News New Park Entrance coming to Epcot

[Castle Cake Apologist]

I liked the hand and the wand, if it had just been that I would have been OK with it staying. My deal breaker was the scattering of stars not attached to the wand but, directly attached on SSE. That part just seemed like a cheapening of SSE. I felt that there were so many people that really thought that Epcot was not part of Disney (not to bright, I'll admit) that Mickey's hand holding the wand connected Epcot to WDW for them and sort of gave it a feeling of fun, not just "serious" topics within. That said, I personally don't miss it all that much. The hat to me would have probably been alright near the entrance, but, it was an eyesore where it was and worse, what it was. Just a pin store.

Yeah, the hat should have never been put in place as the park icon. I liked the structure (especially at night), but the placement was just terrible. Completely out of place and out of scale.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Yeah, the hat should have never been put in place as the park icon. I liked the structure (especially at night), but the placement was just terrible. Completely out of place and out of scale.

The reality was that the Hat was never put there to be an Icon, it was to celebrate Walt Disney's 100th birthday. It was supposed to come down after the year, at least that is what everyone was told. The hand and wand was there to celebrate Y2K. I hated how it looked with the numbers 2000 on it. The type style of the 2000 just didn't fit the display. When they took out the number and replaced it with Epcot the lettering was in the proper proportion with the hand and wand.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Where are they going to put up all the super-sized "50ths"?

 

[solidyne]

Where are they going to put up all the super-sized "50ths"?

Cue the humorous photoshops...

 

[MisterPenguin]

Cue the humorous photoshops...

You're to blame...

 

[jt04]

Wand watch won. Hat a close second.

Literally my reaction to the wand thread

 

[JenniferS]

You're to blame...

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Fake news. I still see the tombstones.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Fake news. I still see the tombstones.

They're being put back. They all say: "th".

 

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

Hard to decide, Leave A Legacy lasted much longer than the Sorcerer Hat.

Or as I called it ...

Pluto’s Lift-a-leg Acy

 

[DisneyGentlemanV2.0]

They could just paint it and it would probably last the few short months until 5hey tear it up again.

Looks so bad having these big white splotches like something is missing.

Addition by subtraction.

 

[Figment82]

Wand watch ‘07 totally wins. I took photos every single day documenting the progress - even made a small time lapse video:


I literally shed tears of joy when it was finally gone and the crane was removed.

 

[n2hifi]

I take pride in knowing that I probably got the first photos of this (well, first with intent of them being the main focus of the image)View attachment 382289

Much better already. I'm so bummed I missed it by less than a week. I was there on Saturday and the walls were still up.

 

[Rteetz]

 

[Yert3]

Taken a few minutes ago.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

What's more exciting, this or when the Sorcerer Hat was removed?

Ooh...good question!

1 Wand
2 BAH
3 Tombstones

The BAH removal feels meaningless already, followed as it was with the removal of the GMR. Likewise the EPCOT entrance restoration already feels like Pyrrhic victory, with it being part of a wholesale destruction project of the very park it pays tribute to.

 

[tparris]

Not gonna lie, I kinda like the way those floor lights look at night.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Not gonna lie, I kinda like the way those floor lights look at night.

They do look kind of cool in the picture, but, random bright lighting from the ground must just look confusing when you are at ground zero. No pattern, no reason and maybe even disorienting to have bright lights shining in your eyes and not knowing what or if they mean anything. I don't expect it to last or at least not last without some spin as to their existence.

 

[teknikipedia]

Not gonna lie, I kinda like the way those floor lights look at night.

Agreed, something really interesting and different about that. How cool would it be if they were able to incorporate the fiber optic patterns like the ones outside the former Innoventions into the new main entrance? That would be memorable to say the least!

 

[brb1006]

Agreed, something really interesting and different about that. How cool would it be if they were able to incorporate the fiber optic patterns like the ones outside the former Innoventions into the new main entrance? That would be memorable to say the least!

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who wants to see that. I remember being suprised seeing the fiber optic patterns around Innoventions and wished they had that at more locations around Future World.

 

[halltd]

Not gonna lie, I kinda like the way those floor lights look at night.

I was there last night and loved it as well. It looked super cool.....and wasn’t disorienting.