Do you Diehard Epcot Center Fans regret complaining about Epcot 94 Millennium Celebration Epcot?

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

For years I spent so much time thinking of what Epcot was and wishing for the old Epcot back. Now id be happy just to have Epcot as it was Leave a legacy, Wand and all if that’s what it takes. if i woke up one morning and all was a dream and it was in its early post Millenium form id be happy, I still Love Horizons and Dreamfinder but I would Just be happy to have it as close as we could get it.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

That would be a hideous mess in a diff way

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Never regretted it..But, I do miss the Early to mid 00's Epcot Era..
As for the wand....

Let's be greatful it was removed in 2007..

 

[AdventureHasAName]

No, it was terrible. Just because what we have now is worse does not make that wand and the war memorial not-terrible.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

No, it was terrible. Just because what we have now is worse does not make that wand and the war memorial not-terrible.

The entrance now is great atleast

 

[AdventureHasAName]

The entrance now is great atleast

I haven't seen it in person, but yes, it looks good. The glass monument's return was a huge addition.

 

[Married5Times]

........but, but.. we would be without Olaf, Remy and Dorey. And that I just can't have!

 

[itsy bitsy spider]

God nooooo, two things can be terrible at the same time! That's like saying...

"Now don't you feel bad for taking your mom's death so hard? Now that your dads dead as well."

 

[Sbk1234]

If you're talking 1994, I'd take it in a heartbeat. All the classic attractions were still there in Futureworld: Horizons, World of Motion, Journey into Imagination, Universe of Energy, Jeremy Irons in Spaceship Earth. Maelstrom in Norway. I think of that as the Golden Age.

As for the Millenium celebration in 1999, yeah, I'd take that too, although a little less enthusiastically. The monoliths out front weren't too pretty, but at least once you got passed it you didn't see it again for the rest of the day.
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[Tom Morrow]

Epcot 94 was my first taste of Epcot and it was great. I still got to see pretty much all of the original attractions.

Millennium celebration Epcot - minus the wand and the tombstones, it was fine.

What we have now is a theme park with no sense of identity. A park that gets by on being a 365 "festival", and wants to transition into being "Magic Kingdom but with strange architecture" while throwing the die hard fans bones in the form of logos on flags and other gestures.

 

[JIMINYCR]

Hated the Wand. It was like the uninvited guest that comes and stays longer than you expected and you couldnt wait to shove them out the door. Leave a Legacy is much better where it is now. Out of the way yet available to those who wish to visit.

 

[Tom Morrow]

The wand would have been fine if it left in 2001, not 2007.

 

[NelleBelle]

I hated the wand worse than the MK "bday cake"! Glad that thing is gone!

 

[erasure fan1]

No, it was terrible. Just because what we have now is worse does not make that wand and the war memorial not-terrible.

Exactly. At least now I can look at spaceship earth and envision the epcot I remember and loved. That wand was just awful and at no point do I regret wishing for its demise.

 

[World_Showcase_Lover007]

Wand was bad, leave a legacy was horrible and Innoventions was dead…so absolutely no regrets.

However, I will say that the pending ‘improvements’ in Future World may turn into a dumpster fire. I’m no fan of them with what I’ve seen in new Cool Club, etc…But something had to change. And it’s on Disney management how it goes.

I’ve spent the last ten+ years walking around FW saying “hey that’s where such-and-such used to be. That was really fun.” And that was good enough for a while. Now, I’m just numb to it all bc the glory days will never come back.

 

[correcaminos]

The wand would have been fine if it left in 2001, not 2007.

So true! It's stay was way too long. The monoliths were plain awful though.

But I remember 1995 quite well for Epcot. Those are the days I miss. I get everything changes but the direction for many stinks. They are killing the park by taking way too long to complete too. The walls are horrible. The barges are unforgivable. I'll take what I had back in the 90s over this any day. The only good right now is the nighttime music with SSE

 

[lindawdw]

My first visit to Epcot was on October 2, 1982, which was a day after its grand opening! That Epcot Center was truly the most beautiful park and when I walk around EPCOT today, all I see are walls everywhere and rides that constantly breakdown. I remember when they used to have custodians cleaning the bathrooms 24/7 too! I really hope when the walls finally come down, the beauty returns to this once great park.

 

[PrinceCharming617]

I love the new Epcot light show. It pays respect to the original look, but with added cool effects.

 

[PrinceCharming617]

My first visit to Epcot was on October 2, 1982, which was a day after its grand opening! That Epcot Center was truly the most beautiful park and when I walk around EPCOT today, all I see are walls everywhere and rides that constantly breakdown. I remember when they used to have custodians cleaning the bathrooms 24/7 too! I really hope when the walls finally come down, the beauty returns to this once great park.

One good thing about the long, long construction is they are going to add some green areas in the front.

 

[THEMEPARKPIONEER]

So true! It's stay was way too long. The monoliths were plain awful though.

But I remember 1995 quite well for Epcot. Those are the days I miss. I get everything changes but the direction for many stinks. They are killing the park by taking way too long to complete too. The walls are horrible. The barges are unforgivable. I'll take what I had back in the 90s over this any day. The only good right now is the nighttime music with SSE

If they make that new dancing fountain they said they would build I wonder if it’s going to go off with the beacon lighting. If only they restored the Fountain of Nations and had it with those lights that would be one heck of a show and the highlight of this current era.