EPCOT Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[Nland316]

That’s the funny thing, they actually did. They’ve repaved several sections in World Nature, but with the old style pink/salmon pavement for whatever reason

I know it’s a “staple” of the WDW parks, but I hate every bit of the red pavement so much.

I wish MK would replace their Main Street sidewalks with red brick like DL and that Epcot would fully do away with it like they have been doing in the spine. Makes no sense to have inconsistency when they’re already replacing it.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I know it’s a “staple” of the WDW parks, but I hate every bit of the red pavement so much.

I wish MK would replace their Main Street sidewalks with red brick like DL and that Epcot would fully do away with it like they have been doing in the spine. Makes no sense to have inconsistency when they’re already replacing it.

I wish they'd create walkway pavements designs in such a way that the patterns indicate to stay right on the paths.

 

[bpiper]

I wish they'd create walkway pavements designs in such a way that the patterns indicate to stay right on the paths.

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But then large groups couldn't walk abreast and take up the whole pathway.....

 

[HauntedPirate]

I don’t understand why they didn’t replace the pavement outside the World Nature bathrooms while they were behind walls during refurbishment. The approach to the repaving in Future World has been very odd.

Well, Zach Riddley is no longer overseeing the project, so paving has become a nightmare of logistic and management entanglements.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I don’t understand why they didn’t replace the pavement outside the World Nature bathrooms while they were behind walls during refurbishment. The approach to the repaving in Future World has been very odd.

I know it’s a “staple” of the WDW parks, but I hate every bit of the red pavement so much.

I wish MK would replace their Main Street sidewalks with red brick like DL and that Epcot would fully do away with it like they have been doing in the spine. Makes no sense to have inconsistency when they’re already replacing it.

Well, Zach Riddley is no longer overseeing the project, so paving has become a nightmare of logistic and management entanglements.

Welcome to bureaucracy. Different projects are handled by different groups. Maintaining the parks after they open is the responsibility of the park through FAM (facility asset management). FAM is allowed to maintain and replace things, but if they want to change the design then they typically have to bring in Walt Disney Imagineering which is going to balloon the cost of a project.

 

[Rich Brownn]

I know it’s a “staple” of the WDW parks, but I hate every bit of the red pavement so much.

I wish MK would replace their Main Street sidewalks with red brick like DL and that Epcot would fully do away with it like they have been doing in the spine. Makes no sense to have inconsistency when they’re already replacing it.

Trivia: Red makes green look greener. So it makes the lawns look greener.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Trivia: Red makes green look greener. So it makes the lawns look greener.

It also hides a lot of the blood.

 

[stuart]

Trivia: Red makes green look greener. So it makes the lawns look greener.

And the sky bluer. Or so I remember from years ago, that Disney worked with Kodak on the colour so, as you say, the grass appeared greener and sky bluer on their most common types of camera film.

 

[KeithVH]

It also hides a lot of the blood.

 

[Earlie the Pearlie]

It might be just me but I feel like if they had given us a good Figment and had kept the Land and Spaceship Earth the same with minor refreshes (I.e. new narration for SE, listen to the land song back) I would have been totally fine with everything else they did to FW.

 

[Beacon Joe]

When did the demolition and construction begin? 2019?

And when is it expected that it will be complete and the walls removed?

 

[Mickeynerd17]

When did the demolition and construction begin? 2019?

And when is it expected that it will be complete and the walls removed?

Initial closures were 2019.

I'm predicting the finals walls coming down sometime in mid-2024

so, 5 years-ish total time for a water trail, a Rollercoaster, a Temu.com version of Communicore Southwest, New entrance plaza, and some new planters.

All in all, same hodge-podge of a park, except instead of 80s mixed with 90s/2000s it's 90's/2000s mixed with late 2010's.

 

[Haymarket2008]

It might be just me but I feel like if they had given us a good Figment and had kept the Land and Spaceship Earth the same with minor refreshes (I.e. new narration for SE, listen to the land song back) I would have been totally fine with everything else they did to FW.

That’s certainly not out of the question to still happen…

 

[Earlie the Pearlie]

Shhhhh… don’t get my hopes up for D23

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

When did the demolition and construction begin? 2019?

And when is it expected that it will be complete and the walls removed?

Walks down December 2023 or January 2024

 

[osian]

February 2019. Anyone miss it?

 

[lazyboy97o]

February 2019. Anyone miss it?
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No.

 

[Vinnie Mac]

February 2019. Anyone miss it?
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Nostalgic for it yeah but the entrance plaza today is a lot better and cleaner than it was back then.

 

[AdventureHasAName]

February 2019. Anyone miss it?
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Nope, but to be fair, the instant the war memorial was installed, the fans were saying it was terrible and asking for it to be removed and put back the way it was. Fixing this area was a simple no-brainer.

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

Initial closures were 2019.

I'm predicting the finals walls coming down sometime in mid-2024

so, 5 years-ish total time for a water trail, a Rollercoaster, a Temu.com version of Communicore Southwest, New entrance plaza, and some new planters.

All in all, same hodge-podge of a park, except instead of 80s mixed with 90s/2000s it's 90's/2000s mixed with late 2010's.

If you're counting Guardians in this (which really was proper project start for the overhaul, albeit a sectioned off area that nobody really visited being closed) the whole project will have taken just over six years. It sure doesn't show.