Rumor Siemens is going to end their sponsorship with the parks - Spaceship Earth and IllumiNations

[jpeden]

WDW wants the S:E lounge to be Epcot's Club 33?

I could see this - but I thought somewhere I saw that Club 33 was going to be in World Showcase - as it would provide optimal viewing of Illuminations. Of course, I could be wrong.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

I thought when Time Racers was proposed it was discovered that the SSE structure wouldn't be able to handle the stress of a thrill ride.....or is this an urban myth?

Time Racers...? Um...info link pretty please?

 

[MisterPenguin]

I could see this - but I thought somewhere I saw that Club 33 was going to be in World Showcase - as it would provide optimal viewing of Illuminations. Of course, I could be wrong.

It's a possibility. But also still just a rumor. None of our insiders have given up a Club 33 site for Epcot yet.

 

[Hakunamatata]

This is interesting and the decline of a monorail fleet speaks volumes IMHO.

 

[misterID]

Time Racers...? Um...info link pretty please?

http://www.themeparktourist.com/fea...built-disney-time-racers-roller-coaster-epcot

 

[KBLovedDisney]

It's a possibility. But also still just a rumor. None of our insiders have given up a Club 33 site for Epcot yet.

Maybe it will go to the Odyssey

 

[KBLovedDisney]

http://www.themeparktourist.com/fea...built-disney-time-racers-roller-coaster-epcot

Thanks!

 

[Notes from Neverland]

I've always been baffled why any of the attractions "needed" a sponsor. It's a theme park, at its heart, just like MK. Owner of the theme park should pay to maintain/change it. That being said, I don't blame Disney for taking money from those willing to give it to put their name on something which often doesn't produce anything in terms of tangible gain for the sponsor.

 

[marni1971]

I thought when Time Racers was proposed it was discovered that the SSE structure wouldn't be able to handle the stress of a thrill ride.....or is this an urban myth?

There was merit in that.

The original Time Racers was spectacular. Just in the absolutely wrong building.

 

[marni1971]

It's a possibility. But also still just a rumor. None of our insiders have given up a Club 33 site for Epcot yet.

Showcase.

 

[marni1971]

http://www.themeparktourist.com/fea...built-disney-time-racers-roller-coaster-epcot

It's not exactly correct. There were plenty of physical sets.

 

[Master Yoda]

I thought when Time Racers was proposed it was discovered that the SSE structure wouldn't be able to handle the stress of a thrill ride.....or is this an urban myth?

I am 99% sure that is legit.

 

[raven]

WDW wants the S:E lounge to be Epcot's Club 33?

Isn't Club 33 a restaurant catering to those who are invited or pay?

If this is the case then the corporate lounge above the SSE postshow area isn't adequate. There is no direct access to a kitchen and they would have to cater everything in. I see the Epcot Club 33 being somewhere like the lounges above The Seas, The Land, Norway, or American Adventure in this case. There's also an unfinished 2-story building next to Mission:Space that was originally designed to be their corporate launch but could be converted into a new Club 33.

 

[marni1971]

It seems Siemens were planning renegotiate and re sign. Something else made them change their mind.

 

[marni1971]

Isn't Club 33 a restaurant catering to those who are invited or pay?

If this is the case then the corporate lounge above the SSE postshow area isn't adequate..

Showcase.

 

[jakeman]

No one has confirmed that monorail tidbit.

It doesn't matter. It fits the rhetoric, so now it is seen as fact. Whether it's true or not.

 

[mightynine]

It seems Siemens were planning renegotiate and re sign. Something else made them change their mind.

So who got their feelings hurt first?

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Time Racers...? Um...info link pretty please?

http://tomorrowlandgazette.blogspot.com/2013/08/disney-that-never-was-epcots-time-racers.html

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

So who got their feelings hurt first?

Someone stood up to them asking about that Finale of the ride...

 

[EvilChameleon]

So, since people are saying this means SSE isn't going to change for a while, does the same apply to IllumiNations, and the rumored new version of that they were planning on putting on? That pushed back now?