lazyboy97o
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The easy explanation is that roofs have a finite useful life and require work.
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News Space 220 Restaurant dining experience at Epcot's Future World
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lazyboy97o
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Letting a roof go without repair would only needlessly increase the cost of reopening the pavilion as an attraction. Roof maintenance is also more the domain of FAM than it is WDI.Good thing Chapek showed up to check out the repairs on a leaky roof.
Talk about your "spin and puke"...I thought for sure they'd use one of the centrifuges so they could spin the dining room around really fast creating an artifical gravity with tables on the "walls". Looks like they'll have to go mainstream with this design.
Absolutely true.
Still doesn't explain why Chapek and a coterie of execs checked out WoL and Imagination recently. If a coincidence, it would be spectacularly coincidental.
MrPromey
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The repair at least indicates they have a long-term plan to keep the structure for something - that they aren't just using it while it's there because it's there until there is a real cost associated with keeping it going.
I don't know. Maybe they use it for a lot of private stuff I'm unaware of but it always felt like it was just taking up space waiting to be torn down or whatever when they were half-heartedly trotting it out for flower and garden and sometimes food and wine every year and then leaving it locked up the rest of the time with no visible progress inside of anything being done from year-to-year. It always felt detached and like a poor location for what they were using it for so I didn't expect that to go on indefinitely.
I half expected they'd bulldoze it at the first sign of trouble so them not doing so gives me a tinge of hope... even if it just ends up being the spill-over line space for GOTG.
lazyboy97o
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What makes it spectacular? The Wonders of Life pavilion was not being used as a festival center, allowing for good access throughout the facility to review it.
Disney has maintained facilities that were not long for the world. It’s different people making these decisions. Walt Disney Imagineering does not maintain the facilities of any park.The repair at least indicates they have a long-term plan to keep the structure for something - that they aren't just using it while it's there because it's there until there is a real cost associated with keeping it going.
I don't know. Maybe they use it for a lot of private stuff I'm unaware of but it always felt like it was just taking up space waiting to be torn down or whatever when they were half-heartedly trotting it out for flower and garden and sometimes food and wine every year and then leaving it locked up the rest of the time with no visible progress inside of anything being done from year-to-year. It always felt detached and like a poor location for what they were using it for so I didn't expect that to go on indefinitely.
I half expected they'd bulldoze it at the first sign of trouble so them not doing so gives me a tinge of hope... even if it just ends up being the spill-over line space for GOTG.
peter11435
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FAM has been known to repaint/refurbish buildings just months before they are demolished.
MrPromey
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Good point.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Oh ok...I get you.
Well, wonders is either gonna be private space or demolished...the writings on the wall there.
Sirwalterraleigh
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You can meet me in person and I’ll buy you a Beer or a pomegranate martini at the opening of the Brazil pavilion
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gustaftp
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"The concept art shows it to be circular, so it must be going in the circular WoL!"
And all the discussions about it have been circular, so that's even more proof!"The concept art shows it to be circular, so it must be going in the circular WoL!"
Phineas
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Thank you. I'd like to think we're smarter than that. The restaurant going into Wonders never made any logical sense.
Kman101
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But we know it's not going anywhere. And it's no longer being used to host the festivals. I mean, if it walks like a duck ...
Not saying the work is related to anything in the future. I do think people are reading too much into that. But it's hard to separate the two for some because of the potential of life in there again, whatever it may be. Although a lot of these things go hand in hand without us realizing they go hand in hand.
You may be surprised.
peter11435
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I didn’t mean to imply that WOL was going anywhere. Just pointing out that necessary maintenance (and sometimes even unnecessary maintenance) is not an indicator of a future or lack there of at Walt Disney World.
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nickys
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Any hints you can give?