The thing is though, there is another spot in Epcot for Inside Out to go to: Wonders of Life. Use it for Cranium Command and then do something else where Body Wars used to be. The pavilion has sat empty for way too long and Imagination needs some real, well, "Imagination." Not the Frostrom treatment.
I agree that would be great - I think the thing is there is an existing ride system in Imagination, and I believe
@marni1971 would know best - but I'm pretty sure that the simulators aren't even in there anymore (I had heard they had been taking parts out of them for years as replacements for Star Tours to begin with).
So it's not that I don't agree completely that a) the best case scenario would be for it to be built into a brand new attraction (in WoL, or wherever), and b) that I'd rather have Imagination restored - but from a realist perspective, *anything* is better than the shell Imagination is now. I can't even think about that ride without that awful smell entering my nostrils like it was happening right now, LOL (and it's been a good five years since I ventured on).
That said...I gotta be a realist. I still hold out long-term hope that Disney starts treating WDW differently, I hope to Mickey they don't lose this chance they have with Star Wars...and I'm even hoping Avaturd turns out to be a good project (and I'm absolutely willing to enjoy it in spite of how I feel about the film - I'll stop calling it Avaturd when they impress me with the attractions - that's all I care about - I'll buy a freakin' $200 blue skin rug from them that says AVATAR FAN/CAMERON NERD on it if they do). But that's the only two nearly possible impressive things on the horizon (no pun intended) until NEXT DECADE.
In the meantime, I don't think WDW can afford to become even more museum-like than it is today. I mean, when you walk into EPCOT today, the view isn't much different than it was twenty-five years ago. The entire park is only a few years older than that. When people visit for the first time, or especially if they have been there a long time ago and are returning - they don't see "Future World" - they see "1980's World". We are holding on to that first ten years or so in spite of the last 20 years of stagnancy. I can still hold out hope that we get better times ahead, but since they aren't in the foreseeable future, I'll take what updates we
can get because frankly it's so embarrassing in general.
Imagination sucks right now, something In and Out will likely suck less and make more guests happy. Just like Frozen - while I don't think Maelstrom sucked at all, it wasn't pulling in or attracting many guests, either. As pretty much everyone agrees, the bigger problem with Frozen is going to be handling the incredible demand, but - at least it's demanded and kids will have more fun reasons to go to WS aside from collecting stamps in a fake passport or making paper-plate masks.
In any case - I get why folks are passionate about projects like these, and I wouldn't ever think poorly of someone for fighting the good fight. Personally, though - I look at it as a realist and pragmatist - I'm barely down there once a year at this point because there isn't a dang thing different that I haven't done so many times that I can't sit and watch
@marni1971's videos, or many of the great 4K/60FPS ride-throughs of the most current attractions folks are doing, all from my couch now and save myself a few thousand bucks when I get the itch.
I'll be down for Frozen previews, no doubt - and even though again I'm not even planning on seeing Inside Out the film, I'd probably do the same for their attraction. I'd probably watch Twitter (even though I don't Twit) to try to win into whatever special event contest they have for them like I did with the Star Tours 2 opening (that was so much fun - finally got around to having all four of my posters framed).
I'd much much much rather be going down for bigger stuff, though - and I still hope someday I will - but in the meantime, I can't just crap on everything they are doing when at least it's something - better than more rotting attractions. Especially with Imagination - because we'd just be hoping on a pipe dream that an attraction from 25 years ago will be restored. I want the big steak dinner, but I'm not going to turn my nose up at the bread crumbs I am being offered out of principle - I'm too starved to be on a hunger strike anymore.
