News New Park Entrance coming to Epcot

[Animaniac93-98]

Disney has heard you all loud and clear and will go even more retro in honor of the 50th!View attachment 351949

Looks like an improvement to me.

 

[Clamman73]

Disney has heard you all loud and clear and will go even more retro in honor of the 50th!View attachment 351949

At least we can go back to Discovery Island.

 

[VJ]

Likewise, if the park ever gets that name change/update, I'm sure there's going to be a big ol' "Disney's" at the beginning of it.

Disney adds Disney/Disney's when the park name itself (Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, California Adventure, etc) is too generic, so that the name can be copyrighted. I'm not sure EPCOT/Epcot/EPCOT Center could be considered a generic name.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Disney adds Disney/Disney's when the park name itself (Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, California Adventure, etc) is too generic, so that the name can be copyrighted. I'm not sure EPCOT/Epcot/EPCOT Center could be considered a generic name.

It's litterally invented by Disney. You cannot get more "Disney".

 

[VJ]

It's litterally invented by Disney. You cannot get more "Disney".

exactly why "Disney's Epcot" would be both stupid and nonsensical (and why i believe [or hope] even Disney is smart enough not to go in that direction)

 

[phi2134]

Cough.

Should we be excited for that mysterious brown box in the back right next to imagination...or its inclusion in the art just noise?

 

[britain]

I’m interested in the idea of projection mapped lighting in SSE. And not in a lazy “show movie clips” sort of way.

What if each triangle of SSE’s surface was treated as if it were UoE’s Radok panels? The surface periodically “flipping and shuffling” from one color to another?

 

[FerretAfros]

Disney adds Disney/Disney's when the park name itself (Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, California Adventure, etc) is too generic, so that the name can be copyrighted. I'm not sure EPCOT/Epcot/EPCOT Center could be considered a generic name.

10 of Disney's 12 parks worldwide include "Disney" somewhere in the name. Both waterparks have it. All 4 golf courses have it. The shopping district was recently renamed to push the "Disney" to the front. All the hotels have it, which always makes for entertaining signs at the park bus loops:

Epcot and the Magic Kingdom are only outliers worldwide (along with a few other odd ducks, like the Transportation & Ticket Center and Fantasia Gardens, but oddly not Disney's Winter Summerland). They're holdovers from an earlier era, when the company didn't feel the need to constantly slap its name on things to remind people how vast its reaches are, and when being "Disney" meant something very different from what it does today.

The work spoke for itself, was successful on its own merits, and expanded people's views of what the company was capable of. Modern Disney constantly relies on branding, nostalgia, and repetition of the same handful of stories and characters to draw people in, creating an increasingly narrow definition of what it means to be "Disney."

Honestly, I'm surprised "Disney" hasn't been added to the park names already. If/when Epcot gets renamed, I fully expect it will be included somewhere in there.

 

[note2001]

Omg... you know what this means?

Spoiler

They're going to power wash the monorail beams!

 

[NelsonRD]

Currently demo. There’s a reason the SSE refurb will take so long.

This is a complete spine redesign.

Does that reason include an expansion to SSE?

 

[articos]

The brown box has to be outside the monorail brim...

The entry plaza looks amazing (minus character topiaries)

It is. Any single character topiaries or scenes will blend in. Within the green entry plaza, it won’t stand out as much as I think people are worried about.

Remember, this is concept art. Don’t read in too much on trees or lack thereof.

 

[Smooth]

Where are all the strollers in the concept art?

 

[jt04]

Maybe brown box is ON the beam and the new Epcot station is INSIDE the park?

For some reason I speculated they would have to reverse the direction of the monorail for it to be effective. Drop off in the park and boarding at the front of the park. Long time ago. But it would be cool.

 

[HMF]

Hopefully the new monolith (I think it's a fountain) might bring back the color changing lights at night. Along with bringing back the color changes on SSE.

My understanding is and Martin feel free to correct me if i am wrong is they set SSE to one night color scheme so it wouldn't detract from the wand and simply never re-activated the changing colors after the wand came down.

 

[Gabe1]

That’s because your feet are stuck to the floor.

POST OF THE DAY

 

[ChrisFL]

I believe there were topiaries around the area that the parking lot tram turns around...back in the late 80's and early 90's

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Please explain how a 'garden' setting to the entrance will bring more to your experience than two new attractions. How long do you spend in the entrance area that this is the 'best news ever'?

The entrance setting serves the same function as the now destroyed MK hub once did. It is the place where I linger the most, swooning over the park icon, pondering my love for the place, falling in love with it.

Five minutes of staring at SSE is infinitely more important to my experience than a superhero coaster.

 

[marni1971]

Maybe brown box is ON the beam and the new Epcot station is INSIDE the park?

New Epcot station?

 

[Jambo Joe]

I'm NOT judging. I'm just expressing that the other things that have already been rumored and announced are far better and more important news than an entrance garden. My point was the overreaction to how great this was.

Honestly - which would you rather have?
GotG or entrance garden?
Rat or entrance garden?
UK ride or entrance garden?
Brazil or entrance garden?
SSE reimagining or entrance garden?
Central plaza/spine or entrance garden?

Yes, it will look nicer, and it will be an improvement. But to say that the new entrance will add more to your day at Epcot than any of the things listed just isn't true. You might not like the 'IPs', but I absolutely guarantee that every single person will spend more time on those IP attractions than in the entrance plaza.

Heck, the 'play pavilion' enhances Epcot more than the entrance.

And going by the zoom and enhance pictures one post up, there are IP topiaries. Does that mean you hate this now because of the IP?

Dude give it a rest.

 

[rle4lunch]

New Epcot station?

Nonsense