News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

scuttlebud

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No Name

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Indeed.

We all lambasted that concept art for being a smeared water color that showed nothing.

Anyone who thinks that art was the promise of... anything... is fooling themselves.
They released that art with the intention of getting people’s hopes up for something they never planned to do and then cut back on multiple times anyway. Even if the end result is good, their own antics are rightfully going to catch up to them.
 

James Alucobond

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They released that art with the intention of getting people’s hopes up for something they never planned to do and then cut back on multiple times anyway. Even if the end result is good, their own antics are rightfully going to catch up to them.
The art actually isn't that different from what was planned in more detail pre-COVID. The Festival Center, Journey of Water, and the Connections building (unsure if it would have still been the dining space or if it would have traded with Creations) are all still there. The big differences are an alternate asymmetrically quartered garden design, a leveled Creations replaced with semi-toroidal domes, and some indecipherable nonsense photobashery where the Fountain of Nations was.
 

AndyMagic

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what town has a park like this?
I can't tell if you're joking but I can name 5 parks that look like this just in New York City alone. Chicago, Philly, Boston, all have parks with similar street furniture and modern landscaping as well. Sections of the The High Line, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Hudson River Park, Bryant Park, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, I could go on. And those parks do it better than whatever this is. 🤷‍♂️
 

Brian

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It is fairly disorienting at night due to the lack of actual light (versus show lighting). I'd imagine at some point, one too many trip and falls will happen and they'll make some changes.

Don't get me wrong, I love the show lighting, but it isn't enough to safely walk around.
 

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
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It is fairly disorienting at night due to the lack of actual light (versus show lighting). I'd imagine at some point, one too many trip and falls will happen and they'll make some changes.

Don't get me wrong, I love the show lighting, but it isn't enough to safely walk around.
There are plenty of places in all the parks with less light. E.g., new fantasyland between Pooh and 7DMT.
 

MrPromey

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meaning a big chunk of it is probably going to end up like world showplace and not open to the general public, once park ops get their hands on it...thats going to be a major downer if thats how they end up treating it.
Wonder what the views are from that new seating area for Spaceship Earth and the new stage at night.

Can anyone say new desert party?
 
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Brian

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There are plenty of places in all the parks with less light. E.g., new fantasyland between Pooh and 7DMT.
I considered that, and I haven't been in that area in a while, but subjectively it seemed like less light in World Celebration. That said, I was in the space when the lights were mainly blues, so maybe it's a bit better when they have some lighter colors.
 

MrPromey

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Fireworks viewing is ideal in the hub. At Epcot it’s the lagoon
True but two points:

1) There is and will be more event based stuff going on in this area than in the past potentially making that seating a prime (for upcharge) space. (and they already move people from the desert party area over to the lawn to view the fireworks when it's time so why wouldn't they do that here to a reserved area at the lagoon?)

2) There is complete precedent for them building something nice that was said to be for the general ticket-buying public in a prime area of the park that was actually said to address an issue of crowding, in fact, that went away the moment they discovered they could make a dime off it.

Sure seems like it would be easy to put up a roped off area for this whole side and direct public traffic around the creations side if they wanted to - just like they did for how many years before the walls came down?

If I were a skeptical person, I'd almost say that could have been... by design this time. ;)
 
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