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EPCOT Journey of Water featuring Moana coming to Epcot
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reptar77
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Yes, There are signs for dry walk way.
James Alucobond
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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.
Thank you!
Sir_Cliff
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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
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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
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TheMaxRebo
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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
No Name
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Moana has been watched more than any other movie over the last 4 years.
tpoly88
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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.Still can't get my head around this view being in EPCOT
lazyboy97o
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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.
So, it doesn't look like a construction zone?
flynnibus
Premium Member
‘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?
Animaniac93-98
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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?
Animaniac93-98
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Renaming all of Future World "World Discovery" would have made more sense than the 3 sub categories they chose.
"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?
flynnibus
Premium Member
You should rethink that post before you really let it sit.
James Alucobond
Well-Known Member
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.
World Nature (and Discovery, for that matter) is problematic because, from certain approaches, there is really no transition at all. It’s neither deft nor clumsy; it’s just nonexistent. I’m still a bit baffled that they’re not trying to pull Imagination into Nature. Without doing so, you end up with weird things like the World Nature bathrooms existing within World Celebration.
networkpro
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- In the Parks
- Yes
It beats hands down most of the splashed concrete sections of Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios when it comes to landscaping.