Judging by the art that was released, a lot of the sets would have likely remained the same, but the staging would have been different like how they swapped out the original Greek Theater scene for the current math lecture in the last refurb.
The reason they didn't is because it is structurally impossible so there is virtually no risk of that happening.Eisner waned coaster track to come out of an opening of the geodesic sphere! As awful as that sounds, maybe they will revive that terrible idea for the sake if IPeeing all over SSE!
I don't blame them for having fun, but it would have been considerably more difficult to take that approach with the Irons script. The current script is easy to make a joke out of whereas the Irons script was actually inspiring and powerful.
The sad part is Dench would actually have been a great narrator had she been given a script with the gravitas and intelligence of the one they had for Irons.
Exactly! As a parent who took kids to Epcot in the early 90's and 2000's, I always wondered why there wasn't more Disney in Epcot. Glad to see they're finally making Epcot a "Disney Park" instead of "Advertisement Land" for a bunch of rich corporations!Lol wow, some of these responses. So you people are happy for this dinosaur of a ride to continue to stagnate in it's current form for another 20+ years when it could be so much better? As I said, it ends in the late 80s/early 90s with the invention of the PC and the internet. We have since had 24 hour news feeds on Cable TV, cell phones, social media, online gaming and entertainment streaming, Uber, DoorDash, StarLink but none of these are mentioned as the ride is 30 years out of date. And then half the ride is looking at cheap early 2000s flash animation where a couple of extra scenes of what could be future communication could be added, think 'Black Mirror' levels of technology. The animatronics alone need replacing with ones from this century that aren't just static blinking mannequins.
I want this ride to evolve in to something worthy of theme park attractions today and yet the usual gatekeepers are scared of change and want it to stay a dusty old dated museum, so much so I get branded as rage baitYou people are insane.
You have to admit, breaching the dome at the top and spiraling down on the outside would be far more entertaining than the current descent...Don’t worry. Your wish will come true. They will probably eventually close SSE for 3 to 5 years to convert it to some silly IP based ride.
Eisner waned coaster track to come out of an opening of the geodesic sphere! As awful as that sounds, maybe they will revive that terrible idea for the sake if IPeeing all over SSE!
There are many things in this world that are.
Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals, not Thomas Edison. Thanks for providing such a strong case for keeping educational rides at Epcot!
You're so right, that the narrator is very much a key part of this ride experience! When I heard Sanlely Tucci narrating the local Italian cultural insert sections of this past Winter Olympics, I was so instantly entranced by that narration voice, I declared to my wife that he needs to go to the top of the list for a future Spaceship Earth referb! If you watch and listen those segments with good audio speakers, you will hear what I mean.
Kind of a low bar. Watching paint dry is more entertaining than the current descent after you’ve seen the cartoon a time or two already
There is literally nothing more Disney than EPCOT Center. It was the theme park manifestation of where Walt was heading before he died and an expansion of the ideas and interests that he'd always had about future living, transportation, and technology that had aready been a big part of Disneyland, along with the "IP" of course. To me, "more Disney" doesn't mean slap IP everywhere, it means bring back the Disney spirit (rolling back the IP intrusion of recent times), but of course it's just a marketing phrase from the current corporation to mean exactly "slap IP everywhere".
THIS EXACTLY!!!!
Just install a dozens of kiosks selling $14 sampler sized cocktails and sell $49 "Drinking Around the World" or "DRUNCOT" T-Shirts and call it a day.
Which is why I said "It was the theme park manifestation of where Walt was heading". The city concept would never have worked, for the reasons you stated, however as the "visitor center" for EPCOT (hence the name) that showcases technology, and the international shopping/dining district of the city, the theme park we got was true to the spirit of what was intended. Nowhere in the visions for the Florida Project (apart from MK) did "IP" appear. To make EPCOT "more Disney" should mean removing the IP and putting it into MK. Unless of course we interpret "more Disney" to mean removing IP from the other 3 parks and making them all about transport, technology etc, because that's what Walt was all about. But perhaps we should separate "what Walt would have wanted" from "what the current corporation wants to do"?? What exactly does "more Disney" mean? "More like Disney"? "More traditional Disney?" "More Disney IP"? "More Disney streaming"? "More Disney values"?
The whole "More Disney" crap really started because Iger had the false impression that the failure of DCA had more to do with the lack of Disney IP than the obvious fact that it was done completely on the cheap originally.