Well now that you have festivals from August-May non stop maybe they realized rebuilding something all the time no longer made sense.
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Permanent Ralph Breaks The Internet Family Play Zone Debuts at Epcot
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Well now that you have festivals from August-May non stop maybe they realized rebuilding something all the time no longer made sense.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Can't wait untill the D23 Expo when they make the announcement that they will be adding..........A slide to the playground...
Someone at WDW management seriously deserves a raise! Between this new playground and last years D-Zone, (pictured below), they are crushing it! What will they think of next??!!!
HauntedMansionFLA
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Temporary play ground for The Food & Wine Festival- Just like the one for Flower & Garden.
the.dreamfinder
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The Studio’s promotional money doesn’t go as far as it used to.
Where’s the DHS parade?
Disney Maddux
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Very fair point.
Kman101
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And not a very big deal, personally.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Same thing goes to Promote Zootopia...What did they do? Put in the one area no one hardly goes to or just to kill time until their next Fastpass becomes active
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Brer Oswald
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CoasterSnoop
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Parents, do your kids a favor and, if you take them to a playground at Epcot, take them to a cool one.
I think the issue people have with this isn't that it's a playground, it's that it has all the makings of a temporary one (one you could find by driving down the street from your own home) yet for some reason is permanent. Disney set the standard, even with permanent playgrounds, and this doesn't meet it.
That said, this is definitely not some great atrocity and absolutely not the worst thing to happen to Epcot and if kids like it, then there's no real issue. But kids know the difference between the Ralphs and the Space Bases of the world.
I think the issue people have with this isn't that it's a playground, it's that it has all the makings of a temporary one (one you could find by driving down the street from your own home) yet for some reason is permanent. Disney set the standard, even with permanent playgrounds, and this doesn't meet it.
That said, this is definitely not some great atrocity and absolutely not the worst thing to happen to Epcot and if kids like it, then there's no real issue. But kids know the difference between the Ralphs and the Space Bases of the world.
eddie104
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Well of course this is not some groundbreaking attraction. Yet we have posters on here acting like it’s the end of the world. Some were funny but others where being serious.Parents, do your kids a favor and, if you take them to a playground at Epcot, take them to a cool one.
I think the issue people have with this isn't that it's a playground, it's that it has all the makings of a temporary one (one you could find by driving down the street from your own home) yet for some reason is permanent. Disney set the standard, even with permanent playgrounds, and this doesn't meet it.
That said, this is definitely not some great atrocity and absolutely not the worst thing to happen to Epcot and if kids like it, then there's no real issue. But kids know the difference between the Ralphs and the Space Bases of the world.
The Empress Lilly
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Since when is the four year old the standard of what makes EPCOT great? Why should anything get a free pass because a toddler may like it?
Also, if a preschooler wants to go to a playground, then take them out of EPCOT and to a playground.
Neither was the Imageworks. That genius family play area worthy of EPCOT.
This garbage however falls short for several reasons: it is a gratuitous IP tie-in, it is cheap off-the-shelf, it is exclusionary (a family park is not a kiddie park), and it clashes with the mood, aesthetics, theme and purpose of EPCOT.
Also, if a preschooler wants to go to a playground, then take them out of EPCOT and to a playground.
TSI is not a kiddie playground.
Neither was the Imageworks. That genius family play area worthy of EPCOT.
This garbage however falls short for several reasons: it is a gratuitous IP tie-in, it is cheap off-the-shelf, it is exclusionary (a family park is not a kiddie park), and it clashes with the mood, aesthetics, theme and purpose of EPCOT.
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The Empress Lilly
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The slow demise of EPCOT where this is but a next logical step doesn't diminish the absolute distance between this one-on-every-city-block playground and Horizons, which once stood opposite. It only makes the demise less immediately obvious.
peter11435
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The demise of Epcot started decades ago... this isn’t a step just a continuation
TwilightZone
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Barbie's Birthday Party was the ultimate show.
On a side note, I'm surprised I know barbie's birthday party enough to recognize it at a glance.
Biff215
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I honestly don’t understand why past mistakes are often used to excuse or downplay today’s mistakes, particularly at Epcot (see also GotG in WS). For me personally, the new playground doesn’t bother me because it ruins the original EPCOT Center, but rather because it cheapens a world class Disney theme park today.
peter11435
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It’s not about excusal based on past mistakes. It’s about showing that the park hasn’t been what some believe it should be for decades.
Even this playground. You yourself say it cheapens a world class Disney park. But the fact is there has been one nearly just like it off and on for well over a decade.
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