News EPCOT Launches New Rope Drop Greeting Highlighting Walt Disney’s Original Vision

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EPCOT Introduces New Rope Drop Welcome Announcement Featuring Walt Disney Quotes

EPCOT Introduces New Rope Drop Welcome Announcement Featuring Walt Disney Quotes

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[flynnibus]

Imagineering Dec 2025

 

[HMF]

EPCOT, The Park has never been and will never be Walt's "Original Vision for EPCOT" no matter how many statues and out of context audio clips the company uses to try to twist the facts.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Not going to lie - that sounds pretty damn lame. "Trot out a quote from the dead guy again because those pesky old farts aren't happy and aren't spending money!"

 

[Ayla]

"Welcome to the park that looks nothing like Walt wanted! Enjoy your day!"

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

EPCOT, The Park has never been and will never be Walt's "Original Vision for EPCOT"

And thank god for that. It was maybe the worst idea the man ever had and would've absolutely been doomed to complete failure.

 

[Gary7777777]

Is “welcome boys and girls “ coming back?

 

[jah4955]

And thank god for that. It was maybe the worst idea the man ever had and would've absolutely been doomed to complete failure.

Now hold on there...I know a counterfactual can't be proven, but IF anyone could have pulled it off it would have been Walt. While Walt's Imagineers ultimately acknowledged that they couldn't do it (& I just acknowledged in another forum regulations would have made it all the more prohibitive than in Walt's time), most of them went to their graves believing that if anyone could have pulled it off, it was Walt.

[if it hasn't been asked yet, maybe we should still get Bob Gurr's opinion on this while we still have the chance?) It was Bob Gurr who said he was present as Walt pointed-out the bench that he and Lilly would sit on at EPCOTs completion and people watch.

Walt lamented in 1966 said "if I just had 15 more years." (number may be slightly off...caffeine hasn't kicked in yet). That tells me he had quite the plan in his head.

I can't think of a biography I've read where the drive to make EPCOT didn't consume him in his last years/months/days. For example, I don't agree with everything in Neal's book, but I do agree with how EPCOT was everything to Walt.

We'll never know. Yes the more research was done the more impossible it seemed. But with all Walt did in his life, and how he did it, it will always remain a hypothetical.

John Hench said Walt would have ultimately wanted what EPCOT became in 1982. Although he was Walt's "right hand man" in so many things, I still don't quite agree with that statement, and John wasn't always right.

 

[jah4955]

Is “welcome boys and girls “ coming back?

I, as a boy, never liked being called a boy (& don't get me started on "junior"). Children want to be treated like adults. So I didn't cry a river when this went away lol.

 

[jah4955]

"Welcome to the park that looks nothing like Walt wanted! Enjoy your day!"

I know I'm "grasping at straw" but slivers of his plans did include what ultimately became World Showcase and Communicore (at least 1982's).

 

[marni1971]

Walt’s “Epcot will always be in a state of becoming” has been trundled out ad nauseam to justify the continued destruction and dumbing down of the park. Despite it being a quote that’s nothing about what was built. So why not use Walt quotes taken out of all context.

He also went on about the blessing of size and we know how that’s currently working out.