Repainting of Epcot Central Plaza?

[AndyS2992]

It's a little strange but I think it's alright

 

[BoarderPhreak]

The plaza looks like a clown was on a Sit-and-Spin too long and barfed.

 

[marni1971]

I am kind of glad they didn't after seeing this color pallet. It probably would have looked like some adult novelty shop in Hollywood.

Instead of the colour pallet!

I was thinking of the type of effects Universal Singapore used in Sci Fi City

 

[Mr. Peabody]

Oh man, that paint job is just ugly....like biblically ugly. *shudders*

 

[Kman101]

People need to stop telling others what to post about. If people hate it, they hate it. If they like it, they like it. I don't see anyone jumping on those who like it to tell them to get over it. Just sayin' ....

I'll judge it in person soon. But from the photos, it looks horrid.

 

[aladdin2007]

Surely that green is not staying, if it does Disney has officially lost all its skills (of what was left) not to mention its marbles.

 

[sshindel]

Surely that green is not staying, if it does Disney has officially lost all its skills (of what was left) not to mention its marbles.

I hope you are right, but even if the green goes, I don't think the rest of it looks any better really. The green just stands out a bit more.

 

[Kman101]

The green is better than the ridiculous striping. But that's not really a compliment either

 

[Master Yoda]

I hope you are right, but even if the green goes, I don't think the rest of it looks any better really. The green just stands out a bit more.

The green is the puke on the the multi-shade of brown 1960s carpet.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Anyone else wonder if this whole new design was Tom Fitzgerald's idea and earned him the new position?

Maybe, but I'm wondering if the opposite could be true as well - if it was the paint scheme that made Fitzgerald (who was one of the original Imagineers of the park) realize just how disjointed Epcot was becoming and that he needed to get personally involved again. Who knows. The timing is certainly interesting.

It is even possible that Walt Disney Imagineering was never involved with this project.

 

[Virtual Toad]

It is even possible that Walt Disney Imagineering was never involved with this project.

Leftover paint from the most recent Small World refurbishment?

 

[bhg469]

Go home painters, you're drunk..

 

[ryguy]

I don't get it. But it wouldn't be the first time Disney did something I didn't get.

 

[CDavid]

It's hard to believe I'm saying this, but I think I actually like it.

May I suggest a trip to the optometrist might be in order...

 

[jt04]

Go home painters, you're drunk..

I have figured out the problem. It is a good concept it just clashes with the giant canopy. Obviously one or the other should go.

 

[muteki]

I have figured out the problem. It is a good concept it just clashes with the giant canopy. Obviously one or the other should go.

 

[Marc Gil]

It doesn't look bad in person. To be honest, I hardly noticed until I logged into WDWMagic while waiting on line for Starbucks and saw this thread.

Would it be a sin to say that I'm actually digging the new paint job?

 

[kap91]

Well, it wouldn't look too bad if they get ride of the ridiculous green and blue entrances to innoventions/the breezeways. With them, it's just kind of a garish mishmash. Not sure what they were thinking.

 

[MarkTwain]

I think everyone is being a little to harsh on this paint scheme. If you look at the details, the different colors pull the whole place together. The windows should be see through and not walls, but since that is not the case, the paint pulls it together. The Mousegear sign also matches the new paint in the area. The whole area now looks like it was designed at the same time instead of having new things thrown in with the old.

^ yeah, the paint scheme does make more sense when you see it in person. The colors match what is below them. They do make the area more visually interesting and fresh. More subtle different color tones would have been better, though.

I see what you mean, and now that better photos are surfacing I agree you can kind of tell what they're trying to pull off. Innoventions plaza has a lot of disjointed elements in different color schemes, with the bright green and blue of the breezeways, the muted purple of Starbucks, and the blue and peach colors of MouseGear. The plaza was kind of a rainbow or "kaleidoscope" already. So it does kind of make sense that WDI is trying to use the colors of the Communicore buildings to unify the plaza elements together, by matching the building to the various colors nearby.

But I feel in the end it's still a flawed approach. Instead of getting Communicore to match the plaza's disjointedness, they should have first tried to unify the plaza elements together - repaint the Innoventions signs and colors to match the Starbucks color scheme, for example, and then redesign the MouseGear facade to match that (it looks like a 90s retro-techno Disney store and needs an update anyway). THEN they could repaint the Communicore buildings in a much simpler color scheme, perhaps just a single color that would have matched everything else in the plaza.

 

[Captain Neo]

Epcot should just be renamed Fitzgerald land since it's got his horrible tastes painted all over it now.