MrPromey
Well-Known Member
For you.
Space mountain and Starlight Cafe are probably close enough for others.
Just because you have your opinion, though, please don't try to speak like it's a universal truth.
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Space mountain and Starlight Cafe are probably close enough for others.
Just because you have your opinion, though, please don't try to speak like it's a universal truth.
NoChesterHester
Well-Known Member
Just visited for the first time in 3.5 years. Holy crap the north side of this park is a mess of an experience. There is so much work to do to make it interesting again… wow.
Centauri Space Station
Well-Known Member
The only change is UOE?
UNCgolf
Well-Known Member
NoChesterHester
Well-Known Member
You mean except construction walls everywhere and every in place attraction feeling like it is falling apart… then sure. It’s a vastly different experience of tunnels and sadness.
UNCgolf
Well-Known Member
I guess the construction walls are new. The attractions are the same as they have been though. It's a shame how bad it is compared to how incredible it was 25-30 years ago.
Epcot82Guy
Well-Known Member
It's a little like rebuilding the Titanic while people are on it to look post-ice berg because you know swimming lessons with Ariel and Elsa will sell.
DreamfinderGuy
Well-Known Member
The entire core of the park has been destroyed. No Innoventions, old Club Cool, meet and greets, flex space, Electric Umbrella, not to mention the actual space to walk around in and the views. It’s an absolute downgrade over what was there 3 and a half years ago.
UNCgolf
Well-Known Member
Yeah, but his original comment was only about that side of Future World, not Future World as a whole. I was thinking about the area once you're past Communicore because I was considering that a different section of the park.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
Two new permits today.
The first one still bears the name of the long closed resturant..
1940 AVENUE OF THE STARS(PASTA PIAZZA) - Project G: 217 Foundations
1442 AVENUE OF THE STARS(FOUNTAIN PLAZA TECH BUILDING) - Project G: 200D-3 Enabling work at South Pathways
The first one still bears the name of the long closed resturant..
1940 AVENUE OF THE STARS(PASTA PIAZZA) - Project G: 217 Foundations
1442 AVENUE OF THE STARS(FOUNTAIN PLAZA TECH BUILDING) - Project G: 200D-3 Enabling work at South Pathways
Casper Gutman
Well-Known Member
It is shocking that they didn’t even leave an avenue across the center of the park. The omnipresent walls really are oppressive - they press in from all sides and block the horizon. Coming around UoE towards guest services you get a nice glimpse of barb wire fence - great show. Any renovation that required this kind of mangling of the park should never have been greenlit, or at worst, completed in chunks.
And the best part is this is all for no real benefit. Even Disney doesn’t seem to know what they’re building anymore, but it won’t be a ride or show or even an interesting restaurant. They need to open the center up NOW, even if that means putting in place a lot of temporary infrastructure, or they need to decide what they’re doing and build at a furious pace.
DreamfinderGuy
Well-Known Member
I get everything you're saying, but the center of the park did need work. It was half stuck in the 90's, half totally abandoned. It wouldn't be the first time they did it all at once. Soon enough the other half of CommuniCore East will open and we'll have a clear path from Guest Relations to World Showcase again.
Casper Gutman
Well-Known Member
The problem is I see no indication the center will be improved. Even before budget cuts, the pandemic, and executive fumbling, the plan seemed incoherent - they tore out half of a mirrored structure, after all. Now it’s likely to sit in this state for years. And I see nothing in the redo that requires it all be done at once.
The core problem is that EPCOT has no unifying vision, no reason to be. The hole at its center is just the physical manifestation of this fact.
Casper Gutman
Well-Known Member
When? What will be constructed?
ChrisFL
Premium Member
Exactly...there won't be much from what it seems like now, and YET it's taking them forever anyway
vikescaper
Well-Known Member
How soon is soon?
TrippedUp
Active Member
I'm curious whats up with the names. Do you think they just pick whatever building is closest to the work location? Its theoretically possible that there is a Utilidor entrance where Pasta Piazza was that they're shoring up the foundations on, but the fountain control bldg was one of the first things to go and I think thats roughly where the popcorn stand is now. Or maybe just nothing.
Before: A diverging path around SSE that re-merged forcing you into the center of the hub before you can go left or right or continue onto World Showcase.
Now (temporarily): A diverging path around SSE that lets one go immediately to the left or right or continue onto to World Showcase.
I can certainly see how that would make people so angry at the inconvenience.
Now (temporarily): A diverging path around SSE that lets one go immediately to the left or right or continue onto to World Showcase.
I can certainly see how that would make people so angry at the inconvenience.
Casper Gutman
Well-Known Member
Wait… have you been? You can’t “continue onto World Showcase,” there’s no path forward past SSE. And your description neglects to mention the difficulties of doing something crazy, like going from one side of Future World to the other. Even walking from Test Track to SSE is much, much less convenient. EPCOT is already Orlando’s most sprawling park, and this exacerbates the issue immensely. Not to mention the staggering aesthetic impact on the entire park.