ToTBellHop
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Disney and Pixar animators are extremely imaginative. A well-designed pre show interview with animators could make it work.
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Captain EO final show on 12/6 - Disney and Pixar Short Film Festival to be the replacement
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ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
That's the point decisions are no longer based on creative input, simply financial input these days...
ChesterKiwi
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Even as a big fan of EO, it was time for it to go.
Hoping that the replacement fits well thematically.
Hoping that the replacement fits well thematically.
brb1006
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But I loved the music and theme of the show
DisneyGentleman
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The world of the future will be filled with people having short attentions spans, and fearful of anything bold or new.
Makes lots of sense to me.
PizzaPlanet
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This thing better be temporary. We need a true redo of the Imagination pavilion.
Baloo62
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Perfectly stated and spot-on accurate. If Epcot dining was limited to the restaurant selections at Animal Kingdom, I would completely pass on my once-favorite Disney park. Is 2030 too early to hope for a complete overhaul of Future World? Vey iz mir!
Nick Pappagiorgio
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In theatre effects, or maybe just some general upkeep. My guess is that they don't really need the capacity in that window which might be part of the length.
Theme Parkitect
Active Member
I bet that they'll include the brand new Inside Out short "Riley's First Date"! The film was a true return to Pixar's glory and I bet WDI recognizes that power. WDI requires a proven IP before any new construction. Although not a popular requirement among fanboys, it makes financial sense which is what honestly matters to a company.
Realistically, Figment and Dreamfinder will never make a reappearance at the Imagination Pavillion, beyond Figment's current representation as nosy, smelly and annoying. I am hoping that is a the beginning of a transformation of Imagination Pavillion, or at least WDI testing the waters on more Pixar in Future World.
I'd imagine they might have to wait for the dust to settle and coffers to fill again after Pandora & Star Wars before embarking on this.
Realistically, Figment and Dreamfinder will never make a reappearance at the Imagination Pavillion, beyond Figment's current representation as nosy, smelly and annoying. I am hoping that is a the beginning of a transformation of Imagination Pavillion, or at least WDI testing the waters on more Pixar in Future World.
I'd imagine they might have to wait for the dust to settle and coffers to fill again after Pandora & Star Wars before embarking on this.
lazyboy97o
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Walt Disney Imagineering doesn't decide when construction starts and it seems odd that a company would be able to survive with most of its core in something that makes no financial sense.
Sped2424
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lol nope
Sped2424
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Not slightly better EO was made to be an attraction at least, however taking shorts I own on bluray and making it into a free screening isn't really a one up. If anything shows a lack of imagination at the imagination pavilion.
Sped2424
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5 bucks says this stays there for another 8 years lol
Figments Friend
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FigmentJedi
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Figment's moichendising revenue and the "Iger's actually surprised-tier" high sales of his two comic book series would suggest otherwise. Imagineering and Marvel pretty much cracked the code on how to go about rejuvenating the characters, created a setting that manages to blend between the original's fantasy world and the Institute (though under a different name), and if it weren't for those books, that whole Kingdoms initiative of Marvel's would have probably died on the vine what with their rough start on that Museum of the Weird book.
DGracey
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Another mind-numbing decision that reinforces management has zero interest in attempting to keep Epcot close to a theme or mission statement. Gone. Zip. Zilch.
Epcot has changed from a place where adults were enlightened and younger children were educated and entertained, to a place where adults go to eat and drink and their children need to be babysat by enough animation IP to get them through the day. We lost The Seas to Nemo, Maelstrom to Frozen and now Imagination to Pixar. Attraction by attraction, EPCOT Center has declined by degrees racing towards an unrecognizable former version of its original self. Heck they don't even decorate for Christmas anymore.
The park once held as the ultimate standard for a theme park enlightening humanity while entertaining them has reached the tipping point I think. Disney animation and movie branding is infecting the park to a point of becoming malignant. It can't be stopped and it won't be. Horizons isn't coming back. Spaceship Earth isn't getting a new ending. The Seas isn't about exploring the depth and mysterious creatures of the deep dark sea anymore - it is now literally about Finding Nemo.
I love and adore Disney's films, characters and brands. But Epcot was never created to showcase them like the Magic Kingdom was. The company has never really done an excellent job trying to integrate characters into a park that isn't about them.
The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow wasn't about Nemo, Elsa, and Pixar. But we are where we are.
Here's hoping the dream shall never die for why they made the park in the first place - the celebration of human achievement, technological innovation and international culture. But boy it is sure creeping further and further away from that awesome premise.
Epcot has changed from a place where adults were enlightened and younger children were educated and entertained, to a place where adults go to eat and drink and their children need to be babysat by enough animation IP to get them through the day. We lost The Seas to Nemo, Maelstrom to Frozen and now Imagination to Pixar. Attraction by attraction, EPCOT Center has declined by degrees racing towards an unrecognizable former version of its original self. Heck they don't even decorate for Christmas anymore.
The park once held as the ultimate standard for a theme park enlightening humanity while entertaining them has reached the tipping point I think. Disney animation and movie branding is infecting the park to a point of becoming malignant. It can't be stopped and it won't be. Horizons isn't coming back. Spaceship Earth isn't getting a new ending. The Seas isn't about exploring the depth and mysterious creatures of the deep dark sea anymore - it is now literally about Finding Nemo.
I love and adore Disney's films, characters and brands. But Epcot was never created to showcase them like the Magic Kingdom was. The company has never really done an excellent job trying to integrate characters into a park that isn't about them.
The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow wasn't about Nemo, Elsa, and Pixar. But we are where we are.
Here's hoping the dream shall never die for why they made the park in the first place - the celebration of human achievement, technological innovation and international culture. But boy it is sure creeping further and further away from that awesome premise.