reference to Progress City, the model city that Walt had in mind for Epcot. Both Trish and Jim are now wearing slippers with designs of the reindeer characters from the Disney Christmas parade. James, the son, wears a ski hoodie with a logo for the Mineral King Ski Resort, an abandoned idea that Walt had planned before his death, emblazoned on it. And John, the father, now wears a green apron that reads "My Food Rocks", in reference to the closed Epcot attraction Food Rocks. The dialogue, however, remains unchanged. Cast (current 1993 version) Precursors The show draws much of its inspiration from industrial films that American appliance manufacturers funded to demonstrate how their products would change the pattern of domestic chores and improve life. The desire to sell during the Great Depression and the rural electrification projects of the New Deal were two of the motivating forces behind these films. There are also remnants of an exhibition from the 1933 Century of Progress exposition in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry that feature four typical rooms of Chicago houses in various decades prior to the exhibition. Spin-offs and related attractions America Sings, the audio-animatronic attraction that replaced the Carousel of Progress at Disneyland, used the same rotating theater building, with the outer ring of six theaters connected by divider walls, revolving around six fixed stages in the center. It operated from 1974 to 1988. Like the Carousel of Progress, its first and last scenes involved the loading and unloading of guests, while the other four scenes, or "acts," depicted particular eras. It rotated counter-clockwise, rather than clockwise like the original attraction. From October 1, 1983 to January 9, 1999, an attraction known as Horizons existed at Epcot in the Walt Disney World Resort. It was more or less a sequel to the Carousel of Progress, depicting the host family living and working in technologically enhanced environments in the near future. It was sponsored by General Electric from 1983 to 1994. It included a scene where a robot "worked" in the kitchen, making quite a mess, while the song "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" was heard in the background. In 2009, following a refurbishment, Space Mountain featured several tributes to Horizons in its post-show. Also in 1983, Meet the World was an attraction at Tokyo Disneyland that was housed in a rotating theater. It featured both audio-animatronics and