“The Edison Electric Institute, for America’s investor-owned electric companies, welcomes you aboard the WEDway PeopleMover. On this clean, quiet, electric powered ride of tomorrow, the PeopleMover will be your front row seat for a Grand Circle tour of Tomorrowland. Along the way on your mile-long journey, you’ll preview many attractions looking into the future and see some of the ways electric energy serves mankind. Now and tomorrow.” That is how narrator Jack Wagner — the famed “voice of Disneyland” and Disney Legend — welcomed passengers aboard the WEDway PeopleMover, when it opened on this day in 1975. Wagner’s trademark voice continued to enliven the attraction until it was replaced in 1985 by ORAC One, “The Commuter Computer.” Through succeeding years, the attraction, which uses pollution-free linear induction motor technology developed by WED Enterprises (what Disney Imagineering was known as from 1952 through 1986), underwent several name changes and is known today as Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover.
