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

[Andrew25]

That would be the solution. CR has a rumored capacity of 2,000 guests per hour.

Problem is the queue... indoor queue only holds about ~30 mins or so worth of it.

I hate to say this, but if today (first day of TT 2.0 closure) is an indication of anything, Epcot feels cooked capacity wise.

Epcot is having a bad day, just so happens to be timed w/ TT's closure. All of the Land's attractions AND SSE are closed temporarily. That's a HUGE chunk of capacity.

 

[dreamfinding]

Problem is the queue... indoor queue only holds about ~30 mins or so worth of it.

I wish they would’ve skipped one of the pre shows and turned it into actual queue space.

Epcot is having a bad day, just so happens to be timed w/ TT's closure. All of the Land's attractions AND SSE are closed temporarily. That's a HUGE chunk of capacity.

An exceptionally bad day it seems. Not shown is rat, which is listed as 100 mins.

 

[Moth]

I’m sick of SSE continually getting the short end of the stick here. But if they actually convince corporate to green light a proper Figment refurb, I guess it’s worth it.

It's merch. It's 100% merch reasons.

 

[Andrew25]

I wish they would’ve skipped one of the pre shows and turned it into actual queue space.

Yeah, both preshows could have easily been combined into one. But even then that's not much added space. Biggest issue is that they didn't add an extended queue immediately off to the side of the building. Kind of bizarre how it all came together.

 

[dreamfinding]

It's merch. It's 100% merch reasons.

Not actually shocked here.

 

[dreamfinding]

Yeah, both preshows could have easily been combined into one. But even then that's not much added space. Biggest issue is that they didn't add an extended queue immediately off to the side of the building. Kind of bizarre how it all came together.

I mean, there was that weird 3 month period where there were umbrellas/line chains off the side. No idea what that was about.

 

[Andrew25]

I mean, there was that weird 3 month period where there were umbrellas/line chains off the side. No idea what that was about.

They still have them up

 

[eddie104]

Hot Take: I’m not happy that this got canceled(even though Disney didn’t confirm it yet but we all know for a fact that this is not happening anymore) and yet we got Commuicore Hall that only existed so they can have the same three Mickey & Friends characters from the old building appear together again instead of expanding the lineup to four or five characters to meet…, what a complete mess this whole transformation was.., the Play pavilion could have been a decent, yet fresh addition to the park despite its dated nature

I think that’s very much debatable because the concept for this was flimsy at best.

I don’t think the budget was very large either so that would’ve been potentially a huge step down from its previous state.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I wish they would’ve skipped one of the pre shows and turned it into actual queue space.


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An exceptionally bad day it seems. Not shown is rat, which is listed as 100 mins.

SSE is down.

 

[UNCgolf]

I’m sick of SSE continually getting the short end of the stick here. But if they actually convince corporate to green light a proper Figment refurb, I guess it’s worth it.

SSE getting the short end of the stick seems like a good thing recently, since it was apparently going to be stuffed full of Disney IP!

Feels like we dodged a bullet that that particular refurb was cancelled.

 

[Centauri Space Station]

Hot Take: I’m not happy that this got canceled(even though Disney didn’t confirm it yet but we all know for a fact that this is not happening anymore) and yet we got Commuicore Hall that only existed so they can have the same three Mickey & Friends characters from the old building appear together again instead of expanding the lineup to four or five characters to meet…, what a complete mess this whole transformation was.., the Play pavilion could have been a decent, yet fresh addition to the park despite its dated nature

it was already demolished when covid hit and they had to replace it with something while SSE seemed more of an ipification of the ride

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Problem is the queue... indoor queue only holds about ~30 mins or so worth of it.

Yeah… and outdoor queues don’t exist so clearly there are no options. (Sorry for the extra sarcasm haha)

 

[CastAStone]

SSE is down.

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Those wait times seem pretty normal?

 

[James Alucobond]

Those wait times seem pretty normal?

They spiked midday when The Land went fully offline. An hour for Imagination, two hours for Ratatouille, etc.

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

I don’t think the budget was very large either so that would’ve been potentially a huge step down from its previous state.

You'd be surprised haha, it was over $100M

 

[tparris]

Me realizing the Play pavilion logo is still present in the main entrance flag lol

 

[Scamp]

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I know people say the ‘play pavilion’ was cancelled but maybe they might bring back a budget cut version.

They spent money fixing the roof so they probably have plans to use it eventually. Even if it reverted back to being an event space, anything would be better than it being fenced off and abandoned.

It’s a big building that could help with capacity.

 

[Bocabear]

the very last thing anyone needs in EPCOT is a budget-cut version of anything....

 

[CJR]

the very last thing anyone needs in EPCOT is a budget-cut version of anything....

Especially for something like Play! What could you cut, exactly? It was about as bare bones as you could get.

Projected labor costs are what killed it and I don't see how they'd trim those.

 

[Disstevefan1]

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Adding insult to injury . RIP EPCOT CENTER. Only memories remain.