You are correct, thick ropes would be even worse.
Fall goes all the way up to December 20th. I assume they want to open everything together???? In the real world, The festival center could have been done last year.
Even when it is done, Journey of Water is a footpath that essentially goes nowhere. It is a loop completely disconnected from the rest of the central plaza.
They scaled the project back because Chapek wasn’t interested in building Iger’s vanity project and the pandemic had them reassessing expenses. There was no secret sponsor or some secret deadline to find a new one by this fall, especially since a big sponsor would want some sort of integration into the design.
Which would really make no sense if true since both the entrance and exit are facing The Living Seas and the center spine is intended to be hidden from view while inside.
Exactly. People want all or nothing. They would rather have everything open at once instead of just a single snippet which is why even though the moana attraction is built you will not be able to access it until all of the construction work around it is done. As for the sponsorship, that was merely theory but one thing I do know about disney and epcot is they love to have sponsors. The more the merrier and a big sponsorship always helps to defray costs. As for moana, I doubt there is a sponsorship but the rest of the stuff does make me wonder about that. The outdoor stage could be used for the usual stage acts but the indoor seems a lot more specific as if they already had something in mind. Doesn't surprise me though if cheap chappy didn't want to do Iger's project but then again that door seems to swing both ways for every CEO. One has a pet project and another would rather scale it back for something else.
The construction they are doing is so big though that they are treating this as one big project as opposed to a couple smaller projects hence why they are working on it in multiple parts but they will probably not open it all till the right time. To put this in food terms, they would rather give everyone all the food on the plate at once rather than give the steak first then after a few minutes add some carrots while you are eating the steak followed by mashed potatoes served last. That is why its all being done as one project. That is why its all one big construction site instead of multiple small ones with spaces inbetween.
but when the carrots and potatoes were finished a week ago and have since rotted in their bowls and the steak is beyond overdone waiting for the garnish...and the dinner guests have finally given up and went to McDonalds....
That is the thing about theme park attractions. They are like canned foods. Despite how ever long people wait for these attractions, when ever they come out they are a hit. That is why people are still willing to pay extra just to ride some rides despite the very long time it took for them to be made. Granted this will not be as popular as rise of the resistance but it certainly will serve a long term benefit that will probably be at least a decade or two until anything major replaces it.
That's literally not how they've done anything else with this redo of Epoct.
I just can't wait for people to wind all the way through this wonderfully themed queue only to be confused about where the boat ride is they were in line for that they heard was announced at D23 a "year or two ago".*
Those were different smaller projects that had no connection to the main construction site. The smaller stuff was finished first because it was an easy project to finish quickly. The main project in the center area required multiple demos as well as a complete replacement of an antiquated plumbing system that had been around since the early days of epcot. All that has been completely torn out and redone. The whole thing is a completely new setup that would take years to construct unlike those other projects which could be completed a lot sooner.
Literally none of this has been finished quickly.
Sponsorship offset design and construction costs by being there near the beginning of the project.
You keep adding covid to the equation despite the fact that construction was significantly delayed or in some cases completely stopped due to covid. If you don't include covid as part of the time frame for this constructions its been a lot faster than it could have been. Those areas once again as I explained are not directly connected to the project in the middle. The project in the middle will take a lot longer due to all the requirements tied to the construction. No amount of complaining about it taking too long can change that. You can't make a seed turn into a tree simply by yelling at it to grow faster. As for the moana, they are again delaying it because its part of the construction site. Sure it may be just a small part of it but if you know anything about disney you know they do not like to release an area half finished unless there is a benefit for doing so. Opening that area right now serves no benefit hence the delay.
That is why I had the theory about the sponsorship. The way things were planned before covid hence there were grander ideas but alas covid has changed a lot of things and left many companies struggling to justify expenditures that may not bring a good return on investment. As for the building being solely a meet and greet, I sadly have to agree that eventually it could devolve into that but curiously enough disney has already created a lot of meet and greets but lately many stand abandoned compared to how they use to be. While meet and greets are still one of disney's many attractions, they are not nearly as potent in their draw potential as they use to be.
Lord knows why they pick the promotional pictures they do, but at least thus far, the fencing doesn't look that plentiful. In the image below, aside from the bridges marked as A, B, and C, the only fencing I'm detecting at the moment is noted with dashed lines. The photo you posted seems to have been taken from somewhere near the x.I thought for sure thechain-linkrope netting fence was temporary, as part of ongoing construction safety rules.
But then I read the various posts on it, and the fence is staying? This is done? You stand in front of achain-linkrope netting fence and watch water splash onto rocks?
That makes no sense from an entertainment perspective. This can't really be the final product as one of the major scenes of this thing.
It can't just be this. Seriously.
