News EPCOT to be festival-free for summer 2024

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
You create your own festival!

Get a selfie of yourself at each shuttered kiosk. First grab some food from a QS, and then eat it at the kiosk counter! Or, bring some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches into the park and eat them there.

Send the Instagrams to the Orange County Tax Assessment office with the caption: These are now permanent structures. You taxing Disney for them?

We call that an "activation."
 

monothingie

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
Premium Member
You create your own festival!

Get a selfie of yourself at each shuttered kiosk. First grab some food from a QS, and then eat it at the kiosk counter! Or, bring some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches into the park and eat them there.

Send the Instagrams to the Orange County Tax Assessment office with the caption: These are now permanent structures. You taxing Disney for them?

We call that an "activation."
I think you're on to something @MisterPenguin .

The DIY LARPING Festival.

Pay for food somewhere else in the park, then bring it with you as you belly up to one of the shuttered kiosks and then pay more to recreate your favorite festival moments from the past year.

All Guests can experience:
Waiting in Line!
Being Hot and Sweaty!
Getting Sun Burn!
Eating on top of a Garbage Can!
Having local wildlife steal your food!
Overpaying!

Bonus Adult Beverage Experiences for Guests over 21:
Getting into fights with your family and random strangers!
Passing out in the shrubs!
Meet and Greet with Law Enforcement Officers!
Riding in an Ambulance!
 

Andrew25

Well-Known Member
Considering this seems to be a test as to how Epcot can "stand on its own"... how likely is it for a new festival next year?

With Epic Universe taking over just about every media outlet next year, a festival would at least keep Epcot from falling off a cliff.

So far Epcot has been busy, but there's a noticeable attendance dip in World Showcase.
 

monothingie

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
Premium Member
Considering this seems to be a test as to how Epcot can "stand on its own"... how likely is it for a new festival next year?

With Epic Universe taking over just about every media outlet next year, a festival would at least keep Epcot from falling off a cliff.

So far Epcot has been busy, but there's a noticeable attendance dip in World Showcase.
With the closure of TT and GOTG on VQ there are a lot of people doing not a lot of stuff making the front of the park appear busier than it really is.

Due to the over saturation of festivals, they lost the effect of drawing guests to the park.

Festivals are not cheap to run and it was likely a calculation based on projected attendance that it wasn't profitable run extended festivals.
 

Andrew25

Well-Known Member
With the closure of TT and GOTG on VQ there are a lot of people doing not a lot of stuff making the front of the park appear busier than it really is.

Due to the over saturation of festivals, they lost the effect of drawing guests to the park.

Festivals are not cheap to run and it was likely a calculation based on projected attendance that it wasn't profitable run extended festivals.
I've mentioned this before, but people are certainly burned on festivals... but mostly since they run for such a long period.

I think Epcot can benefit from shorter and more unique 2-3 week festivals in between the larger ones.
 

"El Gran Magnifico"

Mr Flibble is Very Cross.
You create your own festival!

Only if I can be part of the "team"

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ToTBellHop

Well-Known Member
Speaking of food offerings at parks, the nutella and fruit waffle at Sleepy Hollow is no longer on the menu as of this morning.
They changed to a Mickey waffle with some Nutella and bananas. Definitely feels like a downgrade.

It was one of my family’s favorite snacks…
 

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