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News Impressions de France only available for limited time in the mornings
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JeffBostock
Active Member
Thank goodness. Glad I emailed them about it. Good to know that they are listening.
SplashJacket
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Glad to see they actually listened.
It wouldn’t really make sense for them not to listen.
They likely don’t really give two hoots about either show, so randomly getting 50 emails asking for a certain way should actually produce change. Glad to see the input worked.
Obviously, I’d rather have Impressions there all day, but an extra 7 shows in the evening is significant
It wouldn’t really make sense for them not to listen.
They likely don’t really give two hoots about either show, so randomly getting 50 emails asking for a certain way should actually produce change. Glad to see the input worked.
Obviously, I’d rather have Impressions there all day, but an extra 7 shows in the evening is significant
SteamboatJoe
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Impressions is an absolute classic but it's also absolutely dated. I can't imagine it's that hard or expensive to put together some digital footage shot in the 21st century and set it to the current soundtrack. I can understand wanting to rotate attractions in that space but the sing-along ain't it and Impressions should definitely be running in the mornings and evenings when people with younger children are typically busy doing other things.
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And the “Singalong” does that? Wouldn’t you rather have kids learn real world happenings from IDF than from a singalong?
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
I think there is a deeper meaning to this statement... Not so much a "Walt would hate a Frozen ride" but more of a "Walt would hate that imagineers are no longer able/capable of creating original stories, attractions, and characters specifically for the parks.
Walt had a balance... There was Peter Pan, Snow White, and Pinocchio... But there was also Pirates, Haunted Mansion, Country Bears, and Tiki Room in development as well..
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
I'd find this rather amusing if they simply just made a typo on their website, and they look at this forum and they're like "uh... yea guys!.... We uh.. we're LISTENING... THAT'S what we are doing..." lol
Animaniac93-98
Well-Known Member
Don't close O' Canada for half the year.
Tha Realest
Well-Known Member
In just a few days you all got Disney to course correct on this.
What’s our next objective?
What’s our next objective?
JohnD
Well-Known Member
It's in the evening. We'll take it. Used to be two hours from 7-9. The only difference is moving the end from 9:00 to 8:45pm, presumably to accommodate park closing.Oooh, 1 hour and 45 minutes more...
JohnD
Well-Known Member
I agree. Love the show and especially the soundtrack. But the footage is decidedly 80s. I'd be all for a comparable show with the same scenes but recorded recently. Keep the soundtrack.
JohnD
Well-Known Member
Bring back Splash! LOL
the.dreamfinder
Well-Known Member
He’d have given it a proper attraction with commensurate capacity like OLC is doing with their Frozen E-Ticket at Fantasy Dpeings.
MerlinTheGoat
Well-Known Member
Technically we wouldn't have gotten a Frozen ride at all with Walt in charge, nor a Frozen movie. It would have been a Snow Queen ride, and likely a much better film to boot. 
Tony the Tigger
Well-Known Member
Let’s not pretend he was trying to balance between IP and non-IP. If he owned more IP, they would have been in there.
SteamboatJoe
Well-Known Member
Reminds me of being a kid in school and watching educational videos in class that were clearly made a generation (or more) prior. The facts and content were still good and valid but the context was borderline distracting.
Next project: Update the film with fresh 4K footage. Keep a lot of what's there location-wise, just update things. Maybe even throw in a brief shot of DLP if it would get the expenditure for new footage and projectors approved. (I know it's not as easy/simple as that, work with me here)
Walt didn't need to continually tie movie IP into rides once the 60's arrived, the success of the park (and the admittedly many movie-based rides that were originally built) and animated movies allowed him to branch out into things like Pirates, Jungle Cruise, etc. Not that he wouldn't have done some movie rides, but the ride and concept would have needed to make sense.
Let's not pretend that something like Maelstrom-into-Frozen would have been a thing to Walt if that movie was available. People with limited vision/imagination/creativity made that decision. A new ride with a fun, new story based after the events of the original movie would not have been difficult to make happen, but TPTB chose the cheap and/or easy way out, like they have for the past 20+ years.
Anywho, this is way off-track for this particular thread, not that I don't enjoy a good discussion.
I have nostalgia for many past EPCOT Center attractions(Horizons, original Imagination, WOM, and even Kitchen Cabernet, but I don’t get the love for Maelstrom… it was a weird disjointed ride… Frozen IMO is much better
Jenny72
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I am sort of an Epcot purist, and really hate the IP stuff and the singalong, but I admit that I am also a visitor that doesn't get excited about seeing films in theme parks anymore. Especially after being stuck home during Covid, conducting lots of meetings virtually, etc. I am staring at a screen in one form or the other so often that I want to do things that are more tangible or interactive.
What I wish they would do with some of the less popular film experiences is to turn them into an innovative, interactive experience or exhibit about the country. I'm no imagineer, but something with a few animatronics, a guide, even a group trivia game or something. I'm sure they can come up with creative ideas (or could, if they tried). My impression is that people are craving that sort of experience now, especially since we can often watch amazing cinematography at home. In my opinion, that would be a far better way to get more people interested in the pavillions than slapping some movie character on it.
What I wish they would do with some of the less popular film experiences is to turn them into an innovative, interactive experience or exhibit about the country. I'm no imagineer, but something with a few animatronics, a guide, even a group trivia game or something. I'm sure they can come up with creative ideas (or could, if they tried). My impression is that people are craving that sort of experience now, especially since we can often watch amazing cinematography at home. In my opinion, that would be a far better way to get more people interested in the pavillions than slapping some movie character on it.