Horizons coming back?

[AgentPeggyCarter]

I love the attention to detail in these posters! I really hope that they make them available to purchase. I particularly love the ones for Kitchen Kabaret, Horizons, and the Wonders of Life pavilion.

 

[Epcot_Imagineer]

Can someone let me know what I'm out of the loop on? I'm understanding that one of the "revealing sunday" posters is Brazil, but what is the second one? Poppins flat ride? SSE refurb? New Imagination? Am I thinking way too into this and it's just a poster for the beer garden?

 

[starri42]

It's likely the Mary Poppins ride. That's the only thing other than Brazil that we're basically sure is in the pipe.

 

[Epcot_Imagineer]

It's likely the Mary Poppins ride. That's the only thing other than Brazil that we're basically sure is in the pipe.

I would say it's equally certain that SSE is getting its refurb, but true, Poppins seems to go along nicely with the rest of the posters.

 

[DisneyFreak]

Here’s all the posters.
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I hope they are selling these posters. I would love to do a room with all the original attractions...

Horizons
The Land
World of Motion
Universe of Energy
Wonders of Life
Spaceship Earth
Kitchen Kabaret
EPCOT Center
Communicore

They need to add one for The Living Seas or Sea Base Alpha.

 

[DisneyFreak]

In short, no.

In long, yes?

 

[Disstevefan1]

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I'm confused by this image. But, I'm throwing it out there now. These all look like new and updated posters. Why would Horizons be randomly included in this current list? Including Coco in Mexico? And another being revealed Sunday?

Don't tease me....

 

[marni1971]

In long, yes?

I wish

 

[Goofyernmost]

Because they decided, much like JIYI, not to acknowledge that abomination and to promote the original amazing Communicore instead.

Well, to the non-obsessed, Communicore and Innoventions both were interesting walk throughs. Communicore had the emphasis on the technology of things that were new or just being introduced to the public with a lot of it still years away from becoming standard life for the public. Innoventions was more like a commercial display with the emphasis on an individual companies particular products. Sort of like going to a business convention and seeing a huge number of vendors displaying their wares. Innoventions was never really pushed as anything else. So it never really had the emotional impact of the original. More of a space filler then anything else. Communicore, on the other hand, had a heart beat the lined up quite well with the basic theme of Future World. At least that is how I felt about both. It even took me more then one trip before I was able to see the real strength of Communicore.

That said, however, Innoventions was actually more directly connected to Walt's vision of EPCOT than anything else in the park. The idea of EPCOT was strongly based on companies displaying their new technologies, at their expense, in a real living environment. In other words, material things donated to promote/showcase a particular company/product. Without that commitment from companies, it would have failed before it began. As we can see now, that companies do that investment until it no longer shows a return. The idea of constantly upgrading a entire city, when thought about, is a pretty expensive display especially if the only people that saw it were those that actually lived in the environment. I wouldn't have wanted to have photographic verification in my personal living space.

 

[smile]

To the OP: It is the company playing on nostalgia to make you compare old Epcot with Igers' IPCOT. Also they'll probably selling those prints on T-Shirts, as mounted posters and mugs.

later-day disney magic

 

[RobbinsDad]

Got to be Poppins and Brazil, but I still wonder if they are scrambling to minimize the short-term PR damage that may come from announcing a Brazil pavilion at this moment.

 

[JustAFan]

The details are nice. Anyone else notice the Body Wars reference on the 'Wonders of Life' poster?

 

[Heppenheimer]

They wisely chose to put Mr. Broccoli front and center on the Kitchen Kabaret poster.

Nice to see SMART-1 on the Communicore Poster. My 7 year-old self was convinced he had mind-reading abilities.

 

[ppete1975]

what is 10/1/19 ? Mentions a new age coming....

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Because they decided, much like JIYI, not to acknowledge that abomination and to promote the original amazing Communicore instead.

Not even as Imagination institue with HISTA as what it was intended since it fit the movie and not the ride..

 

[larryz]

later-day disney magic

If it's related to the now-infamous construction ladder...

Spoiler: trigger warning: contains religious pun!

...WDI would be the ladder-day saints.

 

[Slikke]

EPCOT lost some magic when they shut down Horizons... It was and always will be one of my faves.

 

[AdventureHasAName]

As what-I-consider-to-be an EPCOT Center purist ... I love the World Showcase country posters ... and hate the Future World pavilion posters. They should have incorporated (prominently) the logos and color schemes of the pavilions.

 

[starri42]

As what-I-consider-to-be an EPCOT Center purist ... I love the World Showcase country posters ... and hate the Future World pavilion posters. They should have incorporated (prominently) the logos and color schemes of the pavilions.

The colors I can agree with, but I think making it about the logos doesn't really gel with the art style.

 

[Phil12]

EPCOT lost some magic when they shut down Horizons... It was and always will be one of my faves.

Yes but they gained a centrifuge! This all goes part and parcel with Walt's vision for the future. One day when WDW gets its approval to operate a nuclear reactor, they will already have their centrifuge in place to enrich nuclear fuel for fissile isotopes.