News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[G00fyDad]

Well, that will be the new festival area, they have moved to a portajohn look vs. table top building :0

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[G00fyDad]

Any idea why they are going with a paint scheme going from blues fading across to browns? Is that supposed to signify a different area or something or are they just trying to be artistic?

 

[James Alucobond]

Any idea why they are going with a paint scheme going from blues fading across to browns? Is that supposed to signify a different area or something or are they just trying to be artistic?

In what part? If you're talking about the paint on the CommuniCore building, it's going to be all one color now. The blue-and-brown blocking is what's being painted over.

 

[G00fyDad]

In what part? If you're talking about the paint on the CommuniCore building, it's going to be all one color now. The blue-and-brown blocking is what's being painted over.

This part. The multi colored portions. It was always like that? I swear, for the life of me I cannot remember it like this. It has been a few years since we have gone but I seem to remember it being two different shades of blue and that was it.

 

[James Alucobond]

It certainly wasn't always like that, but yes, that was the most recent (generally reviled) color scheme before this one.

 

[trainplane3]

Any idea why they are going with a paint scheme going from blues fading across to browns? Is that supposed to signify a different area or something or are they just trying to be artistic?

In what part? If you're talking about the paint on the CommuniCore building, it's going to be all one color now. The blue-and-brown blocking is what's being painted over.

Yep, no more of this crap:

And more of this:

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

Yep, no more of this crap:

And more of this:

You mean the EPCOT re-envisioning is going back to something like it’s original color scheme?

 

[trainplane3]

You mean the EPCOT re-envisioning is going back to something like it’s original color scheme?

It's almost like the original teams that made the place knew how to make it look best. 35+ years later, WDI seems to have kinda figured it out.

 

[HauntedPirate]

It's almost like the original teams that made the place knew how to make it look best. 35+ years later, WDI seems to have kinda figured it out.

Looking at Epcot, I'd say WDI has not figured anything out. Or, at the absolute minimum, management doesn't have the foggiest clue.

 

[Crazydisneyfanluke]

Yep, no more of this crap:

And more of this:

If only they could mirror this on the other side.

 

[lazyboy97o]

If only they could mirror this on the other side.

Yes, but the parti of this part of World Celebrate is a circle, a shape famous for its asymmetry.

 

[marni1971]

A fascinating mix of getting some things pretty much spot on then making a complete balls up of the rest of it.

 

[Disstevefan1]

I am disappointed the symmetry of future world is lost. If I were in charge, all the buildings would have remained in tact and they would have been gutted and redesigned on the inside, adding, changing the venues on the inside.

 

[trainplane3]

Looking at Epcot, I'd say WDI has not figured anything out. Or, at the absolute minimum, management doesn't have the foggiest clue.

Well, you're right there. I still laugh at how the bits they're getting right is really just reverting to the original design with slight tweaks to them. It says a lot about 80's WED vs 201X WDI.

It's not even an argument of "the 80's were better". The 90's overhauls really did mess things up.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Well, you're right there. I still laugh at how the bits they're getting right is really just reverting to the original design with slight tweaks to them. It says a lot about 80's WED vs 201X WDI.

It's not even an argument of "the 80's were better". The 90's overhauls really did mess things up.

I find it fascinating how many people absolutely gush over some of what Disney has done in this park, yet are completely ignorant of the fact that what they are loving is, in fact, what the park used to look like. It's like independent thinking has gone out the window in favor of reading an Instagram post and accepting it as indisputable truth. Hmm... actually, that's what a wide swath of today's society does. You can see the results every day.

 

[James Alucobond]

Well, you're right there. I still laugh at how the bits they're getting right is really just reverting to the original design with slight tweaks to them. It says a lot about 80's WED vs 201X WDI.

It's not even an argument of "the 80's were better". The 90's overhauls really did mess things up.

I find it fascinating how many people absolutely gush over some of what Disney has done in this park, yet are completely ignorant of the fact that what they are loving is, in fact, what the park used to look like. It's like independent thinking has gone out the window in favor of reading an Instagram post and accepting it as indisputable truth. Hmm... actually, that's what a wide swath of today's society does. You can see the results every day.

While effusive praise is not warranted, the idea that the original Imagineers got everything right, that the new ones are just now realizing that, and that everything in between the original build and the reversion was a mistake is very much rooted in hindsight. We're simply at a fortuitous moment when a lot of styles popular at the time have come back into vogue and reversion happens to generally be the right decision from an aesthetic standpoint. There will come a time in the not-so-distant future when the gray of CommuniCore is once more seen as sad and tired and will be splashed over with a series of different hues, and that decision won't necessarily be wrong in the moment either. This is not to say that there aren't decisions I disagree with, just that it's easy to see why people are excited about the changes since they are probably less concerned with the history and more with how the updates mesh with current sensibilities.

 

[kpilcher]

It's almost like the original teams that made the place knew how to make it look best. 35+ years later, WDI seems to have kinda figured it out.

Few people in history understood the psychology of color as well as John Hench.

 

[wdwmagic]

Here is a fly by from the monorail today

 

[sedati]

Here is a fly by from the monorail today

A big grey mesa of nothing in particular.

 

[Father Robinson]

A lot more of Innoventions has been painted. Only a small strip of the multi-colored swatches remains.