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EPCOT Big changes coming to EPCOT's Future World?
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jah4955
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I haven't been since the "redo"...but everything I've seen and read has given me the impression they built it to be a relatively easy demo for replacement...for when they're ready to take that space seriously. Or am I being too nice?
Who's to say they didn't? I'm not an architect, structural engineer, or project manager and yet I have a near-complete set of plans for Lakeshore Lodge. Drawings aren't kept in locked vaults.
lazyboy97o
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You don’t get to design development without structural design work. There’s a reason they focused the imagery on one cropped side, because the massive core coming down wasn’t anywhere near as glamorous.
The drawings exist as an output of the work. Something that wasn’t designed and wouldn’t work, as keeps being claimed, wouldn’t have such drawings.
Corylancaster
Active Member
Projects don't make it to the stage of a full drawing set if they are not possible to build (I'm a Senior Project Manager with a degree in Architecture Sciences, so I do know just a little bit about the process). It would have been determined if it was not something that could be done or not relatively early in the process.
lazyboy97o
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The project was killed before construction drawings were complete.
Corylancaster
Active Member
Thats why I was assuming the previous poster didn't have friends who are structural engineers that looked at the construction drawings and ran numbers themselves.
ToTBellHop
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I presume WoL remains because they intend to use the building for something, some day. No need to demo if they can repurpose it later.
Timothy_Q
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Considering they refurbished the WOL roof prior to the Play project, I imagine they'll still want to use the space once the investment cycle circles back to EPCOT post Villains Land.
If nothing else, I imagine it'll get something on the scale of the Animation Courtyard project happening right now
If nothing else, I imagine it'll get something on the scale of the Animation Courtyard project happening right now
I honestly don't care if they keep WOL building. I liked the idea of the play pavilion but not what they presented. My personal want is either demo the building and put either a new attraction for the Space pavilion (like replace Mission Space with a Wall-E ride or sm but keep the building facade just expand it. Or put an entrance for a EPCOT themed hotel there. But if they keep WOL I would make it either make some type of pavilion (could still be PLAY) but themed around BIGHERO 6, or a pavilion themed around INSIDE OUT. Will say I also liked the idea of making the roof of WOL a projection mapped sky
jah4955
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Is it just me or did roof look better before the most recent refurb?
James Alucobond
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I think it was more about water intrusion than aesthetics.
Disstevefan1
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Communicore was a mistake trying to correct a mistake.
Actually there are many mistakes in this EPCOT renovation.
It’s just sad.
Let’s hope they do better with all the other projects in the next 10 years.
Actually there are many mistakes in this EPCOT renovation.
It’s just sad.
Let’s hope they do better with all the other projects in the next 10 years.
ToTBellHop
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Thankfully, DAK isn’t open at night so we needn’t concern ourselves over broken lighting at Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Two-Toed Sloth.
HMF
Well-Known Member
Again, Disney is apparently too stupid to realize they have a property perfect for bringing the pavilion back.
Andrew C
You know what's funny?
It looks awesome too. Imo.
HMF
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The mistake was tearing down CC West and being arrogant enough that you thought you could do better than the work of Hench, Sklar etc.
ToTBellHop
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Agreed. It would be a mistake to demo it as you know they'd replace it with a large box.