News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[Chris767]

Such a weird view

I imagine that they are gonna build temporary walkways (ala DCA refurb) that take you behind innoventions west or east( like this would drop guests next to Nemo) and then eventually, maybe when spaceship earth closes, they’ll just completely block off the middle area between innoventions and do the full demo, regrading, leveling work

 

[DisneyDreamerxyz]

More walls
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wow what are they doing with this area? literally nothing announced would call for walls between Imagination and Land. strange...

 

[Clamman73]

wow what are they doing with this area? literally nothing announced would call for walls between Imagination and Land. strange...

Wondering that myself. Don’t know if it’ll just be something like an equipment/materials holding area or what.

 

[jt04]

Wondering that myself. Don’t know if it’ll just be something like an equipment/materials holding area or what.

This is a long term project, upwards of 5 or 6 years. Almost nothing won't receive an upgrade. This could be something as simple as a walking path for the World Nature overlay. Or a new building on the scale of Oddessy. IMO.

 

[nickys]

nobody's said why they put construction walls up between Imagination and the Land ? what are they planning on doing in that area

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I take it this is the area you were referring to @DisneyDreamerxyz?

Unless there are extra paths going in behind the water feature thing, I guess it could be an access area. I think the backstage road runs behind there, so maybe they’ll store equipment there and then have a gateway they can use at night to build the water feature.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Mickey M&G moved to lobby of Mind's Eye Theater with the Short Films play.

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...-epcot-in-2020/?CMP=SOC-DPFY20Q1wo1031190012A

 

[danlb_2000]

I take it this is the area you were referring to @DisneyDreamerxyz?

Unless there are extra paths going in behind the water feature thing, I guess it could be an access area. I think the backstage road runs behind there, so maybe they’ll store equipment there and then have a gateway they can use at night to build the water feature.

This is what I am thinking. They are going to need to bring a lot of equipment into that side of the park for the demolition and to build the new festival center and water feature, so a temporary access path would make sense. The I-beams in the picture @HauntedMansionFLA posted appear to be there to block equipment that is to tall to go under the monorail beam.

 

[trainplane3]

I wonder what they're planning...


Edit:
False alarm. This is for the Wine and Dine race.

 

[NoChesterHester]

I wonder what they're planning...

Do we really need a hotel up front of the park?

 

[trainplane3]

Note the paint test on CC West (the black, gray, white) that @DreamfinderGuy mentioned on Twitter the other day

Original (from Google Maps):

 

[danlb_2000]

I wonder what they're planning...

This was discussed in another thread, it is not a height test balloon, it was to mark a location for the race that happened this weekend.

 

[trainplane3]

This was discussed in another thread, it is not a height test balloon, it was to mark a location for the race that happened this weekend.

Right. That was posted before it was said it was for the race. I'll edit the post.

 

[SoFloMagic]

Note the paint test on CC West (the black, gray, white) that @DreamfinderGuy mentioned on Twitter the other day


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Original (from Google Maps):
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Are we thinking they'll pave over the fountain of nations and move those walls back to help with traffic over the holidays? Or would that make too much sense?

 

[trainplane3]

Are we thinking they'll pave over the fountain of nations and move those walls back to help with traffic over the holidays? Or would that make too much sense?

I was thinking that but I have no real knowledge of how they'll go about doing this project. The walls would still have to be a ways out from CC West because of demo work.

Bio did a little edit:

And for that high-res goodness:

I feel the size is still off a bit. Should be a touch bigger maybe?

 

[trainplane3]

@marni1971, anything you know about this camera? Bio seems to think it's from Horizons. I don't recall you covering it in your videos.

Sticking it here because it's still kinda FW related.

 

[SoFloMagic]

@marni1971, anything you know about this camera? Bio seems to think it's from Horizons. I don't recall you covering it in your videos.

Sticking it here because it's still kinda FW related.

For what it's worth, he added another pic

 

[marni1971]

@marni1971, anything you know about this camera? Bio seems to think it's from Horizons. I don't recall you covering it in your videos.

Sticking it here because it's still kinda FW related.

It looks similar but not the same. I don’t know if it’s the same unit.

 

[trainplane3]

It looks similar but not the same. I don’t know if it’s the same unit.

Good to know.
New pictures are up of ongoing demo:
https://www.wdwmagic.com/attraction...f-the-fountain-of-nations-demolition-site.htm
Click for that high-res goodness!

 

[Horizons1]

It’ll be more timeless, more family, more IP. It’ll be less optimistic, less challenging, less probing, less hopeful. It’ll be more expensive, more generic, more tasteless. It’ll be less unique. It’ll be more Disney.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Good to know.
New pictures are up of ongoing demo:
https://www.wdwmagic.com/attraction...f-the-fountain-of-nations-demolition-site.htm
Click for that high-res goodness!

One of the more depressing pictures lately.