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Pandora before Horizons 2.0...really???

Clamman73

Clamman73

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Original Poster
Are they not looking out for the park visitors who where young and inspired by the attractions of yesteryear??? Those days of Epcot Center made me look into the future with a vision that there was something grandiose to look forward to...Where are you Future World??? Is Pandora our future???
 
FigmentJedi

FigmentJedi

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thelookingglass said:
Unfortunately, there is money to be made from Avatar, and no money in re-creating Horizons.
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What money-making? Two years since release and people rarely talk about it anymore and when they do, it's almost always in a mocking context. Iger and Staggs picked the wrong outside franchise.
 
ChrisFL

ChrisFL

Premium Member
Tahu said:
What money-making? Two years since release and people rarely talk about it anymore and when they do, it's almost always in a mocking context. Iger and Staggs picked the wrong outside franchise.
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This topic has been beaten to death already several times
 
Magenta Panther

Magenta Panther

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Tahu said:
What money-making? Two years since release and people rarely talk about it anymore and when they do, it's almost always in a mocking context. Iger and Staggs picked the wrong outside franchise.
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Quite right. On top of which, ANY outside franchise is wrong for WDW in my opinion - especially when there are Disney films and characters largely unrepresented in the parks. And besides, what happened to Beastly Kingdom?
 
muse1983

muse1983

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ChrisFL said:
This topic has been beaten to death already several times
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Man..so true. I'm sick and tired of hearing about it and think it's become a ridiculous go to crutch to find something negative to say about WDW. To question everything the park does simply because it isn't bringing back a let's face it, dated attraction is flat out ridiculous. Horizons was great but it was closed, get over it please.:wave:
 
Prototype82

Prototype82

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Tahu said:
What money-making? Two years since release and people rarely talk about it anymore and when they do, it's almost always in a mocking context.
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It wasn't a theme park then. Remember the reason why people flooded to see the film? The visuals allowed people to escape to another world. With theme park magic, they'll literally be able to explore this world. That will make money. This alone is one of the reasons the Wizarding World is so popular.
 
Prototype82

Prototype82

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To answer your question, Disney is concerned about two things: Making money and continuing their creative legacy of imagineering attractions. Disney likes to claim they embrace their legacy of futurism at Epcot. They update Innoventions from time to time and they have a great sponsor in Spaceship Earth. They think they can slap the name Epcot on that.

It's still a great park with many great highlights but the company isn't going to expand it in ways that would do this world's fair justice. If it's making them a solid profit now, they don't need to build a new Horizons, or build a ride in Japan and cruise in Germany, or gut Ellen out of Universe of Energy. Avatar is the answer to Animal Kingdom's future. It's the perfect solution to that park in both theme and possible profit.
 
Hakunamatata

Hakunamatata

Le Meh
Clamman73 said:
Are they not looking out for the park visitors who where young and inspired by the attractions of yesteryear??? Those days of Epcot Center made me look into the future with a vision that there was something grandiose to look forward to...Where are you Future World??? Is Pandora our future???
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You do know that Pandora is proposed for DAK right? Not EPCOT.
 
hemloc

hemloc

Member
Tahu said:
What money-making? Two years since release and people rarely talk about it anymore and when they do, it's almost always in a mocking context. Iger and Staggs picked the wrong outside franchise.
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Ummm, what about the 2 movies that are still in the pipeline?? Not to mention re-release plans... :shrug:
 
Enchantâmes

Enchantâmes

Active Member
Dear lord every time I visit this site anymore the gets worse and worse. I'm considering deleting my account because this is getting to the point where its not healthy.
 
J

Jakester

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Horizons has run its course. It is history. Sure it was probably great (never rode it), But Walt always wanted the parks to grow, and evolve. Avatar seems exciting to me, and cannot wait to follow its construction as I have with WWoHP and FLE.
 
RedFurredCadet

RedFurredCadet

Active Member
Jakester said:
Horizons has run its course. It is history. Sure it was probably great (never rode it), But Walt always wanted the parks to grow, and evolve. Avatar seems exciting to me, and cannot wait to follow its construction as I have with WWoHP and FLE.
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Therefore his quote: "I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things." Bad for those who defend their favourites for preservation, but for some apparent reason, if the Pandora universe has such potential, then we'll see what we've got.
 
G00fyDad

G00fyDad

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Jakester said:
Horizons has run its course. It is history. Sure it was probably great (never rode it), But Walt always wanted the parks to grow, and evolve. Avatar seems exciting to me, and cannot wait to follow its construction as I have with WWoHP and FLE.
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I get what you are saying and I am truly excited to see the final product on this Pandora thing but while Walt Disney did want to evolve his parks and see them grow I really don't think he understood that he nor his parks would become a legend. He may not have fully grasped that some of his first attractions would hold such an endearing quality behind them. IMHO, I think that if he did he would ask that they be left alone and the other smaller, less loved attractions be removed to make way for the future and IaSW, PP Flight, Dumbo, Jungle Cruise, CoP, PotC, etc... would all stay if it were up to him. Other things would have been removed to make way for expansion and growth though.
 

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