EPCOT New Play Pavilion to replace Epcot's Wonders of Life

MagicHappens1971

MagicHappens1971

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Agent H said:
Actually no it wouldn’t Tokyo almost certainly has an exclusivity clause on that ride
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They probably don’t - this is a common misconception. Not all overseas attractions have exclusivity, most don’t. I’ve actually never heard of a Tokyo Disney attraction having exclusivity. And even if it did they don’t last forever, see Tron.
 
Gusey

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MagicHappens1971 said:
They probably don’t - this is a common misconception. Not all overseas attractions have exclusivity, most don’t. I’ve actually never heard of a Tokyo Disney attraction having exclusivity. And even if it did they don’t last forever, see Tron.
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Tron was Shanghai. They have a 5 year exclusivity as far as I'm aware because Tron was originally supposed to open in 2021, 5 years after Tron opened in Shanghai. Hong Kong doesn't seem to have any exclusivity but they try to have unique attractions/takes on attractions so people visit Hong Kong and Shanghai. Tokyo doesn't have a known exclusivity, but no attraction built for the Tokyo Disney Resort has been replicated afterwards at any other Disney Park. Meanwhile, now DLP is completely owned by Disney, any attraction is fair game for cloning
 
Agent H

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Gusey said:
Tron was Shanghai. They have a 5 year exclusivity as far as I'm aware because Tron was originally supposed to open in 2021, 5 years after Tron opened in Shanghai. Hong Kong doesn't seem to have any exclusivity but they try to have unique attractions/takes on attractions so people visit Hong Kong and Shanghai. Tokyo doesn't have a known exclusivity, but no attraction built for the Tokyo Disney Resort has been replicated afterwards at any other Disney Park. Meanwhile, now DLP is completely owned by Disney, any attraction is fair game for cloning
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🤓er um except for the iron man rollercoster because universal
 
Gusey

Gusey

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Agent H said:
🤓er um except for the iron man rollercoster because universal
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Yeah, Iron Man coaster at DLP is pretty rough so I bet you're glad that wasn't cloned, but even Web-Slingers was designed for both WDS and DCA. It fits a lot better at WDS than DCA even though DCA got the stuntronic :)
 
UNCgolf

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DreamfinderGuy said:
~12 small interactive activities. The monorail simulator thing, a scavenger hunt type thing, Wii games (lol), Animation Academy, list goes on. It was just going to be an indoor digital children's playground, like Image Works and late era Innoventions with a heavy dose of screens and IP slop poured into it. The coolest part of the whole concept to me was it was being established kinda like how the power strip in Wreck it Ralph was. The idea was that any Disney character could interact with any other one in there, but in a totally non-canon to their franchises way because every character was a digital simulacra version of themselves.

And yeah, all of this was designed in 2018. It would have been pretty terribly dated by now.
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I'm glad to hear confirmation of my opinion/belief that the Play Pavilion would have been tremendously outdated not long after opening. It's one of the many reasons I was happy it was cancelled.
 
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sabalraphael

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Someone I follow on Instagram caught the lights on inside just now.

Not sure if this is new or not but HMMMMMM…

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Disney Maddux

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Do we know how much of Play Pavilion was installed and ready to go (or how close it was to being finished)?

Still insane to me that we got one abandoned pavilion, finally gutted out for replacement... and now said replacement sits unopened and abandoned.
 
MerlinTheGoat

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Disney Maddux said:
Do we know how much of Play Pavilion was installed and ready to go (or how close it was to being finished)?
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Nothing as far as I know. They seemed to have completed most of the prior WoL interior gutting, but I don't even think that was 100% done and there was still a lot of basic prepping needing to install any new theming. Probably weren't close.

There were still a few hallways off the main lobby that still had a few flat decals left over from WoL. Though it's possible they may have just left this stuff alone and closed these areas off to guests like the old Imageworks.

The central lobby is all just bare naked concrete and metal now.
 
DreamfinderGuy

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MerlinTheGoat said:
Nothing as far as I know. They seemed to have completed most of the prior WoL interior gutting, but I don't even think that was 100% done and there was still a lot of basic prepping needing to install any new theming. Probably weren't close.

There were still a few hallways off the main lobby that still had a few flat decals left over from WoL. Though it's possible they may have just left this stuff alone and closed these areas off to guests like the old Imageworks.

The central lobby is all just bare naked concrete and metal now.
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Yeah, WoL gutting was finished. Dome was fully gutted, the outermost walls of Cranium still have the wall carpet attached but everything else in there was emptied out. Body Wars is still sitting there mostly untouched aside from all the signage and queue monitors finally being removed. They put up some steel for the city facades but never actually installed them.
 
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Streetway Again

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DreamfinderGuy said:
Yeah, WoL gutting was finished. Dome was fully gutted, the outermost walls of Cranium still have the wall carpet attached but everything else in there was emptied out. Body Wars is still sitting there mostly untouched aside from all the signage and queue monitors finally being removed. They put up some steel for the city facades but never actually installed them.
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What a disaster. COVID-post Covid era Disney parks were the WORST. Hopefully something good goes in this plot of land eventually, wether in the gold dome or in it’s place.
 
Bocabear

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Agent H said:
Inside out.
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I know...just kiddin'.....It really is a perfect replacement for Wonders Of Life and a popular IP they already own.... They could do so much with it... a playground of sorts, a major show, a dark ride, a spinner and food & merch venues...It would be brilliant.... of course it does nothing to address the EPCOT "neighborhoods" plan.... unless somehow a Health and Wellness pavilion would make sense next to Xandar...
 

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