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WOL Demo coming ..
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esskay
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Do it.
Loved the pavilion as a kid but it's obvious it's not getting used again and has far too many issues. Not to mention if you are going to plop a new pavilion down you'd want to 'pull' the building closer towards the public area so it's not hidden away in a corner.
Keeping it sitting there rotting away is just prolonging the pain. At least if its gone and is a blank slate then theres slightly more chance of something happening in a decade or two if/when management exits the death spiral.
The thing is the play pavilion just would not have worked IMO. It would have been great for around 3 years. Then the age would start showing.
Go stand in the exit area of Spaceship Earth and look around. Thats what it'd be like, some crappy broken set of screens not touched in years. That's just the disney way. It happened with Disney Quest, and it would've happened again with the Play Pavilion. Disney is seemingly incapable of slapping a new bit of software and videos clips into an existing attraction without taking it offline for a year.
Loved the pavilion as a kid but it's obvious it's not getting used again and has far too many issues. Not to mention if you are going to plop a new pavilion down you'd want to 'pull' the building closer towards the public area so it's not hidden away in a corner.
Keeping it sitting there rotting away is just prolonging the pain. At least if its gone and is a blank slate then theres slightly more chance of something happening in a decade or two if/when management exits the death spiral.
The thing is the play pavilion just would not have worked IMO. It would have been great for around 3 years. Then the age would start showing.
Go stand in the exit area of Spaceship Earth and look around. Thats what it'd be like, some crappy broken set of screens not touched in years. That's just the disney way. It happened with Disney Quest, and it would've happened again with the Play Pavilion. Disney is seemingly incapable of slapping a new bit of software and videos clips into an existing attraction without taking it offline for a year.
Alice a
Well-Known Member
This makes me sad; I hated Body Wars but really enjoyed the feel of this pavilion.
What particularly stings is that current leadership seems perfectly content to replace former entertainment and dining spaces with private lounges (DVC, AP, Club 33), storage, or nothing at all.
When they do replace, it’s frequently a bit inferior when compared to what came before - Frozen and TBA are less detailed and filled out than their predecessors, etc. and even new builds are not what they could have been- Ariel’s, NRJ, etc.
Why some are celebrating this with the current track record astounds me. I’d like to be pleasantly surprised. We’ll see.
What particularly stings is that current leadership seems perfectly content to replace former entertainment and dining spaces with private lounges (DVC, AP, Club 33), storage, or nothing at all.
When they do replace, it’s frequently a bit inferior when compared to what came before - Frozen and TBA are less detailed and filled out than their predecessors, etc. and even new builds are not what they could have been- Ariel’s, NRJ, etc.
Why some are celebrating this with the current track record astounds me. I’d like to be pleasantly surprised. We’ll see.
Yankee Mouse
Well-Known Member
Could add Comunicore to that list as well.
jah4955
Well-Known Member
the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
jah4955
Well-Known Member
As indicated in the Soarin' news...Disney still can be good at keeping things under wraps.
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ChrisFL
Premium Member
This happens a lot, both at Disney and Universal...lots of different departments involved, decisions and "green lights" coming after other decisions, etc.
DreamfinderGuy
Well-Known Member
Maybe it’s just coping on my part but this thread is the first time I’ve heard total demo of the building mentioned. Kinda hoping there have been miscommunications somewhere and we’re looking at a demo of the remaining Play Pavilion infrastructure rather than the whole thing going down. After all, they have invested millions into Wonders recently. Feels like a major waste to let all that money go rather than clean up in there and install literally anything to add capacity to EPCOT.
That would mean Vahle and TDO have a clue.
I can't say I'm surprised since it's been sitting there collecting dust for the most part for the last 20 years.
jah4955
Well-Known Member
I thought RoA would never be demo'd...especially after they not only spared-but enhanced-DL's version while building SWGE.
rootbeerkid
Member
I miss the Wonder of Life pavilion from the early 90s. Often times for me it's little things that have an inexplicable lasting memory. For instance, the Wonder Cycles. I remember riding them and have thought about them through the years. If WoL were still there today in it's original form, those cycles would be the first thing I would visit. Doubtless, I'm overly sentimental and nostalgic. I have to remind myself, continually, that one can rarely experience the same thing from years ago - even if a place is the same, the person is usually not the same.
jah4955
Well-Known Member
Wonder Cycles = my favorite at WoL...especially the Disneyland one (probably the selection for most lol). Wonder if they still exist... and are in anyone's collection?
jah4955
Well-Known Member
Although currently disproven in 3 of the 4 parks, having a demo the scale of the WoL building during January time would make sense to me, as many of their refurbs/outright closures happen right after New Years, as it's one of the relatively "quieter" times of the year....the sight of the demo site will disrupt as few visitors' vistas as possible (unlike when they did the Horizons demo...middle of summer if memory serves correctly...and that was a vastly more beautiful building than WoL)
BagOfGroceries
Well-Known Member
My gut’s telling me it’s the roof. It’s always been the roof.
Cmdr_Crimson
Well-Known Member
Then they can finally start getting new Monorail Spiels....Those Tom Kane ones aren't holding up well for the Epcot Line...Time to get a new Narrator for it or Bring Back Joe Hursch..
xxlove
Member
*deep inhale* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
