Bob Chapek Confirms Disney Will Overhaul Epcot

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Doing something with the WoL pavilion would not interfere with the daily park guest visit at all.
Waiting for a new movie to go into The Land pavilion theatre.
Reboot Figment and the imagination pavilion plus put in a new 3D movie (perhaps Figment)

Yeah but were now getting at 2 years since the D23 Expo announcement and nothing about the FW Layout has emerged not even a refurb wall besides at UoE...Let's hope that will hear anything else new at this years Expo and a RE-Designed layout....

 

[trainplane3]

Yeah but were now getting at 2 years since the D23 Expo announcement and nothing about the FW Layout has emerged not even a refurb wall besides at UoE...Let's hope that will hear anything else new at this years Expo and a RE-Designed layout....

I got you covered:

I got a super sneaky peek at the future of Epcot. I had to watermark it so bloggers won't steal my insider info.

 

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

I got you covered:

I got a super sneaky peek at the future of Epcot. I had to watermark it so bloggers won't steal my insider info.

I bow before greatness!!! Wonderful!!

 

[sedati]

Yeah but were now getting at 2 years since the D23 Expo announcement and nothing about the FW Layout has emerged not even a refurb wall besides at UoE...Let's hope that will hear anything else new at this years Expo and a RE-Designed layout....

I don’t see a canopy on the test checked building, so that’s something.

 

[Stripes]

Bullocks. If the issue was resources then Disney wouldn’t have reduced the ranks of Walt Disney Imagineering after the park opened.

And yet, WDI is bigger right now than its been in a long, long time. Certainly bigger than pre-Shanghai cuts. The only time its been this big is when DCA and TDS were being built.

Have you seen the TEA credits for Shanghai? The WDI credits are pages and pages and pages long. Shanghai clearly had an impact on development. Even if resources weren't an issue, risk was. A $5.5 billion development clearly entails quite a lot of risk, and as a business you don't want to overstretch in case things go wrong.

 

[AKL2003]

Doing something with the WoL pavilion would not interfere with the daily park guest visit at all.
Waiting for a new movie to go into The Land pavilion theatre.
Reboot Figment and the imagination pavilion plus put in a new 3D movie (perhaps Figment)

Can you imagine, if done right, how much just doing those few things would improve future world?? Bringing something back to WoL and updating the Imagination pavillion are my top two wishes for WDW...

 

[lazyboy97o]

And yet, WDI is bigger right now than its been in a long, long time. Certainly bigger than pre-Shanghai cuts. The only time its been this big is when DCA and TDS were being built.

Have you seen the TEA credits for Shanghai? The WDI credits are pages and pages and pages long. Shanghai clearly had an impact on development. Even if resources weren't an issue, risk was. A $5.5 billion development clearly entails quite a lot of risk, and as a business you don't want to overstretch in case things go wrong.

Disney wasn’t paying even half of that cost.

 

[jt04]

Disney wasn’t paying even half of that cost.

The point being that WDI was stretched thin at that point. The spin around here is often at odds with that fact.

 

[marni1971]

The point being that WDI was stretched thin at that point. The spin around here is often at odds with that fact.

WDI was spread thin in 1981. Contractors ruled the roost in the 2010s.

Remember it’s a hire and fire environment now.

 

[jt04]

WDI was spread thin in 1981. Contractors ruled the roost in the 2010s.

Remember it’s a hire and fire environment now.

It isn't really getting fired but I get what you are saying. And it isn't just at Disney.

 

[wdisney9000]

I got you covered:

I got a super sneaky peek at the future of Epcot. I had to watermark it so bloggers won't steal my insider info.

"Space Food", hahahaha.

 

[bcoachable]

Sometimes nothing might just be better than something...

 

[Stripes]

WDI was spread thin in 1981. Contractors ruled the roost in the 2010s.

Remember it’s a hire and fire environment now.

I definitely know they bring on more people for the sole purpose of a single project, but LinkedIn data suggests that the average tenure at WDI is more than 8 years which is extremely consistent with any other company. (In other words, most companies have an average tenure around 8 years.)

I'm also not sure that project based hires are anything new for WDI. I've found quite a number of former Imagineers on LinkedIn who were at WDI in the 80s and 90s for only a year or two, sometimes less than that. And they usually mention in the profile that they were hired for X project.

 

[DanielBB8]

At one time, they were considering Carsland for DHS. I wonder if Test Track loses the GM sponsorship, it’ll revert to Radiator Springs Racers. It could happen.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I definitely know they bring on more people for the sole purpose of a single project, but LinkedIn data suggests that the average tenure at WDI is more than 8 years which is extremely consistent with any other company. (In other words, most companies have an average tenure around 8 years.)

I'm also not sure that project based hires are anything new for WDI. I've found quite a number of former Imagineers on LinkedIn who were at WDI in the 80s and 90s for only a year or two, sometimes less than that. And they usually mention in the profile that they were hired for X project.

Contractors and consultants wouldn’t list Walt Disney Imagineering as an employer as they are not employees. They would be listed as a client. There is also greater use of third party companies.

 

[Stripes]

Contractors and consultants wouldn’t list Walt Disney Imagineering as an employer as they are not employees. They would be listed as a client. There is also greater use of third party companies.

I never suggested otherwise. I was referring to the project based hires at WDI. With regard to third parties, all vendors are listed in TEA credits. Virtually none are design firms. For Cars Land, for example, the only third party design firm, outside of general facility design, was Redphin Productions which helped design the ride vehicles. Everything else was completely designed by WDI.

For Pandora, the only third party design firm was Fredricks Design, which designed the ride seats in Flight of Passage.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

At one time, they were considering Carsland for DHS. I wonder if Test Track loses the GM sponsorship, it’ll revert to Radiator Springs Racers. It could happen.

If it did It would probably change to the Rust-eze Racing Center so future cars can be as fast as Lightning..That scene in the movie looks like it could be the main lobby of TT...

 

[Stripes]

If it did It would probably change to the Rust-eze Racing Center so future cars can be as fast as Lightning..That scene in the movie looks like it could be the main lobby of TT...

Honestly? I'd like this a lot more than what's there now. This is a decent fit.

 

[jt04]

If it did It would probably change to the Rust-eze Racing Center so future cars can be as fast as Lightning..That scene in the movie looks like it could be the main lobby of TT...

If we were given a choice of this or an indoor RSR clone at DHS I would choose RSR.

Not sure this is the direction they are taking Future World anyway.

 

[MrHorse]

Contractors and consultants wouldn’t list Walt Disney Imagineering as an employer as they are not employees. They would be listed as a client.

In practice, folks are pretty loose with these distinctions. By and large, people are far more concerned with project history than the details of someone's compensation. It's really common for consultants and contractors to list someone as an employer if they were dedicated to the client for any substantial amount of time.