Lots of fibre optics type effects.
I’ve said it before, I hope I’m wrong on the length of downtime. Perhaps with the budget cut it'll be shorter.
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EPCOT Spaceship Earth Refurb - 2 Year Closure
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I’ve said it before, I hope I’m wrong on the length of downtime. Perhaps with the budget cut it'll be shorter.
Coaster Lover
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- In the Parks
- No
Hope so, I'll be there 25 months after it closes...
trainplane3
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I'd just like the "ka-chunk" silenced or dampened. If they can do that in whatever time-span and give the narrator a better script, I'll be happy.
Do you think "story light" is more out of place as opposed to what must have been the original pitch:
I've a great idea for the big icon of "Future World"... a giant geodesic sphere with a ride in it called "Spaceship Earth."
Oh, so this is going to be about the future of space travel and the Earth as the heart of a future galactic empire?
No, it'll be about the past.
In *Future* World.
Yeah, the history of *communication*!!
Don't you mean the *future* of communication. And by "communication," don't you mean Earth and human civilization?
No, it'll be a history of advancements in *communication*.
Oh, so that by looking at the past, we'll be able to envision the future of communication around the globe and across galactic empires. We're at the beginning of a new age of computers and we can show all the ways that computers will change communication. So, we'll need to get in touch with the best science fiction writers and futurists to help us develop just a whole bunch of scenes of the future of communication.
No, we'll just need to show that computers have been invented and then just throw up some fuzzy, sparkly projections hinting that there's a future somewhere for computers and advancements of communication with just some hand-wavy aspirational language.
And you're calling this "Spaceship Earth"?
Yeah, we'll have one scene where we can see earth from space.
But it's all about the history of communication and not at all about space travel or actual examples of the future of communication?
Yeah. Whadya think?
Well, if Magic Kingdom's Pirates of the Caribbean has shown us, if you leave a ride up long enough, people become attached to it no matter how little sense it makes, so, I'm green lighting it!!
tparris
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It was budget cut?
Mac Tonight
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Isn't everything?
Surferboy567
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When was Rat planning on opening? Looks pretty far ahead...maybe it will open to offset this closing.
FigmentJedi
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You do know the name pre-dates Disney right? That it was a term cooked up by the inventor of geodesic spheres to describe how we're all in this together and we need to communicate and cooperate like a ship's crew to achieve peace and keep our planet habitable?
M:SpilotISTC12
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So is it going to be about light or will it still be about the evolution of human communication?
Surferboy567
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Storytelling
You do know Disney put a ride about the *history* of Communication in a section of a park called *Future* World?
You do know that Disney could have changed the name of that golf ball any time they wanted to?
You do know that the ride doesn't really hit on the theme on how we need communication **to keep our planet habitable**?
Horizons '83
Well-Known Member
- In the Parks
- No
I’m guessing RAT will open around that time.
About story telling. With a cosmic light as a guide through the history of such.
Dragonman
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Scaffolding Egyptian remembers
lentesta
Premium Member
This is a perfect description of what SSE is. Its symbolism tied together everything in the old Future World and World Showcase - the literal embodiment of the park's purpose.
Remember how easy it was to get your enormous tombs for your emperor-gods to light up? Thank the Egyptians.
trainplane3
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The squares of the screens are still there sadly. I'm just hoping they don't use them. It'd be nice to remove them completely instead of covering with a piece of plastic.
KBLovedDisney
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New just in:
Space Ship Earth will be closed May 26th.
The Reimagining of Spaceship Earth at EPCOT Begins May 26
Spaceship Earth is more than just the physical icon of EPCOT – it’s a symbol of how the park continues to evolve. The attraction is a crucial piece of the historic transformation already underway at EPCOT, and our team here at Walt Disneydisneyparks.disney.go.com
So...projections.The squares of the screens are still there sadly. I'm just hoping they don't use them. It'd be nice to remove them completely instead of covering with a piece of plastic.
Projections everywhere...