EPCOT Test Track to be reimagined

[Ayla]

This is just lazy...
Could have been water, shrubbery, boulders, but they just went to Home Depot to get some rocks. Also, 10 bucks says that low curb becomes a tripping hazard.

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100% a tripping hazard, especially in the dark...never underestimate the lack of self-awareness while people are on vacation.

 

[JohnD]

This is just lazy...
Could have been water, shrubbery, boulders, but they just went to Home Depot to get some rocks. Also, 10 bucks says that low curb becomes a tripping hazard.

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Rocks also get scattered around the pavement. Someone steps on one and slips. Uh oh.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Looks like previews are imminent, then. Never seen walls go down and queues up for funsies.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ]

Hope they got John Michael Higgins back for the preshow/queue.

 

[WDWFREAK53]

Rocks also get scattered around the pavement. Someone steps on one and slips. Uh oh.

Not to mention kids picking them up and throwing them.

 

[JohnD]

Not to mention kids picking them up and throwing them.

There has to be something else coming. I can't imagine someone at Disney hadn't thought of potential liability issues. But you never know.

 

[griffin ferrari]

Better look at the front

 

[griffin ferrari]

A few more

 

[Horizons '83]

Much cleaner looking, for that I am grateful. Nothing like staring at scaffolding for years.

 

[DisneyCane]

I’m on the safety team at work, so I am always looking for safety hazards. This screams trip hazard to me, also there is a potential for the rocks to become projectiles unless they are cemented down. There has to be something else coming. Even the sign for Test Track 1.0 had a chain around it.

Maybe a some kind of a ring mounted to the concrete base, either made of plexiglass or metal tubes?

I agree with you and thought that the very first time I saw a picture of the "curb." I can't imagine that Disney's immense legal department would approve something the way this sign is in its current state in the middle of a walking path.

If they leave it that way, Morgan & Morgan will make even more profit!

 

[EagleScout610]

Better look from Reddit -

 

[BlindChow]

I used AI to whip up some alternate ideas for the new sign. Even the most basic and obvious choices look better imo:

Belgian Blocks:

 

[Moth]

Typically getting the main statue/sign up and pavement in the plaza means things are getting close to a finished state.


We should go back to saying Big Thunder should open early because of the track being done.

Pick up that phone because I called it.

 

[TheTwilightZone]

I used AI to whip up some alternate ideas for the new sign. Even the most basic and obvious choices look better imo:

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Belgian Blocks:

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These are good! #2 would be my preference, but even #1 would be a good improvement on what there is currently

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Definitely a weird choice. It feels all but certain that people will walk through and/or take the rocks. A deterrent is needed, even if it’s just a railing. Also, as was said, basic landscaping would be preferable.

That's what stands out most about it to me. It seems the first feedback that idea would get was that it would be too easy for people to climb all over it and that the rocks will end up disappearing and all over the place if they aren't glued down.

 

[wdwmagic]

Construction Walls Removed at EPCOT's Test Track as Reopening Nears​

Construction Walls Removed at EPCOT's Test Track as Reopening Nears

Construction Walls Removed at EPCOT's Test Track as Reopening Nears

www.wdwmagic.com

 

[ToTBellHop]

Late summer for Disney is like 7/1. It’s fall in like 8 weeks to them…

 

[DisneyCane]

From the sign locations on the building by the doors I expect the layout of the indoor queue to be pretty similar.

 

[dmc493]

I stopped following the seasons, I just operate via the Epcot festival calendar

 

[JohnD]

From the sign locations on the building by the doors I expect the layout of the indoor queue to be pretty similar.

I see no reason for them to change the layout. All kiosks for programming cars I'm sure are removed. Would be nice to see nods to WOM inside the queue, though.