News New Experience Center to open in the Odyssey Events Pavilion

[ThatMouse]

Odyssey is Disneybounding as Tomorrowland.

 

[jmuboy]

More high res goodness of the Odyssey:
https://www.wdwmagic.com/attraction...magineering-presents-the-epcot-experience.htm

*high res goodness of the quality, not necessarily the building*

I dont hate this....but its just a rehash of the "new" TL paint job. That said, I assume the new exhibit inside will be a lot of what was at D23 EXPO 2019. Looking forward to checking it out.

 

[jmuboy]

And the same designer who vomited over Innoventions.

Thank god Innoventions East will get a better paint job as part of World Celebration.

 

[TomDisney]

Just don't get this guy...

 

[Casper Gutman]

Just don't get this guy...
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Honestly, I’ve never gotten the hate for this. It was wildly ambitious, strikingly imaginative, and reflected real effort being put into a temporary change to the park. I’d take this any day over slathering irregular blotches of bright paint over aging, archaic buildings,

And I wish people would stop crediting WDW with trying to honor the past by preserving Odyssey, WoL, or half of Innoventions. It’s just easier and cheaper to keep them then to replace them with something reflecting a new vision. With their original purpose and meaning gone, these structures are simply husks, crumbling monuments to dead ideals.

 

[jmuboy]

Honestly, I’ve never gotten the hate for this. It was wildly ambitious, strikingly imaginative, and reflected real effort being put into a temporary change to the park. I’d take this any day over slathering irregular blotches of bright paint over aging, archaic buildings,

And I wish people would stop crediting WDW with trying to honor the past by preserving Odyssey, WoL, or half of Innoventions. It’s just easier and cheaper to keep them then to replace them with something reflecting a new vision. With their original purpose and meaning gone, these structures are simply husks, crumbling monuments to dead ideals.

I liked the CASTLE CAKE too

 

[rkleinlein]

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks of that monstrosity! Whenever I pass by I think "Well, Disney could do worse..."

I hate this too. Not that every building should (or could) be top-notch design, but it is disappointing that the same company who gave us the Contemporary, Space Mountain, and Spaceship Earth now frequently gives us design and architecture that's absolute dreck.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Walt Disney Imagineering has discovered a revolutionary new story telling technology..... Paint.

 

[aladdin2007]

Walt Disney Imagineering has discovered a revolutionary new story telling technology..... Paint.

and yet charge exorbitant amounts for it..

 

[Gabe1]

Disney fixes most of the paint job. Well minus the hap hazard 2!color photo opt walls all guests are ignoring. Who wants a first aid, Restroom, baby changing center photo op???
But that Disney silliness aside the black paint I saw today works better than the earlier version of the update

More current, inviting and tranquil transition

 

[Timothy_Q]

Never understood why that side of the Mexico show building wasn't painted in a way to fit FW

 

[JenniferS]

Colours remain at each end as of an hour ago. Doesn’t at all look bad with the black.

 

[trainplane3]

Colours remain at each end as of an hour ago. Doesn’t at all look bad with the black.

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The pink has spread to be over the doorway (as seen now) and I think they painted arrows over at the walkway closest to Mexico.

 

[JenniferS]

The pink has spread to be over the doorway (as seen now) and I think they painted arrows over at the walkway closest to Mexico.

As of today? I only saw the two splotches I posted.

 

[trainplane3]

As of today? I only saw the two splotches I posted.

The Other site reported there's chevrons on the insides of the walkway closest to Mexico.

 

[skimbob]

That building has always seemed outdated and ugly.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

That building has always seemed outdated and ugly.

I think my most unpopular opinion about the parks is that the original architecture of Future World beyond Spaceship Earth and the original entrance area wasn't that fantastic and mostly didn't age well. For example, I agree that Horizons was a wonderful attraction. The Horizons building, though? I really don't relate when people talk about that or any of the 1980s pavilions as architecturally interesting or aesthetically pleasing. Perhaps The Living Seas would be an exception, but that's now been ruined with all the metal Nemo characters over the original mural.

 

[rkleinlein]

I think my most unpopular opinion about the parks is that the original architecture of Future World beyond Spaceship Earth and the original entrance area wasn't that fantastic and mostly didn't age well.

I agree. With the exception of Spaceship Earth, all the buildings were mediocre from the outset and have not aged well. Unfortunately slapping a few garish stripes of paint on them only makes it worse.

 

[ChrisFL]

Horizons was shaped like a spaceship...I thought it was perfect

 

[Figments Friend]

Those glass pyramids over at the Imagination Pavilion seem pretty timeless to me.

Now, if we can just be rid of that awful red and orange paint scheme and go back to the more harmonious purple and light blue scheme of yore.....

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