EPCOT Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot

[Disstevefan1]

There are placards throughout that discuss the water cycle. The exhibits are designed to at least marginally coincide with the part of the cycle being discussed, apparently.

YaY placards!

Very Edutaining!

 

[tparris]

A waterfall curtain that parts for you when you pass through it

I can’t wait for this one to stop working

 

[James Alucobond]

YaY placards!

Very Edutaining!

Because there were never wall graphics that you could optionally read in Innoventions, right? I get that this isn't something people are going to be terribly excited about, that it replaced a building that shouldn't have been torn down in the first place, and that it further muddles the spatial organization of the park, but is having something to read really that much of an affront?

I can’t wait for this one to stop working

I will likely always approach it with a ridiculous amount of caution for this very reason.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I will likely always approach it with a ridiculous amount of caution for this very reason.

though on super hot days one might hope for a malfunction

 

[TheMaxRebo]

According to folks fresh off of previews, some features include:

1. Water harps that you can play by passing your hand under a series of water strings
2. A waterfall curtain that parts for you when you pass through it
3. Leaping fountains that you can direct
4. Collaborative effects where more people gathering around creates larger fountains
5. The ability to high-five the water, with the fountain aiming for your hand to meet you high or low
6. A children's play area with spitting kakamora

Thanks for sharing ... I know I am in the minority but I am really looking forward to this. I think it will be a nice, fun, small, low time commitment thing to do. Something new is always nice, and I can see myself and my kids having fun with the interactive elements.

And if this was like the 7th thing that was opening along with all the other stuff at EPCOT (stuff done and stuff cancelled) it would be great - just obviously feels small when not much else new is coming

 

[Disstevefan1]

Sincere question.

Will there be boarding groups or Genie+ ILLs ?

 

[MrPromey]

Yea, rock work takes time...

compared to the OG crafter of such things, Disney is downright speedy!

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Sincere question.

Will there be boarding groups or Genie+ ILLs ?

I haven't seen any mention of it and doesn't look like there are tap points in any of the photos I have seen. I assume will just be a walk up and they probably hold you back if too many people already in it

I mean, never say never they could do something on the app for the opening (like how you had to reserve a pick upf or the figment popcorn bucket or something) but haven't heard anything

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

There are placards throughout that discuss the water cycle. The exhibits are designed to at least marginally coincide with the part of the cycle being discussed, apparently.

I don't NEEEED Placards when I know a dag gum snowman told me all about it...

What Did Moana Teach us......

 

[raymusiccity]

I can’t wait for this one to stop working

We should start making bets on how long before each feature stops working.

 

[MrPromey]

I'm waiting to see the finished product of ALL of it and what they do in the actual new communicore building/hall.
Will it just be meet/greets?
Festival food booths?
or will they have interactive displays/edutainment type installations that change periodically. That could be great. And I'm curious to see what those lights they installed do, why they are there - potentially could have a great look.

Nope.

That's what they used to do in the place they tore down because they didn't want to pay* to keep that concept going.

There wouldn't even be enough usable space in the new structure for anything like that.


*Or find enough sponsors willing to pay for them.

 

[MrPromey]

I’m not fully up on the details, so am I incorrect in assuming this will feature some kind of mist/little splash and therefore slight cooling aspect? If so, I’d guess there would be no shortage of folks walking through it in the heat on the way from one place to another for years to come - kind of like Club Cool.

The mist cooling thing isn't all that effective outdoors in humid climate because the whole evaporative cooling effect doesn't actually work all that well. When you're already hot and sweaty and in humidity of 80% or higher and you get hit by a mist and are still in that hot and humid environment, you're really just getting more moist.

Now, if you immediately go into someplace air conditioned, you'll feel it but it's the same feeling as being drenched in sweat from doing yard work here in FL and then going inside where you're AC is set to 72.

It feels good in a sweet-relief kind of way but also a little icky.

I'm guessing that's why it's not featured as much in queue lines and other places in Florida, in general, as it once was.

Club cool worked because it was basically an "attraction" taking you through a literal walk-in freezer that led you to an indoor air conditioned place that offered *free* flavored hydration - not even remotely comparable.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

We should start making bets on how long before each feature stops working.

No time like the present...

 

[MisterPenguin]

though on super hot days one might hope for a malfunction

<makes a note> Test to see how fast one needs to run at a wall of water to beat the detection system. Though, I venture some seven year old will beat me to it.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

<makes a note> Test to see how fast one needs to run at a wall of water to beat the detection system. Though, I venture some seven year old will beat me to it.

Or how slow ... Maybe it parts but then comes back before I make it through

 

[MrPromey]

So explain to me how those don’t look like catering/food and bev?

…probably for a cupcake party

The sleeves! It's all in the "cool sleeve design!".

If only they'd been as subtle and restrained with the Moana references when redesigning the rooms in the Polynesian as they are apparently being with the uniforms for this Moana attraction.

 

[MrPromey]

Because there were never wall graphics that you could optionally read in Innoventions, right? I get that this isn't something people are going to be terribly excited about, that it replaced a building that shouldn't have been torn down in the first place, and that it further muddles the spatial organization of the park, but is having something to read really that much of an affront?

I don't think that was meant to suggest that having something to read is an affront so much as Disney (and a few people on these boards) have continued to maintain the educational value of this attraction while Imagineering videos show things like coconut character carvings in rocks and people working on it in interviews talk about how you'll learn that water is "alive" and has "personality" - things it's literally not and doesn't have...

Only to have it revealed that yep, the "edutainment" element is basically just a tacked on afterthought to a water playground.

 

[Epcot81Fan]

I don't think that was meant to suggest that having something to read is an affront so much as Disney (and a few people on these boards) have continued to maintain the educational value of this attraction while Imagineering videos show things like coconut character carvings in rocks and people working on it in interviews talking about how you'll learn that water has "personality"...

Only to have it revealed that yep, the "edutainment" element is basically just a tacked on afterthought to a water playground.

You see kids, first water comes down as rain and then BOOM! It high fives you! Up top, rainwater!!!

 

[James Alucobond]

I don't think that was meant to suggest that having something to read is an affront so much as Disney (and a few people on these boards) have continued to maintain the educational value of this attraction while Imagineering videos show things like coconut character carvings in rocks and people working on it in interviews talking about how you'll learn that water has "personality"...

Only to have it revealed that yep, the "edutainment" element is basically just a tacked on afterthought to a water playground.

Again, I just fail to see how this is radically different from Innoventions. You introduce a concept and allow people to play with it. Playing with musical instruments in an exhibit about music doesn’t beam diatonic scales into your brain even if the accompanying placard mentions them. You may learn nothing at all; the point is to create a sense of fascination and wonder that contextualizes and adds interest to the accompanying science. As to the personality of water, personification is frequently used to demonstrate concepts, as perhaps a teacher did for you long ago when explaining subatomic bonding and repulsion, for instance.

 

[Poseidon Quest]

Though, I venture some seven year old will beat me to it.

Speaking of which, one of the issues I had with Super Nintendo World was young kids running up and interrupting you in the middle of what you were doing and spam punching the blocks. Will water come up and touch your hand if the child right next to you is wildly waving their arms and confusing the sensors?