EPCOT Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
James Alucobond said:
Still think they should come up with a new acronym that makes sense of it. Like, redo the meaning of the five rings in the logo or something. And while they're at it, they could merge former Future World into a unified World Discovery and subsequently assign each of the five zones indicated by the gardens a theme—something along the lines of:
  • Exploration (Wonders of Xandar, Mission: SPACE, Connections)
  • Progress (Spaceship Earth, Dreamers Point)
  • Conservation (The Land, The Seas, Journey of Water)
  • Originality (Imagination, CommuniCore Plaza, Mickey & Friends)
  • Technology (Test Track, The Odyssey, Creation)
... Or whatever. Could probably use more thought.
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Seriously, tho...

There should be an inclusion of World Showcase, and it's suppose to be fun, so...

Earth: SSE, The Land, The Seas, Journey of Water​
People: World Showcase​
Celebration: Festivals, World Fairs, performances, rides​
Originality: Imagination, CommuniCore Plaza, Mickey & Friends, Dreamers Point​
Technology: Spaceship Earth, Wonders of Xandar, Mission: SPACE​

In a similar vain of nomenclature, I'd want to call all of former Future World as simply being World Celebration. If you're celebrating the World, you're celebrating nature and discoveries. There's no need for a separate World Nature and World Discovery, IMO.

Then we'd have simply World Showcase and World Celebration. And use "World's Fair."

And then we'd have

Epcot's World Fair
Featuring World Celebration and World Showcase

All Are Welcome to EPCOT!
Earth 🔹 Progress 🔹 Celebration 🔹 Originality 🔹 Technology​


Then everyone would know what Epcot is about.
 
Earlie the Pearlie

Earlie the Pearlie

Well-Known Member
MisterPenguin said:
Seriously, tho...

There should be an inclusion of World Showcase, and it's suppose to be fun, so...

Earth: SSE, The Land, The Seas, Journey of Water​
People: World Showcase​
Celebration: Festivals, World Fairs, performances, rides​
Originality: Imagination, CommuniCore Plaza, Mickey & Friends, Dreamers Point​
Technology: Spaceship Earth, Wonders of Xandar, Mission: SPACE​

In a similar vain of nomenclature, I'd want to call all of former Future World as simply being World Celebration. If you're celebrating the World, you're celebrating nature and discoveries. There's no need for a separate World Nature and World Discovery, IMO.

Then we'd have simply World Showcase and World Celebration. And use "World's Fair."

And then we'd have

Epcot's World Fair
Featuring World Celebration and World Showcase

All Are Welcome to EPCOT!
Earth 🔹 Progress 🔹 Celebration 🔹 Originality 🔹 Technology​


Then everyone would know what Epcot is about.
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I hate this much less than I should. At this point, I wouldn’t mind them saying that EPCOT Center is completely and totally dead. It’s better than playing off nostalgia forever.

I’m going to go click around Futureport 82 to make myself feel better. They have Wonders now.
 
No Name

No Name

Well-Known Member
Most people have no idea that it ever was an acronym decades ago, and the people that do like that it’s a tribute to Walt’s idea. It would make absolutely no sense to force something new.
 
mightynine

mightynine

Well-Known Member
MisterPenguin said:
Seriously, tho...

There should be an inclusion of World Showcase, and it's suppose to be fun, so...

Earth: SSE, The Land, The Seas, Journey of Water​
People: World Showcase​
Celebration: Festivals, World Fairs, performances, rides​
Originality: Imagination, CommuniCore Plaza, Mickey & Friends, Dreamers Point​
Technology: Spaceship Earth, Wonders of Xandar, Mission: SPACE​

In a similar vain of nomenclature, I'd want to call all of former Future World as simply being World Celebration. If you're celebrating the World, you're celebrating nature and discoveries. There's no need for a separate World Nature and World Discovery, IMO.

Then we'd have simply World Showcase and World Celebration. And use "World's Fair."

And then we'd have

Epcot's World Fair
Featuring World Celebration and World Showcase

All Are Welcome to EPCOT!
Earth 🔹 Progress 🔹 Celebration 🔹 Originality 🔹 Technology​


Then everyone would know what Epcot is about.
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I hate that I feel this had more thought put into it than the (IMO) lazy, nebulous neighborhoods thing they threw out there.
 
MagicHappens1971

MagicHappens1971

Well-Known Member
SpectreJordan said:
I wish I knew the corporate logic behind this. Like what's the actual difference between this & getting it done quickly so the same charges aren't on their report for dozens of quarters.
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I’ve never really understood it but Disney has been doing it forever now.

I guess it “pads” each quarters financials. Instead of spending 800M on Cosmic Rewind in Q2, they spend 160M between 5 quarters. (These are hypotheticals)
 
JohnD

JohnD

Well-Known Member
DCBaker said:
Scott Mallwitz announced at Destination D23 World Celebration is set to welcome Guests in December.
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I'm happy in the sense that construction walls will be down. Not that I'm thrilled or anything. I'm sure it will look nice with Walt's Dream statue and trees, etc.
 
C

Cliff

Well-Known Member
Can any smart person here gather up the Epcot overhaul announce date vs. break-ground date vs. Final end date?

I'd love to see the numbers listed in months so we can use it as a guage to predict the speed of future promised projects.

Again....nothing,..not one single Blue Sky water color painting is worth ANYthing until is has an actual Disney Finance Department green light stamp on it. Without that?...Josh can say he is thinking about building 5 new parks with a 6th one being built on the moon.

"What if...." is 100% nothing in the real world if it does not have Disney Finance ready to pay for it and start writing checks to start them.
 
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DCBaker

Premium Member
Landscaping has started going in at CommuniCore Plaza - photo via bioreconstruct.

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James Alucobond

Well-Known Member
Those triangles did always look off to me since they neither had the variegated dimensional quality of the ones shown in the artwork over the main entrance to Communicore Hall nor the more random tangrams-esque appearance of the panels next to the stage. I wonder if they were just to make sure the sizing was correct? Or maybe the artwork is inaccurate.

Always glad to see more landscaping going in, though.
 
Dan Deesnee

Dan Deesnee

Well-Known Member
This is an honest, legitimate question that I'm asking. I'm not trying to just stir things up. Does anyone know what we've actually gained over these past years with the changes to epcot?

We lost the cool huge fountain and have a smaller one with a somewhat cool looking statue thing.

We have the Moana walk through.

The lights on spaceship earth, which are actually really cool.

But I'm trying for the life of me to think of anything else notable and I just can't. I know they repainted some buildings and renovated some buildings like adding the new quick service place and the new store. However, I wouldn't really call those notable additions.

I just feel like a huge part of this park was shut down for years on end and now that it's finished I'm kind of like:

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