MrPromey
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To be fair, the Haunted Mansion ride isn't really in that building... and the real one, if memory serves, is painted green... but it's also completely out of guest view in most normal circumstances.
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EPCOT Remy's Ratatouille Adventure coming to Epcot
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To be fair, the Haunted Mansion ride isn't really in that building... and the real one, if memory serves, is painted green... but it's also completely out of guest view in most normal circumstances.
hpyhnt 1000
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This is yet another example of how EPCOT Center was a masterclass of theme park design. Rather than try to "hide" its show buildings, nearly every one of them was designed to be partially or even fully "on stage." The Land is an exception, but even there its landscaped berm ties nicely into its theme.
Arguably the worst of the Future World pavilions was/is Journey into Imagination, with its relatively exposed Magic Eye Theater. In World Showcase, the Mexico pavilion is essentially a painted box with a pyramid stuck on the promenade side, but the remaining WS pavilions are some of the best placemaking WDI has ever done.
It's a big reason why Ratatouille's painted flat and GotG's "go away blue" box stick out like sore thumbs, not that they needed any help doing so.
Not everyone got it, but that was a purposeful juxtaposition. Similar to Odyssey and Motion behind Mexico.
TeriofTerror
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Out of curiosity, are there any updates about Rat opening? (PleaseSayBeforeSeptember14, PleaseSayBeforeSeptember14, PleaseSayBeforeSeptember14.)
Crazydisneyfanluke
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Martin has mentioned it was a few months from opening when everything was shut down. The current position of the company, they may want it open asap to increase EPCOT demand, or push it off until demand increases, which ever is cheapest and brings in the $$$
CastAStone
5th gate? Just build a new resort Bob.
Multiple insiders have speculated Octoberish. I haven't seen anything to indicate that mid-September is in play, but who knows.
UNCgolf
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That looks terrible, but there's also no way that's the finished paint job, so I'm not concerned.
I still think the architecture/styling of that building is off (even ignoring the random door they haven't even tried to hide, at least up to this point), but it'll at least look better without brand new bright blue paint.
TeriofTerror
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Yes, I had seen Martin suggest October, but I was hoping perhaps it would be expedited for the very reason @Crazydisneyfanluke mentioned.
ToTBellHop
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October is expedited.Yes, I had seen Martin suggest October, but I was hoping perhaps it would be expedited for the very reason @Crazydisneyfanluke mentioned.
disneyC97
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I always liked the sharp angle up of the theater from the rest the pavilion. The full view coming from the east is a marvelous composition of architecture, landscape, transportation...IMO
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Horizons '83
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- In the Parks
- No
I feel like it would behoove them to try to get this one completed as quickly as they can. Epcot needs something new now to bring guests into the park. Sounds like they are struggling to do that at the moment. Why not allocate all resources/labor to this project. Guardians and Tron weren't going to be completed this year anyway.
A) construction is just part of the jigsaw. Training is a bigger one
B) There is some debate if they want crowds descending on a debuting attraction.
Surferboy567
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I can see B.) being a problem. That is however, the only reason they wouldn’t want to get this done ASAP.
Is training really that hard?
Horizons '83
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Somehow, I keep forgetting about #2
Actual training isn’t but having the right people to train is. A lot of Showcase is being staffed on an ad hoc basis at the moment. Almost a transient cast.
There might be a third reason but it’s too early to tell at the moment.
Horizons '83
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- In the Parks
- No
TeriofTerror
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You're killing me, Smalls!
TiggerDad
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Duckmeister
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New bio pictures, grey blue building still looking weird as ever.