News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[tparris]

Some construction photos from today, plus some unrelated bonus shots of SSE I took about 30 minutes ago.View attachment 671263View attachment 671264View attachment 671265View attachment 671266View attachment 671267View attachment 671268

Not sure why the last 3 photos uploaded in such poor quality, but oh well.

 

[aladdin2007]

Some construction photos from today, plus some unrelated bonus shots of SSE I took about 30 minutes ago.View attachment 671263View attachment 671264View attachment 671265View attachment 671266View attachment 671267View attachment 671268

amazing shots of spaceship earth! beautiful

 

[HauntedPirate]

Some construction photos from today, plus some unrelated bonus shots of SSE I took about 30 minutes ago.View attachment 671263View attachment 671264View attachment 671265View attachment 671266View attachment 671267View attachment 671268

See, now the blue-hued lighting is perfect to me. No need for any of the pucks or other needless LED nonsense. It’s almost as if it was designed to show off when lit properly.

 

[tparris]

For some reason, the SSE LEDs are completely shut off tonight and have been replaced with the classic floodlights. They’ve been turning on around 7:20ish lately so there’s definitely something weird going on here. Perhaps they’re having more issues with the LEDs than we realized. There’s another issue I noticed a while back, however it’s easier to spot tonight: some of the LEDs literally never turn off for some reason, and a few others tend to blink red and green when they’re supposed to be shut off. There’s also a section of the perimeter lighting that’s not working today either, and the ring light around the fountain base is completely turned off as well. At this point I would have preferred if they just didn’t add all these lights at all if they’re going to so blatantly refuse to maintain them like this. It’s really inexcusable.

 

[tparris]

Breezeway lights don’t seem to be working either

 

[tparris]

For some reason, the SSE LEDs are completely shut off tonight and have been replaced with the classic floodlights. They’ve been turning on around 7:20ish lately so there’s definitely something weird going on here. Perhaps they’re having more issues with the LEDs than we realized. There’s another issue I noticed a while back, however it’s easier to spot tonight: some of the LEDs literally never turn off for some reason, and a few others tend to blink red and green when they’re supposed to be shut off. There’s also a section of the perimeter lighting that’s not working today either, and the ring light around the fountain base is completely turned off as well. At this point I would have preferred if they just didn’t add all these lights at all if they’re going to so blatantly refuse to maintain them like this. It’s really inexcusable.View attachment 671550View attachment 671551View attachment 671552View attachment 671554

The optimist in me hopes that this means they’re finally going to fix the lights that have been going out, some of them for almost a year now. Although I also hope that in the future they’ll maintain them more often instead of waiting 10 months for 20 of them to stop working before they do anything…

 

[tparris]

For some reason, the SSE LEDs are completely shut off tonight and have been replaced with the classic floodlights. They’ve been turning on around 7:20ish lately so there’s definitely something weird going on here. Perhaps they’re having more issues with the LEDs than we realized. There’s another issue I noticed a while back, however it’s easier to spot tonight: some of the LEDs literally never turn off for some reason, and a few others tend to blink red and green when they’re supposed to be shut off. There’s also a section of the perimeter lighting that’s not working today either, and the ring light around the fountain base is completely turned off as well. At this point I would have preferred if they just didn’t add all these lights at all if they’re going to so blatantly refuse to maintain them like this. It’s really inexcusable.View attachment 671550View attachment 671551View attachment 671552View attachment 671554

LEDs just turned on. I have no idea why it happened an hour late

 

[gerarar]

For some reason, the SSE LEDs are completely shut off tonight and have been replaced with the classic floodlights. They’ve been turning on around 7:20ish lately so there’s definitely something weird going on here. Perhaps they’re having more issues with the LEDs than we realized. There’s another issue I noticed a while back, however it’s easier to spot tonight: some of the LEDs literally never turn off for some reason, and a few others tend to blink red and green when they’re supposed to be shut off. There’s also a section of the perimeter lighting that’s not working today either, and the ring light around the fountain base is completely turned off as well. At this point I would have preferred if they just didn’t add all these lights at all if they’re going to so blatantly refuse to maintain them like this. It’s really inexcusable.View attachment 671550View attachment 671551View attachment 671552View attachment 671554

Even the regular floodlights have been malfunctioning/glitchy during the shows, so it's not just the Beacons of Light. It may be something with the software/computer controlling and tying everything together.

 

[James Alucobond]

Even the regular floodlights have been malfunctioning/glitchy during the shows, so it's not just the Beacons of Light. It may be something with the software/computer controlling and tying everything together.

They've been doing some electrical work in the gardens, which are ultimately supposed to connect as well. Perhaps they inadvertently caused some problems? Seems a bit early for that, though.

 

[MisterPenguin]

They've been doing some electrical work in the gardens, which are ultimately supposed to connect as well. Perhaps they inadvertently caused some problems? Seems a bit early for that, though.

Not too early, they're digging around the central light-up EPCOT rings, so, it is time to lay down infrastructure.

 

[DCBaker]

 

[DCBaker]

 

[MaximumEd]

The fact they tore down a building just to rebuild another one is almost comical. I know they were counting on the bar on legs, but still….That’s probably the reason for this round of price hikes. Someone’s gotta pay for that duplicated effort.

 

[MisterPenguin]

The fact they tore down a building just to rebuild another one is almost comical. I know they were counting on the bar on legs, but still….That’s probably the reason for this round of price hikes. Someone’s gotta pay for that duplicated effort.

Well, it was the building with that smell...

The only solution was demolition.

 

[Epcot82Guy]

Well, it was the building with that smell...

The only solution was demolition.

I look forward to the total reconstruction of Tiana Mountain then.

 

[Incomudro]

The fact they tore down a building just to rebuild another one is almost comical. I know they were counting on the bar on legs, but still….That’s probably the reason for this round of price hikes. Someone’s gotta pay for that duplicated effort.

Why?
It's done all the time.
The new building is going to be better suited to the look and uses intended for it.

 

[MaximumEd]

Why?
It's done all the time.
The new building is going to be better suited to the look and uses intended for it.

But that’s not what happened here. They didn’t tear it down to build a better suited building. They tore it down in preparation for the bar on legs, then had to scramble when that went away.

 

[Andrew25]

Why?
It's done all the time.
The new building is going to be better suited to the look and uses intended for it.

They did a great job on the current Connections buildings, they could have done the same thing on the other side a well.

It'll pretty much look identical to what they could have done had they kept the buildings up.

 

[mightynine]

Except one side has curves and the other right angles. And won't really be identical at all.

But otherwise from that, it'll match!

 

[MisterPenguin]

I look forward to the total reconstruction of Tiana Mountain then.

Indeed, UNI plans to have E.T. declared a toxic Superfund site and rebuild it elsewhere.