News Remy's Ratatouille Adventure coming to Epcot

[RobWDW1971]

Current WDI is so obsessed with technology and gadgets, they're forgetting the basics of placemaking and architecture.

Forgetting or just don't care. I honestly can't tell the difference. Is it incompetence or indifference?

 

[HauntedPirate]

Even my socks are mismatched.

It's apparently a thing with kids these days, or at least in middle schools here.

That's part of the "Feel" that is non-linear story telling. The textures of the pavement, the sounds and smells all blend in and make things feel, "right". The sense that we're so in tune with though is sight and when something seems out of place it breaks us from that non-linear story.

This. It's hard to quantify, which is likely why it's such a difficult thing for today's management to understand.

 

[marni1971]

Do you go by thickness?

No discernible order or reason.

 

[Epcot82Guy]

No discernible order or reason.

Wait... are we talking about socks or sight lines?

 

[JenniferS]

Wait... are we talking about socks or sight lines?

 

[Goofywilliam]

Why sightlines matter

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Anyone got any tall trees?

Those trees are so critical to the look and feeling of this area. Do you know if there are there still plans to bring them back?

 

[peter11435]

Those trees are so critical to the look and feeling of this area. Do you know if there are there still plans to bring them back?

They are still planned to return. There are a couple of ongoing non ratatouille projects at the pavilion that necessitated their temporary removal.

 

[Horizons1]

Some may just refer to that as OCD

Others refer to it as a big crappy metal pole that is a massive visual intrusion.

 

[Dunston]

theres a lot of rides opening lately

 

[marni1971]

Those trees are so critical to the look and feeling of this area. Do you know if there are there still plans to bring them back?

On the mall? They should be back in a month or two. The older ones grew too big for their foundations.

 

[marni1971]

As if by magic, more landscaping begins.

 

[TiggerDad]

As if by magic, more landscaping begins.

Careful, people might get the impression you know what's going on.

 

[marni1971]

Careful, people might get the impression you know what's going on.

It wasn’t me

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Perhaps I have a famed eye for detail.

You just want EPCOT to be more Disney...

 

[The Empress Lilly]

WS Lagoon before decades of clutter and sightline intrusions.
So calming. Water and green. Zen, uplifting the spirit.

I realise that the very idea was to erect a city here. Paradise was never going to last, one way or another. But yet, how I long back for the sight of endless trees everywhere in WDW and just SSE rising above them like a celestial body in the sky.

 

[BEARSHOUSE4]

I did notice there is a corner piece sitting conspicuously in the backstage area. It's very visible from the Skyliner. (my pic unfortunately didn't turn out.). And it's only about 1 story tall. So not sure where it's going. But it looks pretty clear it's for France.

Saw that too and regretted not getting a pic. Looked so out of place. I thought maybe a test....

 

[spresso81]

Is this still looking like a late May opening? I am heading to WDW in June and hoping this opens in time

 

[larryz]

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Tell me you got that particular Skyliner gondola in the frame on purpose...

 

[peter11435]

Saw that too and regretted not getting a pic. Looked so out of place. I thought maybe a test....

If it’s what I’m thinking it’s not going anywhere on the finished facility.

 

[justintheharris]