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Scrim Over TTA's Progress City
- Thread starter TubaGeek
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ThemeParks4Life
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VACATION RUINED.
ImagineAtl23
Active Member
I agree, clean it up. I love that model of the "city of tomorrow".
rael ramone
Well-Known Member
they are probably adding interactive elements to it, you know, just like Walt wanted it....
Mammymouse
Well-Known Member
Is it realistic to think that display is the City of Tomorrow?
ImagineAtl23
Active Member
The Empress Lilly
Well-Known Member
But...it's Walt's city of tomorrow! The ideas behind Tomorrowland, the inspiration that gave us EPCOT, and indeed the entire Florida Project.
WDW and TL weren't conceived as showcases for 'cartoons with space theme'. These were brought in later by the vandals. The way the Acropolis was turned into a goat shelter by later, lesser rulers. TL is not about Buzz and big blue monsters. It is about a tomorrow on the move, about better living, about progress. About unbridled optimism and faith in humanity.
aladdin2007
Well-Known Member
I hope its just a cleaning etc and not removing it. They already botched the people mover with the bland narration. All the tunnels actually could use a complete refreshing/cleaning, but dont want to see the future city go.
themonkeyisthesultan
Well-Known Member
A line from a famous archeologist (now owned by Disney) comes to mind "That belongs in a museum."
jrogue
Well-Known Member
It's definitely not any city of NOW, so I'd say the ideas are still just as innovative and relevant as they were when they first were introduced.
Mr.Skunkape
Well-Known Member
Adding Wi-Fi to make the city Next Gen ready
bsiev1977
Well-Known Member
Why do so many people think Walt wouldn't love the interactive stuff? He very well may have seen it as the evolution of innovation that he was known for. If Walt had been around in a different time, I believe his opinions toward a lot of the stuff that people dislike in the parks would be surprising to those people.
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
Progress City wasn't even all that new when it was new. It shares a lot in common with ideas presented in Garden Cities of To-Morrow (1898) by Ebenezer Howard.
One thing Walt Disney World fans tend to refuse to acknowledge is that Walt's attention had moved away from theme park design. He had moved on to EPCOT and had he somehow continue living, he probably would have moved on to other areas of interest.
bsiev1977
Well-Known Member
Right. It seems that when some fans don't like something, they look to something Walt said or did in 1952, or whatever date suits them, and pretend he never felt anything different ever again. Like invoking his name automatically ends the debate in their favor.
thehowiet
Wilson King of Prussia
I remember reading a few years ago that there was at least a desire at one point to clean up and somewhat restore the model but that it was squashed. I'm not sure how true it is, but I believe I read that it came down to a problem of determining which department actually had "ownership" of the model and the authority to do and/or fund the project. Again, not sure how accurate this info is so take it with a grain of salt.
It would be really great if they are finally getting around to cleaning it up. That model is in rough shape.