Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot

[wdwmagic]

Is the Moana Meet and Greet spot permanent? I can appreciate the addition but it appears hastily thrown together and incomplete. There's no set design or place-making. Any chance they can give her some props? A Hei-Hei animatronic perched on a rock that she can converse with? Something.

It is a permanent addition.

 

[culturenthrills]

That meet and greet is going to be awful during the summer.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

JoW virtual queue still open - 5+ hour wait though

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Is the Moana Meet and Greet spot permanent? I can appreciate the addition but it appears hastily thrown together and incomplete. There's no set design or place-making. Any chance they can give her some props? A Hei-Hei animatronic perched on a rock that she can converse with? Something.

This looks hastily thrown together to you?

 

[jeanericuser001]

Desperation must be very high for a huge virtual que just for this. Are people that desperate just to look at some tafitis and maybe get wet? hehe

 

[lazyboy97o]

This looks hastily thrown together to you?

Yes. It’s a big open space and shade sail. Don’t let the rock work fool you. It is completely devoid of the operational features that Disney typically incorporates into dedicated meet and greet spaces.

 

[Nunu]

Quick question to those who've been/know:

Is it possible to walk through this, without getting wet?

TIA.

 

[reptar77]

Quick question to those who've been/know:

Is it possible to walk through this, without getting wet?

TIA.

Yes, There are signs for dry walk way.

 

[James Alucobond]

Yes. It’s a big open space and shade sail. Don’t let the rock work fool you. It is completely devoid of the operational features that Disney typically incorporates into dedicated meet and greet spaces.

Do we not think some of that might be added to the left of the shade structure once they close the backstage corridor? There's a short retaining wall that continues back a bit from the rockwork behind the M&G that makes me think it'll contain a queuing alcove or something. The current situation with the closed-off shortcut looks exceedingly annoying at the moment.

 

[Nunu]

Yes, There are signs for dry walk way.

Thank you!

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Yes. It’s a big open space and shade sail. Don’t let the rock work fool you. It is completely devoid of the operational features that Disney typically incorporates into dedicated meet and greet spaces.

Fair enough! I'm not huge on meet and greets, so I may just not have noticed what those spaces tend to include. Most of my memories of actually meeting characters involve standing in front of some area in the parks perhaps under a shelter.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Quick question to those who've been/know:

Is it possible to walk through this, without getting wet?

TIA.

Yes, as indicated there is a dry path, but you won't be able to participate in all of the interactive elements if you want to stay complete dry as some of them require you running your hands through water

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Fair enough! I'm not huge on meet and greets, so I may just not have noticed what those spaces tend to include. Most of my memories of actually meeting characters involve standing in front of some area in the parks perhaps under a shelter.

Some definitely are a random spot in the park where they place the character - a lot of the World Showcase meet and greets are like that and many outdoor ones

This feels like a themed area that they put the character meet at, but not something specifically built for the character

Unlike, say, Sorcerer Mickey in DHS which was purpose built for the character meet

 

[Indy_UK]

This area looks like a real thing of beauty with Spaceship earth in the background. something I never though I would say about Epcot back in 2017

 

[tparris]

Around 8pm tonight, the virtual queue boarding groups concluded and JoW is now open to just walk in

 

[No Name]

The educational aspect is good buy they should really just drop the whole Moana thing. What I want to know is Moana and Princess and the frog really that wildly popular that they need to shove it in our face everywhere we walk?

Moana has been watched more than any other movie over the last 4 years.

 

[tpoly88]

Still can't get my head around this view being in EPCOT

Im not going to pass judgment until i have had a chance to walk through but just looking at this from the photos it does not seem to fit into the center of Epcot. The photos look beautiful but looks like this should have replaced Tom Sawyer island or be at Animal kingdom. i guess from going to Epcot from the 80's i still have that this is future world in my mind.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Do we not think some of that might be added to the left of the shade structure once they close the backstage corridor? There's a short retaining wall that continues back a bit from the rockwork behind the M&G that makes me think it'll contain a queuing alcove or something. The current situation with the closed-off shortcut looks exceedingly annoying at the moment.

It’s not just the lack of a queue but also around Moana herself. There’s no ability to have simultaneous meet and greets as is done with other popular characters in dedicated spaces. Nor is there really the ability for Moana to dip backstage and quickly switch actresses so that they can run meet and greets continuously throughout the day.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Im not going to pass judgment until i have had a chance to walk through but just looking at this from the photos it does not seem to fit into the center of Epcot.

So, it doesn't look like a construction zone?

 

[flynnibus]

The attraction does integrate well into world nature and EPCOT as a whole.

‘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?