News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[HauntedPirate]

And, right on theme, not much to look at.

Bob knows storytelling. And immersion. This blob fountain will be an immersive storytelling fountain. Josh will announce it, and all will be good.

 

[Bocabear]

Bob knows storytelling. And immersion. This blob fountain will be an immersive storytelling fountain. Josh will announce it, and all will be good.

The Zach will go into great detail about the concrete around the fountain and the bespoke water filling the fountain....

 

[HauntedPirate]

Josh will go into great detail about the concrete around the fountain and the bespoke water filling the fountain....

I thought that was THEZach's job?

 

[ToTBellHop]

Josh will go into great detail about the concrete around the fountain and the bespoke water filling the fountain....

Contractually, the water must be Dasani. It’s all Peter Quill drinks.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I thought that was THEZach's job?

Zach is going to give us a history about how humans found wonder in natural fountains and springs and how this is that.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

I think it already showed up on the right side of this concept art. Looks like a central circular pool with three rectangular pools radiating out around it facing north.

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Good lord, how many years now have they spent building that? As @ToTBellHop said, though, they likely just painted something in there and decided they'd figure out the specifics later. Still waiting for any hint of what those specifics might be!

Bob Fountain makes more sense. It’s a timeless name!

Fountain of Bobs could be a worthy successor to Fountain of nations. Bob I. and Bob C. could each fill up a jug of water at home and tip them in to the fountain at the inauguration ceremony.

 

[ToTBellHop]

You know, when the few respectable Imagineers remaining hear that Bob is stopping by for a little chat, they text each other “WatchOut4TheBlob” so I expect some clever symbolism in the World Celebration Blob. Nothing upstairs. Not much downstairs. Makes fans weep. Soul-less. Basically just a vessel holding water. Almost immediately breaks and then stays there a further 20 years not doing its job.

 

[James Alucobond]

Good lord, how many years now have they spent building that? As @ToTBellHop said, though, they likely just painted something in there and decided they'd figure out the specifics later. Still waiting for any hint of what those specifics might be!

I have no doubt they could finish the center quickly if they were so inclined. It’s just that there’s not much point in doing so until at least Connections is open. If they did it before then, they’d be cutting off a quarter of the worksite from rest areas, portable facilities, equipment, etc.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

I have no doubt they could finish the center quickly if they were so inclined. It’s just that there’s not much point in doing so until at least Connections is open. If they did it before then, they’d be cutting off a quarter of the worksite from rest areas, portable facilities, equipment, etc.

Do they really have to do everything piece by piece, though? I understand the temporary MouseGear was a complicating factor for completing Connections at the same time as Creations, but from the looks of it only once they (eventually) finish Connections will they seriously get around to working on the central area. That, no doubt, will take the better part of 2022, if not stretch into 2023. Couldn't that have all been finished more or less around the same time? According to our insiders, they were never planning to have Moana ready before 2023 and that is certainly plodding along. It's just a huge and central part of the park to leave as a pile of dirt for years on end.

Such a different mentality from when they were reworking DCA for its relaunch.

 

[CJR]

How do you know it will be smaller?

I think it already showed up on the right side of this concept art. Looks like a central circular pool with three rectangular pools radiating out around it facing north.

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It's also in the video from D23. IF this is still the plan, it's a fraction of the size of FoN.

In this one I just dug up, it's shown at about the 2:51 mark.

 

[James Alucobond]

Do they really have to do everything piece by piece, though? I understand the temporary MouseGear was a complicating factor for completing Connections at the same time as Creations, but from the looks of it only once they (eventually) finish Connections will they seriously get around to working on the central area. That, no doubt, will take the better part of 2022, if not stretch into 2023. Couldn't that have all been finished more or less around the same time? According to our insiders, they were never planning to have Moana ready before 2023 and that is certainly plodding along. It's just a huge and central part of the park to leave as a pile of dirt for years on end.

Such a different mentality from when they were reworking DCA for its relaunch.

I mean, they just shouldn’t have done what they did in general, IMO. Not that I have any sort of expertise in scheduling construction, but I would’ve moved the temporary MouseGear to the west building and rehabbed the east building with everything else still open. Then they could raze the west building and work on Journey and the center, followed by the festival area.

 

[Bocabear]

I thought that was THEZach's job?

yes!!! Fixed it!

 

[ToTBellHop]

I have no doubt they could finish the center quickly if they were so inclined. It’s just that there’s not much point in doing so until at least Connections is open. If they did it before then, they’d be cutting off a quarter of the worksite from rest areas, portable facilities, equipment, etc.

Connections is opening soon, however. I would guess the waterfalls are a year away. Mind-boggling.

 

[Surferboy567]

Connections is opening soon, however. I would guess the waterfalls are a year away. Mind-boggling.

That crater really needs to go. It’s holding the park back so much, which is going to be problematic if Guardians is as amazing as it’s expected to be.

 

[ToTBellHop]

That crater really needs to go. It’s holding the park back so much, which is going to be problematic if Guardians is as amazing as it’s expected to be.

It’s going to be a serious problem this summer and fall. Eek. One thing I haven’t been told is how reliable it is. Anyone heard? Let’s hope it does better than RotR did its opening months.

 

[UNCgolf]

It’s going to be a serious problem this summer and fall. Eek. One thing I haven’t been told is how reliable it is. Anyone heard? Let’s hope it does better than RotR did its opening months.

Coasters are usually pretty reliable, and I think they're likely to run it even if effects aren't working.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Coasters are usually pretty reliable, and I think they're likely to run it even if effects aren't working.

As long as that controlled spinning mechanism is reliable, yes. I just haven’t heard.

 

[UNCgolf]

As long as that controlled spinning mechanism is reliable, yes. I just haven’t heard.

Good point. They can't have it breaking and sending people into uncontrollable spins unless they want to clean vomit off of literally everything.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Good point. They can't have it breaking and sending people into uncontrollable spins unless they want to clean vomit off of literally everything.

Exactly. And as far as I know, this is a new mechanism.

I agree otherwise. Every light could go out and they’d still run the thing.

 

[J4546]

i feel like they arent going full speed in the center area because they are still gonna do the SSE overhaul