EPCOT Test Track to be reimagined

larryz

larryz

I'm Just A Tourist!
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osian said:
Can we just not say that all the classic EPCOT attractions were absolutely awesome and leave it like that?
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They were awesome in the '80's and '90's.

The internet and resultant communications convergence (i.e., cell phones) killed Epcot and its style of edutainment.

Kind of ironic, isn't it, that Communicore and Innoventions never adequately anticipated the impact of personal device convergence?
 
seabreezept813

seabreezept813

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UNCgolf said:
That's one of the things I liked about it (and about all of original Future World)! I hate how short most of the modern attractions are.

Not that I would want most to be 30-40 minutes, but having one in a park is nice. And I desperately wish there were more 10-15 minute long rides.
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I agree 15 minutes is the sweet spot. Ellen's was tricky for us as we didn't always have the time to do it. When we did we loved it though. And it's a stand out from y childhood, especially when the theater breaks apart.
 
Moth

Moth

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DreamfinderGuy said:
Debating on which of the top classic EPCOT attractions is the best is like trying to argue whether cake or ice cream is the best. It’s all great and people are gonna have their personal preferences
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That's why Ice Cream cake exists, to combine both experiences into one, and that's what every classic ride is. I like WoM the best because it hit home with me the most, people like Horizons the most because it hit home with them the most, I don't think there is a 'bad' classic EPCOT ride.



Outside of Seacabs. Someone had to catch a stray here. But that's not even a ride, more of a transportation method.
 
UNCgolf

UNCgolf

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Moth said:
That's why Ice Cream cake exists, to combine both experiences into one, and that's what every classic ride is. I like WoM the best because it hit home with me the most, people like Horizons the most because it hit home with them the most, I don't think there is a 'bad' classic EPCOT ride.



Outside of Seacabs. Someone had to catch a stray here. But that's not even a ride, more of a transportation method.
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Yeah, the Seacabs definitely weren't a standalone ride. They were just one part of the placemaking/theming of Seabase Alpha, which was a masterpiece. Nobody said "let's go ride the Seacabs"; you just did it as part of the overall experience of visiting the base.

That's also probably why Nemo is so bad. They took what was essentially a non-attraction space and tried to shove an attraction in there.
 
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DisneyCane

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larryz said:
They were awesome in the '80's and '90's.

The internet and resultant communications convergence (i.e., cell phones) killed Epcot and its style of edutainment.

Kind of ironic, isn't it, that Communicore and Innoventions never adequately anticipated the impact of personal device convergence?
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When classic Epcot was designed it would have been a leap to foresee a data connection that could deliver 1 Mbps to a consumer's home. If you told someone then that people would be able to have Gigabit speeds on a cell phone with more computing power than all the computers at WDW when Epcot opened combined they would have thought you were on something!
 
Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan

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larryz said:
They were awesome in the '80's and '90's.

The internet and resultant communications convergence (i.e., cell phones) killed Epcot and its style of edutainment.

Kind of ironic, isn't it, that Communicore and Innoventions never adequately anticipated the impact of personal device convergence?
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It started as the Tomorrowland problem, and it became the EPCOT problem. Really, it's always going to be the inherent problem with any park, land, or attraction themed to the future.

Eventually the future gets here.
 
solidyne

solidyne

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DisneyCane said:
When classic Epcot was designed it would have been a leap to foresee a data connection that could deliver 1 Mbps to a consumer's home. If you told someone then that people would be able to have Gigabit speeds on a cell phone with more computing power than all the computers at WDW when Epcot opened combined they would have thought you were on something!
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Actually, I distinctly remember thinking, in the 80s, that the year 2000 marked the arrival of "the future." If I were to imagine 2025 back then, I would conceived of a lot more than what we have now. Full-on domestic robots, flying cars, glittering control panels everywhere, the works!

But in fact, I'm still mowing my lawn, scrubbing pots and pans, using a pencil, and dragging myself to the office every day. Download speed, schmownload speed!
 

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