shernernum
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Snake-Like Creature (and Ellen) gone from Universe of Energy
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Marc Gil
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As of this Tuesday, I can confirm that the ride is still in a miserable state, and that both AAs are indeed gone. I doubt they will be returning.
I wonder in what clever ways could people try and defend this. Absolutely horrible, especially since a picture of them is front and center on MDE.
BoarderPhreak
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Ellen gone from Universe of Energy?
Man, don't tease us like that!
Man, don't tease us like that!
Cmdr_Crimson
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It's a shame it's like this...Epcot is falling apart..
gmajew
Premium Member
They would have to... The park can not handle less attractions. If I am guessing once frozen opens they will start work on another pavilion maybe after soarin expansion is done. No way they can lose something else.
One can only hope..........
But in this day and age hope and Disney seems to just lead to disappointment so I won't be holding my breath for anything. Up the road however..........
It can't possibly be that difficult to update this attraction, and return some glory and inspiration to the Energy pavilion. It is mostly videos. That should be easy and relatively inexpensive for a multimedia company like Disney.
And for goodness sake, fix the friggen Elasmosaurus.
Yeah, but it seems like Energy would be the easiest to update. It is mostly screens. That can all be ready to go before the pavilion ever goes down for refurb. They could do Energy quickly. The other pavilions, not as quick...but Energy could be fast. What was the down time between the original and the current Ellen version? A few weeks? I don't recall it being very long...
ChrisFL
Premium Member
What's that?
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
Heck.. Even if they just decided to re-film the thing with a few script adjustments and updated props/backgrounds and still use the same people and concept.. They could easily do that while the attraction is still running. Maybe take a week-tops just to replace the films and projectors.
They REALLY want to upgrade even MORE.. The dino scene could definitely use some brand new AAs. Like you said, it REAAALLY wouldn't take that long at ALL. The attraction takes in about one thousand people per ride, so even if there's only two "boats" full, it's taking in still about a few hundred people.. and those few hundred people get to see a horrible attraction in really bad shape... For 45 freaking minutes long.
They could AT LEAST keep the film and audio updated.
Concept art of a UoE update posted by @marni1971
An alternate proposal for the 1996 refurb.
Goofyernmost
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Who do you know that is causing Disney to be embarrassed by it. It was a small, terribly done section to begin with and no new rider even knows something is supposed to be there. It is to bad that they don't find a way to "improve" it and put something back there, but embarrassing? Not hardly! What was there was embarrassing! But, certainly not enough to use all those evil ****** **** words
to express your personal displeasure. 
Figment2005
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There are three teradons, or whatever they are called in that position now. All fully functional and they blend in well with the large one next to the "volcano". The truly bad show is that the following movie now references a section that no longer exists.Who do you know that is causing Disney to be embarrassed by it. It was a small, terribly done section to begin with and no new rider even knows something is supposed to be there. It is to bad that they don't find a way to "improve" it and put something back there, but embarrassing? Not hardly! What was there was embarrassing! But, certainly not enough to use all those evil ****** **** words
I took it as a figure of speech..