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While I stand by my"pain in the neck (not back)" comment, my initial point is that Epcot should be the park that utilizes the best technology available. The park is in trouble now because these rides sat unchanged for so long while everything from content to ride systems made leaps and bounds...

While the nostalgia set goes head to head with the thrill ride group on the Spaceship Earth speculation, no one has said anything about how uncomfortable and noisy the ride system is! I can not hear the "education" portion of the attraction because the sound system is so poor and the ride makes...

Thought it might be worthwhile to think about the points made in the following article. Obviously it is from a stock holder's point of view and addresses the entire company, but he takes up issue with the way of thinking about the parks and how to treat guests...

As far as comparison with Body Wars, Stormrider would embarrass the Body Pavilion simulator (as it does Star Tours) and would force the issue of a Body Pavillion re-hab. As far as the educational angle, this would have to be tweaked from its current incarnation if it is to fit into EPCOT...

This entire discussion about whether or not they should/would/could is pointless to anyone who has ridden Stormrider at Tokyo Disney Sea. Star Tours is like an embarrassing roadside museum by comparison. The cabin is big, there are special effects in the cabin, the screen is big, the picture...

I guess that the big brass at Disney do not have confidence in the original concepts of both EPCOT and Studios. Spaceship Earth was always such an architectrual wonder in its simplicity and so confident as an icon. The Micky wand and second-grade-writing-class "Epcot" really just dumbs down...

The Oriental Land Company was set up in the early 80's when Disney was really hurting. Michael Eisner has said that licensing the Disney brand was the worst mistake the company had made, but if he had been CEO at the time, he would have made the same choice. The Disney Sea project was...

It is surreal. All of the attractions are the same, but in Japanese. Small World, Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain...all in Japanese. There are a few things that were "tweeked" for Japan. For example, in MK, Mainstreet narrows to the top in front of Cindy's Castle which is a wagon wheel...

The focus of the park is a large volcanic mountain which is used in advertising here in Japan. Most of the advertising puts the mountain in the middle of icons for each section of the park (a spire from Ariel's land, the Indiana Jones temple, etc.). The only "challenge" to the mountain as icon...