VaderTron
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We all agree Epcot needs less pavement and more park. However, what is added should spring from the endless potential of Imagineering not an unoriginal IP sticker slapped on a water feature.
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News Announced: Mary Poppins Attraction in UK Pavilion
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WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
If imagineering does their job right on the creative side (and is allowed to do so), they can do impressive things with ANY IP. (Song of the South - Splash Mountain. Tron - Coaster.) JS.
jt04
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Guessing that this new feature will be similar in function to the Oasis at DAK. Not a typical land or attraction but an important element in the grand scheme. Maybe.
WondersOfLife
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Dated.
RobWDW1971
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And doesn’t have a cartoon character - who wants that?!
Little Green Men
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They're supposed to be adding new fountains in that area
Incase you haven’t noticed, that park has three huge lakes. They’re kind of hard to miss.
Movielover
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Where? Are they behind the alcohol booths????
I just thought that was where the beer taps come from...
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
Let me rephrase that. They need more interactive water attractions.
With as hot as it gets at Epcot, it'll be nice to have some fun with water.
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
TBH, not many people! (-;
That’s debatable. And certainly not an attraction. But even so, how does removing a huge climate controlled environment assist with avoiding the heat unless you’re three years old? Another example of how mis judged and mis guided this debacle is.
Well, to be fair, they're just sinkholes from which the ocean underneath has bubbled up.
Well, one is
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trainplane3
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I genuinely didn't get the excitement when they announced they're adding shade to Epcot. You're removing a huge A/C'd building for trees. I want to see the reactions in a few years. Pretty? Sure. More comfortable? No.
RSoxNo1
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By all accounts the Moana attraction will be far less offensive from an "IP integration" standpoint than Three Caballeros, Seas with Nemo and Friends and Frozen Ever After.
RSoxNo1
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Mary Poppins taking you on an aerial tour of London would be my vote. You tie in the IP but also add in some sight seeing and relevant to Epcot content.Interesting to note that the announcement of the Mary Poppins attraction was the most liked post by DPB on their instagram account in 2019. Even getting more likes than the Jonas Bros wielding Lightsabers. You just know that management must be taking note of the interest in a Mary Poppins attraction, and let's hope that we see that in the end product.
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RSoxNo1
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Discovery should have been part of the front half of Epcot from the beginning. It is more befitting of that area than Future World. My vote would have been calling the entire area "Discovery Expo". Having said that, I have very little issue with the 3 neighborhood designations. I do feel that World Nature seems to run parallel with themes of Disney's Animal Kingdom so I wouldn't imagine much of a distinction will be made between the two. I'm with you that World Celebration is a bit generic, and I would prefer again that the term "Expo" be used making the center part, "World Expo".
Please don’t think of it as an attraction.
RobWDW1971
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Well there’s a tall Pigmy argument. That’s what happens when they have moved on from any sense of coherent themeing and overall concept - we are left with debating what’s worse:
A water area themed to a girl who likes to sail boats and boats are on water and water is nature OR an attraction about the living seas which is about the seas and who lives there and since Nemo and his friends live there they fit.
Well done: Disney, well done.
They should just pull the ripcord and just make all four parks Magic Kingdoms North, South, East, and West - that way they can still fill every park with disconnected IP and cartoon characters. We will end up in the same place, but at least we won’t have to endure listening to WDI execs embarrassingly twist themselves into pretzels trying to rationalize it.
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RSoxNo1
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Their words, not mine.
My expectations are a carousel and/or a Sommerhus like meet and greet.