Mr.EPCOT
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Spaceship Earth 4.0
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Spaceship Earth 4.0
Mr.EPCOT
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The first overhaul was in 1986 when they replaced the finale for the first time, adding Tomorrow's Child and changing the narrator to Walter Cronkite.
CBOMB
Active Member
I just don't see how that's possible to remove, and replace the track in the time frame that has been allotted. We are talking major destruction, and major construction. I would think that would be a refurb that would take at least a year. Where are our engineers when you need them.
Grumpy-Fan
Active Member
Major Dis.
I`m going Feb.9 thru the 16th. This news really sucks. We love SSE very much and really hoping it would be up and running by then.
I`m going Feb.9 thru the 16th. This news really sucks. We love SSE very much and really hoping it would be up and running by then.
teebin
Member
Sounds like an infrastructure and/or vendor issue to me. That ball has been sitting there for a very long time. Goodness knows what might have corroded beneath the floors, or in the ducts, or in the drainage systems.
Plus, vendors to major components have gone belly up for not a few major attractions at parks before the attraction is complete. Imagine that vendor senario: "Yeah, we have it! It's on time except for a few issues!, lookin great! Oooh... we have run into some troubles and it is going to cost $500,000.00 more to finish now... Well, you couldn't come up with the 500K so we have just filed chapter 11". This has happened not a few times at Universal I have heard.
Plus, vendors to major components have gone belly up for not a few major attractions at parks before the attraction is complete. Imagine that vendor senario: "Yeah, we have it! It's on time except for a few issues!, lookin great! Oooh... we have run into some troubles and it is going to cost $500,000.00 more to finish now... Well, you couldn't come up with the 500K so we have just filed chapter 11". This has happened not a few times at Universal I have heard.
magickingdom55
New Member
Well no bad here I wontbe going to the world in years or to one of those lands that i've never gone to.
DisneyGigi
Well-Known Member
So it is opening President's Day... oooh, bet it will be even more crowded!
CThaddeus
New Member
I`m going Feb.9 thru the 16th. This news really sucks. We love SSE very much and really hoping it would be up and running by then.
Imagine how hard it was for some of us there for the 25th not being able to go on EPCOT's signature attraction. In some ways, I still feel like I wasn't really at EPCOT that day (or any of the others I was there). For me, EPCOT=Spaceship Earth. Without riding it, it's just half an experience. Of course, since 1995 they've been killing off piece after piece of EPCOT anyway...but that's an argument for a different thread.
I only hope I can get back to EPCOT sometime soon after Spaceship Earth is reopened. First I have to get my wife to agree to it, though. I had a hard enough time getting permission to go for the 25th! I guess there's always Mousebits to tide me over...
EPCOT.nut
Well-Known Member
Yeah I have been listening to the SSE ride-through on the way to work every day wondering if it is going to be something like what we had before with a ride-through that is narrated....or what.
Like a grand and miraculous spaceship....
jmvd20
Well-Known Member
From a person who deals with construction project deadlines on a day to day basis I can assure you that 3 extra months on a 4 month project is absolutely NOT a simple estimation error. Something went very wrong, it is the ONLY rational explanation for something like this. The thing that went wrong could be any number of things, on exactly what went wrong I will not speculate (ride system too noisy and wasn't originally scheduled to be replaced).
2 weeks is a miscalculation, 13 weeks means people are polishing their resumes.
EPCOT.nut
Well-Known Member
So at some time during the last week or so someone said "oops"
Maybe the extra touch-screens made the ride vehicles too heavy to safely return to Earth!
Scar Junior
Active Member
How can you say that without any information other than timelines? There could be new changes that were approved or perhaps as previously mentioned some flaw in the infrastructure was noticed and addressed.
But even if you're right and something did go very wrong... they're now fixing it and making it right.
I'm not concerned with this delay. I'm happy with them taking their time on whatever the issue is.
JimboJones123
Well-Known Member
Dear Diary,
Wow, they still haven't found a way to make SSE entertaining after 3 months worth of work. Guess they'll have to try a few more tricks. I'm sure if they just took a few flashlights and whirled them on the walls it would add so much more entertainment value to the most stale excuse for a time waster on property. Why not just turn the whole thing dark and play some noises through the speakers -- oh wait... Drew Carey already hosts that attraction.
Anyways, I hope the large obstruction that keeps me from walking straight to the fountain can be useful soon. It does provide some much needed shade in Epcot though.
Oh, and isn't that chipmunk from Enchanted the cutest thing ever -- it does look very similar to 3 other chipmunks that have a movie coming out this summer though.
Til Later Diary,
Jimbo.
Wow, they still haven't found a way to make SSE entertaining after 3 months worth of work. Guess they'll have to try a few more tricks. I'm sure if they just took a few flashlights and whirled them on the walls it would add so much more entertainment value to the most stale excuse for a time waster on property. Why not just turn the whole thing dark and play some noises through the speakers -- oh wait... Drew Carey already hosts that attraction.
Anyways, I hope the large obstruction that keeps me from walking straight to the fountain can be useful soon. It does provide some much needed shade in Epcot though.
Oh, and isn't that chipmunk from Enchanted the cutest thing ever -- it does look very similar to 3 other chipmunks that have a movie coming out this summer though.
Til Later Diary,
Jimbo.
JimboJones123
Well-Known Member
The Wizgets have been on back order for months now from Korea. And the first round of Doo-Dadds wore out to quickly, so they'll have to be upgraded to a stronger Pollywaddle.
I am in the construction business as well and I would tend to agree with jmvd20's assessment. You don't nearly double your construction time unless someone makes a huge mistake or something very major that was originally assessed as fine turns out to be not so fine.
The refurb on SSE is essentially like a house remodel. You might plan to repaint, replace the windows, re-do the kitchen and replace the roof but you would not decide to add on a second story on just a whim.