Like major design changes to the park or more attraction “upgrades”?
Tony, Kevin, and Joe weren’t begging to be put out to pasture! It was deliberate.
They probably wouldn't play ball with the lowered quality standards that they design/build to nowadays.
Is this real? Sadly, it's hard to tell considering how shoddy they've been with 'Show' in recent years.
I don’t think the old Innoventions building or Fountain of Nations are necessary for Epcot to be Epcot. They just built an unacceptable replacement for the Fountain. They certainly could have built something new and impressive.
That's not a maintenance issue...it's a fundamental design flaw.
Only when YOU are present. You know why.
You were referring to the tapcons, which Imagineering did not decide to use. It is indeed fundamentally flawed, but it's due to a third-party manufacturer not delivering on promised specs exacerbated by terrible maintenance decisions.
That's the thing...the Old Guard of Imagineering would have had Journey Of Water actually attached to the Seas Pavilion as a queue...or a Weather Pavilion...not just a random thing disconnected from anything else... in a featureless corporate office park... With the removal of the Communicore and it's attractions, the central core is just a place to pass through...I realize we have not had any engaging attractions in the communicore buildings in decades...but that should have been the focus as opposed to tearing everything down and building an inferior building that literally adds nothing and does not have the capacity to even host any sort of attraction... THe whole thing is now the ruins of a value-engineered bad idea... At this point it just makes sense to re-think at least that central planter area, Add a new Show fountain and at least make that area feel engaging and meaningful... No one cares about another blah planter... but a fountain would be appreciated.
Hopefully he didn't trip on any loose lighting covers near the planter.
You'd be surprised just how much EPCOT's management dictates some of the terrible decisions being made. WDI, as others have wisely put it, is essentially a contractor. Management at varying levels of the organization tell them what to design, and they do it. They don't come to management and say 'I have a great idea for a new Figment ride', management comes to them and says 'how about an Encanto show in that new plaza you're making?'
I certainly hope Imagineering did not spec out the tapcons