EPCOT New Park Entrance coming to Epcot

[dreamfinder912]

I feel like a proud parent. I've been listening to Two Steps From Hell for years. My spouse and I were going to go to London in April 2020 to see them perform for our honeymoon. Which is now happening in June 2022...(maybe.) I'm so thrilled they're in this loop. I'm still listening to the whole video posted a few pages back, I'm pretty happy with it. And let's not forget to celebrate it ISN'T just a "epcot sounding" mix of disney music. (I really hate the DHS loop)

 

[UNCgolf]

Oh right. It’s catchy, I just didn’t find it that hard to get out of my head. I suppose it is the most relevant example.

I feel like a crazy person because I didn't find it remotely catchy. Actually went and listened to it again a few minutes ago because of this thread and I still could not hum the tune right now.

Not to say I thought it was a bad song; it's not. Music doesn't need to be catchy to be good. Just not an ear worm for me.

 

[Haymarket2008]

I feel like a proud parent. I've been listening to Two Steps From Hell for years. My spouse and I were going to go to London in April 2020 to see them perform for our honeymoon. Which is now happening in June 2022...(maybe.) I'm so thrilled they're in this loop. I'm still listening to the whole video posted a few pages back, I'm pretty happy with it. And let's not forget to celebrate it ISN'T just a "epcot sounding" mix of disney music. (I really hate the DHS loop)

Same here! Nero is one of my FAVS! So cool to hear it in this context.

 

[raymusiccity]

maybe i shouldnt share this. Let me know if i need to delete it. When my nephew was like 3 he saw us putting stuff in the stroller.. wed buy something put it in the basket. So half way through our day in epcot i see him put something back there. Hed been picking up toys and putting them back there prob all day. I explained the situation to the cashier and gave them everything that he had taken. (he really didnt know, he was just doing what we did). And they thought it was funny and thought he was cute. So im sure it happens often.

Guaranteed that the cost of 'shrinkage' is adjusted by Disney. Just another reason why souvenirs are expensive.

 

[Goofyernmost]

When it comes to the foliage in front of and in back of SSE, I feel it will depend on what they are planning in the line of projections on the geodesic sphere. Like the size and quantities of trees in front of Cinderella Castle, so goes the foliage blocking the view of SSE. Just about every ICON in WDW is subject to night time projections. I don't see any reason why the same thing won't apply to SSE. Until humans can be developed to see through trees, that will always be a consideration for WDI.

 

[ppete1975]

Guaranteed that the cost of 'shrinkage' is adjusted by Disney. Just another reason why souvenirs are expensive.

even though we returned everything, im sure we messed up alot of inventories. But i can also see people teaching their kids to do this behavior, then just say oh im sorry, i didnt notice.

 

[Dreamer76]

The current trees are so awkward. Never quite understood why theres one on one side and two on the other. I'm hoping this is one of the loose ends Zach Ridley alluded to tying up.

Couldn't agree more. Everything else is symmetrical. And now with the flags those trees stick out even more. Design 101. I'm confident they will loose them. Would love to see the palm trees go back. It was a nice contrast to Spaceship Earth and would compliment the new entrance nicely.

 

[castlecake2.0]

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One great sightline and a million lost opportunities.
Fountain View- we've got fountains at home, why not give me a view of the world's only geodesic sphere.
Communicore didn't always obstruct the base from within the park, but they planted a mini-forest as a placeholder until it could.
Gateway gifts- if I am literally under the icon I want to feel like I'm in the park, not just a "gateway." Everything around the base should be leveled with new structures pushed back by Energy and Seas that can take advantage of the amazing view we only now enjoy in the entry plaza. Put the Starbucks there, put a restaurant there (and popcorn for me.) Let us sit relax and marvel at what has always worked at this park.

The park looked so much better with out the clutter of food booths and beer carts everywhere

 

[Thelazer]

If the flags feature the original icon's, it would have been great if they could have slipped in at least one instrumental version of one of the original rides. Heck with today's technology the playlist could be dynamic enough that it slips in a different original theme every day in random spots, kinda keeps things fresh that way.

 

[peter11435]

If the flags feature the original icon's, it would have been great if they could have slipped in at least one instrumental version of one of the original rides. Heck with today's technology the playlist could be dynamic enough that it slips in a different original theme every day in random spots, kinda keeps things fresh that way.

I believe the flags will eventually represent all 12 of the current icons

 

[sedati]

The park looked so much better with out the clutter of food booths and beer carts everywhere

It baffles me as the park has been overloaded with restaurants from the get-go.

 

[marni1971]

Turns out some legacy (no pun intended) speakers are still playing the previous BGM.

 

[Father Robinson]

Turns out some legacy (no pun intended) speakers are still playing the previous BGM.

Where would they be located?

 

[marni1971]

Where would they be located?

Some of the under canopy speakers certainly towards SSE it seems. Perhaps around the stroller rental area / Merf Cove area.

 

[castlecake2.0]

Some of the under canopy speakers certainly towards SSE it seems. Perhaps around the stroller rental area / Merf Cove area.

When I was there the other day it was definitely playing in the restroom areas inside and out. You could hear it as you walked by them. Also playing outside in the arrival area. I didn’t hear it near the stroller rentals but might not have been close enough to it. Also don’t remember hearing any music at all playing in the camera center.

side note: original imagination loop was playing loud and proud in the imag! Restrooms

 

[Movielover]

Some of the under canopy speakers certainly towards SSE it seems. Perhaps around the stroller rental area / Merf Cove area.

When I was there the other day it was definitely playing in the restroom areas inside and out. You could hear it as you walked by them. Also playing outside in the arrival area. I didn’t hear it near the stroller rentals but might not have been close enough to it. Also don’t remember hearing any music at all playing in the camera center.

side note: original imagination loop was playing loud and proud in the imag! Restrooms

As a sound engineer I would love to see how their audio systems are set up. Wonder how many speakers are tied to a single individual area.

 

[castlecake2.0]

As a sound engineer I would love to see how their audio systems are set up. Wonder how many speakers are tied to a single individual area.

I’ve always been curious too. Especially when they are able to control things park wide for fireworks etc

 

[Horizons1]

As a sound engineer I would love to see how their audio systems are set up. Wonder how many speakers are tied to a single individual area.

Same. I really want to know how the glorious imagination bathrooms survived as long as they have and WHY they have never been changed.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Same. I really want to know how the glorious imagination bathrooms survived as long as they have and WHY they have never been changed.

Because the Imagination Restrooms are rooms in the Imagination Pavilion and thus have the Imagination BGM loop?

 

[marni1971]

As a sound engineer I would love to see how their audio systems are set up. Wonder how many speakers are tied to a single individual area.

Legacy systems can still be very old fashioned. Newer ones (although I’m going back a decade) has each individual speaker addressable separately- even on say a mast with 4 speakers on it.

Somewhere I’ve got the original Showcase promenade master speaker plan. It’s a phenomenal piece of work for 1982 - and also shows the intent of holding parades on the promenade since the park opened until they ballsed it up.