Appreciate it. You’re always on top of it with the old schematics. I’m a child of the original EPCOT Center (I was 5 in ‘82) and while I have fond memories of the park as it was originally conceived those details seem to escape the mind as time rolls by.
i think that photo is flipped....
Sorry- did not see your comment. You're right, Disney does water, as well as rockwork, very well. I have high hopes for this and am looking forward to it. They do have a track record of cheaping out, and that concerns me. I'd love to see more water features in the parks!
Feel free to tear into me...
How I wish I could have experienced this EPCOT...
I want to go to there
I know I'm opening myself to being called a heretic or whatever, but I don't really see what is so amazing about those images. I mean, they look pleasant enough but to me it's just some curved bodies of water next to some lawn. I know I often don't really "get" design elements that some on here either praise or rant about but the Moana area with waterfalls and gushers and rockwork looks far more interesting to me (assuming that it ends up anything like the artwork).
I feel like if Disney put of concept art like the above two pictures today people would complain that some Holiday Inn down the street has better water features.
I did...For me 1980’s Epcot was BORING as a kid. I’m sure my appreciation for it now would be different.
Fully half that photo is concrete, and guests are viewing the "lovely, lush, water based landscaping" from afar, as if it were a komodo dragon. That's a perfect depiction of what I felt was wrong with the spine of EPCOT since the beginning and exactly what they're finally going to be fixing. I want it to be a park, not the campus of some kind of institute.
I agree. What I hear in those comments is just a lot of pining for the past. But to be fair, maybe they really do prefer what they're expressing appreciation for. Others, like myself, simply don't like what they like and like what they vociferously hate. Luckily, things are trending our way.
Because that is, indeed, how "they" respond to people who have a different perspective from them. Sad.
The artwork is B-E-A-utiful. However, there is approximately 0% chance it looks anything like the Concept art. It's just not even possible.I know I'm opening myself to being called a heretic or whatever, but I don't really see what is so amazing about those images. I mean, they look pleasant enough but to me it's just some curved bodies of water next to some lawn. I know I often don't really "get" design elements that some on here either praise or rant about but the Moana area with waterfalls and gushers and rockwork looks far more interesting to me (assuming that it ends up anything like the artwork).
I feel like if Disney put of concept art like the above two pictures today people would complain that some Holiday Inn down the street has better water features.
I look forward to railing and curbs everywhere because I'm sure legal would love to allow direct access to a body of water, regardless of how deep it is.
For me, 1980s EPCOT Center was amazing, as a kid. I liked it more than MK (and don't get me wrong, I loved MK).
I'm right there with you. I was 15 on my first trip in 1987, and while I was absolutely enchanted by MK, EPCOT literally blew my mind away.
The 1980s ponds aren't meant to draw attention to themselves, they are more a part of a tableau. What's amazing about them is that they are complementary to the architecture, which allows the architecture to shine even better; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.I know I'm opening myself to being called a heretic or whatever, but I don't really see what is so amazing about those images. I mean, they look pleasant enough but to me it's just some curved bodies of water next to some lawn. I know I often don't really "get" design elements that some on here either praise or rant about but the Moana area with waterfalls and gushers and rockwork looks far more interesting to me (assuming that it ends up anything like the artwork).
I feel like if Disney put of concept art like the above two pictures today people would complain that some Holiday Inn down the street has better water features.
