Wonders of Life photo post

[JeffH]

No, my choice is that if they are going to have meatloaf on the menu, that it is actually meatloaf, and not some cheap turkey alternative that my dd doesn't want to eat. And, funny, but Cosmic Ray doesn't serve meatloaf, and as I know of the only meatloaf is at DHS at the Prime Time Diner (and it is awesome).
No, my choice was that we wanted to eat in the new Beast's Castle, not at Cosmic Ray's concrete cattle call.
No, my point was more that they shouldn't be 'experimenting' on my kids with their 'healthy' alternatives.
My dd loves meatloaf, but she wasn't about to 'try' this, so she chose the macaroni, instead, thanks Disney!
I got it in addition to my pork meal for both of us to try and it was not anything to recommend.
If they were really concerned they would have regular meatloaf with the healthy alternative 'option' if we wanted.
What if Disney decided to get rid of all beef and replace it throughout the parks (Eisner was pushing turkey burgers pretty hard)...you'd be arguing your butt off, too.
Getting your kids to eat 'good' at WDW is always a concern, but the concern is that they eat at all, not how healthy it is (it isn't very healthy if they don't eat it).

 

[RedFurredCadet]

I don't want to clog this post with shameless boasting about my interest in the pavilion, but I guess the survey results may as well have shown what a tremendous effect the pavilion has on its visitors.

And yes, seems we've opened a time capsule here. Amazing how the photos survived the turn of the decade (didn't end up as 'missing links'). Whoops, too far, too soon?

 

[luv]

That's a REAL GOOD POINT. With Disney forcing healthy foods down our throats, they should reopen the Health pavilion, otherwise they're being pretty hypocritical. One of the kids meals at the new Beast Castle is Turkey Meatloaf...kids are picky enough eaters without 'fowling' it up like this (my daughter turned away from this, even though <real> meatloaf is one of her favorites) and I found it less tasty than regular meatloaf.
We are on vacation and we want REAL food that tastes GOOD...now if you want to offer healthy alternatives to the REAL food, than fine, but don't take away the real, regular, tastier food.
Offer meatloaf but have a healthy alternative turkey meatloaf choice as well.
If they want to teach us to eat better then let us decide by giving us our plate of meatloaf and include a sample plate of the alternative turkey meatloaf.

Why is turkey not real food? Or REAL food?

 

[BrightImagine]

It took me a minute to realize this was an old thread when I opened it. Seeing the pictures was like seeing a ghost.

I miss those cute little activities on the main floor space, and the refreshments, more than I miss Body Wars or Cranium Command.

 

[hiptwinmama]

Let's Face EPCOT's entire tomorrow land is in desperate need of a HUGE makeover. I do wish they could find a way to re open/re use WOL.

 

[JeffH]

Why is turkey not real food? Or REAL food?

I love turkey...when it's turkey, but I want my other food to be what it suppose to be ("real"), not turkeyfied, so I want my meatloaf made of meats and such, and my hot dogs made from gosh-who-knows-what...
Unreal=turkey-burger, tofu-burger, or anything else pretending to be something else. How about turkey-churros, or if they replace the turkey legs with Emu legs? Or if they started using yogurt in your Dole-Whips, or just went ahead and made everything fat free and/or lite?
Sure, they can offer the healthier version, but just don't take away the tastier version. We're out there walking miles a day in the hot sun...that's healthy enough for me, now let me eat!

 

[pumpkin7]

Poor Buzzy man, poor Buzzy... sat in that dimly lit room for eternity, slowly losing his hair, and motor function of one eye... Buzzy needs to be saved! Alas, his name is too similar to another certain Buzz Lightyear, so I fear he is destined to sit there for all eternity, surveying an empty auditorium, while his body parts slowly fall off.
I remember Body Wars from that pavilion. It's the only thing though. I don't remember every seeing Cranium Command. Sad, very sad.

 

[bsiev1977]

I love turkey...when it's turkey, but I want my other food to be what it suppose to be ("real"), not turkeyfied, so I want my meatloaf made of meats and such, and my hot dogs made from gosh-who-knows-what...
Unreal=turkey-burger, tofu-burger, or anything else pretending to be something else. How about turkey-churros, or if they replace the turkey legs with Emu legs? Or if they started using yogurt in your Dole-Whips, or just went ahead and made everything fat free and/or lite?
Sure, they can offer the healthier version, but just don't take away the tastier version. We're out there walking miles a day in the hot sun...that's healthy enough for me, now let me eat!

Emu legs! Great idea. Think of how big an Emu leg would be.

 

[Figments Friend]

Well as long as we're on the subject, here are some shots I grabbed of WoL when it was open for F&W this past year:

^ One of the more colorful entrances into a pavilion, if you ask me. And here's a panorama of the interior... as you can see, the chandelier's still intact:

Wow Mark....beautiful photos!
You really have a good eye behind the lens.

Still enjoying that Land pic of yours as my currant screensaver..!

 

[Can we go yet?]

Who bumped this up? :C Wow, Body Wars was still there back then? When was it gutted?

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Wow, looking at that pictures in the OP almost a decade later, it strikes me just how good WoL still looked in 2005.

I had this image in my head of that pavilion looking horribly outdated. But that thing looks good!

Maybe it is the natural progression of time: fashion looks cringeworthy a few years after it was fashionable, then slowly becomes classic after that. 1989 is looking cool again, instead of ridiculous as it did around the turn of the century.

 

[Lexxweb]

I got really excited til I realized it was just a bump

 

[JustInTime]

I was sooooooo confused when I started reading this. Wow. And I hated this pavilion as a kid. I thought Body Wars was the Star Wars ride everyone was talking about and after I rode it, I still thought that for years and years. It was awful.

 

[prfctlyximprct]

Sooo much space in Epcot for attractions! And restaurants.. ahh the possibilities!

 

[MarkTwain]

Wow Mark....beautiful photos!
You really have a good eye behind the lens.

Still enjoying that Land pic of yours as my currant screensaver..!

Well thank you! Rest assured I don't get to make use of these photos very often, haha... pictures of abandoned Epcot pavilions do not good family scrapbooks make...

 

[Alien]

the pavilion was doomed from the start

 

[JeffH]

...due to the stupid themeing of its E attraction Body Wars...maybe they should have combined Body Wars and The Making of Me...put Martin Short as the ship captain as we piloted through the testicles to learn where babies came from, shooting into the females uterus where we witnessed conception and the growth of...Martin Short, leaving through the birth canal at birth....How wonderous that would have been.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I was sooooooo confused when I started reading this. Wow. And I hated this pavilion as a kid. I thought Body Wars was the Star Wars ride everyone was talking about and after I rode it, I still thought that for years and years. It was awful.

Body Wars was my first experience with simulators. I loved it and went to see it every trip. I like Star Tours too!

 

[Alien]

hmm... never went on body wars... but it kinda seemed like a horrible experience

 

[disneysince71]

Miss this place... It was somewhere we could go with not so many crowds... Our family loved Body Wars...