News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[jt04]

It’ll be long. That’s for sure.

20 years plus is my guess.

 

[marni1971]

I always loved the cement lights and exit music at EPCOT.

May it live on on YouTube.

 

[Epcot_Imagineer]

It’ll be long. That’s for sure.

So what do we have, 7/8 years until we can enjoy a wall-less Epcot or whatever it'll be called by then?

 

[marni1971]

20 years plus is my guess.

Six, minus Seas.

Ish.

 

[danlb_2000]

But no monoliths, lots more trees and no more hulking concrete structure doing nothing.

People can lie (like you) with statistics but pictures don’t lie. There will be more water, more trees, more flowers and less concrete.

Yes, pictures do not lie, but since it hasn't been built, we do not have pictures. What we do have is concept art which lies all the time.

 

[brb1006]

May it live on on YouTube.

It's not the same as seeing it in person. I'm going to miss seeing guests reactions to first discovering that section.

 

[Bender123]

I assumed that the other placeholder is for the Mary Poppins attraction in the United Kingdom Pavilion. The France Pavilion has two posters, one for itself and the other for Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure, so, it seems to be a rational guess.

Unless the new UK attraction is much larger than we know its going to be, I doubt it...The posters are definitely targeting larger scale attractions, not smaller ones. Impressions, O Canada, Living with the Land and other small scale attractions seem to just be integrated into their pavilion posters.

Outside the two blanks, my interest is in why SE got multiple versions, JII got one (which only features V1), the Rabbit from Alice is in the UK and a bunch of other "anomalies".

 

[tparris]

I’m hoping we’ll get full resolution versions of all of the new art on Sunday. Hell, I’d love it if they could release gifs of the animated versions as well.

 

[Ojo4]

I would hope this new concept art gets more than just a "meh" considering they could have built a 5th gate with the amount of money they're dumping into Epcot now

 

[jaxonp]

I would hope this new concept art gets more than just a "meh" considering they could have built a 5th gate with the amount of money they're dumping into Epcot now

Yea but do we really want a 5th place to go?

 

[jt04]

Yes, pictures do not lie, but since it hasn't been built, we do not have pictures. What we do have is concept art which lies all the time.

Not so much in the last decade but I get what you are saying.

 

[jt04]

I would hope this new concept art gets more than just a "meh" considering they could have built a 5th gate with the amount of money they're dumping into Epcot now

After they fix the 4 existing which is well underway.

 

[DCLcruiser]

So Seas and China... both referenced in the display model, but what's changing?

There has to be more than a new China movie. Or is this just an attempt to get Chinese media to show the expo?

 

[marni1971]

I'm saying you are lying with statistics. Sure there will be more concrete paths.....but they will exist in space once inhabited by a dead concrete mausoleum, hulking gross monoliths, lifeless paved deserts and other ugly structures. Lying with statistics. Look it up.

Riiiggghhhtttt...

 

[mwf5555]

I like the old look better. It had symmetry. They should tear down both sides of Innoventions if they're going to tear down one side.

only from the sky view

 

[marni1971]

only from the sky view

And the ground. But hey.

 

[marni1971]

After they fix the 4 existing which is well underway.

Not really.

 

[mwf5555]

I agree. Not only is the symmetry gone, so is the balance. Not that I was a fan of the look of communicore or how it divided Future World in two.

organic versus structured tech/spacey

 

[Phicinfan]

So Seas and China... both referenced in the display model, but what's changing?

There has to be more than a new China movie. Or is this just an attempt to get Chinese media to show the expo?


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some of this has already happened.
Seas has been rumored to get some upgrade - maybe finding Dori? Plus the water feature(Moana) in front of it.
China - upgraded movie, and I believe an update on the museum area has been going??

 

[Rinx]

Can't wait to see the revised, post budget cut concept art down the road. We all know it'll happen.

That being said, I was truly skeptical when I first heard about a re-imagining for EPCOT but I'm very much liking what I see so far.