News Morocco Pavilion redevelopment

[UNCgolf]

My prediction is this will become one of the following:

A) Aladdin character dining
B) family style/ prix fixe menu
C) rentable meeting space/lounge
D)seasonally opened restaurant during peak periods (like for candlelight packages)
E) left to rot/become offices or a break room

As for merch locations Im guessing during Covid they are too hard to manage with multiple entrances/exits and small interiors, so maybe eventually they will rerun when it’s easier to operate. I’m a thinking there’s a lot of cross stock opportunities with merch from DAK.

I think it will continue to operate as a restaurant because they need the capacity. The World Showcase restaurants are mostly booked months out.

I don't expect it will be anything like the previous experience, though.

 

[larryz]

It's because the centerpiece tower of Morocco a replica of an Islamic prayer tower, and lighting it would be against Islamic tenets.

Really? this is the Blue Mosque in Istanbul...

And this is the Grand Mosque in Casablanca...

 

[UNCgolf]

Really? this is the Blue Mosque in Istanbul...
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And this is the Grand Mosque in Casablanca...
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I don't think it has anything to do with just lighting in general; it's more about the specific lights and/or their purpose.

I'm not claiming any specific knowledge, though. That's just my understanding of the situation with the Moroccan pavilion.

 

[peter11435]

Really? this is the Blue Mosque in Istanbul...
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And this is the Grand Mosque in Casablanca...
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And the Morocco pavilion is illuminated at night also. Including color washes on the structure during ROE. What it doesn’t have is popcorn lights adorning the structure and neither do the examples in your photos.

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

A mosque prayer tower in Morocco, a Stave Church in Norway, and Aztec (or is it Mayan) Temple in Mexico. What's next? Christ of the Andes statue in a Brazil Showcase?

 

[Movielover]

A mosque prayer tower in Morocco, a Stave Church in Norway, and Aztec (or is it Mayan) Temple in Mexico. What's next? Christ of the Andes statue in a Brazil Showcase?

Bob Chapek statue in the middle of World Showcase...

Oh looks like they already added it, my mistake!

 

[marni1971]

And the Morocco pavilion is illuminated at night also. Including color washes on the structure during ROE. What it doesn’t have is popcorn lights adorning the structure and neither do the examples in your photos.

This. It’s been illuminated during a show since 1996 as well as general night illumination.

You can illuminate it. Just can’t attach fixtures to it.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

No popcorn to maintain symmetry.

 

[DVCakaCarlF]

They are probably just working out an agreement with an operator.

 

[GimpYancIent]

A mosque prayer tower in Morocco, a Stave Church in Norway, and Aztec (or is it Mayan) Temple in Mexico. What's next? Christ of the Andes statue in a Brazil Showcase?

Why not?

 

[EPCOTCenterLover]

Exactly.

 

[MisterPenguin]

This. It’s been illuminated during a show since 1996 as well as general night illumination.

You can illuminate it. Just can’t attach fixtures to it.

Hmmm... So, lasers shining on it that simulates the popcorn lights would be OK?...

 

[marni1971]

Hmmm... So, lasers shining on it that simulates the popcorn lights would be OK?...

Projection mapping did cross my mind. Despite it not providing an actual source of illumination (cough Rise cough)

 

[peter11435]

No popcorn to maintain symmetry.

That’s Norway

 

[larryz]

And the Morocco pavilion is illuminated at night also. Including color washes on the structure during ROE. What it doesn’t have is popcorn lights adorning the structure and neither do the examples in your photos.

Popcorn lights, no, but (a) there are spots at levels on the minarets, and (b) he didn't say "popcorn lighting," he said "lighting."

 

[peter11435]

Popcorn lights, no, but (a) there are spots at levels on the minarets, and (b) he didn't say "popcorn lighting," he said "lighting."

No sense arguing semantics when it’s clear what was meant. The Morocco pavilion has lighting including “spots at levels.” The issue isn’t illuminating the structure the issue is decorating the structure.

 

[larryz]

No sense arguing semantics when it’s clear what was meant. The Morocco pavilion has lighting including “spots at levels.” The issue isn’t illuminating the structure the issue is decorating the structure.

Seriously, I don't think anyone's going to issue a fatwa against WDW for a few light bulbs on Morocco's tower. It's not part of an actual mosque.

Projection mapping did cross my mind. Despite it not providing an actual source of illumination (cough Rise cough)

I don't see any reason why they couldn't. For example, this is being projected on a REAL mosque...

 

[marni1971]

Seriously, I don't think anyone's going to issue a fatwa against WDW for a few light bulbs on Morocco's tower. It's not part of an actual mosque.



I don't see any reason why they couldn't. For example, this is being projected on a REAL mosque...

To give the illusion of popcorn lighting it wouldn’t even need to be projection mapped. More the older PICO projector effect.

 

[Bocabear]

Since it is not a real mosque and people don't go there to pray, they can do whatever they like with it...it is just a building.
It is just architecture that copies other architecture...
There are no actual consecrated temples in World Showcase....
You don't have to remove your hat to go into the Stave Church.... It is just a building...

 

[peter11435]

Seriously, I don't think anyone's going to issue a fatwa against WDW for a few light bulbs on Morocco's tower. It's not part of an actual mosque.

Sure they could do it. It’s not that they were tying to avoid a fatwa they are trying to be respectful of religion/culture.

Have you ever noticed what’s different about the figment painting in Morocco during the festival of the arts.