EPCOT Test Track to be reimagined

Ayla · Tuesday at 5:12 PM

virtualangel said:
this definitely wont be like the yeti. trust me they'll be fixed

Doubt it.

peter11435 · Tuesday at 6:49 PM

Ayla said:
Doubt it.

They’ve been fixed every time this has happened before. This time will be no different.

Disstevefan1 · Tuesday at 7:06 PM

I think even todays Disney will be able to fix this eventually.

HMF · Tuesday at 8:38 PM

virtualangel said:
this definitely wont be like the yeti. trust me they'll be fixed

Weren't they saying that about the yeti in like 2008? Never mind that Spaceship Earth is going on 20 years without an actual ending.

Moth · Tuesday at 9:38 PM

HMF said:
Weren't they saying that about the yeti in like 2008? Never mind that Spaceship Earth is going on 20 years without an actual ending.

2008 Spaceship Earth's ending which was an Imagineering choice ≠ Doors, an effect on a ride being broken.

virtualangel · Tuesday at 10:26 PM

HMF said:
Weren't they saying that about the yeti in like 2008? Never mind that Spaceship Earth is going on 20 years without an actual ending.

u r always so negative this is an effect on a ride dude it'll be fixed at some point

Disgruntled Walt · Tuesday at 11:13 PM

virtualangel said:
u r always so negative this is an effect on a ride dude it'll be fixed at some point

So was the yeti...just saying...

I hope this gets fixed, but no one can say in certainty that it WILL FOR SURE BE FIXED.

virtualangel · Wednesday at 1:07 AM

Disgruntled Walt said:
So was the yeti...just saying...

I hope this gets fixed, but no one can say in certainty that it WILL FOR SURE BE FIXED.

yeti was turned off because of the infrastructure in the mountain. these are doors. not comparable in the slightest

HMF · Wednesday at 1:28 AM

virtualangel said:
u r always so negative this is an effect on a ride dude it'll be fixed at some point

If you saw one of the greatest endings to any Disney attraction torn out to draw your attention away from it with a stupid flash animation on the in-vehicle screen to distract you and it remained in that state for nearly 20 years you can understand why I would be negative about it.

peter11435 · Wednesday at 6:29 AM

HMF said:
If you saw one of the greatest endings to any Disney attraction torn out to draw your attention away from it with a stupid flash animation on the in-vehicle screen to distract you and it remained in that state for nearly 20 years you can understand why I would be negative about it.

I get being upset about the changes to SSE. But the two are not comparable.

virtualangel · Wednesday at 8:26 AM

HMF said:
If you saw one of the greatest endings to any Disney attraction torn out to draw your attention away from it with a stupid flash animation on the in-vehicle screen to distract you and it remained in that state for nearly 20 years you can understand why I would be negative about it.

we are talking abt doors here not spaceship earth

Jedi14 · Wednesday at 10:22 AM

peter11435 said:
I get being upset about the changes to SSE. But the two are not comparable.

Some fans tend to hold long grudges.

jah4955 · Wednesday at 10:35 AM

HMF said:
If you saw one of the greatest endings to any Disney attraction torn out to draw your attention away from it with a stupid flash animation on the in-vehicle screen to distract you and it remained in that state for nearly 20 years you can understand why I would be negative about it.

At this stage, why not just uncover the 1994 SE finale pieces (I realize not as simple as it sounds but it wouldn't be that complicated either)? Two potential benefits: people can enjoy them like they do the current CoP finale (amusing nostalgia on how things were seen around 1993/1994), plus its datedness could further spur demand for the overdue update to SSE finale like they just announced for CoP. I don't think I'm too wacky here...after all...their limited return of Captain EO was both a popularly-received appeal to nostalgia and a chance to laugh at the elements that had become dated by 2009/10 (most of it).

ToTBellHop · Wednesday at 11:15 AM

peter11435 said:
They were… eventually. And then broke again. More than once

So we shouldn't make plans for them to operate any more reliably than the World Celebration lights.

Kamikaze · Wednesday at 11:27 AM

jah4955 said:
At this stage, why not just uncover the 1994 SE finale pieces (I realize not as simple as it sounds but it wouldn't be that complicated either)? Two potential benefits: people can enjoy them like they do the current CoP finale (amusing nostalgia on how things were seen around 1993/1994), plus its datedness could further spur demand for the overdue update to SSE finale like they just announced for CoP. I don't think I'm too wacky here...after all...their limited return of Captain EO was both a popularly-received appeal to nostalgia and a chance to laugh at the elements that had become dated by 2009/10 (most of it).

Counterpoint: They should never have brought EO back.

jah4955 · Wednesday at 1:29 PM

Kamikaze said:
Counterpoint: They should never have brought EO back.

As I mentioned, it was about BOTH nostalgia AND realizing how times have changed. Watching its limited re-release at Imagination Pavilion c. 2010, I had moments of reliving my childhood 1980s nostalgia plus many cringeworthy moments during the film of, "how was ANYONE comfortable with THIS in the 1980s!?" I realize that what the final version of the Animation Pavilion reboot will be is TBD, but it seems they are relying, at least in a small part, on nostalgia, as indicated by the presence of 1989 Robbin Williams Lost Boy in art.

Kamikaze · Wednesday at 2:06 PM

jah4955 said:
As I mentioned, it was about BOTH nostalgia AND realizing how times have changed. Watching its limited re-release at Imagination Pavilion c. 2010, I had moments of reliving my childhood 1980s nostalgia plus many cringeworthy moments during the film of, "how was ANYONE comfortable with THIS in the 1980s!?" I realize that what the final version of the Animation Pavilion reboot will be is TBD, but it seems they are relying, at least in a small part, on nostalgia, as indicated by the presence of 1989 Robbin Williams Lost Boy in art.

It was capitalizing on (him) dying. Thats all.

MisterPenguin · Wednesday at 5:12 PM

virtualangel said:
yeti was turned off because of the infrastructure in the mountain. these are doors. not comparable in the slightest

This is off topic, but...

Yeti was turned off because its internal 'bones and joints' couldn't withstand the momentum of its actions. The infrastructure of EE wasn't an issue at all.

HMF · Wednesday at 10:33 PM

jah4955 said:
At this stage, why not just uncover the 1994 SE finale pieces (I realize not as simple as it sounds but it wouldn't be that complicated either)? Two potential benefits: people can enjoy them like they do the current CoP finale (amusing nostalgia on how things were seen around 1993/1994), plus its datedness could further spur demand for the overdue update to SSE finale like they just announced for CoP. I don't think I'm too wacky here...after all...their limited return of Captain EO was both a popularly-received appeal to nostalgia and a chance to laugh at the elements that had become dated by 2009/10 (most of it).

All that's left is the peppers ghost video communication scenes. The model city and everything after it were already removed in 2007.

HMF · Wednesday at 10:34 PM

Kamikaze said:
Counterpoint: They should never have brought EO back.

To be fair that is probably true.

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