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Recent content by DreamfinderGuy

  1. DreamfinderGuy

    WOL Demo coming ..

    Maybe it’s just coping on my part but this thread is the first time I’ve heard total demo of the building mentioned. Kinda hoping there have been miscommunications somewhere and we’re looking at a demo of the remaining Play Pavilion infrastructure rather than the whole thing going down. After...
  2. DreamfinderGuy

    WOL Demo coming ..

    Assuming we are looking at a full WoL demo I think speculating on the replacement is a little foolish at this time. They will have fresh land to do anything with, and the building next door has proven that they are fine putting anything at EPCOT. No reason to suspect Inside Out anything will be...
  3. DreamfinderGuy

    EPCOT Spaceship Earth refurbishment coming soon?

    Nope, screens were always staying even with that refurb. Think about it, the language select is a quality of life feature that makes SSE more accessible. Removing the screens would mean taking time and money to chop them off and fill the holes in every vehicle, plus removing the language select...
  4. DreamfinderGuy

    WOL Demo coming ..

    As Food and Wine got bigger and bigger they started eating up more unused space in Wonders to park stuff. In 2012 they blew out the simulator bay walls in Body Wars to create a whole Festival warehouse. 2016 saw a formal redevelopment of the queue to make it a more suitable storage location...
  5. DreamfinderGuy

    WOL Demo coming ..

    WoL is still sort of being used. Only the dome and Cranium were surrendered to WDI, the rest is partitioned off from the inside. That also means any WoL demo project would have to include relocating the storage facilities currently inside Body Wars
  6. DreamfinderGuy

    WOL Demo coming ..

    As far as I’m aware there are no current structural issues with the building. They redid the ceiling in there again just last year (but I think that was more because of an obligation from Balfour iirc). Wonders in its current state is a shell with steel frames for the Play Pavilion up. To reuse...
  7. DreamfinderGuy

    WOL Demo coming ..

    I must unfortunately chime in here and share that yes, for several reasons I am inclined to believe this is happening soon. I was hoping this would be another gut job but if other people are hearing the whole building… :/
  8. DreamfinderGuy

    EPCOT Spaceship Earth refurbishment coming soon?

    Yeah, I don’t think they’re OLED. Wondering if there was a mixup with someone misreading QLED or if they just decided to cheap out. Quick way to tell would be checking vehicle 192, assuming the test panel they had in it hasn’t also been replaced as part of this downtime.
  9. DreamfinderGuy

    EPCOT Spaceship Earth refurbishment coming soon?

    I see it as future proofing. Screens aren’t going anywhere when the proper refurb happens, they just hopefully won’t be used aside from the language select screen
  10. DreamfinderGuy

    Soarin’ Across America to replace Soarin’ Around the World for Nation’s 250th Birthday

    Wonderful to see EPCOT continue to get cool new things that aren’t franchise slop. I figured that trend would end with the new Test Track. This is twice within the decade for The Land.
  11. DreamfinderGuy

    EPCOT Spaceship Earth refurbishment coming soon?

    I don’t think I would have noticed if I didn’t know screen replacements were part of the project scope ahead of time. Functionally no difference for the time being, other than perhaps the more washed out displays some cars used to have are now looking better.
  12. DreamfinderGuy

    EPCOT Spaceship Earth refurbishment coming soon?

    Got to ride today, projectors are all noticeably new and better aside from the physical cave scene which needs work. You can see the full rectangle from the projector scattered on the wall which looks bad. On-vehicle screens are new but difficult to notice much of a difference. Displays appear...
  13. DreamfinderGuy

    EPCOT Spaceship Earth refurbishment coming soon?

    There have been discussions about bringing the Chariot back within the last few years. At one point it seemed so close to happening, and then WDI came into the building and ripped the old projector out. It could technically still return, that projector bay is empty, but it’s not as easy as...
  14. DreamfinderGuy

    DAK “Zootopia” is being created for the Tree of Life theater

    I don’t think anybody does, but he wanted a mythical/fantastical animal type area and Pandora fulfills that. Not much of a leap from Dragons to Banshees.
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