Enchantâmes
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Major Epcot Update: Kodak Out?
- Thread starter Thrill Seeker
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wolf359
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Both The Living Seas and Wonders of Life went through a lengthy, gradual deterioration after after the sponsors departed and the checks stopped coming.
I see a very real possibility that if Kodak IS out Disney will simply shutter the ride and run Captain EO as the only attraction in the pavilion, leaving the the Imagination rehab for a time where another sponsor gets onboard or Disney digs a little deeper and does the rehab themselves. Neither option sounds like something we should be holding our breath for.
I see a very real possibility that if Kodak IS out Disney will simply shutter the ride and run Captain EO as the only attraction in the pavilion, leaving the the Imagination rehab for a time where another sponsor gets onboard or Disney digs a little deeper and does the rehab themselves. Neither option sounds like something we should be holding our breath for.
Victoria
Not old, just vintage.
I don't think I could bring myself to set foot in Epcot again if that happened. Seriously. :zipit:
As for the possible departure of Kodak, I am still pretty skeptical on this one. Maybe it is just denial because I've seen what happens to attractions that lose their sponsors. It is practically a death sentence. If you think things are bad now you haven't seen anything yet if Imagination has to continue on without a sponsor.
A few years from now we could be looking back on these days and reminiscing about how good things were before the sponsor money disappeared. :lookaroun
While I can appreciate the concept of the imaginations of P&F fitting into JII, I think TDO would rather keep them in someplace like DHS, as a current member of the Disney Studios lineup. Just a hunch on my part.....
SMRT-1
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doubt it but might be something marvel. :zipit:
twilight mitsuk
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BTW, does kodak any part of hista or imagination institute
As promised, some pics of the now walled off Imageworks...
The windows looking into the loading station are blacked out
The previously shuttered giant camera display is now walled off
The funky picture machines are also walled off.
The windows looking into the loading station are blacked out
The previously shuttered giant camera display is now walled off
The funky picture machines are also walled off.
Rob562
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There's also the matter of a competitor sponsoring a major attraction under contract in the same park...
-Rob
Captain Neo
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The Dreamfinder is COMING
twilight mitsuk
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seems like DL's captain EO must have dropped sponsorship
Figment? He was in the finale of JIYI.
raven
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As promised, some pics of the now walled off Imageworks...
The windows looking into the loading station are blacked out
The previously shuttered giant camera display is now walled off
The funky picture machines are also walled off.
Is this the only area that's walled off? If so, that little show ended a while back and they were bound to take it out anyway.
dreamfinder
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I doubt it. They have enough money troubles without spending the type of cash to sponsor a pavilion. Toys R Us might have the cash, otherwise maybe look more to Mattel or Hasbro?
What does the size of their product base have to do with sponsoring a pavilion or attraction?
Not just that, but the picture makers are walled off and the printing stations have been removed.
He was very briefly. So brief in fact, that it was like he was never there...
RSoxNo1
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I believe there were two references to Figment. I think he had a sillouhette or outline or something as well.
JWG
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Color me as someone who sees this as not necessarily good.
Let's review sponsorless attractions at Epcot:
1) Universe of Energy (last update 1996)
2) Wonders of Life (shuttered)
3) The Land (neutral, but Lion King has been in that theater forever)
4) The Seas w/ Nemo (ok, updated, but poorly in my mind)
I haven't see the loss of sponsorship do much positive for any pavilion. Sure, now Disney doesn't need sponsor approval to make changes - but will they actually invest the $$'s on their own to do it right? I say no.
SSE is the only attraction to GET a sponsor recently and it's not even complete.
Let's review sponsorless attractions at Epcot:
1) Universe of Energy (last update 1996)
2) Wonders of Life (shuttered)
3) The Land (neutral, but Lion King has been in that theater forever)
4) The Seas w/ Nemo (ok, updated, but poorly in my mind)
I haven't see the loss of sponsorship do much positive for any pavilion. Sure, now Disney doesn't need sponsor approval to make changes - but will they actually invest the $$'s on their own to do it right? I say no.
SSE is the only attraction to GET a sponsor recently and it's not even complete.
