You're portrayal of what it might be isn't mine. Simple.
I didn't pay $100 bucks to stare at decades old 'modern' architecture with new coats of paint.
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News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?
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I didn't pay $100 bucks to stare at decades old 'modern' architecture with new coats of paint.
What content? What are your ideas? What is worthwhile?
Why try to fit something new into old structure? That limits what can be done.
Well as it stands, we are going to get some artificial grass with kiosks on it and a walk-through garden.
I would have left the buildings standing, and had WDI to come up with at least two attractions to go into that space in the existing framework of those buildings - one of which would be a dark-ride attraction. If WDI couldn't come up with some relevant content for that idea, then all hope is lost.
At night it was even nicer.
tparris
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Oh I’m sure of it. Perhaps my most anticipated part of the overhaul is the redesigned entrance fountain with the new lighting package. I just wish they would put the tall palms back. It would frame the scene even more perfectly.
britain
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Sorry but I guess I have the unpopular opinion here: Other than Spaceship Earth, those buildings look dated, and structurally old fashioned. It’s a 1980s office park.
New wallpaper won’t cut it. Tear the house down.
WillWrambles
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- In the Parks
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Everything was either concrete and boring or TOTALLY RADICAL. Wonder what the TOTALLY RADICAL 90s Epcot would have been like.....
UNCgolf
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The original Future World was stunningly beautiful. For some reason Disney spent a long time making their parks less beautiful rather than moreso -- Future World, the changes to the Magic Kingdom hub (that one at least has an understandable reason, even if it looked much better with the trees), the bizarre paint jobs, etc.
It was the most beautiful Disney park with the possible exception of Animal Kingdom, but they're completely different styles.
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UNCgolf
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At most it's an ideal form of a 1980s office park (and even that is debatable); what they would have liked to build if they had an unlimited budget. None of the ones I've seen are even remotely close to looking as beautiful and elegant as EPCOT did.
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WillWrambles
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Don’t apologise. Everyone’s entitled to an opinion.
Even if it’s wrong
Like yeah. Man.
Beautiful symmetry and architecture ruined for... synergy, merchandising, and profits. Par for the Iger/Chapek course.
Eisner had WDSP and DCA. Iger will have IPCOT as a legacy.
Not to mention Eisner's sequel-itis and Iger's live-action remake-itis, or his obsession with using the word, "reimagined" for every remake across the board. How far they've fallen since the Eisner/Wells heyday.
More like plummeted.
Bocabear
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When you compare just the NW corner Innoventions building size to the standard show building in the Magic Kingdom, it is pretty massive...there would be few limits with what could be fit within the walls...You could almost fit all of Splash Mountain in the footprint...
DreamfinderGuy
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We pretty much got it. Look at Innoventions, Food Rocks, heck even some of the pavilion overhauls like Ellen's, TT, and JIYI if you wanna stretch it that far.
well, except for that whole ceiling thing...
Besides, why impose such limits on creativity. Isn't "fit it into this box" the sort of management restrictions on the imagineers everyone always rails about??? What happened to giving them a blank slate, not setting limits, allowing the creativity to flow???
You guys can't have it both ways. If all you want is attractions that fit into existing boxes, go over to Universal and its line of warehouses with fancy facades. But even they have started to break that habit.
pektas
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Personally having had to try to remove wallpaper before, knocking down the house isnt a bad idea
