EPCOT Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot

CastAStone

CastAStone

5th gate? Just build a new resort Bob.
doctornick said:
I think the bigger point is to whether that symmetry was aesthetically pleasing from ground level. I can understand how the symmetry was satisfying when looking at the map or with overhead photos but I’m not sure it really has an impact to guests in the park. YYMV
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The point I would make is that the central area was obviously a circle (especially obvious with the checkerboard-bullseye canopy), but it wasn’t obviously symmetrical, with the Fountain View bump out and the horrible multi-colored paint on the roof line creating a lot of visual chaos.

I imagine it was more symmetrical in 1991 but I don’t really have any memories of that specific area on my 1993 trip.

The inside of communicore, yes, the outside, no.
 
uncle jimmy

uncle jimmy

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MisterPenguin said:
Future World had 3 pavilions on one side and 4 (5 if you count Odyssey) on the other. That anti-symmetry was enough to justify burning the whole park to the ground. With that imbalance, no wonder why Horizons fell into that sinkhole!!
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I'ma little late to this Epcot symmetry thing, but wasn't it suppose to be the right and left side of the brain, from above it looked like the brain?
 
MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

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uncle jimmy said:
I'ma little late to this Epcot symmetry thing, but wasn't it suppose to be the right and left side of the brain, from above it looked like the brain?
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Well, then, the left hemisphere would be missing a lobe with the 3 v. 4 pavilion asymmetry.

The left v. right brain thing is a myth. While certain parts of the brain do have dedicated tasks, there's no science to show that an entire hemisphere is dedicated to creativity and the other is analytic and that one being dominant over the other determines your personality.

I read once someone debunking that left v. right theory about Epcot buying into that brain myth. But, that person could be wrong and indeed the imagineers of the time believed in the left/right dichotomy.

The funny thing is that, on the Internet, you'll see that everyone point out the layout of the paths is 'proof' of that intentional left v. right design.

One would think the pavilions should have also fallen into that dichotomy, but they don't. It's clear that The Land and The Seas isn't about someone being "creative." It's about exploring the natural world, which requires analytic observation and discovery. Only Imagination would work under the left/right scheme.

The better explanation for the meandering paths in the West is that they were made to more organic, like Nature, as a nod to Seas and Land. Not because someone was super artsy and couldn't walk a straight line because of how creative they were.
 
DreamfinderGuy

DreamfinderGuy

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MisterPenguin said:
The funny thing is that, on the Internet, you'll see that everyone point out the layout of the paths is 'proof' of that intentional left v. right design.
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Disney themselves has done that too. They posted about it on their now long dead Twitter account, and I'm pretty sure that even made it into the Imagineer's Guide to EPCOT book. Though that was the same book that referred to the Fountain of Nations by the wrong name so it doesn't exactly have much standing power.
 

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