Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot

[Incomudro]

I really just want to know if I’m going to need to bring a change of clothes for my kids

Not unless you have trouble keeping them out of all of the other water around the parks.

 

[Incomudro]

There's already a jumping fountain at Imagination. This is new?

There's already a: Dark ride, boat ride, roller coaster, restaurant...
Yeah, this is new.

 

[Goofnut1980]

Good luck the fountains working in 3 years. lol they will become planters.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

So much for the 'thematic fit" of having a water path that leads to the Living Seas.

Without an entrance on the other side, this thing seems like it's going to be a roadblock (maybe no less than an abandoned Innoventions building) and a big patch of nothingness to walk past from the center spine. Honestly, it feels like they're essentially abandoning the concept of the center spine with all of this.

Oh wait, I forgot about the attraction-less Dreamer's Point...

At least Epcot will have their own fireworks bypass exit, now.

If only they'd fix the fireworks show...

Yes, the whole rationale according to which people (including, I admit, myself) thought it would make sense in the context of and possibly make a decent addition to the spine of Epcot seems not to have been the case. Interesting.

 

[MrPromey]

Oh I didn’t notice that. Well that’s dumb. I’m back to thinking they’re clueless fools.

There's always the chance the concept art is wrong but it does appear to be a closed loop with its back against the spine that they're trying to push as a standalone walk-through attraction rather than an open enviorment with multiple entrance/exits.

 

[MrPromey]

Yes, the whole rationale according to which people (including, I admit, myself) thought it would make sense in the context of and possibly make a decent addition to the spine of Epcot seems not to have been the case. Interesting.

I think we all (well, most of us anyway) expected that.

It still felt like a stretch to me but would have at least made a bit of sense.

I wonder if that's something that changed after the initial announcement or if we were all just believing what we wanted to since the start.

 

[No Name]

There's always the chance the concept art is wrong but it does appear to be a closed loop with its back against the spine that they're trying to push as a standalone walk-through attraction rather than an open enviorment with multiple entrance/exits.

Yeah, now it’s clear they’re trying to push this “World Nature” thing as it’s own blob-shaped land, completely asymmetrical from the macaroni-shaped World Discovery. I think we can be forgiven for not expecting this considering the original announcements told a different story and I wonder when/why that part of the plan changed.

 

[James Alucobond]

Oh I didn’t notice that. Well that’s dumb. I’m back to thinking they’re clueless fools.

I think it makes sense with the other changes. It was a bit more sensible to have it open to the other side when all of the west area was more organic, but with them reverting to the more classic layout, I think this was the way to go.

 

[jaxonp]

Seems like the idea is to keep people in this area of the park. It’s been 20 years since anyone hung out in the heart of the park. The “festival center/box” thing looks to be a way to keep people in the area with outside shows / meet and greets etc

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Yeah, now it’s clear they’re trying to push this “World Nature” thing as it’s own blob-shaped land, completely asymmetrical from the macaroni-shaped World Discovery. I think we can be forgiven for not expecting this considering the original announcements told a different story and I wonder when/why that part of the plan changed.

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Thanks for re-posting that, as I can see we didn't completely imagine it would have a path from the central spine and seem more like a series of twisting paths rather than the sealed-off attraction it has now become.

I guess I do understand making it more explicitly part of World Nature if they are trying to make the new neighbourhoods concept work.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Yeah, now it’s clear they’re trying to push this “World Nature” thing as it’s own blob-shaped land, completely asymmetrical from the macaroni-shaped World Discovery. I think we can be forgiven for not expecting this considering the original announcements told a different story and I wonder when/why that part of the plan changed.

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People have been warned for years now that they were projecting way too much into Evolving Epcot.

 

[UNCgolf]

Having it be a one entrance/one exit walkthrough feels like a poor decision, but maybe that's because I'm still thinking about it as just a water/greenery area connecting areas of the park the way it was originally sold.

It sounds like they intend it to have a specific progression from beginning to end, in which case the one entrance/one exit makes more sense.

 

[wdwmagic]

Imagineer Zach Riddley provides an update on EPCOT's 'Journey of Water - Inspired by Moana'​

Imagineer Zach Riddley provides an update on EPCOT's 'Journey of Water - Inspired by Moana'

Learn more about the new EPCOT walk-through experience that tells the story of the global cycle of water.

www.wdwmagic.com

 

[NelsonRD]

Please stop using the word "Historic" to describe every change.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Having it be a one entrance/one exit walkthrough feels like a poor decision, but maybe that's because I'm still thinking about it as just a water/greenery area connecting areas of the park the way it was originally sold.

It sounds like they intend it to have a specific progression from beginning to end, in which case the one entrance/one exit makes more sense.

Yeah, I kind of feel that if it is a more linear interactive trail, maybe this is a better way of doing it. At least it seals it off from the central spine and keeps it as an attraction for World Nature. I guess it also kind of fleshes out that neighbourhood a little if Imagination is migrating to World Celebration.

Must say, guests rounding SSE on that side will find themselves in a veritable forest. From the looks of it, all you'll see as you round the bend on that side beyond SSE and Earth Station is trees, trees, and more trees!

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Please stop using the word "Historic" to describe every change.

In fairness, this change is "Historic". Just not in the way they think.

 

[mightynine]

Imagineer Zach Riddley provides an update on EPCOT's 'Journey of Water - Inspired by Moana'​

Imagineer Zach Riddley provides an update on EPCOT's 'Journey of Water - Inspired by Moana'

Learn more about the new EPCOT walk-through experience that tells the story of the global cycle of water.

www.wdwmagic.com

Currently, our Walt Disney Imagineering team is hard at work preparing the site and developing all the details that will give form to this new experience.

Translation: "Look, even we don't know what the heck's going in this thing."

 

[ppete1975]

sounds like a huge bottleneck... just as i said when it started

 

[britain]

There's already a jumping fountain at Imagination. This is new?

For now.

They're taking the most popular aspect of the current Imagination Pavilion and building it bigger and better. Which frees up the old version for destruction.

 

[Schmidt]

That was never a problem when you had multiple pavilions offering hour-long worth of things to do in AC space.

I'll say it. For me Old school Epcot was boring as heck. With that said I get the love for the old park.
I personally think time and today's consumer don't appreciate that kind of experience like it was in the 80's.

That was never a problem when you had multiple pavilions offering hour-long worth of things to do in AC space.

Yeah but boredom was!