EPCOT Test Track to be reimagined

[Biff215]

Should the doors take this long to fix? Or did the lawyers finally get their way? I’m sure Disney was happy that it was CM’s who crashed through the doors during previews and not paying guests who would have sued.

I certainly hope they return, I’m just getting less optimistic every day they don’t.

 

[HMF]

Or did the lawyers finally get their way?

Oh trust me it is not hard to get Disney to cave in to threats of legal action. Especially, right now.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

If you saw one of the greatest endings to any Disney attraction torn out to draw your attention away from it with a stupid flash animation on the in-vehicle screen to distract you and it remained in that state for nearly 20 years you can understand why I would be negative about it.

Ok it wasn’t the greatest ending, it was awkward trying to look at scenes while on a steep decline and having to turn your head, it gave me vertigo. And the scenes weren’t bad or anything but far from pirates, hm, rise quality.

 

[HMF]

Ok it wasn’t the greatest ending, it was awkward trying to look at scenes while on a steep decline and having to turn your head, it gave me vertigo. And the scenes weren’t bad or anything but far from pirates, hm, rise quality.

No other ending has ever influenced me and crystalized my outlook on myself and the world.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

No other ending has ever influenced me and crystalized my outlook on myself and the world.

Ah ok it’s the greatest TO YOU then, not everyone would say the same.

 

[HMF]

Ah ok it’s the greatest TO YOU then, not everyone would say the same.

Well, I obviously can't read other peoples minds or tell them what or how to think.

 

[Chester&Hester Enthusiast]

yeti was turned off because of the infrastructure in the mountain.

 

[DisneyCane]

This is off topic, but...

Yeti was turned off because its internal 'bones and joints' couldn't withstand the momentum of its actions. The infrastructure of EE wasn't an issue at all.

Two things are mind boggling to me. First, I don't understand how the structural engineers who designed the Yeti's "skeleton" could get the design wrong. It should have been easy to simulate and test the loads for everything they were designing.

Second, I don't understand why they can't design and install structural reinforcements so that it can handle the loads. This shouldn't require complete removal and rebuilding of the figure. Just go under the skin at night for as many nights as it takes to install new and/or additional parts.

Back to the TT doors, they worked almost all the time on 1.0. Back then I would ride 30-40 times a year and maybe remember 2 or 3 rides where they were open. I don't understand why it's so difficult to have them working now. If they are made out of styrofoam, what's the difference if a vehicle crashes through them. The vehicles aren't traveling fast enough at the doors for a piece of styrofoam to cause even a minor injury.

 

[Fido Chuckwagon]

The vehicles aren't traveling fast enough at the doors for a piece of styrofoam to cause even a minor injury.

Except the reports were that the last incident did cause injuries.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Second, I don't understand why they can't design and install structural reinforcements so that it can handle the loads.

Insiders have mentioned they *could* create a whole new Yeti with a different swiping routine that wouldn't bend rods and pop pistons, and dislocate joints. The old Yeti is easily removable and, thus, a new one could easily be put in its place. ("easily" being relative)

Problem one: If the Yeti is still over the guests, then there is a whole slew of updated safety codes it has to pass. No one wants a one ton AA dropping on guests.

Problem two: There is internal conflict over whose budget this comes out of.

And both problems don't seem insurmountable (pun intended), but, yet... they seemingly are. Not even Deadpool could shame them into fixing it.

 

[DisneyCane]

Except the reports were that the last incident did cause injuries.

If that's true they must be made some kind of foam that is more dense than simple Styrofoam. What were the reported injuries?

 

[jah4955]

All that's left is the peppers ghost video communication scenes. The model city and everything after it were already removed in 2007.

I didn't realize that...thanks for the clarification @HMF

 

[jah4955]

To be fair that is probably true.

The more I reflect on it the more deeply I agree as well. That one should have been kept in perpetual storage (to emphasize, I realized immediately they just wanted to cash-in from MJ death) ...The cringeworthy parts I forgot about (or never noticed as a child) are indeed exponentially greater than the nostalgic slivers I remembered. I watched its predecessor, Magic Journeys, online with a friend a few weeks ago...same thing happened to me as when I watched EO in 2010...the cringe was ten times greater than the nostalgia EO was my attempt at an analogy. Still would like something done with that Magic Eye Theater besides "shorts festival"

 

[jah4955]

No other ending has ever influenced me and crystalized my outlook on myself and the world.

2007 ending was "OKish...ONCE." I loved 1994 ending. I LOVED 1986 ending. No memory of 1982 ending

 

[Kamikaze]

The more I reflect on it the more deeply I agree as well. That one should have been kept in perpetual storage (to emphasize, I realized immediately they just wanted to cash-in from MJ death) ...The cringeworthy parts I forgot about (or never noticed as a child) are indeed exponentially greater than the nostalgic slivers I remembered. I watched its predecessor, Magic Journeys, online with a friend a few weeks ago...same thing happened to me as when I watched EO in 2010...the cringe was ten times greater than the nostalgia EO was my attempt at an analogy. Still would like something done with that Magic Eye Theater besides "shorts festival"

That theatre should be an Inside Out show.

 

[Brer Panther]

If they never brought back Captain EO, do you think they'd still have Shrunk the Audience in the Magic Eye Theater? Or would it have still eventually turned into the Disney Shorts Festival?

 

[jah4955]

That theatre should be an Inside Out show.

I can get behind that. Or a ride to replace Imagination Ride 3.0. Or both.

(NB!!!!!!: I'd rather have a restoration of 1.0, but I'd prefer Inside Out over 2.0 & 3.0 anyday!)

 

[jah4955]

If they never brought back Captain EO, do you think they'd still have Shrunk the Audience in the Magic Eye Theater? Or would it have still eventually turned into the Disney Shorts Festival?

If Captain EO never returned (ie MJ didn't die relatively young), I can see how "Honey" could have still played there today in 2025 (I'm not saying that's a good thing). I conjecture that they concluded after EO's 2nd engagement that "Shorts Festival" was easier than restoring all "Honey" effects, with the added logic that most haven't even heard of the "Honey" franchise. Disneyland's Theater is more proof of my theory...virtually no use since return engagement of EO ended....

 

[TheMaxRebo]

That theatre should be an Inside Out show.

If they aren't going to do anything with Wonders of Life (which is were I prefer to see Inside Out) then including them in the Imagination Pavilion with them in the MagicEye Theater and an updated Journey into Imagination attraction would be a huge upgrade

 

[jah4955]

If they aren't going to do anything with Wonders of Life (which is were I prefer to see Inside Out) then including them in the Imagination Pavilion with them in the MagicEye Theater and an updated Journey into Imagination attraction would be a huge upgrade

It's sad to see such a huge complex sit completely unused.