Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot

[raymusiccity]

seems like the pushed a speed button on a lot

i think it should be called 'Universal Studios' speed !!

 

[Patcheslee]

i think it should be called 'Universal Studios' speed !!

Hard to decide if the current negative publicity is pushing them to speed up so they can announce more things opening. Or if this was already planned.

 

[Stupido]

Hard to decide if the current negative publicity is pushing them to speed up so they can announce more things opening. Or if this was already planned.

I think it’s fair to say a bit of both? Construction seems to have been speeding up over the course of the past few months, but definitely stepped into over drive with all of the heat. I don’t blame them though, the best way to change the conversation is to give people something different to talk about. I’m assuming that’s why they released info about Mickey’s Not So Scary so early too. Id imagine the food booth menus for Food & Wine are right around the corner too.

 

[lazyboy97o]

We go through this with pretty much every project. There are parts of construction that result in more readily visible changes and people start telling themselves how Disney has decided to push it faster, that they’re somehow taking crews from other projects, etc. Then the work “slows down” as differences become less apparent and it’s a quest for answers as to why they decided to slow the work.

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Looks like a mess.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Look past the construction, looks like a whole lot of nothing is going on

Yes, I'm still curious to know what is actually going to be in between this and Connections/Creations. There's been an unusual amount of silence from both Disney and insiders as to whether they've actually figured out what to do with the centre of the park beyond what's already started or finished construction.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Looks like a mess.

Do you have pics of tidy construction sites?

 

[James Alucobond]

Yes, I'm still curious to know what is actually going to be in between this and Connections/Creations. There's been an unusual amount of silence from both Disney and insiders as to whether they've actually figured out what to do with the centre of the park beyond what's already started or finished construction.

I mean, they confirmed even after other cuts and pauses in work that Dreamers Point is still on, which represented the majority of what was going in the middle anyway. The other elements were mostly landscaping, a smaller fountain, and the wishing tree. We're obviously still getting landscaping; the other elements were so minor that they could entirely rework them and I doubt anyone would care. The festival area remains the biggest question mark in my mind.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

I mean, they confirmed even after other cuts and pauses in work that Dreamers Point is still on, which represented the majority of what was going in the middle anyway. The other elements were mostly landscaping, a smaller fountain, and the wishing tree. We're obviously still getting landscaping; the other elements were so minor that they could entirely rework them and I doubt anyone would care. The festival area remains the biggest question mark in my mind.

Oh that's right, they did reconfirm Dreamer's Point! I guess I am still curious as to how that whole space is going to be configured now that the festival center has been axed. So far, there's no indication they're doing any work on the other features so there's no sense of anything taking shape. I guess the Journey of Water is not supposed to open until 2023 anyway, so they have time.

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Do you have pics of tidy construction sites?

And it only took them a little over a year to build it. But maybe the water garden is more elaborate?

 

[MisterPenguin]

And it only took them a little over a year to build it. But maybe the water garden is more elaborate?

Okay...

 

[MisterPenguin]

I mean, they confirmed even after other cuts and pauses in work that Dreamers Point is still on, which represented the majority of what was going in the middle anyway. The other elements were mostly landscaping, a smaller fountain, and the wishing tree. We're obviously still getting landscaping; the other elements were so minor that they could entirely rework them and I doubt anyone would care. The festival area remains the biggest question mark in my mind.

I've haven't seen mention of the Wishing Tree for a long time. That and the entertainment / outdoor seating area seems to have been wished to the cornfield.

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Okay...

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Yup pretty clean foundation, howling was it like that, a few weeks, a month? Check the date on when this thread started, will the Water Journey be done by summer, fall, sometime in 2023?

 

[SplashJacket]

And it only took them a little over a year to build it. But maybe the water garden is more elaborate?

5 people died building the Empire State Building

 

[jaxonp]

5 people died building the Empire State Building

That was state of the art construction and the scope and scale for the time was uncharted. Sad but in reality it could have been much worse. Just recently, 100s died building the new airport in Istanbul.

 

[MisterPenguin]

That was state of the art construction and the scope and scale for the time was uncharted. Sad but in reality it could have been much worse. Just recently, 100s died building the new airport in Istanbul.

Most importantly, tho, is this: Did the construction zone look tidy or like a mess?

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Most importantly, tho, is this: Did the construction zone look tidy or like a mess?

If you match the timelines I bet it looked far less of a mess than this thing has. My comment was more I would have hoped it was further along at this point. So yeah it's a mess.

 

[DCBaker]

 

[HauntedPirate]

Rockwork? The price tag on this just jumped up $100 million.

 

[MrPromey]

Isn’t that what Innoventions was?

Well, that's how Innoventions ended up after they lost most of the sponsorships and Disney let it rot.

That sure isn't how it started, though.

So yeah, Disney appears to not be wasting any time on getting to the punchline on this one.