Test Track refurb???

[mightynine]

That canopy concept looks fine, though I'd probably find a way to cover the scaffolding on the right.

Also, looks like the FP booths would keep their current style?

 

[JEANYLASER]

also looks like the Single Rider booth would keep their current style too!

 

[JEANYLASER]

I hope Single Rider booths would keep their current style just like the fast pass!

 

[MickeyMan101]

So who wants to take a Monorail ride for me? Cant get there before Christmas,but then Disney will be my permanent home for 6 months for their Hospitality Internship

 

[The Empress Lilly]

That is the crappiest, ugliest entrance to any amusement park ride anywhere in America. It looks even worse than anything they build in the EPCOT rip-off of North Korea's 'Kim Young-Il Future Showcase World'.

The construction workers across the road from me erected a scaffold structure like this, to protect their crew from the October rain. They'll tear it down early December when their work is done, because it is illegal to leave such devastatingly ugly temporary scaffold structures intact.

 

[AsanaDisney]

Some buildings from some of the World's Fairs still exist today. For instance, the Space Needle in Seatle is a remnant from the 1962 World Expo. The Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago still exists. The most iconic symbol from the 1964 New York World's Fair, The Unisphere (which made an appearance in Men in Black), still exists in Flushing-Meadow-Corona Park in the Queens. Color footage from the making of it can be found here:
http://archive.org/details/Unispher1964
More videos and links:

http://archive.org/details/ToTheFairA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisphere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Fair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Columbian_Exposition

Thank you for the info, glad to know that all of the buildings don't get demolished!

 

[HMF]

Subtle. (Sarcasm)

 

[disney fan 13]

Look's nice enough, way better then before.

 

[raven]

I agree and I was trying to figure out in my head what could be done about that. I think it would have looked better if they repainted the actual canopy structure dark blue before they start re-applying the panels.

Concept art.

 

[westcot1982]

I guess that small piece of blue banner that I saw on Saturday makes sense now:

Looks like it could be the start of the "T" or just a test they were doing of the colors.

I don't understand why the canopy was chosen to be kept. With the theme transition from test facility to design center, it doesn't fit with the image. It actually never did to begin with. There are many other solutions to providing shade and shelter from the rain.

 

[wdw71fan]

Concept art.

exactly.

I reference the AI artwork.. end result is nothing like it.

 

[NoChesterHester]

Lipstick meets pig.

 

[jdmdisney99]

I guess that small piece of blue banner that I saw on Saturday makes sense now:

Looks like it could be the start of the "T" or just a test they were doing of the colors.

I don't understand why the canopy was chosen to be kept. With the theme transition from test facility to design center, it doesn't fit with the image. It actually never did to begin with. There are many other solutions to providing shade and shelter from the rain.

Why would you need protection from the rain while waiting for a ride that doesn't work when it's raining?

 

[raven]

Why would you need protection from the rain while waiting for a ride that doesn't work when it's raining?

Rain isn't the problem. It's a sun shade for people waiting in this area.

 

[muteki]

I don't understand why the canopy was chosen to be kept. With the theme transition from test facility to design center, it doesn't fit with the image. It actually never did to begin with. There are many other solutions to providing shade and shelter from the rain.

I'd take what they put over near nemo over this any day, and I really really don't like that either.

You would think that track that overhangs the entrance provides cover, or at least, could be worked to provide sufficient cover. How often are people standing out in line as far as that canopy goes? I haven't seen that since the summer it opened.

 

[jdmdisney99]

Rain isn't the problem. It's a sun shade for people waiting in this area.

Yeah, that makes since, though as recently said, the line doesn't usually go out that far...

 

[westcot1982]

I'd take what they put over near nemo over this any day, and I really really don't like that either.

You would think that track that overhangs the entrance provides cover, or at least, could be worked to provide sufficient cover. How often are people standing out in line as far as that canopy goes? I haven't seen that since the summer it opened.

I was thinking the same thing. I don't care for the new pointless overhang at The Seas' entrance (it reminds me of something you'd find at SeaWorld), but at least it looks permanent. I don't think even SeaWorld would install something that looked so temporary and plain as the Test Track canopy does.

 

[raven]

I'd take what they put over near nemo over this any day, and I really really don't like that either.

You would think that track that overhangs the entrance provides cover, or at least, could be worked to provide sufficient cover. How often are people standing out in line as far as that canopy goes? I haven't seen that since the summer it opened.

It's not meant for the line of people waiting to ride TT. It's shade for anyone sitting in that area.

 

[raven]

Funny, when I post concept art here it always seems to end up on the front page of the website quickly.

 

[ChrisFL]

It's not meant for the line of people waiting to ride TT. It's shade for anyone sitting in that area.

Read: its for people too chicken or too small to ride