News Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

[tparris]

Do you know what makes that picture look so good? It’s the absence of all those blinking lights on Spaceship Earth.

They’re literally in the picture though?

 

[scuttlebud]

 

[Tegan pilots a chicken]

The new World Celebration background music is absolutely incredible!!! Absolutely embodies the spirit of Epcot!!

 

[MisterPenguin]

Indeed the center lights are changing.

Also, the up lights on the southern magnolias are gently shimmering.

 

[No Name]

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]

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.

 

[britain]

They’re literally in the picture though?

Ha! That’s what I get for looking at a thumbnail pic!

 

[Squishy]

 

[AndyMagic]

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]

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]

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.

 

[James Alucobond]

How cold is it supposed to get tonight down there? Since it's clearly in proximity of the water line, I wonder if they have some automated way of blowing out the sprinklers.

 

[MrPromey]

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?

 

[Brian]

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]

I’m not so sure. It’s too prime real estate for it to close off to the public...

You mean like the lawn area in the MK hub that was part of another big multi-year construction project in the middle of a park?

 

[Centauri Space Station]

You mean like the lawn area in the MK hub that was part of another big multi-year construction project in the middle of a park?

Fireworks viewing is ideal in the hub. At Epcot it’s the lagoon

 

[MrPromey]

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.

 

[Brian]

Beautiful.

 

[Indy_UK]

I was too lazy to read as it was on the ‘other site’ but apparently the lighting in the ground was malfunctioning last night? Anyone know?

 

[James Alucobond]

I was too lazy to read as it was on the ‘other site’ but apparently the lighting in the ground was malfunctioning last night? Anyone know?

Same issue as the night before. A couple of tracks were switching between the wrong colors.