News Spaceship Earth Refurb - 2 Year Closure

[danlb_2000]

There is this strange scaffold thing being built up between the new acrylic monoliths and the lower front of the sphere (northside). No idea what it could be for, but not implying it's related to the permit, but just throwing it out there.

I found a picture of it over at the site that cannot be named. Strange piece of scaffolding, very tall and thin and wrapped with scrim.

 

[bpiper]

I found a picture of it over at the site that cannot be named. Strange piece of scaffolding, very tall and thin and wrapped with scrim.

That looks like a scaffolding bridge so that workers can get to the center of the fountain without climbing on the new pieces that they installed that break up the water as it flows down. Maybe they are too delicate or the glue or whatever, hasn't completely cured yet. The scrim is to pretty it up.

 

[trainplane3]

There is this strange scaffold thing being built up between the new acrylic monoliths and the lower front of the sphere (northside). No idea what it could be for, but not implying it's related to the permit, but just throwing it out there.

It's been there for a few weeks. Electronics and various lighting controls are housed in the middle of the fountain.

 

[danlb_2000]

That looks like a scaffolding bridge so that workers can get to the center of the fountain without climbing on the new pieces that they installed that break up the water as it flows down. Maybe they are too delicate or the glue or whatever, hasn't completely cured yet. The scrim is to pretty it up.

That makes sense. It looks like it's at the same level as the platform the prisms sit on.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Walt Disney Imagineering Files Permit for Spaceship Earth Work

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[Mickeynerd17]

Walt Disney Imagineering Files Permit for Spaceship Earth Work

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This thing better stay open through March, or i'm gonna freak out.

 

[WDWYankee15]

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This was posted on this very forum last week (Wednesday).

Permit filed today for the address of Spaceship Earth. Same contractor, Whiting Turner Contracting Company, that filed the initial permit back when it looked like this project was actually going to happen. It has the default 1 year expiration.

2060 AVENUE OF THE STARS(SPACESHIP EARTH) - Installation of source power and control equipment

 

[danlb_2000]

This was posted on this very forum last week (Wednesday).

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when I posted this last week someone had the idea that it was for the fountain with the prisms which makes total sense to me.

 

[aladdin2007]

This thing better stay open through March, or i'm gonna freak out.

why, you knew it was originally suppose to go down back in May anyway, it has to eventually its in bad shape.

 

[Mickeynerd17]

why, you knew it was originally suppose to go down back in May anyway, it has to eventually its in bad shape.

I know, but I want to see the Spaceship Earth of my childhood one more time on my March trip before they kill the communications theme for good

 

[JEANYLASER]

Is the new Spaceship Earth: Our Shared Story will be back in the Epcot experience film?

 

[DoleWhipDrea]

SSE will eventually get at least a proper refurbishment, but I’m skeptical that we’ll see anything remotely close to the concept art that Disney originally released. It’s an expenditure that current management doesn’t feel they can actually make real money off of.

Replace the track and ride vehicles (no more screens), improve a few effects, and fix from 180 top to the end of the ride...that’s what I see them doing now, if even.

With the amount of things closed in EPCOT, Disney really can’t afford to have the ride closed for several years right now. They need it operational.

 

[Dragonman]

I don’t think they’ll bring back the space station unless there’s a bigger budget unfortunately.

 

[DoleWhipDrea]

I don’t think they’ll bring back the space station unless there’s a bigger budget unfortunately.

Oh I agree. Hence why I said, “if even.” But an EPCOT fan can dream. I think there needs to be a bit more space in Spaceship Earth.

 

[Mickeynerd17]

SSE will eventually get at least a proper refurbishment, but I’m skeptical that we’ll see anything remotely close to the concept art that Disney originally released. It’s an expenditure that current management doesn’t feel they can actually make real money off of.

Replace the track and ride vehicles (no more screens), improve a few effects, and fix from 180 top to the end of the ride...that’s what I see them doing now, if even.

With the amount of things closed in EPCOT, Disney really can’t afford to have the ride closed for several years right now. They need it operational.

This is sort-of a good and bad thing.

Sure, we get to keep riding SSE for a while longer, but the longer it goes without a refurb, the more extensive the damage, and that track is literally dying to be replaced.

It's almost becoming a Horizons situation where the ride was literally left with little matinence and no updates just rotting on its plot for five years before the building literally started collapsing on itself, thus leading to it's closure and eventual demolition.

I don't think they'll let SSE become in that bad a shape, but that's definitely the trajectory.

(As long as it stays open until April for my trip, I'm happy though )

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

It's almost becoming a Horizons situation where the ride was literally left with little matinence and no updates just rotting on its plot for five years before the building literally started collapsing on itself, thus leading to it's closure and eventual demolition.

If SSE's ride system were causing that much structural stress it would no longer be open, but if it ever does close unexpectedly or without warning I'm gonna start saying there was a sinkhole under it

 

[Mickeynerd17]

If SSE's ride system were causing that much structural stress it would no longer be open, but if it ever does close unexpectedly or without warning I'm gonna start saying there was a sinkhole under it

That's why I'm worried about the Peoplemover. It should be open by now, but its not.

 

[marni1971]

It's almost becoming a Horizons situation where the ride was literally left with little matinence and no updates just rotting on its plot for five years before the building literally started collapsing on itself, thus leading to it's closure and eventual demolition.

Incorrect.

 

[DreamfinderGuy]

That's why I'm worried about the Peoplemover. It should be open by now, but its not.

Peoplemover is apparently a tech issue from what I've heard, so it should be fine whenever they get that resolved.

 

[Mickeynerd17]

Incorrect.

Well, I didn't say that was what was happening, but with the water leakage, track problems, and other issues, it seems to be getting in that direction.

Unless your talking about Horizons, in which that's what I've heard over the years from many sources, but everybody says something different. IDK what actually happened, I wasn't born yet.