Why And How Can WDW Get Rid Of The Lights Of Winter?!?!?!?!?

[Crush Dude!]

Hi Folks!

So to start, i recently created a thread looking for info/pics/experiences from MVMCP!

Well i got a response drom Tom (AKA WDWFigment) with a link to his Flicker pics from Christmas 2008 in WDW and i was blown away!!

As always all his pictures were amazing but i was particularly amazed by his shots of The Lights Of Winter at EPCOT!! So so amazing and what a beautiful way to enter The World Showcase!!

So why must they get rid if these?? Cost Cutting?? Old Technology?? And if so can they not be updated to LED Lights??

Unfortunately i have never seen them in person and im sure the people who have must have been even more upset but the thought that i probably wont ever see these is crazy!!

If anything shoulod be returned to EPCOT surely The Lights Of Winter must be near the top of the list???



PS. If anyone has any pics to share or links to pics of The Lights of Winter please feel free to post them here so those of us who have not seen them may get some kind of idea of what has been taken away and so those who have seen them can relive this amazing christmas addition to EPCOT!!!

 

[rlm919]

uh oh.

 

[wm49rs]

There's a number of threads out there about the LoW not being displayed, their being shrink-wrapped in white plastic behind EP, and some posts about their possibly returning in 2011.

 

[rkelly42]

I am sure as the holidays come closer the threads will start to pop back up again about the lights of winter.

 

[BrerFrog]

This is what Disney had to say on the subject:

"Note:The Lights of Winter at Epcot has been enjoyed for years. But tech to operate the lights is obsolete, prompting us to retire the lights."

 

[Kamikaze]

Whats a Light of Winter?

 

[puntagordabob]

In MK it was a wonderful Christmas season... in DHS the Osborne Christmas lights made the streets of America as light as day...

Meanwhile in EPCOT it was August or something.... No Holiday here, Move along!

The LoW did definitely set the stage for the spirt of the Holidays for Epcot.... hopefully WDW is working on a New LoW for the area in 2011 that will make us smile even more brightly...

 

[puntagordabob]

 

[puntagordabob]

 

[SMRT-1]

yea, they looked great...but honestly i am over it.

 

[enoe01]

OHHHH BOY.. :hammer: Where is my popcorn, time to sit back and watch this one go down in flames. PuntaGordaBob those are some good pictures of the Lights of Winter, thanks for posting them.

Your WDW neighbor 1 hour south

Erik

 

[toolsnspools]

Those are great pics. If you look close enough at the first one you can see the rust spots all over the massive white frame. The lights were nice at night, but an eyesore the rest of the day. That's not an excuse to replace them with " ", but I think they can and hopefully will do better than the LOW.

 

[Crush Dude!]

There's a number of threads out there about the LoW not being displayed, their being shrink-wrapped in white plastic behind EP, and some posts about their possibly returning in 2011.

Anybody think that there may be any truth to this???

 

[Crush Dude!]

This is what Disney had to say on the subject:

"Note:The Lights of Winter at Epcot has been enjoyed for years. But tech to operate the lights is obsolete, prompting us to retire the lights."

Cant they be changed to LED??

 

[Crush Dude!]

Gorgeous Photo :sohappy::sohappy::sohappy:

 

[Crush Dude!]

Amazing!!!

Old tech?? More like "we are too cheap to keep it going" :fork:

 

[DisneyNut2007]

There's a number of threads out there about the LoW not being displayed, their being shrink-wrapped in white plastic behind EP, and some posts about their possibly returning in 2011.

Let's hope we get the Country Bear Xmas Show back in the Magic Kingdom that year as well!

 

[DisneyNut2007]

Amazing!!!

Old tech?? More like "we are too cheap to keep it going" :fork:

Or, to be more realistic, "We can't do it right now because of the horrible economic recession."

 

[jt04]

Anybody think that there may be any truth to this???

Yes, I do think they will do something similar.....eventually. I'd be happy, in the meantime, if they used the budget formally used to set up the LoW to remove the BAT (aka purple tarps).

 

[ChrisFL]

I think Disney could make it next-gen by replacing every light in LOW with a little monitor screen and each of them could be filled with a post on WDWMagic that relates to them removing LOW