EPCOT Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

tparris

tparris

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Current state of the entrance plaza lights. 2 out of the 3 fountain pylons are not working, not to mention how horrible the inside of the fountain looks during the day since the paint has all been worn off for years at this point. I’m genuinely done caring about this park at this point
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James Alucobond

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IMO, for the ground lights, just make the covers opaque with translucent pinholes. You could just wipe through colors and on/off states randomly to achieve a shimmer effect similar to the old fiber optics. I imagine that would better obfuscate the persistent malfunctions and abnormally bright or dim sections.

Regardless, it continues to seem really odd to me that this is an issue at all. Was there just some massive error with the wiring and/or controls?
 
HauntedPirate

HauntedPirate

Park nostalgist
Premium Member
The same team in charge of fixing the bug with the Rise cannons will be working on this as soon as they are done with that. So, by my calculations, the in-ground LED lights in the central spine should be fixed around... 2034.

Indiana Jones Conspiracy GIF
 
UNCgolf

UNCgolf

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ToTBellHop said:
Bioreconstruct shows us that not everyone is incompetent with imbedded color-changing lights:

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Yeah... I don't really like these. Unless they're connected to something beyond what's in these photos, they kind of look like something you'd see at a mall in the 80s or 90s. Just random neon lights.

They actually remind me of the Electric Umbrella.
 
DreamfinderGuy

DreamfinderGuy

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UNCgolf said:
Yeah... I don't really like these. Unless they're connected to something beyond what's in these photos, they kind of look like something you'd see at a mall in the 80s or 90s. Just random neon lights.

They actually remind me of the Electric Umbrella.
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Is that such a bad thing though? It worked for EPCOT for so long, lights in the ground are cool. These follow the design in the pavement just like the current EPCOT ground lights do, just not a complete outline
 
Agent H

Agent H

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DreamfinderGuy said:
Is that such a bad thing though? It worked for EPCOT for so long, lights in the ground are cool. These follow the design in the pavement just like the current EPCOT ground lights do, just not a complete outline
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These do look very random like glow sticks I believe someone said now the original Epcot lights those were cool 😎
 
UNCgolf

UNCgolf

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DreamfinderGuy said:
Is that such a bad thing though? It worked for EPCOT for so long, lights in the ground are cool. These follow the design in the pavement just like the current EPCOT ground lights do, just not a complete outline
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Eh. I feel like the fiber optic ones at EPCOT were both more subdued (i.e. not as bright) and made interesting patterns (although I never thought they were especially important to EPCOT; it was by far my favorite park as a kid and yet I had no memory whatsoever of the fiber optic lights).

These seem like they're much brighter and also just scattered randomly (I know they actually aren't, but that's really what it looks like). I also think the random colors makes it worse; they'd look nicer if they were either all one color or had some other discernable pattern to them.

But maybe the random colors are just part of testing and they won't look like that when the park is open.
 
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