News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[MisterPenguin]

Sorry I’m behind but what’s going on with Imagination? New attraction? Dreamfinder returning? IP?

From here: https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/rumor-and-timeline-tracker-v-2.934137/

• Imagination - something with Imagination... maybe... and if so, it's 5-6 years away (2022-3). [and again]
  • It's long range budget is less than Energy's [here]
    
  • Also as an option is no more Figment [far off possibility]

 

[Bocabear]

Actually the significan technological changes that have happened in the world shold make updating the original pavilions even easier...there are more things to showcase...more ideas and more interesting ways to present them....the idea of Future World is completely relevant if you update it...Horizons was still dacades in the future ... we did not have any of that technology in place... Seabase Alpha still does not exist and was immersive and amazing storytelling, The Land really needed an update...and aside from Soarin' could still use some work... Imagination needs to go back to something closer to it's original with Dreamfinder and Figment, but with updated technology and effects...Energy could have been reimagined but still have been about energy, Wonders Of Life could have been easily updated with the Inside Out overhaul and a new signature attraction, Space just needs to be the complete pavilion they originally planned before it was scaled back, and Test Track is fine... Updated Communicore would be the only real challenge as it has lost it's way the most...
but Future World still works as a concept...

 

[marni1971]

Being in denial doesn't make it false. Cheer up though, the Imagination pavilion is the easiest to re-imagine. IMO.

Makes you wonder why it hasnt been done then. Maybe because you're incorrect.

 

[999th Happy Haunt]

From here: https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/rumor-and-timeline-tracker-v-2.934137/

• Imagination - something with Imagination... maybe... and if so, it's 5-6 years away (2022-3). [and again]
  • It's long range budget is less than Energy's [here]
    
  • Also as an option is no more Figment [far off possibility]

Thanks so much

 

[jt04]

Makes you wonder why it hasnt been done then. Maybe because you're incorrect.

Just hasn't gotten through the blue sky phase is my guess. Multiple attractions underway at WDW, HKDL and now evidently Paris. WDI has a full schedule.

 

[marni1971]

Just hasn't gotten through the blue sky phase is my guess. Multiple attractions underway at WDW, HKDL and now evidently Paris. WDI has a full schedule.

Dear oh dear.

Missed you.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Bob Chapek did say "there are certain things in our portfolio that we will never touch because of what they are." I'd like to think Spaceship Earth is one of those. Regardless, it is good to see that he understand there's value in legacy and history.

This whole interview is interesting. While I'm not his #1 fan, I must admit I like some of his answers.

I don't trust Chappie any further than I can throw him.

 

[PizzaPlanet]

Makes you wonder why it hasnt been done then. Maybe because you're incorrect.

I actually agree with him in some sense. It is stupidly simple how easy it would be to refresh the Imagination Pavilion. The solution is literally staring them in the face. Figment and Dreamfinder are massively popular characters that resonate with a wide range of people, and there are merch sales to prove it. For a company that loves to invest in nostalgia (Star Wars, live-action remakes), I am genuinely confused why there is so much hesitation in making the right decision.

 

[marni1971]

I actually agree with him in some sense. It is stupidly simple how easy it would be to refresh the Imagination Pavilion. The solution is literally staring them in the face. Figment and Dreamfinder are massively popular characters that resonate with a wide range of people, and there are merch sales to prove it. For a company that loves to invest in nostalgia (Star Wars, live-action remakes), I am genuinely confused why there is so much hesitation in making the right decision.

They've had plans for 12 years now.

 

[PizzaPlanet]

They've had plans for 12 years now.

It doesn't get any easier than this. Any chance they use them?

 

[FigmentJedi]

It doesn't get any easier than this. Any chance they use them?

Considering how Nemo and Frozen gobbled Imagination refurb budgets in the past, it wouldn't surprise me if another IP project does the same thing again.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Just hasn't gotten through the blue sky phase is my guess. Multiple attractions underway at WDW, HKDL and now evidently Paris. WDI has a full schedule.

Well, you know what happens when you "guess"... you make a "gu" out of "e" and "ss".

 

[brb1006]

I actually agree with him in some sense. It is stupidly simple how easy it would be to refresh the Imagination Pavilion. The solution is literally staring them in the face. Figment and Dreamfinder are massively popular characters that resonate with a wide range of people, and there are merch sales to prove it. For a company that loves to invest in nostalgia (Star Wars, live-action remakes), I am genuinely confused why there is so much hesitation in making the right decision.

Don't forget the popularity of the Figment comics by Marvel which was very successful.

 

[brb1006]

Considering how Nemo and Frozen gobbled Imagination refurb budgets in the past, it wouldn't surprise me if another IP project does the same thing again.

Please don't be Inside Out.

 

[Haymarket2008]

Jim Hill has inferred that a projection show might be making its way to Future World?

 

[brb1006]

Jim Hill has inferred that a projection show might be making its way to Future World?

I heard about that in the newest episode, apparently it's supposed to be around the former Energy Pavilion.

 

[No Name]

I heard about that in the newest episode, apparently it's supposed to be around the former Energy Pavilion.

He's saying it's supposed to be on the extension that houses the bulk of the coaster. That makes no sense... it's supposed to be hidden, not a focus of guests' attention.

A show on the ball could be neat.

 

[MisterPenguin]

He's saying it's supposed to be on the extension that houses the bulk of the coaster. That makes no sense... it's supposed to be hidden, not a focus of guests' attention.

A show on the ball could be neat.

For a show on the 'gravity building' to be seen above the tree tops, it would have to be twice the height of RnRC's gravity building. And even then, it wouldn't be that wide or big. If the trees were removed, there still wouldn't be enough space for guests to get in between the UoE and the WoL pavilions to see the show.

 

[Haymarket2008]

For a show on the 'gravity building' to be seen above the tree tops, it would have to be twice the height of RnRC's gravity building. And even then, it wouldn't be that wide or big. If the trees were removed, there still wouldn't be enough space for guests to get in between the UoE and the WoL pavilions to see the show.

Yeah, that would make no logistical sense whatsoever. A show projected onto Spaceship Earth is more likely, and appropriate.

 

[montyz81]

He's saying it's supposed to be on the extension that houses the bulk of the coaster. That makes no sense... it's supposed to be hidden, not a focus of guests' attention.

A show on the ball could be neat.

perhaps it is going to be in the extension building. Image a roller coaster in the new Space Restaurant. Each wall with a projection or video screen. Might make it feel like you are actually coasting around space with the GotG.