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EPCOT Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?

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Chef idea Mickey`=

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When you were sad you were to leave Epcot and were to exit the front and soaked in World Showcase, when you got to Gateway shops you knew you was still in Epcot. Best part when you got to Fountain Of Nation's you knew you was still at Epcot with Innoventions happy music all around you. Fountain Of Nation's made you smile and reminding you you're still at WDW and made you okay with left World Showcase almost knodding to you like Mickey "See You Real Soon". That's how I feel even if I never took a seat to watch a full Fountain of Nation's show in person there!
 
tparris

tparris

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Bocabear

Bocabear

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The V.A.G planter terrible...even worse than the concept art...It really just looks awkward and cheap....While the lighting now needs to be replaced for safety reasons, they should take advantage of this time and just tear the whole thing out and start over with a show fountain... The lack of fountain was another one of their mistakes with this ridiculous "reimagining" of EPCOT... So many bad decisions...
 
Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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Bocabear said:
The V.A.G planter terrible...even worse than the concept art...It really just looks awkward and cheap....While the lighting now needs to be replaced for safety reasons, they should take advantage of this time and just tear the whole thing out and start over with a show fountain... The lack of fountain was another one of their mistakes with this ridiculous "reimagining" of EPCOT... So many bad decisions...
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Totally AGREE.

It will take another 5 years or so, but Disney can put up festive walls, they are very good at that!
 
Chef idea Mickey`=

Chef idea Mickey`=

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Bocabear said:
The lack of fountain was another one of their mistakes with this ridiculous "reimagining" of EPCOT... So many bad decisions...
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It will be so interesting to see if guests will notice what's missing even more when Epic Universe Celestial Park is "up and running!" Will current Disney notice what they chosen not to incorporate.../ sigh
 
Bocabear

Bocabear

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Celestial Park feels more like what the reimagined spine should or could have been...Maybe not the Mythology theme, but something strikingly beautiful with water and movement and color... It just looks like it is going to be beautiful... The carousel, walkways, giant show fountain and Starfall Racers all visible within Epic Universe Hub. We got a dusty corporate business park and a flex space building...
 
Chef idea Mickey`=

Chef idea Mickey`=

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Bocabear said:
Celestial Park feels more like what the reimagined spine should or could have been...Maybe not the Mythology theme, but something strikingly beautiful with water and movement and color... It just looks like it is going to be beautiful... The carousel, walkways, giant show fountain and Starfall Racers all visible within Epic Universe Hub. We got a dusty corporate business park and a flex space building...
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I read somewhere that it will have a special showcase show to celebrate the switch from Day to Night using Torch Towers that look like the ones from Epcot. It will all fall in line with the moving symbolicals on the arch entrance centerpiece! Kind of like It's a Small World does with the hour..
 
Chef idea Mickey`=

Chef idea Mickey`=

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Epcot81Fan said:
Whatever.

Epcot has this:

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So cringe, Gives welcome to our neigborhood recreational center makes the Communicore Hall a laughing stock. Had this been implemented on a new stage at Animal Kingdom it wouldn't be cringe there because Encanto anyway will find it's home there so would completely make sense! To open this should of been just Epcot performances or a Figment Dance Party!
 
dmc493

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Are there other people in the corporate structure to blame when it comes to failures and unwillingness to address or direct funds to fix things like this? It's easy (and fun) to blame Bob, and D'Amaro too, and I'm sure some decisions do actually run all the way up to them. But curious whether folks like Jeff Vahle or even Melissa Valiquette (current Epcot VP I think) have an ability to address these issues and are deciding it's just not a priority.
 
DreamfinderGuy

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dmc493 said:
Are there other people in the corporate structure to blame when it comes to failures and unwillingness to address or direct funds to fix things like this? It's easy (and fun) to blame Bob, and D'Amaro too, and I'm sure some decisions do actually run all the way up to them. But curious whether folks like Jeff Vahle or even Melissa Valiquette (current Epcot VP I think) have an ability to address these issues and are deciding it's just not a priority.
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Valiquette hasn't been EPCOT's VP for a little while now, Kartika Rodriguez has been in that role since 2021.
 

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