‘World nature’ - a new made up overlaid name that has no real visual or emotional connection for guests… and what even establishes it within the park? Can anyone even tell if they are in world nature vs somewhere else?
"Because the map says so" is the only way you know you've moved from Tomorrowland into Fantasyland, or, from Liberty Square to Frontierland.Nothing in the last 5 years has changed the scale, colour or spatial relation between Imagination and The Land, but now they are in two different themed lands because the current map says so.
Maybe they'll do what they did with New Fantasyland and put up a literal wall between areas?
You should rethink that post before you really let it sit.
I would agree that they make little sense as a comparison. Liberty Square to Frontierland is intentionally subtle and elegantly executed, and there is thoughtful placemaking relative to the Rivers of America. The ability to take everything in simultaneously and have it look cohesive was a conscious choice. Tomorrowland to Fantasyland, on the other hand, is an obvious stylistic transition but a bit clumsy and abrupt without 20k Leagues.
I might be wrong on this, but doesn't she actually have relatively quick utilidor access via this path?
The trash cans' color.
That’s what I’d call a problem. In order to switch actresses, the onstage Moana has to leave her meet and greet, clearly in view and walk down to that stair, then, only after she has clearly entered the backstage space can the next Moana come out on stage and proceed to the meet and greet. That’s a process despite being nestled into an otherwise backstage space. Think of something like the Main Street Theater or Royal Summerhus where there are multiple rooms. That could have been done with rock work and landscaping to create “rooms” and the ability to have multiple meet and greets. Even for just one meet and greet it would have been possible to at least be able to rotate through cast without guests seeing it occur.
Right, which is why I agreed with the assessment that, considering that it is new construction, it does look thrown together.
It certainly could have been done, but I guess I just fail to see why that's much of a problem. Relatively speaking, it's a short walk, and I feel like I see tons of M&Gs walk into position in EPCOT, sometimes over much greater distances.
<sits down to consider the complete lack of functional transition in between Speedway and Tea Cups, or the fact that a Mississippi Steamboat is docked in Liberty Square...>
That's because the front half of Epcot is not made up of lands. It was never designed to be lands. It was designed to include extremely large, impressive, pavilions.. with the theming beginning inside those pavilions. Not the land it is surrounded in.
I agree the three neighborhood distinction is laborious.
but "World Celebration" sounds too much like World Showcase... isn't that what World Showcase is? a celebration around the world? I think all of the names were too contrived and felt designed by committee... The three "neighborhoods" just feels ridiculous especially since one of the three pavilions in a row is not part of that neighborhood... It is just feels poorly thought out.
World Discovery has the same problem. As well as World Plaza. And World's Fair. And World Nature.
