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2017 Epcot Food and Wine Festival beginning August 31st
- Thread starter Kylo Ken
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Keeps getting longer and longer.
Here is the full lineup for the festivals in 2017
http://www.wdwmagic.com/events.htm
Here is the full lineup for the festivals in 2017
http://www.wdwmagic.com/events.htm
JustInTime
Well-Known Member
Wow. That's sad. A third of the year.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
What is a third of the year?
Notes from Neverland
Well-Known Member
It's fairly obvious all of the Festivals are serving as a patch until some major changes at Epcot can take place.
Matt in the Hatt
Well-Known Member
Why is it sad, not trying to start a fight just curious? It's obviously popular, and personally i think its alot of fun with some great tastes
wdwfan4ver
Well-Known Member
I had a fear that this could happen someday. This tells me 3 things.
1.) Disney is seeing dollar signs.
2.) Guests are so desperate for things to do at Epcot that Disney decided to make the festival longer.
3.) Disney has to be to be closing something for Epcot next year and is trying make it up.
1.) Disney is seeing dollar signs.
2.) Guests are so desperate for things to do at Epcot that Disney decided to make the festival longer.
3.) Disney has to be to be closing something for Epcot next year and is trying make it up.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
I don't understand the whining. Shouldn't they give us what we want?
sshindel
The Epcot Manifesto
Let's see.
2017 Festival of the Arts - 24 days
2017 Flower and Garden - 90 days
2017 Food and Wine - 75 days
2017 Holidays around the World - 34 days
223 days of special events.
61% of the year
It's now more of an "event" to be in the park on a non-event day.
Gotta click those turnstiles and ring those registers. Disney knows they've let Epcot rot for so long nobody would show up if they didn't have Special Events.
2017 Festival of the Arts - 24 days
2017 Flower and Garden - 90 days
2017 Food and Wine - 75 days
2017 Holidays around the World - 34 days
223 days of special events.
61% of the year
It's now more of an "event" to be in the park on a non-event day.
Gotta click those turnstiles and ring those registers. Disney knows they've let Epcot rot for so long nobody would show up if they didn't have Special Events.
DinoInstitute
Well-Known Member
Any change or update to the park whatsoever that doesn't completely fall in line with classic EPCOT Center is going to be met with the same complaining it seems.
21stamps
Well-Known Member
Aren't these times always packed though? It seems that people love them. I know that Holiday around the World is going to be one of the highlights of our trip!
sshindel
The Epcot Manifesto
Of course the festivals are fun.
It's just that Disney has used them as a cheap way of hiding the problems with Epcot for so long that the park could not succeed without them. They bring in money and people, which is a lever Disney has continued to use instead of investing in the park.
Go, eat, drink, spend. Disney needs you to do that so they don't have to explain why their park attendance or revenue is terrible in their once-revolutionary park.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
I could not be less impressed. We have already booked for 9/6-9/16, and were counting on a week at Epcot before the hordes descended.
*sigh*
Animaniac93-98
Well-Known Member
I've found out what Epcot will look like in the future:
So sad, and the problem is the more people that experience it thinking how great it is the worse it winds up being. When we went it was very high expectations only to be severely disappointed. It really takes away from the park.
Other than the scattered remnants of future world do people realize they are essentially paying for admission into a large outdoor mall now?