cjkeating
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I'd never realised the plaza used to look like this... when/why was the water/bridge removed? It looked amazing.
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Miss the Spinny things?...
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I'd never realised the plaza used to look like this... when/why was the water/bridge removed? It looked amazing.
brb1006
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And the lights on the ground at night.
The Empress Lilly
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You are actually right that the spinners fit the music and old signage. Very much a product of the same time. I dislike the lot as a later, inferior layer, and wish the last remnants were removed, but I can imagine that if you grew up with them you miss that era and its traces.
The Empress Lilly
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Love those! One of the few ways in which EPCOT has *gasp!* improved over the years!
brb1006
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The Empress Lilly
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EPCOT Center was the greatest thing on this planet designed by mankind.
CommuniCore East and West had very wide pathways all along the length of their buildings. At once air-conditioned and bathing in sunlight. That took you from SSE to any pavilion. EPCOT was that good. Nowadays you walk either through the crowded, hot, uglyfied and paved over central plaza or through the dark dungeons of Innoventions from nowhere to nowhere.
This. THIS!
Yes! I am so glad they are still there!!
I didn't even know the lights would make this shape.
Was this how it was during Epcot's opening?? This looks amazing...so much more...Epcot-yI just want the square trimmed trees beside SSE back.
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But @marni1971 , I do agree the original plaza was so well done.
ABQ
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Raineman
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This picture seriously makes my heart hurt a little bit. It was 26 years between Epcot visits for me this year, and I had a hard time seeing what had happened to my beloved Communicore and the plaza. At 16 years old in 1990, Future World seemed to me like a beacon of endless possibilities, and trying to explain to my 11 year old daughter in 2016 what it used to be was not easy.
Cmdr_Crimson
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danyoung56
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I'm not entirely sure that water bridge was ever there. I think the "photo" in question is an artist's rendering, not a photo.
ABQ
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If I'm looking at the same thing, it's a bridge over water vs a water bridge and I think it was certainly there. It was probably not much more of a "bridge" however than the current ones around the hub in the MK are. Water on either side and a pipe connecting them. Pretty sure that'a a real photo too, can't see an artist bothering with stains of the Communicore roof.
edit, just found this awesome video, at 6:48 you'll see that bridge with the water as well. And not only was there a bridge with water and all, but benches! What the heck!?!???! Benches!
edit, just found this awesome video, at 6:48 you'll see that bridge with the water as well. And not only was there a bridge with water and all, but benches! What the heck!?!???! Benches!
Nope. Its a photo. Water bridges were there. Three of them. They linked the fountain pond with the two smaller ponds.
Wow. Epcot looks like nothing of what the original began as...
The only ride that incorporated any real vision of the future is no longer in existence
The only ride that incorporated any real vision of the future is no longer in existence
The Empress Lilly
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I do love how EPCOT was so otherworldy pretty its modern fans can't even believe it is real! ^_^
Here is the area from the other side. 1985 I guess, based on the state of the Living Seas. (Before it became the Dead Sea with Fake Fish)
The hub:
The bridge itself:
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brb1006
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brb1006
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Those things in the air makes the entrance and exit location at Spaceship Earth look non-existent.
brb1006
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Love that cheesy song sang in front of Spaceship Earth.