Horizons '83
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Fair enough. Just another corner to cut from Disney, because they know 95% of the guests won't care or notice.
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News Remy's Ratatouille Adventure coming to Epcot
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Started a new thread for it...
Ratatouille: The Musical (Jan 1, 2021)
https://ratatousical.com/ https://ratatousical.com/faq/ https://deadline.com/2020/12/ratatouille-the-tiktok-musical-cast-wayne-brady-tituss-burgess-adam-lambert-1234661967/
EricsBiscuit
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From earlier today. They have the fountain working!
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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Where in these pictures is there a fountain?
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EricsBiscuit
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You can’t see it but there is an enormous fountain in front of the entrance
Can't make a statement like that and then not show the fountain! lol
But nice pictures nonetheless! Thanks for sharing. Blue building looks a lot better.
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gerarar
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Your pictures are much vibrant than those seen on the other site haha, thanks! Love seeing all the different colors pop!
EricsBiscuit
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Lol. It’s hard bc of the glare from the window to get a good shot. You pretty much have to hold the lens right to the glass.
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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All I know is I was promised a picture of the now working fountain and I didn't get it. #DISAPPOINTEDIN2021
You mean that fountain? Oops, wrong park...
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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There it is!!!! My life is now complete.
1HAPPYGHOSTHOST
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still a version of the fountain in question. I'll accept it.(That’s from WDSP)
hpyhnt 1000
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I feel it’s especially bad here as most Disney backstage areas are usually still pretty decent. But this? The exposed power substation, the go-away green show building that does anything but go away, the sad looking CM bus shelters; there’s just an overall shabbiness to the entire area (maybe it will improve once construction is officially done?).
At the very least, switching the paint colors of the show building and substation area would improve things. Green in the substation would actually hide the green transformers and beige on the show building would look a lot more cohesive with the rest of the facade.
Marc Davis Fan
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This is a powerful example of how current Disney isn't taking the holistic experience into account anymore.
Think of The Magic Kingdom, with carefully-planned views of the distant castle from the TTC, etc., to create that celebrated "arrival experience."
Passing in front of massive, totally un-hidden backstage buildings as part of your arrival experience to a Disney theme park is worse than I suspect current Disney decision-makers realize (or they don't care, as long as it doesn't have a substantial impact in the short-term). I used to notice this at Universal parks, and think "this is one of the things that makes them feel cheaper and less immersive than Disney" - oh well.
The holistic experience is a major part of what made Disney different - something that should be more valuable to them today than ever before, considering their competition.
Seems to be a common thread for many projects lately, accepting bad views/show.
Prototype82
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I think it's just a last minute design decision. One I'm not crazy about. Awhile back half of the facade (with the blue shutters) was a weathered textured brown and the other half was a warm white. Much like in the concept art. Made it look like two facades. It was nice. In the end someone must not have approved of it or felt it didn't work. So they went with all cream and weathered it. It's not inauthentic...but I agree with some of the comments here that it's just not as interesting.
Not much can be done with the massive wall of green on the side.
But they could have at least extended the facades and theming a little here:
But they could have at least extended the facades and theming a little here:
Notes from Neverland
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It's been said countless times, but are we really surprised by the backstage views when the approach to Disney's Animal Kingdom by bus is a giant factory and "floating" rocks on sticks? One doesn't excuse the other of course. It just shows the idea of protecting views from outside the park has been toast for a while and it's disintegrating from within the parks as well.