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EPCOT Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?
- Thread starter djkidkaz
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shortstop
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I'm confused what's going on with Epcot. One on hand you have Guardians going in, and on the other hand you have cool Epcot Center-esque projects like the M:S restaurant along with potential refreshes of the Land and the Seas. Is this a case of conflicting interests, or of management appeasing the masses as they insert their beloved IPs?
aladdin2007
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Agree, and of course they ripped out what was a beautiful fountain. The worse of it was shoehorning in soarin with the escalators on wrong sides and people trying to go up and down stairs as people come up off the escalator colliding...., I would be shocked if an accident has not already happened up there because of that, horrible lay out for it for that amount of insane traffic. Soarin should have had its own entrance exits between imagination and the land. But no that would have cost too much and made more sense.
Cmdr_Crimson
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The entrance could have gone right where the original GMR attraction was to be...And made it look more like an Airline Terminal...a "If you had wings 2.0" if you will..
aladdin2007
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The entrance could have gone right where the original GMR attraction was to be...And made it look more like an Airline Terminal...a "If you had wings 2.0" if you will..
exactly, was a chance for a new pavilion there, will never happen now.
Cmdr_Crimson
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You could still make a terminal-esque entryway outside of the pavilion and have it enter directly into the Back part of the Former Food Rocks Building and then go through the queue...Having the Main entrance inside the Land being an "Exit only" area...
aladdin2007
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true, would certainly help the traffic flow.
ChrisFL
Premium Member
The entrance could have gone right where the original GMR attraction was to be...And made it look more like an Airline Terminal...a "If you had wings 2.0" if you will..
Agreed. I wouldn't go with airline terminal specifically, but an aviation themed area (Think Smithsonian Air and Space) museum was a huge missed opportunity, especially considering the actual Soarin' building is closer to JII than The Land
RSoxNo1
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Something added that isn’t an IP?
No Name
Well-Known Member
Bob Chapek did say "there are certain things in our portfolio that we will never touch because of what they are." I'd like to think Spaceship Earth is one of those. Regardless, it is good to see that he understand there's value in legacy and history.
This whole interview is interesting. While I'm not his #1 fan, I must admit I like some of his answers.
This whole interview is interesting. While I'm not his #1 fan, I must admit I like some of his answers.
John park hopper
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When you go through the list of classic attractions that have faded into history I wonder what he considers history and legacy?
Clearly that list doesn't include IASW, PotC, HM, JC, Soarin', Test Track, Ellen's Energy Adventure, etc, etc...
Winter
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What? Only one of those was removed.
999th Happy Haunt
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Sorry I’m behind but what’s going on with Imagination? New attraction? Dreamfinder returning? IP?
Winter
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Nothing confirmed I think.
But all of them have been tinkered with...
jt04
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With the news of widespread adoption of electric vehicles by car manufacturers, 5g deployment, robotic farming, fracking, reusable rockets etc, and the rapidly increasing speed of technological advances, it is now clearer than ever that the conditions in place that inspired Future World in 1982 no longer exist. Add global trade and especially competition and the original FW business model is beyond obsolete.
Except possibly in a retro nostalgia sort of way. Imagineering definitely has quite a challenge. Which is when they excel.
Except possibly in a retro nostalgia sort of way. Imagineering definitely has quite a challenge. Which is when they excel.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
Continuing to repeat this doesn't make it true.
jt04
Well-Known Member
Being in denial doesn't make it false. Cheer up though, the Imagination pavilion is the easiest to re-imagine. IMO.
rd805
Well-Known Member
And the one that is removed is a pretty stale attraction...