News EPCOT's Harmonious to be replaced with new nighttime spectacular Luminous

[Touchdown]

They need to do something to the end of the millennium celebration music there’s a huge lull with no booms.

 

[ohioguy]

Iger approved it.

"Iger's Folly", then. Though a reminder he never takes the blame for anything...

 

[marni1971]

"Iger's Folly", then. Though a reminder he never takes the blame for anything...

Igers folly was the bar on legs. Humungous was more Igers complete and utter balls up.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Igers folly was the bar on legs. Humungous was more Igers complete and utter balls up.

You Brits with your colorful language and then there’s me, the idiot American, trying to figure out the etymology of your colloquialisms. Apparently, a sinking ship in this case!

 

[ToTBellHop]

I will give Iger a compliment where due. The Harmonious marketing team produced my 2021 Valentine’s Day card to my wife, which was a big time saver. Just a quick CTRL+P

Thank you, Bob!

 

[mikejs78]

Apparently they removed the rest of the center barge and another of the tacos overnight. Only two left!

 

[Vinnie Mac]

Apparently they removed the rest of the center barge and another of the tacos overnight. Only two left!

 

[ToTBellHop]

I’m sad I won’t get to implode these as part of a cupcake party.

Insofar as we were all telling Disney “Donut do this in this way!” in 2021, at least a cupcake party would’ve given us something to tacobout for years.

 

[DCBaker]

More aerials of the barges backstage.

 

[Andrew25]

That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

 

[EvilChameleon]

Taco Bell is in shambles seeing their latest product be so quickly demolished.

 

[wdwmagic]

That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

I donno, I think it is a pretty sad sight. Yes they were a mess in the lagoon in the daytime, but there was a huge amount of effort put into getting these working by a lot of dedicated people. To see it go without being reused and scrapped after such a short time is a shame.

 

[flynnibus]

I donno, I think it is a pretty sad sight. Yes they were a mess in the lagoon in the daytime, but there was a huge amount of effort put into getting these working by a lot of dedicated people. To see it go without being reused and scrapped after such a short time is a shame.

On the bright side... they probably won't need to buy any new strobes, spotlights, or fountain heads for a long time

 

[wdwmagic]

On the bright side... they probably won't need to buy any new strobes, spotlights, or fountain heads for a long time

LOL well we know that it all has to be totally incompatible with anything else and will end up not being used

 

[hpyhnt 1000]

I donno, I think it is a pretty sad sight. Yes they were a mess in the lagoon in the daytime, but there was a huge amount of effort put into getting these working by a lot of dedicated people. To see it go without being reused and scrapped after such a short time is a shame.

Indeed. So much time, effort, and resources wasted on this show. Hopefully lessons were learned and will be institutionally remembered.

That said, good riddance to all of it. The “mistake on the lake” was still a mistake even if not intended to be.

 

[wdwmagic]

Indeed. So much time, effort, and resources wasted on this show. Hopefully lessons were learned and will be institutionally remembered.

That said, good riddance to all of it. The “mistake on the lake” was still a mistake even if not intended to be.

I have a feeling though that the lesson learned will not be a positive thing for us fans. I think we will see much simpler, far less ambitious shows in the style of EPCOT Forever, and anything more will be viewed as too risky and expensive.

 

[preludevtec01]

Disney getting pennies on the dollar for all that scrap, is truly priceless.

 

[jrhwdw]

I have a feeling though that the lesson learned will not be a positive thing for us fans. I think we will see much simpler, far less ambitious shows in the style of EPCOT Forever, and anything more will be viewed as too risky and expensive.

Hopefully the Fountains will return for future shows!

 

[gerarar]

They should ship those fountain heads to Disneyland because their Fantasmic! really needs it.

Pretty sad state of things show-wise over there..

 

[hpyhnt 1000]

I have a feeling though that the lesson learned will not be a positive thing for us fans. I think we will see much simpler, far less ambitious shows in the style of EPCOT Forever, and anything more will be viewed as too risky and expensive.

You’re probably right, though if it means oil rigs are never again anchored in WSL, that’s fine with me. Honestly, some modest fountain barges and a slightly healthier pyro budget and EPCOT Forever would be a very solid permanent show.

I suppose real time proof of this misguided lesson is the mess of EPCOT’s core. Another instance of much time and money spent on a questionable project. And now yet more time and effort being taken to rebuild a smaller, inferior version of what we had.