It’s a sad example of WDW’s habit of destroying iconic, excellent attractions but maintaining some bauble they can wave in guests’ faces to convince them management has some respect for WDW history (they don’t) and to get those nostalgia dollars. Other examples include the “reimagining” of the Redhead and the zombie-like specter of Figment. Like the UoE building, those elements were beloved because of the context in which they existed, because they were given meaning by their part in a unified whole. Now that that original context has been destroyed, they’re cynical totems of the exploitation of nostalgia and, worse, actual barriers to new, coherent creativity. Really, Future World is now almost entirely defined by this, by half-baked rides shoved into the decaying husks of long-dead masterpieces.
