Correction: Ellen is not STILL popular, she's popular AGAIN.That thing has been around so long that we've seen her fall out if and back into the limelight.
Very good point. All the more reason for it to go away.
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The FRONT of Epcot Really Needs to become Future World
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Very good point. All the more reason for it to go away.
My assistant and I were talking about this yesterday. Piggybacking on someone else's comment... if they turned the Innovations area into a World's Fair type of showcase with all of the newest and future technologies that companies put out so we can see them in action, play with them and just be amazed.
Then maybe in one area, I would love a Motion Capture Virtual Reality immersive environment. You are scanned by Motion Capture and as you move you are transported into a 3-D world that you see through your visor. The scenario can change and you can interact with all different historical figures, Disney Characters, and in different versions of the future. That would be MUCH better than the cut-and-paste face exit on Spaceship Earth.
We want something AMAZING from Disney.
morningstar
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I'm all in favor of any improvement to Future World, be it content or aesthetics, but I'm gonna disagree with you here. I don't think Epcot's design belongs to any particular era, like Tomorrowland's did. I don't recognize a special 80's version of futurism, in the same way as there was a 50s version of futurism, with its ubiquitous rocket motifs of fins, glowing red cones, streamlining. What makes the architecture of Epcot futuristic is that it is unique. It doesn't look like the present or the past, so it must be the future. It is still unique today, so to me it still seems futuristic.
If any particular details were just done without much thought about making them futuristic, in styles current when the park opened, then sure those could be updated, just like in any part of the resort showing its age.
If any particular details were just done without much thought about making them futuristic, in styles current when the park opened, then sure those could be updated, just like in any part of the resort showing its age.
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morningstar
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I saw something like that at the Experience Music Project in Seattle; it was a temporary Avatar exhibit. It motion-captured you and rendered you as an avatar walking around Pandora. Pretty cool.
Grumpy4196
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I used to love FW but if Disney is not going to spend the money to properly maintain and constantly update (which they aren't) then they need to just scrap the Future Wolrd theme and go with something else that is not constantly evolving. Go ahead and make it Villains or Star Wars or Lucas Land or something. Better yet a Jules Verne type FW.
Tobe
Active Member
Groovy was the 70's. The 80's were like awesome and totally tubular. Class of 87 rules!
Victor Kelly
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I liked the old Communicore even though I was too young to appreciate it. Something needs to be done to this area.
Susan Savia
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The front of Epcot IS Future World. They have removed the great Horizons and World of Motion, but the other areas are educational and well worth the time spent in each. Who cares what the bathrooms look like as long as their clean and accessible.
copcarguyp71
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...and left WOL empty...Odyssey unused...Imagination half undone and closed off...water features turned off...a cemetery in front of SSE. Apparently the future is not looking so good
DisneyJunkie
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Future World has been a mess for quite some time. SSE while a sentimental and nostalgic favorite received 'updates' that really did nothing to keep it relevant and fresh (especially with the lame backwards section and the bland narration). MS I still find to be a great attraction and still relevant. JII is a complete disgrace and has been since the first version was replaced (and Captain EO should never have seen the light of day again). Test Track, while still fun, actually had an upgrade that kind of made it more future-relevant, though now it really just looks like a Tron-based racing game. WoM still being closed makes for a total waste of space. And then you have Universe of Energy with its terrible inclusion of Ellen Degeneres and its very badly outdated animatronics. Before we need a new theme park, the old ones like this should get a serious amount of attention. Surely today's Imagineers (who can come up with EE, 7DMM, ToT, etc) can come up with something to make Epcot exciting again.
copcarguyp71
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I am in total agreement and I am SURE they can and probably have many ideas filed away for the day when upper management actually allows them a little more freedom and loosens their reigns (and purse strings) a bit.
Wikkler
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As a dinosaur fan, I say you have no idea...
http://www.myjurassicpark.com/jb--allosaurus-stegosaurus.jpg
Minthorne
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I was '88
Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
DisneyJunkie
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Now compare that to the ones over at AK in "Dinosaur".....no contest.
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
I love LwtL but I think they should really do something with those nature scenes with the AAs and such! I'd really love to see the AAs upgraded and more lifelike. Those scenes kind of just feel like an indoor Jungle Cruise but without any cheesy jokes to keep them interesting or entertaining.
My favorite scenes of all being the forest scenes with the alligators and such, they could be pretty creative with the effects and such here! Like.. Why not? It could be one of those "hidden gem" attractions... like the american adventure. Most people don't know what it is, but when they go on it, they're like "wow, that was really cool
" Yah got me? Or am I by myself here? \(o.o)/
Figments Friend
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Time to see Future World becoming futuristic and forward thinking again.
TIme to see Future World become a place that inspires and empowers it*s visitors once again.
Like it used to....
Time to see Future World becoming futuristic and forward thinking again.
TIme to see Future World become a place that inspires and empowers it*s visitors once again.
Like it used to....
Cmdr_Crimson
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Time to see Future World becoming futuristic and forward thinking again.
TIme to see Future World become a place that inspires and empowers it*s visitors once again.
Like it used to....
Interesting shirt showing the Imagination Pavilion with it's original Balcony Concept that never happend..Here's the Concept art that shows it..
Cmdr_Crimson
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At least the majority of UoE Dinos move compared to the Compsognathus and Pterodactyl that haven't moved in several years...
Figments Friend
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Interesting shirt showing the Imagination Pavilion with it's original Balcony Concept that never happend..Here's the Concept art that shows it..
Indeed.
This t-shirt graphic was one of the first sold in the Park, and consisted primarily of concept artwork images.
If you look closely, you can see elements from various concept works done for Horizons, The Living Seas, and the original Spaceship Earth.