laughingplace.com is reporting:
We've heard that engineers have been assigned to the Spaceship Earth wand at Epcot to assess what is the most practical way of removing the icon in 2007.
Hmm.. I hope so...
wjaye918 said:I am not sure why everyone hates it so much. :veryconfu What is the big objection to it and the hat? To me, each park has an icon: castle, tree, hat, wand.
I don't mind any of them. Maybe I just love Disney so much that nothing they ever do or add or change bothers me! I am just so happy when I am there!
SURPRISE
The wand will be removed in 2007...
The night after March 31, to be more precise...
If they want to get rid of something, get rid of that stupid hat in MGM.
Actually, I like the concept of the Leave a Legacy monoliths; they frame SSE quite nicely. But the area definitely needs something to combat the gravestone look. Maybe planting small shrubbery around the base of each monolith would help...or look like someone is pushing daisies! :lol:
It would look cool if they were glass.
STR8FAN2005, nice avatar. Are you planning on coming up to Knoxville?
This is sort of how I feel about the wand as well. It was cool for year 2000 but once they changed it to say EPCOT i was just kind of "huh?? why bother??" I wish it would go.having the wand that says 'epcot' over spaceship earth is like having a sign over cinderella castle that says 'magic kingdom'
Just because it's "art" doesn't mean it's pretty. These things are hideous. The wand doesn't look too bad until you walk right underneath it.
I love how in all the Disney books, Imagineers boast about all their techniques and philosophies then they go and plunk things down like the wand, the hat RIGHT infront of the theatre and turn the castle into a cake...these all seem like contradictions to me. I guess there really is a struglle between the creative force/ability of WDI and the shareholders/execs.
The wand was cool, but it's been up there for nearly 8 years. I say they take the wand down and paint spaceship earth a shimmering blend of colours the way John Hench wanted it. Or maybe repalce all the triangles with LCD screens.
What makes the wand not work for me is that it makes Spaceship Earth look small. It also takes away from the fact that it is supposed to symbolize earth, not a crystal ball or something that a giant mickey hand would wave a wand infront of.
The hat in MGM is fine, but not where it is currently. They could make a "cartoon" land in MGM with the muppets, animation tour, animated characters from movies, pixar etc and put the hat there. I dunno, SOMETHING...but the theatre is such a great image when you walk into MGM.
and hey, maybe John Stamos will buy the wand too.
I think the MGM wand should be moved to the front of the park in front of the entrance. That way it doesnt obstruct the Chinese Theatre.
But...as I stated earlier...that is the whole point of the hat. It was BUILT to hide the theatre.
Lee, who do you think you are? Someone that worked for Disney, or do you think you were some kind of Imagineer know it all?
Heh. Everytime I say that I get a "Huh? What did you say?"Nah....I am a leaf on the wind....
I am not sure why everyone hates it so much. :veryconfu What is the big objection to it and the hat? To me, each park has an icon: castle, tree, hat, wand.
Look at the pictures of it prewand, look how beautifully symetrical it was, how it was a center focal point of a symetrical park.
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