Indeed. The scenes in SSE are all still great even if the omnimover is laboring, but there’s nothing just completely embarrassing from a show standpoint other than your head frequently looking like it’s riddled with bullet holes during the descent video. Meanwhile, Imagination, Space Ranger Spin, Speedway, Nemo, Three Caballeros (the video footage), and PeopleMover (the windowed show scenes) feel like they should’ve been taken out back and shot a decade ago. Just shambling corpses at this point.
Honestly SSE content wise is still great, if anything it just needs work done to the track and ride system. Imagination on the other hand needs to go ASAP. I don’t think it’s a bad ride, but it’s horribly outdated and is just plain depressing compared to the 83 version.
Not to mention that it’s kind of a sacred attraction like Living With The Land. Those are the last two remaining rides that still have the original thematic feel of OG Epcot. In a park that pretty much changes its rides almost constantly, I’m beyond grateful that those two classics exist
Tried to call out just the window scenes. I like the ride itself, and the views outside are of course timeless. The rides (or elements of rides for PeopleMover and Three Caballeros) I mentioned are things that I view as aggressively mediocre that have been so for ages even though simple, relatively inexpensive improvements could make them much better. They’re things you look at and wonder, “Why is that still like that?”
Aside from Progress City, I definitely agree that those window scenes are the weakest part of the peoplemover. Yeah there kinda charming at first, but they honestly don’t fit with the current "70s white futurism" that is slowly being pushed in Tomorrowland. Not to mention that after riding the Peoplemover literally over 100 times at this point, the novelty of those scenes is kinda lost. Take the hair salon one for example, yeah it’s kinda cool for 1994 but it looks HORRIBLY outdated nowadays.
The whole back half of SSE is rough. It’s just gutted and empty. I’d love if it matched the first half of the ride and got a track upgrade.
Not until the DVC lounge closes first and either moves it to the old Siemens SSE's Lounge or any other vacant Lounge not being used Nothing is going to happen to that pavilion...
Why would a bathroom refurb need two years?
Its Disney?
Maybe to turn it into a Living with the Land like boat tour of WDW's sewage system featuring Dreamfinder.
Cast office space. The image quality is kinda terrible but you can see a little sign on the door here that says "EPCOT Future World Attractions Office". One of the last straggling remains of the Future World name in the park lol
Remember two years ago when they talked about a long lost character when showing the Imagination Pavilion and then announced... a meet and greet?
I'll never forget where I was. I was talking with a coworker listening to the panel. All of the sudden, I see the image of the pavilion, and I loudly yelled and then had the embarrassment to explain why when it WASN'T the ride being redone.
