Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot

UNCgolf

UNCgolf

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dreday3 said:
I'm struggling to understand what ride they can do today about the future that won't be dated within a year. That was my whole point, the future didn't come as quickly in 1983 as it does today. And Horizons was about the future. Sure the sentiment was a great big beautiful tomorrow, but it was about the future.

Perhaps they could do a ride based on space and I don't mean a thrill ride. Perhaps something like what it would be like to visit other planets, other atmospheres. Like the Cosmos tv show?

But I still don't think kids today are going to ask their parents to go to Epcot so they can ride the latest ominmover ride if it's not either tied to an already popular IP (which I thought everyone hated?) or if it's not a thrill ride. :)
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Well, think about it -- most of the future living concepts from Horizons don't even exist now, nearly 40 years later. It was a very 1980s look at future living, but the concepts themselves still haven't been realized with a few exceptions (like the video chat).

They could do an updated space station, a colony on Mars, and even just a futurist planned green city on Earth with arcologies or something like that -- all things that are likely still decades away.

I agree that it wouldn't be an easily advertised marketing tool, but that's true of a lot of attractions. If it's a great attraction, people will want to go back to ride it again once they've been on it. Current Disney isn't going to build something like that, though, so it's a moot point -- I just personally wish they would, because it would make me a lot more interested in going back to WDW than most of what they've built in the past few years.
 
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crazy4disney

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aladdin2007 said:
Agree. I still say this (moana water) would have been great at Animal Kingdom, but plopped into the middle of Epcot just shows how misguided and lost imagineering and corporate is. They also keep talking like its some big ride or great thing. I dont get what they are smoking anymore.
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Are kids which im assuming is the target audience for this attraction really going to be excited to walk through this and experience it… im sure this may be something you check out but i cant see this being a big hit or something a kid is gonna rush to go back and do…
 
mikejs78

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crazy4disney said:
Are kids which im assuming is the target audience for this attraction really going to be excited to walk through this and experience it… im sure this may be something you check out but i cant see this being a big hit or something a kid is gonna rush to go back and do…
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We always talk about having smaller-scale attractions to offset the big E-Tickets. Yet Disney creates a smaller-level attraction and...?
 
yensidtlaw1969

yensidtlaw1969

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lazyboy97o said:
They have Moana / Star Wars / Marvel / Whatever in the palms of their hand, literally, already.
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Additionally, it's worth noting that for some of those things the better version exists on their phones, too. It seems all too clear that what they're building in the corner of Future World will not be a better experience than just watching Moana the movie.
 
Communicora

Communicora

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yensidtlaw1969 said:
Additionally, it's worth noting that for some of those things the better version exists on their phones, too. It seems all too clear that what they're building in the corner of Future World will not be a better experience than just watching Moana the movie.
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This is a rather weird and extreme take when we still don’t know that much about it.
 
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crazy4disney

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mikejs78 said:
We always talk about having smaller-scale attractions to offset the big E-Tickets. Yet Disney creates a smaller-level attraction and...?
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Oh dont get me wrong. I think they 100% need to add smaller additions but again worthy smaller additions not the anything us better than nothing motto…. I dk why they couldnt have some smaller ride Moana themed or heck a similar show like TLM…. I just dont see a walk thru being a hit with kids… my opinion.
 
ppete1975

ppete1975

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When this is all said and done I would be curious if all the ground work and construction costs if we could have gotten an actual A to C ride that would have actually helped with the crowds.
 
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UpAllNight

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This is one of those things that should be put down as a general area enhancement and they should absolutely stop hyping it as an attraction.

I feel it's the gradual teasing which is actually annoying people and opening it up to ridicule more than the actual area, which seems pleasant enough.

It's the kind of thing they should just open quietly, but will instead tease for months, gathering fake attention, and giving it a 7 minute slot at D23.

Stop being pathetic Disney. Open the thing. People will enjoy it, but probably not care for the fake hype.
 
yensidtlaw1969

yensidtlaw1969

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Communicora said:
This is a rather weird and extreme take when we still don’t know that much about it.
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Not really - The odds seem pretty low that anyone who loves the movie and the character would prefer to walk around a fountain-filled grotto for 10 minutes than just watch the decently epic movie whose name is on the sign. Which is a shame, because it should be more exciting to experience something in person. And I say that as someone who counts more than a few walkthroughs among their favorite attractions.

We don't know everything about Journey of Water, but we know a pretty good amount. Enough to know better than to expect it's hiding any real, major surprises. The biggest question mark is whether or not Moana herself will be there signing autographs.
 
HauntedPirate

HauntedPirate

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dreday3 said:
I'm struggling to understand what ride they can do today about the future that won't be dated within a year. That was my whole point, the future didn't come as quickly in 1983 as it does today. And Horizons was about the future. Sure the sentiment was a great big beautiful tomorrow, but it was about the future.

Perhaps they could do a ride based on space and I don't mean a thrill ride. Perhaps something like what it would be like to visit other planets, other atmospheres. Like the Cosmos tv show?

But I still don't think kids today are going to ask their parents to go to Epcot so they can ride the latest ominmover ride if it's not either tied to an already popular IP (which I thought everyone hated?) or if it's not a thrill ride. :)
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*Sigh*

"It's always fun looking back at tomorrow" - Horizons

It was never about "the future", but how "the future" was viewed in the past. I'm not in the mood to give a history lesson on EPCOT Center, so let's just drop it entirely.
 
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dreday3

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HauntedPirate said:
*Sigh*

"It's always fun looking back at tomorrow" - Horizons

It was never about "the future", but how "the future" was viewed in the past.
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Don't sigh at me. So condescending.

I was on the ride the year it opened and it stayed with me all this time. For me, as a child, it was about the future. I was in awe of what could happen.

I don't care what it was for you.

Oh and thanks for adding to your original post, but I don't need your lesson on Epcot center.
You can feel good about being so knowledgeable on the history of Epcot and being snide and I'll just feel good about enjoying myself when I visit the park.
 
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