Disstevefan1
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... Where am I? Let me check the app to see if any I can get in a good attraction.
Oh, look it's only a 30 min wait for Imagination!
Im outta here... I know what water is...
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Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot
- Thread starter Rteetz
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... Where am I? Let me check the app to see if any I can get in a good attraction.
Oh, look it's only a 30 min wait for Imagination!
Im outta here... I know what water is...
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
We scream all the time for them to “do something!”
So we have to embrace the somethings. Not all thrills.
What’s better? Hype and a billion for 5 years and you get millennium space invaders and rise of the reboot? A dull ride that goes through the motions and has as much not working on it as splash mountain?
I think my perspective is evolving here
It's a themed walk through featuring Moana, not based on it.. I think. But yeah a nice lush themed area with interactive water features and a few areas to explore. Not a big e ticket ride, but then again disney isn't hyping it up to be either, just a nice walk through area which deals with the cycle of water so it may have some educational value as well which is great for epcot imo. I don't know why people are so mad about it, getting mad at a theme park area is hilarious to me but it's watevs.
Stupido
Well-Known Member
For sure, but wouldn't it make sense for the lake illustration to be closest to the lake label?
Haymarket2008
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A walkthrough attraction depicting the water cycle through the lens of the film Moana. A preamble to The Land and The Seas pavilions.
Allegedly, this idea was in the pipeline for many years and basically finally got green lit because of the attachment to Disney IP.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
A hell of a lot more “Epcot” than guardians…but it’s ok because that’s a really cool ride with TFF
James Alucobond
Well-Known Member
The graphic could be adjusted slightly, but the read order is correct from lake to river to ocean.
LittleBuford
Well-Known Member
Agreed!
Disstevefan1
Well-Known Member
Why I LIKE Moana -We scream all the time for them to “do something!”
So we have to embrace the somethings. Not all thrills.
What’s better? Hype and a billion for 5 years and you get millennium space invaders and rise of the reboot? A dull ride that goes through the motions and has as much not working on it as splash mountain?
I think my perspective is evolving here
1. It's better than nothing.
2. It looks like it will a good place to get out of the direct sun and heat and check the app for my next LL
3. I am so looking forward to the walls coming down.
4. It's better than nothing - oh did I list this already?
Is there not a river leading to the ocean in that graphic? To properly label in a literal fashion it in the way you see it, it would be:Zach, I'm trying to root for you, but the labels for Lake and River are in the wrong spot
Rain > Stream > River > Wetland > River > Land > Spring > River > Lake > River > Ocean
The Water Cycle takes different parallel paths before it evaporates and turns back into rain. The illustration shows that. The words describing it would get very complicated trying to layout all those different paths. For we also see a mountain stream on the left flowing against the arrows of the circle toward that lake.
I'm more taken aback about the mountainous columns of water that are hurtling up into the sky to douse the sun.
I love this. It's going to be beautiful and you can learn if you choose.
I really think this is going to be a great addition to Epcot. People will be walking around the park, really enjoying themselves and can't put into words why, but it's things like this that are the "why".
And nice benches.
EPCOT is full of water features. People bemoaned the ponds that used to be in the hub and were cemented over. Now, there's something put back.
This is just another of the many water features already in EPCOT. It's a more... animated one. It's the dancing fountains (and the backward waterfall) by Imagination raised to a much higher level. Add some edutainment (Water Cycle + Moana references), and it's a great fit for EPCOT.
This is just another of the many water features already in EPCOT. It's a more... animated one. It's the dancing fountains (and the backward waterfall) by Imagination raised to a much higher level. Add some edutainment (Water Cycle + Moana references), and it's a great fit for EPCOT.
crazy4disney
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- No
So a highly themed queue that ends with no ride?
But in such a central place in a park that is crying out for actual attractions that people can ride?
Incomudro
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5. It's way better than any tech showcase exhibit housed in a building would ever be.
imagineer97
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- No
I just wish they'd bring back the Fountain of Nations now that the Festival Center has moved over.
Some of the best parts of Epcot weren't the rides though (at least for me), at least way back when. My greatest memories were playing after we rode Figment, not the ride itself.
It's not replacing a ride and I think if imaginative and interactive enough, will be fun, positive addition.
Would a high capacity ride ever have been placed where JoW is being placed? If such a ride could have been placed there, why haven't they already put one there over the past decades?
Previously, that site contained very low capacity exhibits, demonstrations, and M&Gs.
There are plenty of places left for high capacity rides in EPCOT.
Incomudro
Well-Known Member
There was never a ride in this location, there was a building.
I could only imagine the backlash by the purists if a ride was constructed at this spot.
They did away the instantly dated way of showing tech., that few people can even access in such a crowded enviroment - and turned it into a lush, beautiful, naturalistic walkthrough that ties in a bit of that edutainement so many harp about Epcot removing - and tied it to The Seas.
I know at the time @marni1971 and others produced some plans of the size of attraction that could have been put into Communicore as it was. I believe the conclusion was that something pretty sizable could have gone in there.
Of course, the idea of a festival center would need to have been dropped, which certainly wouldn't have been a bad thing.