DreamFlight Queue BGM

Dreamflight June 1989-January 1998

Most ride queues are somewhere to wait; Delta Dreamflight’s was somewhere to be. The entrance to Tomorrowland’s Omnimover flight was dressed as an airport terminal, complete with the nose of a Delta 767 — the Spirit of Delta — parked as if at a gate, and the boarding-area music that played while the line shuffled forward is the loop preserved in this post.

The attraction behind the queue opened on June 26, 1989, sponsored by Delta Air Lines, and it retold the history of flight as a pop-up book: barnstormers over a Midwestern crop field, a flying boat on San Francisco Bay, Tokyo and Paris in the thirties, a spin through the inside of a jet engine, and a fireworks finale over the city of the future. It ran on the same Omnimover track built for its predecessors If You Had Wings and If You Could Fly, and its songs matched the format — cheerful, melodic, and unabashedly an advertisement for the joy of flying, sponsored by an airline happy to say so.

When Delta ended its sponsorship at the close of 1995, the ride ran briefly under the plain name Dreamflight, then reopened on June 5, 1996, as Take Flight, its Delta references and lyrics re-recorded away. It closed for good on January 5, 1998, ending a line of flight attractions in that building stretching back to 1972. The track never retired: Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin opened on it in October 1998 and runs there still. Queue loops are the most disposable music in the parks, which is exactly why this one’s survival matters — and it sits naturally beside the other artifact of Take Flight’s Tomorrowland, the Carousel of Progress, which the land’s own storyline said was kept by the same fictional historical society.