq]

The dymaxion house (inside The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Mi) is a cool "futuristic" house built by the Beech aircraft company. It's mostly aluminum (like an aircraft) Its a really cool house with a ton of tech, for its time. I'm almost positive it was dreamed up in the 20's but built after ww2.

[@maxcovfefe]

I've had dreams inside this house for YEARS, and I'm just now realizing it's a real place I visited with my family as a little kid.

[@shinyprisma6085]

lol

[@jeremygreen8263]

Lucky

[@caiusmadison2996]

I had a similar effect with a memory. I remembered an enormous mall, with a huge handpainted mural inside that was done by a local school. It was Mall of America, and there was a mural from one of the schools at the time, but the mural threw me off identifying the place for decades until I saw a video from the time on YT, and there it was. The mural. Mystery solved.

[@03stmlax]

Actually, you're still dreaming... This isnt real life

[@michaelacosta393]

I've had dreams of the Southgate Shopping Center in South Florida, but never been there. But I have seen Edward Scissorhands so?

[@vireo2543]

192 is always an odd stretch of road. It tried to be the Disney away from Disney but ended up just being a depressing area where the people who work at the parks go home after work.

[@beezneez2056]

Ha, yep - I lived across the road from this place years ago when I worked at Disney. We thought it was creepy even then. We never visited.

[@brokedownuptown]

My parents worked at Disney and lived in Kissimee in 1977 and I was born there, funny to see it is still a location where Disney employees.....excuse me, *cast members*, live. Cheaper I suppose than in Orlando?

[@serenatwilite4005]

@@brokedownuptown Isn't Kissimmee a little closer to Disney than Orlando?

[@iqb2001]

I'm from Kissimmee (born and raised) so I always love watching these videos you do about all of our weird and quirky attractions. Thank you for the nostalgia.

[@seriosertyp8145]

Highly flammable and room acoustics that will drive one on the edge of sanity. Aaaah the future :D

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Exactly 😆

[@cowboy4jesus3N1]

Only to be outdone,by the insanity I've just witnessed on youtube by Instagram users. Here's an idea, group them all together and settle them there. Exibit of " The Future of Structural and Mental Instability"

[@thedogdogification]

I visited the WI one several times as a kid. One of my favorite childhood memories. I loved the curved shapes, especially the bed and seating area, and the "tree." As a kid I dreamed of living in such a cool futuristic home. As an adult all I can think about is what a nightmare it would be to clean, or to easily store stuff in curved spaces.

[@paulbennett4548]

Thank you for the time travelling episode. We visited this home in 1986 just before our sons set off into their life journeys. Ironocly I have just been archiving our family pictures and came across the pictures of us all in different parts of the 'house'. Fun times, I had hair and was young, one constant my good lady is still beautiful. On to the future "what we're about too become Great Grandparents .....................Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[@aidenlav]

aw this is cute!thanks for sharing paul. I hope you and your family are doing well, including those great grandkids!!

[@rich_edwards79]

I'd live in it. I love dome homes, hobbit houses, rock houses and other oddities. I have a regular old Victorian terrace, decorated and furnished in period style but full of voice activated lights and other smart tech. So updating something like this would be right up my alley! The only concerns I would have would be 1/. It's in Florida, which is hot, swampy and full of crazy people and killer wildlife, and 2/. I can't imagine Seventies foam being especially fire resistant...

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

You would be surprised!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Wow well that took a dark turn for Roy... upon further research, a close acquaintance of his hit him with a hammer twenty five times...dark. While the house became outdated, you have to admire Roy and Bob's ambition

[@jobyd2000]

That was going to be my next google hole. Thanks for the cliff's notes. Dark indeed!!

[@MaxxVelo]

It sounded like Roy and Bob had creative differences. Bob started the project but then Roy sort of made it about himself and his own vision. A personality like that can piss off the wrong person (In this case someone he might of owed a lot of money to) and it didnt end well for Roy.

[@dwitefry4157]

Xanadu creeps me out, something about it just unnerves me, even before it was left abandoned. Good video though!

[@artanisknarf]

I was scared to death of it as a kid, I can’t place why either. My dad joked about going once, I was freaked out at the thought.

[@chris2edgy756]

Look up the centrifuge brain project if u want to feel unnerved again

[@oldarcadeguy9412]

I remember visiting this place when I was a kid. I was in awe of the Commodore64's in every room! So glad that you did this episode as this place was a constant landmark in all our visits to Orlando!

[@AwkwardKidAdventures]

Same! Well, my family never visited, but I remember passing it and always wondering what it was! It stuck with me all this time, lol

[@brokedownuptown]

LOL I just watched and commented something similar. Visited as a kid in the 80s like "OMG will we have a computer someday mom, that will be so rad! We can all use it!" My mom was like ""those are for rich people, so if you're rich someday, sure." And now we all walk around with pocket-sized computers more powerful than those yellowy square ones, and my mom is 70 now and you'd have to pry her iPad out of her cold dead hands😂 Looking back, it feels like we moved at warp speed from floppy disks to "Siri, tell me a joke."

[@serenatwilite4005]

@@brokedownuptown I enjoyed reading your post, interesting memory as a comparison of how much things have changed.

[@SheilaPairADice]

There was also one of these in Gatlinburg, Tennessee when I was a kid in the late 70s / early 80s we went through Xanadu while there on vacation. I remember as a 10 or 11 year old kid it was amazing and so "Jetson's" futuristic.

[@NimrodClover]

I totally remember this house. My family visited EPCOT in August of 1983 just as Xanadu was having its 'Grand Opening' and we just happened to stay on Hwy 192 less than a mile away. We had previously been in the Wisconsin Dells area in 1981 and had heard about the Xanadu there. Although bigger, this one just looked more bizarre and did have more of a tourist trap feel to it, if that is possible. The whole thing was very hard sell. Ironically I went on to become an Architect, but I can't say I was inspired by this structure. However, I did know about the hammering death of the designer as he was notorious in the late 80's vanguard construction scene. I did see that Xanadu one more time about 5 years later, and it oddly looked outdated even then. Like so many others, we simply drove by on our way to EPCOT. I remember seeing a local TV commercial they were running at the hotel where they had celebrity impersonators talking about the building. All very odd. As the video says, it was the house of the future but from the mindset of the 1950s - all very push button and not very autonomous. Oddly fitting that Roy ended up living in a conventional home in Hawaii. As far as costs go, as of 2020, the average cost per square foot for home construction in the USA was $123, when adjusted for inflation (forgive the pun) this balloon shaped home of 6000 s.f. cost $110 a square foot, a slight savings but not enough to offset the complexities and awkwardness imposed by the design, configurations, and general look - classic example of a designed fixated on the design of space and not the use of it. Modern variants and composited insulated building units and true AI home automation have replaced the spray and pray construction. (pray it will stay 'standing' that is) Great video that was a strong memory from my 8th grade summer.

[@cartersbread1432]

Want to come inside to one? It’s gonna cost though.

[@NimrodClover]

@@cartersbread1432 I've been in others and even in a restaurant made the same way so not needed.

[@jonrussell1690]

I remember this place, well, remember seeing it on 192. It’s sad to see something like this torn down since what it predicted/shown exists and it’s proven now that homes like that can withstand a Cat 5 hurricane because of its design.

[@serenatwilite4005]

They're interesting just for the fact that they did show what people were predicting for the future at the time they were built. Too bad more of them haven't been preserved and kept like museums.

[@bobcheapek4334]

I predict in the future... that Expedition Theme Park will remain one of the best channels on YT

[@camille6910]

I appreciate how you drop in the fact that he was murdered in his own home with such detachment. That was (unintentionally I'm sure) utterly hilarious

[@GrzegorzDurda]

It all came true via todays "Smart Home" and " Internet of things". Great vid showing concept to fruition over the decades.

[@serenatwilite4005]

We have the cool technology on the inside but imo modern homes, architecturally speaking at least, are so boring compared to these homes of the future. Too bad, the cool architecture didn't come with everything else.

[@otaking3582]

Obviously the reason it failed is because it wasn't a roller disco.

[@marcussmith5806]

With an art gallery.

[@Decipher13]

And a soundtrack by Jeff Lynne

[@emmarose4234]

No, no, no. You’ve got it all wrong. It should have been a mansion owned by some newspaper mogul who loved his sled.

[@PintoPopProductions]

@@emmarose4234 Rosebud...

[@sailors129]

With ELO playing 24/7

[@doc2w534]

I was so sad to see them tear this down. The height of its popularity was when it was abandoned.

[@darksideemt]

I went there several times when I was young and loved it. I never knew there was actually another one. The actual sign for it was actually still there and visible until just a few years ago. I mostly remember playing in the small "cave" like areas.

[@Secret_F4ce]

When we would go to Orlando as a kid, my dad and I would stay at the 4 story pyramid shaped Days Inn just down the road from this. Always wanted to check it out.

[@somecolbyguy1833]

Fails or not, this guy was a visionary. Were it not for people like him, everything today....basically wouldn't be like everything is today. Good for him for trying.

[@PancakeRAPTURE]

My home state may have some of the most ridiculous news stories come out of it, but boy do we have some interesting relics!

[@TracyA123]

How awesome would it be if it still existed just as it was when it opened? That would be futuristic nostalgia I guess? To be able to walk through it and see how the future was imagined in the early 80's with the knowledge that an Amazon Alexa is all you need today. You also have to love how they imagined that a multi armed robot would wash dishes..lol. Great video! I can't imagine the time you spend researching information. Kudos!☺

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Thank you so much!

[@TracyA123]

@@ExpeditionThemePark You're welcome sir! Love the extinct videos!

[@Murph1331]

I’m loving the space themes from Defunctland and Expedition!

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Space Week I guess!

[@ProfSir1]

Me too! Love it!

[@-We.All.Gone.Eat-]

I'm glad I was able to visit this home as a kid when my Mother brought my Brother and I to visit Disney.

[@markh5210]

I remember visiting it in the 90s. The spray foam had been worn away in some of the touchable parts of the house demonstrating one of the many drawbacks to this construction method. My dad, an architect, took the family there- he continues to live in a 200 year old house in a world heritage area so it clearly did not inspire him!

[@kristinwood8884]

I remember visiting Xanadu when I was like 7 maybe. I know the building was there for years after they closed. I was so sad when they finally removed it. It was a part of the Kissimmee/Orlando experience, you were almost there. I would always get excited and knew Disney/ I4/ International Drive, were very close.

[@alyfan1]

I visited the original Xanadu in the dells several times growing up. It was a fun place as a kid in the 80s. Lots of fun times with my family there.

[@vl3498]

I went to the one in Gatlinburg, TN as a kid... went every single trip... magical memories.. thank you!

[@delaunfifield3490]

I went to this home as a teen and LOVED some of the concepts and the hurricane resistance. The upper room with visual access thru out the house was great!~Truly sad to see it in this shape..

[@TDM1138]

At 14:05, the house looks like a Lovecraftian Spider Monster version of Baymax.

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Haha yeah

[@randolphd1200]

We live right down the road from here. Drove by it often as a teenager but never visited. Had many a date night at King Henry's feast down the way. Great video.

[@weirdproq]

I think I remember watching a video on KZbin a long time ago about someone exploring this abandoned place. Pretty cool that your covering it now.

[@znelson32]

Want your house to burn to the ground in under ten seconds... build it out of polyurethane foam.

[@wisdomseeker3362]

Fact❗ 🔥🔥🏠🔥🔥

[@sandydegener6436]

"Oh the huMANity!"

[@kernowmcrae]

Seeing a log fire stove surrounded by foam actually gave me chills 😂

[@BillClinton228]

Not just unsafe and impractical, but ugly AF.

[@joemenzaart]

I read an article that a fire resistant substance was sprayed on the walls and ceilings.

[@aidantanny7230]

Dear god- the aesthetics of this house are killing me. I hate it so much but its so interesting. So violently 80's futurism. Makes me want to vomit, but also open the next door and explore the next room, only to vomit again. I hate that I love this

[@cartersbread1432]

If you want a visit let me know

[@FigmentForever]

I do. I visited the 192 location in 2000 but was closed for the day 😢

[@serenatwilite4005]

@@cartersbread1432 I do, how do I get one?

[@sloucherdotorg7]

First time I went to Orlando (1987), it seemed like such a cool place, but we never visited. Shame. Loved this episode.

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Thank you!

[@cartersbread1432]

Want a visit? Come by in New York

[@serenatwilite4005]

@@cartersbread1432 Is it open to the public or a private home?

[@waterlemonandfriends]

Please talk about more stuff from Wisconsin Dells! “The waterpark capital of the world” is sure to have a ton of abandoned attractions to cover!

[@ArtisticlyAlexis]

Ah, my childhood when I lived in WI!

[@benjamingreenwood7370]

YES!!! The Dells are ripe for this channel!!

[@chouseification]

yes please! When I saw the name Xanadu, I of course though of the one in the Dells also. That's the sign we drove past a few times a year as I was growing up (road trips to visit relatives, etc). We never actually went into it, but it wasn't really an "attraction" like a go-kart or water slide is :D

[@jimmymelendez1836]

I went to Xanadu at Wisconsin Dells growing up.

[@quinnzykir]

Don’t forget Noah’s Ark

[@song4you80]

My wife has a high school yearbook that has senior pictures of students inside of the Xanadu in Gatlinburg TN.

[@urmommabear5monthsago]

I went through that one when I was little. It had a slide in it and it amazed me. I’d love to see some pictures of it to see if it looks like how I have it pictured in my memory

[@Robert-jz7hq]

I remember going during the summers of the early 90s, and looking back Im glad I got to experience Xanadu. It really was a perfect example of the weird and unique "tourist traps" that surrounded Orlando.

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Exactly.

[@DisneyMarkUK]

Omg I’ve seen the title, had to pause the video and go for a wee, back in a bit........ Right I’m back, can’t wait to see this one Sam This was fantastic, thank you. I saw the house on Blue Peter and always wanted to visit. When we started going to Orlando a million years ago we drove past this place hundreds of times but I’m sure it had closed down by then. I think the sign is still there as a momento of the past. Cheers Sam.

[@bradleyczech1789]

I have a promo video from when this place was opened. It goes through and talks all about the house features etc

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Would love to see it!

[@mk202]

Post it!

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

The future is here! Where do you want to go next on Expedition Extinct?

[@FM-10]

Bubbleworks? Toyland Tours?

[@fizzo3535]

It would be cool if you made a video based on the Scottish theme park M&d’s

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

I will do both after a break from Towers videos

[@Charners]

Metroland :D

[@thesparklingeagle]

@@ExpeditionThemePark how about the old eurosat?

[@NextToToddliness]

So ahead of its time, yet so very much of its time.

[@minasotah]

That's funny The Last Starfighter is playing on the TV inside the Xanadu house

[@wlovins0]

I never got to go here when it was open, sadly. I remember seeing it (rotting/decaying) every time my step father went to work at the hotel next door. I was always so curious as to what it looked like when it was new. Hell, given the changes on 192, I would find it difficult to even prove it ever existed to my wife and daughter without videos like this.

[@stewydoo]

*In E.T's voice* Foooooam Hooooome!

[@kaosj666]

This is a really cool look into Xanadu! It was Adam The Woo's KZbin channel a handful of years ago that first made me aware that Xanadu was even a thing. He went to the location where Xanadu once stood and all that he could find there were some light fixtures and electrical boxes in a field of grass. Still, even if it was gone by that point, Adam me curious about this defunct attraction. And I thank Expedition Theme Park to finally giving me the look into Xanadu that I desired! And also, this place looks like a building designed by Akira Toriyama and found on Planet Namek. XD

[@Boom12]

You see, this is why you never showcase what could be "The Future." It ironically dates you, fast.

[@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819]

Instead, build your showcases about "The Past". That way, you'll never be dated.

[@Aprilriehl]

I visited this when I was a kid. I loved it back then. I love things that were different and modern. Sad that it is gone

[@harlowblackadder356]

As a 6 year old, I remember the magic of Xanadu. It was like a hobbit house full of talking computers and plants and water features. I wanted to live there.

[@g.g.2102]

A place where nobody dared to go The love that we came to know They call it Xanadu (It takes your breath and it'll leave you blind) And now, open your eyes and see What we have made is real We are in Xanadu (A dream of it we offer you) A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star An everlasting world and you're here with me, eternally Xanadu, Xanadu (Now we are here) In Xanadu (Xanadu) Xanadu, Xanadu (Now we are here) In Xanadu Xanadu, your neon lights will shine for you, Xanadu The love, the echoes of long ago You needed the world to know They are in Xanadu (With every breath you drift away) The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears It came to Xanadu (The dream you dream, well, it will happen for you) A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star An everlasting world and you're here with me, eternally Xanadu, Xanadu (Now we are here) In Xanadu (Xanadu) Xanadu, Xanadu (Now we are here) In Xanadu (Xanadu) Now that I'm here Now that you're near in Xanadu Now that I'm here Now that you're near in Xanadu Xanadu!

[@mathewluna3361]

That is crazy. I drove by it so many times, yet never went into it. It was so outdated, yet so on point with the future of what is now, at its time. This was another awesome video. Thank you again.

[@ChatGPT1111]

Disney Corp. did build their city, called Celebration starting in the 90’s and it is still growing (>10,000 live there currently). It is more like Mayberry than Xanadu though. Median home sold price is around half a mil with many selling north of $2.5 million.

[@randolphd1200]

Or Golden Oaks or Windamere.

[@SaturnCanuck]

I remember, as you said, driving by it but never going in. Thanks for this retrospective.

[@SteveMartinShort]

What's more interesting than the house, is Roy the inventor. Murdered in his own home after correctly predicting how future household technically would be... Sounds like a fun rabbit hole.

[@SemiShweet]

YES!! This has always been one of the coolest defunct roadside attractions to me. God what I wouldn't give to go back in time and check out this place (abandoned or not) so unique, so out there, so otherworldly in its design. I probably wouldn't want to live in a house like this, but man, it would be cool as hell to visit. Now, when's the video on World of Orchids coming? 😁🌸 (the old website is on wayback, fyi)

[@fredericktaylor2891]

There was a house similar to this one constructed from foam in Gatlinburg Tennessee, it was pretty cool to go through it. Lots of shag carpeting and had a bed in one room that was shaped like a martini glass, had to use a ladder to get in bed as it was elevated on a single pillar about 7 feet tall. It is no longer there, torn down years ago.

[@JeffFrmJoisey]

I remember driving past Xanadu on Disney trips in 1993, 94, 95, 97, 98 & 2000. The 1st few years it looked open and if I remember right, had tourist brochures in the hotels I stayed in - I may have one or two in my plethora of ephemera I saved from those years. Gonna have to dig around in my garage.

[@Tsumami__]

The Arizona house was much more pleasing to the eye. The Orlando one looks kind of cool from far away, but once you get close it looks honestly pretty hideous.

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Agreed

[@BillCipherandFreddyKreugerFan]

Loppoll

[@nathanwheeler9129]

We went there when it opened in the mid eighties and I was blown away. I was also six.

[@Randomperson-zt3il]

Hell yeah!! A new Extinct video!

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Yesss

[@jasonvoorhees8478]

I went to the one in Gatlinburg, Tn. I had a lot of fun with it as a kid. I even played video games, there.

[@joevinski1]

Awesomely done

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Thank you!

[@michailokeefeMooMoo]

Really great video

[@scottwright4154]

Sam, just wanted to say I’m a big fan and thanks!

[@VistaAiken]

Great video! When I was around 13 in the early to mid '80s I visited the one in Gatlinburg. Having grown up watching the original Star Wars films I thought that house was so cool.

[@IAMBDVX]

I drove by this all the time when I used to do deliveries in Kissimmee. I had no idea what it was so this video was very cool.

[@TheCoasterGays]

Yes!!!!!! I was waiting for someone to do this justice. Thank you!!!!!!

[@ninagalvani1007]

I visited there when I was a kid! It was very inspirational

[@ninagalvani1007]

There Wisconsin Dells one

[@anhgels]

@Expedition Theme Park really love what you do with this channel :) also I would watch more abandoned buildings / strange builds type vids.

[@JadisAmalthea]

I remember hearing about this place as a kid, but I'm not sure if we drove past it when we went to Disney for the first time in 1996. Might've been torn down already. I have a vague recollection of the sign, but that could be from a documentary or something on tv. I am so fascinated by the idea of Xanadu, it should've been bigger than it was. Sad to hear about Roy Mason, may he RIP.

[@alexlents4689]

0:32 I didn’t realize we were going to the Jonestown! Seriously, what’s with the horror movie music there?

[@ericschmuecker348]

I was thinking Logans Run.

[@Knight-of-Sarcasm]

I wonder where the blue attraction sign went off to and if it's kept somewhere in a museum or private collector's home.

[@katherinealvarez9216]

0:23 why does Xanadu look like a crack house on Tatooine?

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Hahah who knows

[@deandupont5503]

I was thinking brothel, personally...

[@chiroquacker2580]

A crack house? In Florida? No way! It would be a Meth House instead.

[@katherinealvarez9216]

@@deandupont5503 a brothel? Man, the pimps must be cheap as hell if they leave at that state. Can't be too difficult to get a discreet cleaning service or staff.

[@reddragon8488]

@@chiroquacker2580 Heisenberg:¿did someone say meth? *Starts sounding the breaking bad theme*

[@jenilewis9006]

Yay!!! You finally got to do Xanadu!!!!

[@Ricie0]

I remember my parents stopping by this to find it closed in the 90’s when we went to Florida for a holiday. It was cool as we went to Water Mania instead and I rode the Wipe Out same day I was 13. After the Wipe Out I felt like a man and no longer a boy!

[@edz_gaming7915]

Great video 👍

[@GrumpyMeow-Meow]

Fantastic content as always, thanks ETP!

[@pouncerlion4022]

I've been to the one in Wisconsin Dells back in my childhood. I still remember it to this day.

[@30framespersecond]

The sign (seen at 18:38) actually stood until around 2015 or 2016.

[@CorvetteRacing3]

This is a very pleasant surprise. I grew up in kissimmee and would pass this place everyday. I never got to see the inside as it was closed in the 90s. Thanks for covering this place

[@ExpeditionThemePark]

Tha k you for watching

[@plasticseal2556]

I loved this house so much, I wish I could have lived in it. I think it's terrible they are all gone. I have many photos of it when it was abandoned even messed up it was still cool.

[@fishandgarden4514]

I have been to the Wisconsin dells one when I was a child. My mother kept going on about no closets in the house and who would build a house without storage space.

[@mk202]

There are no pack rats in...The F U T U R E .😳

[@MaxStax1]

The folly of trying to predict the future. An infinate number of variables to consider. Like video calls, it's available for everyone with a cell phone, but most prefer to use voice only or text.

[@Telcomvic]

I'd need the face mask like Jane Jetson had to answer the phone before I put on my make up. 🤣

[@serenatwilite4005]

@@Telcomvic Really, most of us aren't that thrilled with our appearance to want to take advantage of it all the time.

[@darthtortugas]

Passed this a ton of times and could never get my pop to stop there.

[@ArtisticlyAlexis]

🎵🎶Xanadu... Xanadu... (Now we are here) In Xanaduuu...Xanadu, your neon lights will shine, for youuu, Xanadu!🎶🎵

[@marcussmith5806]

The love, the echoes of long ago. We needed the world to know they were in Xanadu!

[@Yui714]

In a way, it's still very much a house of the future. We easily have better tech but it's still not being fully integrated into homes. Half of these ideas from the 70's would be a nice improvement to homes today using modern tech.

[@abbyjohnson1579]

I got to visit the Dells’ Xanadu house when I was 11 or so. Very cool back then!

[@PoseidonXIII]

I love crazy weird stuff like this!

[@urbex...beyondtheentry2536]

Always wanted to visit Xanadu but never had the opportunity...great story on its history ✌🏻

[@wadedupree9299]

Love your videos.

[@rpavlik1]

The music you used at the end reminds me of the music from the end of the dark ride portion of Living with the Land (which has somewhat outdated narration about the future of agriculture, so, fitting!)

[@epowell4211]

At my insistence, we visited the Gatlinburg location in the early 90s. I was in love lol - the tree integrated into the home, the slide to the children's bedroom, the home theater room (something I'd only heard of in mansions at the time lol). I wasn't sold on the pedestal bed in the master bedroom though - even back then I had to get up and pee at night :P Technology was just starting to move fast back in the 80s: once home computers became the norm, everything exploded. Before then, major technological advances were slow to happen, few and far between. It was a bad time to try and predict the future far enough in advance for it to be innovative. Even Microsoft themselves would have a hard time developing a "house of the future", keep it future based, and keep it interesting: there is already a working model of most things we could imagine, it's just a matter of fine-tuning it to make it marketable/accessible, and so many things become outdated before they even complete development. Poor dude should have been living in the 50s lol

[@naadeiashie6053]

That pleasure dome joke was very funny Didn't think you would get a little cheeky ;)

[@starshiranui33]

Man, they had the right idea with finding a way to make homes affordable at least. Which is, and still was, let's be real, something that seems out of the grasp of modern architects.

[@linkage432]

Yes this! I saw this all the time driving up to Orlando! And then houses started being built that looked like this design

[@chiroquacker2580]

Seriously? I live in Florida and haven't ever seen one...thank goodness.

[@shaggytallboy4982]

@@chiroquacker2580 I've seen other houses that are similar in Florida. They are all one-offs like this one but instead of it being made of foam they would inflate a giant "balloon" and then build a cage of rebar on the "balloon" and then pour concrete over it and make a basically hurricane proof house. Once it dried they would deflate the balloon and it could be used again

[@ScottDuensing]

I still have a bunch of X10 equipment I bought there when I visited as a kid. :-)

[@Twicken17]

You can see that games like Fallout and the first bioshock game were inspired by the predicted designes for the future at that time. Crazy.

[@Awesomesufff]

We call that retro-futurism

[@MrZip420]

One day, you should make a video on a ride called Le Monstre (the monster) that resides in the six flags La Ronde theme park in Montreal, Canada! :D it is the tallest two-tracked wagon wooden coaster in the world and is quite the old coaster, I feel like it deserves its own video! :D