Brer Panther
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I've always loathed the "superimpose your photo onto a cartoon character" video they put in Spaceship Earth. If we ever actually get another refresh, I really hope they remove it.
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EPCOT Test Track to be reimagined
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UNCgolf
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I'd be shocked if they didn't. It's been wildly outdated for at least a decade.
PizzaPlanet
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It’s especially embarrassing considering what many people’s phones can do with filters and AI images
communicorn96
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No John Michael Higgins, no communicorn96.
Jayspency
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Hot take but I think test track is more of an Epcot icon than WOM.
Sorcerer Mickey
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No one outside this forum remembers WOM. I barely remember it as it is. The only visual I have is from an old WDW art book released during the 25th anniversary. Maybe I have old home videos buried somewhere.
UNCgolf
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Well that's just not true -- I'm sure most people who went to EPCOT in the 80s or early 90s remember it to some extent (doesn't mean they all liked it), which is a number vastly beyond the people who post here.
Personally, it was a much better attraction than Test Track, and the pavilion as a whole was significantly better than what's there now too.
Test Track is pretty good, though. It's easily the best replacement for any of the original EPCOT attractions.
UNCgolf
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I agree that most people under the age of 35 or so have little knowledge of it -- which I think also applies to Horizons, Imagination, 20K, etc.
But that's different than saying no one outside of this forum knows what it is. Millions of people rode it, and most of them aren't dead.
DreamfinderGuy
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I think you're greatly underestimating the "Defunctland effect" of young parks fans getting into all these long gone attractions. I would wager it's a large factor in how a WOM-inspired Test Track even got greenlit. These OG EPCOT shows really connect with modern audiences in a way I don't think many other closed attractions do.
MickeyLuv'r
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Speak for yourself. I have far more vivid memories of If You Had Wings than I do of WoM. I like Epcot in those days, but the rides all had a bit too much sameness back then, IMO, except Imagination.
UNCgolf
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It's all subjective.
For me, that version of EPCOT had the best attraction lineup of any park I've ever been to.
ToTBellHop
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Peter Quill remembers.
Streetway Again
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Is anyone else slightly worried about the fact we haven’t heard anything else about test track aside from that one forest scene concept art and that blanket “world of motion” statement?
I dunno, gives me slight unease.
I dunno, gives me slight unease.
James Alucobond
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It's not like there was that much to the indoor content of 2.0 in the first place, so I'm not sure I'd be worried about anything terribly special being lost.
Streetway Again
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I mean true. I’m just hoping they actually mean their world of motion wording, though I know Disney is Disney, and probably can fib. I do think they’re telling the truth tho.
Maybe it’s just me hoping Epcot will go in a better direction soon. Or eventually. Or at all.
Agent H
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Nothing of value will be lost
Agent H
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As long we get real prop trees and a fully sung version of “it’s fun to be free” I’ll go home happy
Streetway Again
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Agreed. Sets and the song would make me happy.
Cherry on top would be the sea serpent, or a “yeah seven” refrence or something.
I do LOVE the new overhang thing. Real
Improvement, and makes the motion pavilion look like a pavilion again