EPCOT Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[marni1971]

Won't the giant beer garden muck up the view?

Only from certain angles. And imo it will add to the view, not detract from it. If the festival center ends up looking like it does in the concept art and the miniature model, I think it will be a beautiful addition to the park’s landscape and sightlines.

That’s not the beer garden. That’s Bobs Folly.

 

[Figment82]

If only they would temporarily open the plaza area so we could enjoy an uncluttered view once more before it completely changes. It’s like when they removed the BAH only to immediately throw that stage up in front of the Chinese Theater...

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

 

[trainplane3]

https://twitter.com/bioreconstruct/status/1233517904005603329
Also, whoops:

 

[Josh Hendy]

An out of control People Mover car?

 

[jt04]

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For those who've never seen an uncluttered SSE, these provide a good indication of the new aesthetic.

 

[rle4lunch]

Just think if one of cranes hits SSE while people are buying merch.

 

[GladToBeHear]

@marni1971 I apologize if this has already been addressed. But I was always curious about that initial concept art they released for future world.

Was this an actual early plan that was scrapped? Was this an early version of what we're getting now? Or was this just more of a blue sky artist rendering of a potential direction? Can you speak about it? Or was this already covered elsewhere?

 

[marni1971]

@marni1971 I apologize if this has already been addressed. But I was always curious about that initial concept art they released for future world.

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Was this an actual early plan that was scrapped? Was this an early version of what we're getting now? Or was this just more of a blue sky artist rendering of a potential direction? Can you speak about it? Or was this already covered elsewhere?

Blue sky for marketing. More like “we’re thinking like this but if it doesn’t look like this don’t blame us”

 

[MrConbon]

I'm sure construction for that design would have been an operational nightmare. Although I do wish we got the big fountain.

the fountain seems so out of place to me. It seems like it would create a walkway directly to the America pavilion which creates the question of how would they do a nighttime show without the center of the lagoon?

 

[Timothy_Q]

the fountain seems so out of place to me. It seems like it would create a walkway directly to the America pavilion which creates the question of how would they do a nighttime show without the center of the lagoon?

You're mixing up lagoons.

That fountain would've been in the little lagoon in front of the Odyssey, not in the World Showcase lagoon

 

[IMDREW]

@marni1971 I apologize if this has already been addressed. But I was always curious about that initial concept art they released for future world.

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Was this an actual early plan that was scrapped? Was this an early version of what we're getting now? Or was this just more of a blue sky artist rendering of a potential direction? Can you speak about it? Or was this already covered elsewhere?

I would have liked something like this much better than the half-baked version we are getting now. Go all in, or don't.

@marni1971 Do you know if the new entrance to SSE will still be moved to the back?

 

[MrConbon]

You're mixing up lagoons.

That fountain would've been in the little lagoon in front of the Odyssey, not in the World Showcase lagoon

Oh I guess you’re right. I now just noticed the monorail in the art. I feel like the scale is weird. It seems like such a large space between Spaceship Earth and the fountain.

 

[FutureCEO]

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Call me weird but I will miss the awnings

 

[Disney Analyst]

Except I don't applaud everything they do. But there are plenty here who find fault in everything. I remember the original spine and they are restoring much of those aesthetics. They are also ridding the plazas of the clutter that was added in the nineties and after.

The only real difference between 1982 and what they are building is the loss of the absurdly overrated and falling apart FoN. That's a win.

The new event center is definitely a step up from the southwest quadrant of communicore. How people can be so attached to the hollowed out structures that resulted in communicore being transformed into the Innoventions misfire is just mindboggling. What a mess the last quarter of a century has been for the center of FW. And if you doubt that, look at how happy people are the canopy is gone. The new entry plaza will get the same reaction.

The cynics have picked the wrong hill to fight on.

IMO.

yasssss

 

[Rteetz]

 

[Horizons1]

Ugh, symmetry and clean views.

 

[GladToBeHear]

Blue sky for marketing. More like “we’re thinking like this but if it doesn’t look like this don’t blame us”

So, basically vaporware. I will say that I saw some photos from Shanghai's Tomorrowland recently and really would've liked that look for the Future World redesign. Organic and clean.

Early concept art.

 

[SplashJacket]

So, basically vaporware. I will say that I saw some photos from Shanghai's Tomorrowland recently and really would've liked that look for Future World. Organic and clean.

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Early concept art.

What's interesting is the concept was nearly perfectly replicated in real life while also giving an interesting perspective of the land.

I wonder if it was a late-stage concept or if less changed from concept to concept since its a whole new construction.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]