Bocabear
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but so is Tomorrowland... And I think actually GOTG doesn't take place in the future, but just in another galaxy...current day.
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Guardians of the Galaxy coming to Energy Pavilion at Epcot
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P_Radden
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My guess is the addition will be in this area, unless it would be a larger expansion requiring Avenue of the Stars to be shifted back.
The balloons could have been to test the view from the passing monorails in addition to views from within the park.
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71jason
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GotG, Lilo & Stitch and Monsters Inc. are all set (roughly) in the year the movie was released. Buzz Lightyear was technically supposed to be a 1980s cartoon, although I guess set in a cartoony future envisioned in the 1980s. Carousel of Progress is mostly set in the first half of the 20th Century, with a bizarro world coda set in what I guess is an alt version of 2002?
"The future ain't what it used to be." - J. Steinman
azox
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I wonder if it will be something new that they create or if it will end up being a clone of a ride that's already in the US parks.
montyz81
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Like Test Track and Journey to the Center of the Earth right. Same technology very different attractions.
azox
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It's funny too how I felt like the tomorrowland movies ending was like an advertisement to visit animal kingdom and epcot. Not sure if thats what they were trying to convey, but it really felt like a big advertisement.
FigmentJedi
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No, Buzz would have been a 90s cartoon. But even then, it's set within the Living Toys context rather then the actual show's universe, even with the tacked on references in the gift shop that got dialed back with the removal of the Booster photo-op.
It's one of a few proposals. If the pavilion goes they won't need event storage space!
Besides, the queue was a test area for Fastpass Plus. Something had to be done with it. May as well make use of it.
Sadly.
asianway
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They bought new trams for BLT a couple months before it shut down - never underestimate the lack of communication
RoysCabin
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Regarding the concept of still visiting the pavilion/ride even if some of us don't like it; I don't really begrudge anybody being curious about what's gone into a space formerly occupied by something one might consider superior, more thematically appropriate, etc. It honestly does not make that great a difference.
What makes me sad, however, is that this may (just may, nothing's definite yet) be the nail in the coffin that kills some of our dreams for a return to form for EPCOT, which makes wanting to visit the park in general a less appealing proposition in the first place. I know EPCOT's been struggling for ages now, it's unavoidable, but there is still a skeleton there that something really interesting could be built onto. A move toward ideas like this, instead, seem to signal a full retreat from that, and it stinks for long time fans who often looked forward to EPCOT the most out of all the WDW parks. Maybe I'd go see what the new ride is like, but I feel like I'd have a difficult time shaking the feeling that the park I grew up loving is really gone. When I think of all my favorite WDW rides and attractions, both historical and current, it strikes me how few of them feature familiar IPs that came from sources outside the park...some of them are certainly still there (e.g. Splash Mountain), but they're a clear minority. As I said before, there will now be an entire park devoted to that, plus there's more and more space at MK and now AK devoted to that, so the sense of "I'm visiting EPCOT because I like the change of pace" just won't be there are much.
Again, nothing's definite; tons of plans might change, who knows what could happen between now and, say, 2021. But it just kind of hurts to imagine "this was one of your absolute favorite places for just about your entire life, but there's now going to be very little of it left, and it'll just be like everywhere else, instead." Nothing else to be said because it's just a subjective feeling, just stings is all.
What makes me sad, however, is that this may (just may, nothing's definite yet) be the nail in the coffin that kills some of our dreams for a return to form for EPCOT, which makes wanting to visit the park in general a less appealing proposition in the first place. I know EPCOT's been struggling for ages now, it's unavoidable, but there is still a skeleton there that something really interesting could be built onto. A move toward ideas like this, instead, seem to signal a full retreat from that, and it stinks for long time fans who often looked forward to EPCOT the most out of all the WDW parks. Maybe I'd go see what the new ride is like, but I feel like I'd have a difficult time shaking the feeling that the park I grew up loving is really gone. When I think of all my favorite WDW rides and attractions, both historical and current, it strikes me how few of them feature familiar IPs that came from sources outside the park...some of them are certainly still there (e.g. Splash Mountain), but they're a clear minority. As I said before, there will now be an entire park devoted to that, plus there's more and more space at MK and now AK devoted to that, so the sense of "I'm visiting EPCOT because I like the change of pace" just won't be there are much.
Again, nothing's definite; tons of plans might change, who knows what could happen between now and, say, 2021. But it just kind of hurts to imagine "this was one of your absolute favorite places for just about your entire life, but there's now going to be very little of it left, and it'll just be like everywhere else, instead." Nothing else to be said because it's just a subjective feeling, just stings is all.
FigmentJedi
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Forbidden site's speculating that a formal announcement might happen at Comic-Con's Marvel Studios panel.
P_Radden
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Yeah I saw that... I've only been around this scene for about a year and a half, but it seems like they either get their "news" from here or from JH, and they have been wrong about a few things. Am I not giving them enough credit, or is that about right?
ToonElectrocrash
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I'm not happy. EPCOT is not supposed to have existing brands and blockbuster franchises for the rides, and I don't want UoE and WoL to be replaced. If this IS happening, I don't want to go to WDW...
asianway
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I saw someone else post the SDCC rumor last night or this morning, just cant recall where.
ToonElectrocrash
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I, for one, DO NOT welcome change. These changes happening to DHS and Epcot are the bad kind of change (I.E., Figment being axed from Imagination and replaced by some guy named Nigel, MV3D in DCA being replaced by Frozen, and more recently, FEA replacing Maelstrom), NOT the good kind of change (DL Space Mountain in 2007/2008).
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Lee
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Not a clone of an existing ride in the US, far as I know.
Imagine what 1996-9 was like.
Rteetz
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Thats a positive I guess.
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