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Body Wars 2016 Update
- Thread starter NovaCiteJourneys
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P_Radden
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Funny u said that. When I was drawing this, I originally made a banana shape due to all the electrical boxes back there!
THE Monorail Lime
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Look at the planter were the old horizons sign was
The sign wasn’t in that planter.
THE Monorail Lime
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The one shaped like horizons not the circle one
It wasn’t in the Horizons shaped planter.
THE Monorail Lime
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No the one shaped like horizons
The sign was not in that planter that is shaped like Horizons.
THE Monorail Lime
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But there was another one before mission space right?
THE Monorail Lime
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THE Monorail Lime
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Yes- any ways WOL is a pavilion stuck in time and age that's the problem with EPCOT today technology advances so fast Epcot can't keep up
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peter11435
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Well it hasn't tried in 20 years...
THE Monorail Lime
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Yup
Brad Bishop
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It's something unique to Disney. They shut down an attraction or restaurant and just leave it for a decade or more:
- 20,000 Leagues
- Odyssey Restaurant
- Wonders of Life
- Millenium Building
- Skyride
- Tomorrowland Terrace Restaurant
- Golden Horseshoe
Sort of along the same bizarre lines, temporary structures seem to live far longer than originally intended:
- Wand
- Hat
- "temporary" Permanent Stage at DHS that is there most of the year
The only times I can think of where an attraction sat around unused for years are things like:
- Drachen Fire @ Busch Gardens Williamsburg
- Timber Tower @ Dollywood
Both of these were dealing with litigation before they were torn down as I remember it. I kind of get that. In non-Disney parks if they close a restaurant they typically open it up as something new the next year. If they close a ride they just tear it down and typically replace it with something better the next year.
There is nothing all that unique about. It might be somewhat unusual for a theme park, but for the world in general, you don't tear something down until you know what you are going to do with the space.
Odyssey, WoL, the Millennium Building, TL Terrace and the GH all saw seasonal and/or special event usage and still do to this day.
The buildings for the skyride were it great shape and did not look bad in the slightest so there is no reason to clean the slate until something else was going to go in their place. They served as scenery while they sat there.
About the only real anomaly was 20k as that cost a metric crap ton to keep up as nothing more than an attractive water feature.
Cesar R M
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We will need that banana for scale.
DreamfinderGuy
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Wait, so the whole Maintenance bay is gonna be ripped out? I thought the bay in itself was gonna stay a maintenance bay?
Wdwsince86
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Curious if anyone has seen this video? No audio, but it’s a very thorough look at body wars and imageworks from around 2015 or 2016... before the DVC lounge in imageworks. It shows all four simulator bays starting at around 2:25. You can either click the link or search YouTube for “cotguy86”.