EPCOT New Play Pavilion to replace Epcot's Wonders of Life

[sedati]

I know us Epcot purists clamor for the days of hyper-intelligent experiences in the park...

I've said this before, but name a thing you actually learned at EPCOT Center. On my second trip, when The Living Seas opened, I first heard of Chemosynthesis. That's about it. The park was about inspiration and hope but was its content was delivered at a third-grade level at best.

 

[Haymarket2008]

I've said this before, but name a thing you actually learned at EPCOT Center. On my second trip, when The Living Seas opened, I first heard of Chemosynthesis. That's about it. The park was about inspiration and hope but was its content was delivered at a third-grade level at best.

I'm not going to list every single thing that I learned from EPCOT Center, because it would be extensive. I'll point anyone's attention towards the absolute wealth of information located in nearly all of the World Showcase pavilions. My fascination with Nordic mythology started right there.

I couldn't disagree with you more, with respect.

 

[marni1971]

This would be a cool concept for the Japan pavilion with a bullet train motif, i think way way back there was some sort of proposal to do something similar.

That also involved a CircleVision theatre.

Calling this an “attraction” is disrespectful to attractions.

 

[Movielover]

Calling this an “attraction” is disrespectful to attractions.

It's right up there with the greats of old, like the public bathhouse Cosmic Waves at Disneyland.

Heck it even got a pin to cover it's embarrassment...

 

[DVCakaCarlF]

I've said this before, but name a thing you actually learned at EPCOT Center. On my second trip, when The Living Seas opened, I first heard of Chemosynthesis. That's about it. The park was about inspiration and hope but was its content was delivered at a third-grade level at best.

Most people can’t read beyond a third grade level, or put a sentence together, so there’s that.

 

[DVCakaCarlF]

It's right up there with the greats of old, like the public bathhouse Cosmic Waves at Disneyland.

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Heck it even got a pin to cover it's embarrassment...

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The water park at Carwoind’s is the most public bathhouse you’ll ever see...excluding Myrtle beach.

 

[Horizons1]

I've said this before, but name a thing you actually learned at EPCOT Center. On my second trip, when The Living Seas opened, I first heard of Chemosynthesis. That's about it. The park was about inspiration and hope but was its content was delivered at a third-grade level at best.

I learned so much about so many things at EPCOT. It was the first place I ever saw AND touched so much new technology.

The idea that EPCOT was not educational is part of the poison that’s pushed the park in its current mistaken direction.

 

[Horizons1]

Although... probably a big hint that they'll extend the monorail as predicted by this monorail footer right next to PLAY!...

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If I’m missing the joke I apologize, but is that really a footer? I know there were plans for the monorail line to run past Horizons. If that is a real footer I wasn’t aware they laid one so long ago.

 

[IveBeenJack]

That also involved a CircleVision theatre.

Calling this an “attraction” is disrespectful to attractions.

I saw your post after I tweeted this.
It has annoyed me soo much, that without any loose confirmation, all these sites DESPERATE for clicks jumped to the conclusion that it MUST be an ATTRACTION. Like it could be a simulator, it could be game, it could be monorail train set... or it could be just a poster... But yet they all need to mislead people for the clicks!

 

[IveBeenJack]

@marni1971 It's a bloody indoor playground isn't it. And the Monorail is the theming for the slides?

 

[UNCgolf]

I've said this before, but name a thing you actually learned at EPCOT Center. On my second trip, when The Living Seas opened, I first heard of Chemosynthesis. That's about it. The park was about inspiration and hope but was its content was delivered at a third-grade level at best.

I don't know if I actually learned anything at EPCOT, but I don't think that was really the point. I think (like a lot of science centers/museums) the point was to engender an interest in the subject and make the guest want to learn more, which is an important part of education in general.

It definitely succeeded in that goal.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I learned so much about so many things at EPCOT. It was the first place I ever saw AND touched so much new technology.

The idea that EPCOT was not educational is part of the poison that’s pushed the park in its current mistaken direction.

My experience of Innoventions in my youth was a bunch of outdated tech. My IBM PCjr and local arcades had more advanced tech.

It depends whether you're there when bleeding edge tech is installed, or, five to twenty years later when it's out of date.

If I’m missing the joke I apologize, but is that really a footer? I know there were plans for the monorail line to run past Horizons. If that is a real footer I wasn’t aware they laid one so long ago.

I don't know if it's a footer for a monorail or some other abandoned project. But for those who believed in a monorail extension after the idea was officially killed internally at WDW, it was something they kept pointing to as proof it was still coming.

I believe it's actually a plug atop a very deep sinkhole that reaches down to the ocean. And if it was pulled up, water would come gushing out of it and sink all of WDW under seven feet of water.

 

[MisterPenguin]

@marni1971 It's a bloody indoor playground isn't it. And the Monorail is the theming for the slides?

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If it's a bunch of tubes so that kids can run through them screaming like bloody idiots, it will have served its purpose.

 

[marni1971]

If I’m missing the joke I apologize, but is that really a footer? I know there were plans for the monorail line to run past Horizons. If that is a real footer I wasn’t aware they laid one so long ago.

Not footer. Storm drain system.

 

[marni1971]

The Mark X attraction is coming to the Play Pavilion in 2021. Read it go to the www.blogmickey.com they have some info about the Mark X attraction.

It’s not an attraction. Rise of the Resistance is an attraction.

 

[MisterPenguin]

The Mark X attraction is coming to the Play Pavilion in 2021. Read it go to the www.blogmickey.com they have some info about the Mark X attraction.

BlogMickey is getting their information from the same place everyone else is: concept art and a vague advertisement in an upcoming monorail book.

That tells us there will be some sort of something, but not what it is. Could be just a play zone.

 

[DCBaker]

 

[Horizons1]

Not footer. Storm drain system.

Thought so. Thanks.

 

[Horizons1]

My experience of Innoventions in my youth was a bunch of outdated tech. My IBM PCjr and local arcades had more advanced tech.

It depends whether you're there when bleeding edge tech is installed, or, five to twenty years later when it's out of date.




I don't know if it's a footer for a monorail or some other abandoned project. But for those who believed in a monorail extension after the idea was officially killed internally at WDW, it was something they kept pointing to as proof it was still coming.

I believe it's actually a plug atop a very deep sinkhole that reaches down to the ocean. And if it was pulled up, water would come gushing out of it and sink all of WDW under seven feet of water.

Your experience and mine were very different then. Most of the tech, if not all, was that of things I could find nowhere else. And I did not, not have I ever, lived in an area where the latest and newest tech was not readily available. You must have been living in the future.

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

So I know this is a little off topic since we're all about Monorail whatever, but it just dawned on me that the tiles being removed match up with the elevation of the old interior ring of the dome. Perhaps this is related to it's removal/modification?