Captain EO
Presented by Kodak

A
GEORGE LUCAS
PRODUCTION
 
STARRING
MICHAEL JACKSON
 
DIRECTED BY
FRANCIS COPPOLA

Supreme Leader:
“You think me
beautiful?”
 
Captain EO:
“Very beautiful
within, but
without a key
to unlock it...
and that is my
gift to you.”

 
Pick up your 3-D glasses as you enter the Magic Eye Theater... but please don’t put them on until you’re seated. Get ready to experience a spectacular, 70 millimeter, 3-D space adventure featuring the song-writing, singing, and dancing talents of Michael Jackson.

You may put on your 3-D glasses now. (If you wear eyeglasses, don’t worry; the 3-D glasses fit right over them.) If you don’t like really loud music and noises, this also might be a good time to put some cotton in your ears.

Sit back and watch Captain EO and this faithful, if unusual, crew—Hooter, Fuzzball, the Geex, Major Domo, and Minor Domo—as they prepare to land their little spaceship on an oppressed planet. Where’s landing beacon? Don’t trip any alarms... Oops. The crew tripped the alarm. Oh no! There’s an enemy patrol ship. Still no landing beacon? How about a map? Hooter ate the map?

Crash! Too late—but there’s the landing beacon.

Oh, oh... Captain EO and his crew have been captured, taken to the wicked Supreme Leader, and sentenced. “Justice” is swift and severe. Captain EO accepts his sentence, one hundred years of torture, with grace. He tells the Supreme Leader that he has brought her a gift, which she will see—and hear.

The music begins, and the battle begins. Lasers fire above your head. What is happening to the Supreme Leader’s troops? The power of music is transforming them. Look! Even the awful Supreme Leader is now a beautiful queen, and the planet looks great.

Who said rock music is a bad thing? Captain EO just proved that rock music causes good to triumph over evil!

As you exit, please drop your 3-D glasses in the “return” receptacle.

Although built for Captain EO, Disneyland’s Magic Eye Theater opened in May 1986 with the delightful Magic Journeys, the original 3-D movie from Epcot’s Imagination pavilion. (Actually, Magic Journeys was no stranger to Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, having enjoyed a previous run at the outdoor Space Stage.) In September of the same year, Captain EO moved into the Magic Eye Theater.

After a run of over ten years, Captain EO closed quietly in April 1997.

In May 1998, the former Magic Eye Theater became the West Coast home of Epcot’s popular 3-D movie, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.

At one time, Captain EO was showing at Disney parks in California, Florida, Japan, and France. By summer 1998, the only place at which you could see Captain EO was at CinéMagique, presented by Kodak, in Discoveryland at Disneyland Paris. In late summer 1998, the Captain departed from Paris as well. By the way, at Tokyo Disneyland, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience is called MicroAdventure.

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Updated August 29, 2007.

Photograph of Magic Eye Theater sign: 1996 by Werner Weiss.
Photograph of Magic Eye Theater exterior: 1997 by Werner Weiss.
Photograph of “Honey, I Shrunk the Auduence”: 2006 by Werner Weiss.