Todayland is a location featured in the 2007 animated Disney film, Meet the Robinsons. It is a futuristic city where the protagonist, Lewis, travels with his friend, Wilbur, who is his future son.
Background[]
Todayland is a futuristic city, full of imagination and surprises. It is depicted as a place full of imagination and surprises, where hip-hoppin' frogs, dogs that wear glasses, and talking dinosaurs are common. In the film, the protagonist, a brilliant young inventor named Lewis, time travels thirty years into the future to meet his future self in Todayland. While there, he also meets the Robinson family, his future relatives who help him learn to keep moving forward and never stop believing in himself.
The locale of Todayland is inspired by the Tomorrowland area featured at various Disney parks. These include Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris, which has a similar area called Discoveryland. The name Todayland is a reference to the fact that the film is set in the year 2037, which is 30 years ahead of the film's release date. The film's director, Stephen J. Anderson, said that he wanted to create a retrofuture vision of the world that was inspired by the optimistic and whimsical style of Walt Disney himself.
Features[]
Todayland is a colorful and vibrant city that showcases various technological innovations and inventions. Some of the notable features of Todayland are:
- A giant observatory that houses the time machine that Wilbur uses to travel to the past and bring Lewis to the future.
- A shape in the park that closely resembles the Space Mountain attraction at the real-life Disneyland.
- A flying pizza delivery service that delivers pizzas in boxes shaped like flying saucers.
- A bubblevator that transports people from the ground to the Robinsons' house, which is located on a hilltop.
- A robot hat that can change its shape and function according to the wearer's mood and needs.
- A memory scanner than can project the memories of a person onto a screen, which is Lewis's invention that he tries to present at the science fair.
