solidyne
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True. The 1981 Epcot Center crowds were very, very much lighter.
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Rich Brownn
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And way more sober.... LOLTrue. The 1981 Epcot Center crowds were very, very much lighter.
Epcot82Guy
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Don't know about that. Those parking lot parties waiting for opening day were pretty epic... even if the parking lot wasn't even paved yet...
correcaminos
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1982 and the hours were not what was posted
WDW Chronicles: 1982 Opening of Epcot Center
by Jim Korkis Disney Historian Feature Article This article appeared in the September 18, 2012 Issue #678 of ALL EARS® (ISSN: 1533-0753) The groundbreaking for Epcot Center took place October 1, 1979. To build awareness and excitement about Disney's newest theme park among guests, the Epcot...
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It was later on it was just the 9-7 and 11-9 hours. I prefer 9-9 myself if they have the extra hours on Monday. Though many shops that do open don't until 11 anyway but the stroll through WS prior to 11 is nice.
Rich Brownn
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I was there - actually inside thanks to a VP - on opening day before the park opened. Dick Nunis' words will always echo in my mind when he saw the crowds waiting to get in. (Opening day did NOT go smoothly).
Epcot82Guy
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I think we were all joking about the 1981 date - not opening day itself. I know all too well the stories on Oct 1, 1982 (though was not there myself)!
Tha Realest
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I hope she got her song!
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Disney Maddux
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We have 999 happy pages here... But there's room for 1000.
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Tuvalu
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How much were they paid for their appearance?
bhg469
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Dave got a piece of cake and some toast.
vikescaper
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I’m kinda disappointed that they aren’t serving cake toast anywhere in the park.
Poseidon Quest
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FTFY.
While your intent was clever, this post is actually number 19,975.
Er... they specifically were referring to the pages, not the posts.
Tuvalu
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Er….nope. Not originally. If you go back to post 19,974 you will see @Disney Maddux edited his post (changing “posts” to “pages”) at 2pm today, hours after I corrected his post at 7:19am.
DisneyCane
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Probably a lot less than they are being paid for the song rights.
trainplane3
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Rode GotG for the first time a few hours ago. It's a very fun coaster. Never cared for Marvel stuff in general so that's all fart noise to me.
Friend got sick a half hour later too but we kinda expected that to happen.
Friend got sick a half hour later too but we kinda expected that to happen.
Casper Gutman
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The animatronic is very nice, but man - Disney continues to underwhelm at making theme park attractions based on the most successful IP in film history. It's genuinely worrying - Disney parks have gone all in on IPs AND have the greatest IP in the world to work with, yet have produced NOTHING innovative or spectacular. In fact, with Avengers Campus, they managed to turn that IP into perhaps the worst land Disney ever built. At some point, its not just a failure of management or corporate structure, its also a fundamental failure of Imagineering.
Universal's Spider-Man continues to shame anything Disney has done with the IP. That's made even worse by the fact that not only is the ride 23 years old, but when the attraction was designed and built Marvel WASN'T the most powerful IP in the history of pop culture, it was the publisher of an incredibly niche media that had been precipitously declining in popularity for years and was almost certainly about to disappear permanently into bankruptcy - yet Universal turned that ailing, almost extinct property into one of the greatest rides in theme park history.