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EPCOT Is the End of Innoventions Near?

Casper Gutman

Casper Gutman

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HauntedMansionFLA said:
It can’t be just rides too. You need variety. This isn’t Six Flags. Plus a lot of the guest might like the different festivals and want less rides. What you like could be totally opposite of what is important to them. I like a nice variety. ;)
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Some people like reading books, but WDW shouldn’t add a library to MK. Some people like punching other people, but Epcot doesn’t need a fight club.

Epcot is a theme park. Theme parks depend on theming and rides. Epcot doesn’t have enough of either.

Turning Epcot into a year-round booze festival is a cynical betrayal of what Epcot was meant to stand for - and a cynical betrayal of what Disney supposedly stands for.
 
flynnibus

flynnibus

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Sir_Cliff said:
I kind of feel the same way. Those buildings were beginning to feel like a straitjacket, and any smart project leader would have told the design team not to feel constrained to work with the existing spaces.
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So, while all of this is far from inspiring, it does seem like a better outcome than just continuing to shuffle things around inside these convention center-style buildings for all eternity.
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Yup my view exactly
 
Bocabear

Bocabear

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I agree...this plan of destroying the organization of the front of the park is just going to make it more confusing than ever...it will be a walk past Spaceship Earth to seemingly nowhere with nothing to do even moderately close at hand...I think it is going to feel lopsided and like someone knocked half of the park down....and a giant building on stilts in the center will forever ruin the central axis views.
 
Horizons '83

Horizons '83

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In the Parks
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Bocabear said:
I agree...this plan of destroying the organization of the front of the park is just going to make it more confusing than ever...it will be a walk past Spaceship Earth to seemingly nowhere with nothing to do even moderately close at hand...I think it is going to feel lopsided and like someone knocked half of the park down....and a giant building on stilts in the center will forever ruin the central axis views.
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But...but...the beer gardens :p
 
Bocabear

Bocabear

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marni1971 said:
A bar on legs is an awful outcome. IMHO.
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Why cant the bar on legs be built over the top of the Club Cool/Starbuck building...leave that building in place and there is even more "Festival Space" that doesn't need a tent... Just move the Fountain of Nations to the center of the courtyard, Tear down the innovations building for the Diaper Wash Water Play area, and at least the central axis and focus of the park will remain intact...
 
po1998

po1998

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The festival lovers are partly to blame for what is coming. Who needs attractions in the former communicore/innoventions areas, when its only purpose is to provide a pathway from SSE to WS aka EatDrinkShopWhoNeedsStupidAttractionsVille.
 
Timothy_Q

Timothy_Q

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po1998 said:
The festival lovers are partly to blame for what is coming. Who needs attractions in the former communicore/innoventions areas, when its only purpose is to provide a pathway from SSE to WS aka EatDrinkShopWhoNeedsStupidAttractionsVille.
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Who's to blame is Disney for not properly maintaining and expanding Epcot for a couple decades, and eventually being able to get guests to conform to the idea that Epcot was made solely for seasonal events.

WDW guests got used to the idea that parks don't need more than 10 rides because Disney made it so
 
michmousefan

michmousefan

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michmousefan said:
I understand & appreciate the symbolism of "different waters from all around the world" combining together into the fountain (that sentiment needed now more than ever), but remember that there are molecules of water from all of the world's bodies of water right there in that cup of water on your desk right now...

Wouldn't surprise me if when the Moana Water Journey is opened they resurrect that same dedication scheme.
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....aaand there you go. Water "recycling!"
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