- Stars:
Michael Jackson, Angelica Huston, Dick Shawn
- Executive
Producer: George Lucas
- Director:
Francis Coppola
- Lucasfilm
and Walt Disney Imagineering developed/used over 150 special effects.
- The
name EO comes from the name of the Greek goddess Eos - the Goddess of Dawn.
She has been depicted as a goddess whose "rosy fingers opened the gates
of heaven to the chariot of the sun."
- Captain
EO is the only attraction to open at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland
within such a short period of time (6 days). EPCOT's Captain EO opened on
September 12 and Disneyland's opened on September 18, 1986. Most attractions
debut at one park and, if successful, are copied at another Disney park
a year or more later.
- Captain
EO also played at Tokyo Disneyland from March 20, 1987 to September 1996
and at Disneyland Paris since April 12, 1992. It closed at Disneyland Paris
on August 17, 1998. :o(
