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lazyboy97o
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Again, fixing neglect does not require building something that is much more expensive, smaller, less functional and just sort of plopped down in a field.
Seabasealpha1
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Looked better before...Before:
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PHOTOS - A look at the updated Gateway Gifts in Epcot
Gateway Gifts under Spaceship Earth is now the park's package pickup location.
Seabasealpha1
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Just saw the post. I like the new sight line... can’t help but wonder if they’ll cut back the trees around the Land? Would be nice to actually see the building...
MrConbon
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There was nothing worthwhile to fill those small empty spaces with. I’d rather have a Moana water garden to stroll through than a Baymax meet and greet in an empty space. Other than some small VR activity. There isn’t anything great to put in there.
THEMEPARKPIONEER
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I just wanted them to keep the fountain, the buildings can go.
lazyboy97o
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If only Disney has some sort of team who could imagine and then build entertaining theme park content...
ChrisFL
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Keeping building designs from 40 years ago in a futuristic theme park isn't necessarily a good thing either
lazyboy97o
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They’re steel shell and core. A lot could be done with them. Adaptive reuse will have to be a thing in the future.
Epcot82Guy
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There are incredible adaptive reuse projects going on across the country (and world right now). Many highly transformative.
I don't think anyone is saying they are against changes and investment to Epcot. Quite the contrary. As others have noted, it's the changes they decided to make vs. others that were quite real possibilities that people are lamenting.
I don't think anyone is saying they are against changes and investment to Epcot. Quite the contrary. As others have noted, it's the changes they decided to make vs. others that were quite real possibilities that people are lamenting.
RobWDW1971
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Commit to something great - don’t half-a$$ it and tell me to be happy because it’s better than what we left to rot.
Fine, tear them both down and put in something that captures our imagination. I don’t care about old run down buildings. But I DO care about design, symmetry, and a coherent sense of place/theme. Leaving one side of the old run down buildings while putting a Moana water feature on the other is the worst of all worlds.
Commit to something great - don’t half-a$$ it and tell me to be happy because it’s better than what we left to rot.
EPCOTCenterLover
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We left WDW the day before Epcot FW demo began. I am sad for seeing what it was at opening now going away. but it left already in bits and pieces. I'm curious about what is coming. Some parts even look great. I'm looking forward to seeing it all completed- even though I can also only look at photos.
rle4lunch
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Disney just really dropped the ball with Epcot over the years. Such a decrepit (poop) show of antiquated attractions, masked by the continual overlays of 'fests' and booze, hiding the nastiness (like when they turn the lights on in a club after last call) with the propping up of value engineered crap like Maelstrom by turning it into a 'dreaded' IP (yet superior) ride, soulless 1 dimensional updates like TT 2.0, and jamming unneeded restaurants into an already overstuffed WS.
If there was one park that needed a complete overhaul, it was Epcot. I know that some of their new ideas aren't very good, but I'm anxious to see what Epcot becomes in the next 2 years.
Incomudro
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Or put something in those buildings that the people of today are not interested in?
"But we can MAKE them interested."
No, you can't.
Incomudro
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Really?
Better than what's there now - the updates are going to be far better than what's there now (and has been there for many years) - is certainly positive change.
Really. Read what I wrote.
Incomudro
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I did read what you wrote.
Okay.
Unplugged
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Already looks so much better. Innoventions was cool in the day, but overall that narrow dutch over spine and the weird way a massive gray building broke up the flow between East & West was not appealing to me. Looking at the 1/2 removal so far creates such a vast open space and makes it look so much bigger. Can't wait to see the additional progress in the coming months/years!
Innoventions version one screwed up interior and exterior traffic flow. Version two was barely an improvement.