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WDW Epcot Refurbishment Open Brainstorming
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Yes, I do, but I won't give name who it is.
KP25701
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Disneyson 1
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I can't take it! It's Ron Stoppable, I WIN!!!!!!!
KP25701
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KP25701
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Well you know what you do not have a brain then,because I am the 1# Kim Possible fan world.Disney has made a fantastic adition to Epot!Kim Possible was there best show Disney have made.Well think over it it is the best thing disney has done since Mickey Mouse and his friends!
KP25701
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But do you remeber how?
Ok this has told me alot just now.You do not remember how Kim & Ron became bf & gf.:lol::lol::lol:
I have been to WDW many times. Last year I went in July & Oct and I just recently went last week. EPCOT is boring. It needs a major update on all aspects of that park.
If you want my opinion...
1. Universe of Engergy needs to be UPDATED Bad. That whole Ellen/Bill Nye is getting boring. The only enjoyable part of that ride is the dinosaur part.
2. Why isn't wonders of life open? In the past 6or 7 years it hasb't been open. It's a waste of space -- they should put a ride of some sort there
3. Honey I shurk the audience --- needs to be updated, I slept through that one.
4. Imagination -- i know it was just updated but ---it needs more done to it.
5. Inoventions -- It used to be really fun & now it's boring
6. Seas - acarquim needs to be redone i think
Epcot needs some uplift about it. It does have a certain quality I love about it but it has some things that are just old and outdated.
If you want my opinion...
1. Universe of Engergy needs to be UPDATED Bad. That whole Ellen/Bill Nye is getting boring. The only enjoyable part of that ride is the dinosaur part.
2. Why isn't wonders of life open? In the past 6or 7 years it hasb't been open. It's a waste of space -- they should put a ride of some sort there
3. Honey I shurk the audience --- needs to be updated, I slept through that one.
4. Imagination -- i know it was just updated but ---it needs more done to it.
5. Inoventions -- It used to be really fun & now it's boring
6. Seas - acarquim needs to be redone i think
Epcot needs some uplift about it. It does have a certain quality I love about it but it has some things that are just old and outdated.
FigmentJedi
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Obviously bring Imagination back to it's former glory, back to the Dreamport theme with Dreamfinder in charge again as he should be. Bring in the Dreamseekers from ToD in as additional characters in the ImageWorks and a little character show around the pavillion
The World Showcase parade based on Tapestry should have the Sage of TIme hosting again, just because he was a superior character. Bringing characters in alongside the puppets is a good sounding idea.
The World Showcase parade based on Tapestry should have the Sage of TIme hosting again, just because he was a superior character. Bringing characters in alongside the puppets is a good sounding idea.
KP25701
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I sincerely believe that Epcot needs a true water thrill ride, one that can you get at least as wet as Splash Mountain. Sorry, but Maelstrom only gets you as wet as on Pirates of the Caribbean.
I think we should do a river rapids ride. Yes, I know what you're thinking: "But the Animal Kingdom already has a river rapids ride." You're absolutely right, but I think there needs to be another one.
Where would it go, you ask, and what would it be themed to? How about putting it in the Germany pavilion and theme it to a rough-and-tumble trip down the Rhine river and some other rivers, culminating, of course, in a big drop over a waterfall. It needs a name, though. How about... Rhine River Run?
In fact, if you were to visit the website, Walt Dated World, and its section called Walt Deleted World, and its section on Epcot's World Showcase (go here: http://waltdatedworld.bravepages.com/id207.htm), you would notice this little message: "If you are near the Biergarten restaurant in Germany and feel like the entrance is similar to a ride queue, you're right. A boat ride down the Rhine and other rivers was planned but then dropped."
So, it's not like a water ride for Germany has been thought of before. For this, I think we could use the entrance in question as an entrance to the Rhine River Run. Of course, we can't use the entrance to the Biergarten as the ride entrance, but we can create an identical entrance for the ride.
So what do you think?
I think we should do a river rapids ride. Yes, I know what you're thinking: "But the Animal Kingdom already has a river rapids ride." You're absolutely right, but I think there needs to be another one.
Where would it go, you ask, and what would it be themed to? How about putting it in the Germany pavilion and theme it to a rough-and-tumble trip down the Rhine river and some other rivers, culminating, of course, in a big drop over a waterfall. It needs a name, though. How about... Rhine River Run?
In fact, if you were to visit the website, Walt Dated World, and its section called Walt Deleted World, and its section on Epcot's World Showcase (go here: http://waltdatedworld.bravepages.com/id207.htm), you would notice this little message: "If you are near the Biergarten restaurant in Germany and feel like the entrance is similar to a ride queue, you're right. A boat ride down the Rhine and other rivers was planned but then dropped."
So, it's not like a water ride for Germany has been thought of before. For this, I think we could use the entrance in question as an entrance to the Rhine River Run. Of course, we can't use the entrance to the Biergarten as the ride entrance, but we can create an identical entrance for the ride.
So what do you think?
KingMickey
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- In the Parks
- Yes
Epcot-
- First and foremost, I say change Epcot's name back to the original, Epcot CENTER,
Future World-
-Spaceship Earth: Go back to the Jeremy Irons narration. Sorry Judi Dench. Keep the new multi-language spiel. Have the new cart video sceens display a timeline of each era, with visuals, as you pass through the ride. Officially complete the ending, minus the "create your own future" and bring back the city of tomorrow and all those crazy fiber optics.
-The Seas with Nemo and Friends: Refurbish it so that the ride isn't mainly a video projection ride. Add some new audio-animatronics into the ride.
-Soarin': Replace the video with a new video that showcases the world's outstanding beauty and most popular icons of the earth.
-Journey Into Imagination: I don't even know where to start. Getting to the point, make it a of copy of the original attraction, making it as beautiful and creative as it could possibly be.
-Honey, I shrunk the Audience: Replace the film with a new Figment and Dreamfinder 3-D film, where Dreamfinder takes guests on his blimp, where he and Figment search to find the true imagination.
- First and foremost, I say change Epcot's name back to the original, Epcot CENTER,
Future World-
-Spaceship Earth: Go back to the Jeremy Irons narration. Sorry Judi Dench. Keep the new multi-language spiel. Have the new cart video sceens display a timeline of each era, with visuals, as you pass through the ride. Officially complete the ending, minus the "create your own future" and bring back the city of tomorrow and all those crazy fiber optics.
-The Seas with Nemo and Friends: Refurbish it so that the ride isn't mainly a video projection ride. Add some new audio-animatronics into the ride.
-Soarin': Replace the video with a new video that showcases the world's outstanding beauty and most popular icons of the earth.
-Journey Into Imagination: I don't even know where to start. Getting to the point, make it a of copy of the original attraction, making it as beautiful and creative as it could possibly be.
-Honey, I shrunk the Audience: Replace the film with a new Figment and Dreamfinder 3-D film, where Dreamfinder takes guests on his blimp, where he and Figment search to find the true imagination.
Yes, definitely return to its old title. Maybe even bring back that unofficial logo for Epcot and maybe its old font:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a392/elvibora/EpcotIcon.jpg
I agree with you about everything, save for having Jeremy Irons as the narrator. We should have a new person serve as narrator. How about maybe Morgan Freeman? And don't forget the ride's "unofficial" theme song, "Tomorrow's Child".
I wouldn't exactly have a copy of the original attraction; maybe make a brand-new attraction done in the old attraction's style.
ScorpionX
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Hi-ho, Kermit the frog here, I once made a PowerPoint to simulate your ideas, Disneyson 1. Tom Nook and Totokeke (aka KK Slider) made brief appearances in my version. I also like how you made references to all the Future World pavilions, just like Horizons did.
* You can also show one or all three Magic Kingdom mountains.
** The "Tower" can be seen, as well.
*** You guessed it, Expedition: Everest makes an appearance with the Yeti waving Hello to everyone at the top of the mountain.
PS, Tom Nook and KK Slider are from Animal Crossing.
ScorpionX
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*Hi-ho, Kermit the frog here, the new Imagination ride should have Dreamfinder, the one who finds people's dreams.
**The fireworks display should be called "IllumiNations -An International Celebration!"
***The Lewis & Clark River Expedition was a proposed rapid-ride for the Magic Kingdom's Frontierland. It will be brought to life here in Epcot at the Canada Pavilion.
****Israel, UAE, and Russia were all pavilions that were to open in the early 90s but never did because of either the Cold War or the Persian Gulf War.
*****Brazil could have a Matterhorn-type attraction called Rainforest Mountain. It would be a denfinite E-Ticket/FASTPASS attraction.
There could be an Epcot opening ceremony like the one at the Magic Kigndom, but more scientific and futuristic-sounding in music.
Here is a list of characters that could be in the ceremony:
Ellen DeGeneres
Bill Nye
Bill McKim
Sherry
Dreamfinder
Figment
Simba
Timon
Pumbaa
Food Rocks!/Kitchen Kabaret cast
Nemo
Marlin
Dory
Crush
Panchito
Donald Duck
Jose
Vikings
Mulan
Mushu
Snow White
Dopey
Grumpy
Pinocchio
Geppetto
Jiminy Cricket
Aladdin
Jasmine
Genie
Beauty
Beast
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Peter Pan
Wendy
Alice
Mad Hatter
Mary Poppins
Brother Bear characters
Mickey
Minnie
Goofy
Pluto
Clarabelle
Daisy
Figaro
The music could be the entrance music heard in the entrance plaza. What do you think?
MarkTwain
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Well, my vision for Epcot would probably never happen, as it would involve changing nearly ever pavilion, but for the purposes of this thread, let's get started!
The park would be renamed EPCOT Center, and all of the attractions would receive individual logos, like the ones they used to have. The park would be stylized and marketed with the old 1980s-aesthetic.
Leave a Legacy is removed, and replaced with landscaping and flowerbeds that allow better guestflow. The tiles would be put on display inside a new gallery to the side.
The Universe of Energy is updated to remove Ellen and Bill Nye, and would now include new videos and a renewable energies scene following the Dinosaur scene, featuring windmills and the like. The pre-show movie and the final film would play on the spinning-block screens, like the ones used in the original version.
Mission Space would receive a small dark ride following the simulator ride, in which you would tour a space station and learn about the strides we can make in space in the far future.
Test track is overhauled, removing the ugly scaffolding from the front of the circular building, and receiving a new name, perhaps something like Transit Tomorrow. This ride would be themed to a drive around a city of the future in much more futuristic-looking cars, featuring monorails, personal rapid transit cars, and light-rail, with all of the different modes of transportation being explained to you along the way. The ride would end with a zip around the current track, but backstage would be blocked by facades of futuristic skyscrapers.
Spaceship Earth
The ride is just about right, but the descent would have lighting effects all the way down, and the Spaceship Earth model would be restored.
Innoventions Plaza would be cleaned up, with the tarps removed and the Umbrella Cafe getting a new roof, with the whole area receiving general aesthetic improvements.
Nemo would be evicted from the Seas pavilion, with a new dark ride taking you into the ocean and witnessing an imaginary underwater utopia of the future, set among the current tanks of fish. Turtle Talk may stay, but the Hydrolators would return to the exit.
Living with the Land is alright, but Soarin would be changed to Soarin over the World, and the interior of the pavilion would receive an earthier color scheme - browns, reds, greens, etc.
Imagination would become a new trackless ride, featuring Figment and Dreamfinder, and exploring the realms of our imagination, and the imaginary places where our thoughts may come from... ie, Common Sense, the Mind's Eye, Nostalgia, Dreams, etc. and with a finale celebrating the products of our imagination, like the arts and cinema. The ride would take over the current HISTA and ImageWorks, with the new (old) ImageWorks taking place upstairs.
Many of the pavilions in World Showcase would receive new attractions, in addition to a new country. Italy would receive a chariot-based dark ride through the history of Italy, France would feature a streetcar ride through the streets of Paris and the French countryside, and the UK would also receive an attraction, perhaps a wild ride through London featuring Mr. Toad.
A new country would open on the site of the outpost, preferably Brazil, thereby introducing South America and the language of Portuguese to World Showcase. Brazil would be represented by Sugarloaf Mountain (pic) overlooking a Brazilian village, with a skyway ride ascending from the ground and up the mountain (another pic) to inside its hidden showbuilding, exploring the various regions of Brazil, like the Amazon Rainforest and the lively streets of Rio de Janeiro. The pavilion would also have an elaborate Carnival-type street party in its plaza every now and then.
Finally, and this has been bugging me for a while, the fast food-type restaurant at the American pavilion would instead serve much nicer American-inspired dishes, because the U.S. has so much more to offer to the world of cuisine than hamburgers and french fries... like Barbecue, for one.
Well that's about it. Pretty feasible, no?
The park would be renamed EPCOT Center, and all of the attractions would receive individual logos, like the ones they used to have. The park would be stylized and marketed with the old 1980s-aesthetic.
Leave a Legacy is removed, and replaced with landscaping and flowerbeds that allow better guestflow. The tiles would be put on display inside a new gallery to the side.
The Universe of Energy is updated to remove Ellen and Bill Nye, and would now include new videos and a renewable energies scene following the Dinosaur scene, featuring windmills and the like. The pre-show movie and the final film would play on the spinning-block screens, like the ones used in the original version.
Mission Space would receive a small dark ride following the simulator ride, in which you would tour a space station and learn about the strides we can make in space in the far future.
Test track is overhauled, removing the ugly scaffolding from the front of the circular building, and receiving a new name, perhaps something like Transit Tomorrow. This ride would be themed to a drive around a city of the future in much more futuristic-looking cars, featuring monorails, personal rapid transit cars, and light-rail, with all of the different modes of transportation being explained to you along the way. The ride would end with a zip around the current track, but backstage would be blocked by facades of futuristic skyscrapers.
Spaceship Earth
The ride is just about right, but the descent would have lighting effects all the way down, and the Spaceship Earth model would be restored.
Innoventions Plaza would be cleaned up, with the tarps removed and the Umbrella Cafe getting a new roof, with the whole area receiving general aesthetic improvements.
Nemo would be evicted from the Seas pavilion, with a new dark ride taking you into the ocean and witnessing an imaginary underwater utopia of the future, set among the current tanks of fish. Turtle Talk may stay, but the Hydrolators would return to the exit.
Living with the Land is alright, but Soarin would be changed to Soarin over the World, and the interior of the pavilion would receive an earthier color scheme - browns, reds, greens, etc.
Imagination would become a new trackless ride, featuring Figment and Dreamfinder, and exploring the realms of our imagination, and the imaginary places where our thoughts may come from... ie, Common Sense, the Mind's Eye, Nostalgia, Dreams, etc. and with a finale celebrating the products of our imagination, like the arts and cinema. The ride would take over the current HISTA and ImageWorks, with the new (old) ImageWorks taking place upstairs.
Many of the pavilions in World Showcase would receive new attractions, in addition to a new country. Italy would receive a chariot-based dark ride through the history of Italy, France would feature a streetcar ride through the streets of Paris and the French countryside, and the UK would also receive an attraction, perhaps a wild ride through London featuring Mr. Toad.
A new country would open on the site of the outpost, preferably Brazil, thereby introducing South America and the language of Portuguese to World Showcase. Brazil would be represented by Sugarloaf Mountain (pic) overlooking a Brazilian village, with a skyway ride ascending from the ground and up the mountain (another pic) to inside its hidden showbuilding, exploring the various regions of Brazil, like the Amazon Rainforest and the lively streets of Rio de Janeiro. The pavilion would also have an elaborate Carnival-type street party in its plaza every now and then.
Finally, and this has been bugging me for a while, the fast food-type restaurant at the American pavilion would instead serve much nicer American-inspired dishes, because the U.S. has so much more to offer to the world of cuisine than hamburgers and french fries... like Barbecue, for one.
Well that's about it. Pretty feasible, no?
ScorpionX
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*Hi-ho, Kermit the frog here, Ellen & Bill Nye are the reasosns why people are even going to the Universe of Energy now. Taking them away would not be a good idea.
**I do like your idea of the windmill film coming back.
***Mission: SPACE should be evicted out of Epcot PERIOD. Horizons should come back as New Horizons. At least Horizons did not kill anyone, as with Mission: SPACE.
****Test Track is as fine as it is. Nothing should change about it.
*****same thing with Test Track, but with Nemo
******I do like your idea about Dreamfinder. HISTA should be replaced by an attraction where Figment, Dreamfinder, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and the Muppet Labs have messed up on a time machine. Out of the machine comes a T Rex, Native Americans, Genghis Khan, and an army of robots, and they all cuase havoc. Think HISTA meets Alien Encounter.
*******Do you mean Mr. Toad's Wild Ride will move into the UK pavilion from Fantasyland?
********The Skyway in Brazil will end up just like MK's Skyway. Someone is going to fall to their death out of the car, and the ride will close due to that.
*********That is a restaurant I would love to go to, Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens).
%The individual logos could have plaques in the entrance plaza, as well as the flags of countries in World Showcase (they could be on flagpoles, instead).
MarkTwain
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In a manner of speaking. It wouldn't be the Mr. Toad's everyone would remember. It would still feature the old-fashioned automobiles, and Mr. Toad and friends would be in it, but the emphasis would be less on the life and times of the Toad of Toad Hall, and more about the city of London. Imagine zooming past the Parliament Building, Tower Bridge, and St. Paul's Cathedral, with Mr. Toad wreaking havoc all the way.
Not necessarily. I imagined only the beginning would reach any sort of height; once inside the showbuilding, the ride would be much more like Peter Pan's Flight, certainly not high enough to kill anybody. Besides, I imagined that guests would be much more secure in this ride, with seatbelts or lap bars at the very least.
Why thank you.
JEANYLASER
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Illumnations: One World needs a new narrator maybe Morgan Freeman to be the new narrator of Illumnations: One World? What do you think!
CharlieD
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I would want to make the world pavilions a real draw with proper fully fledged attractions in each of them. For Canada although there is practically no space, if it was possible I think it would be great to see Grizzly River Run or something similar.
For France, adding the Ratatouille trackless dark ride that's supposedly coming to Walt Disney Studios in 2012 would be a really great way to attract families with young children to Epcot.
Possibly a Pinocchio attraction could go in Italy, but I'm not sure if that could fit in with the Venice theme.
A Mr Toad's Wild Ride through is a cool idea. I had an idea for a Pirates of the Caribbean style ride based on Oliver Twist, the story by Charles Dickens. It would be based on the story and feature songs from the musical, culminating in a big drop. The queue and building would be themed to Victorian architecture.
A Brazil pavilion is a great idea and I would also like to the Equatorial Africa, Russia and Switzerland pavilions realized some day.
I've got big ideas for Future World which I'll post later.
For France, adding the Ratatouille trackless dark ride that's supposedly coming to Walt Disney Studios in 2012 would be a really great way to attract families with young children to Epcot.
Possibly a Pinocchio attraction could go in Italy, but I'm not sure if that could fit in with the Venice theme.
A Mr Toad's Wild Ride through is a cool idea. I had an idea for a Pirates of the Caribbean style ride based on Oliver Twist, the story by Charles Dickens. It would be based on the story and feature songs from the musical, culminating in a big drop. The queue and building would be themed to Victorian architecture.
A Brazil pavilion is a great idea and I would also like to the Equatorial Africa, Russia and Switzerland pavilions realized some day.
I've got big ideas for Future World which I'll post later.
JEANYLASER
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Yeah Replace HISTA film to Figment and Dreamfinder 3-D Film too! and Updated Soarin' also!