Worse Idea: Castle Cake or Epcot Arm?

[3IdAlienKid]

cake -- Cute idea, but like someone else said on this thread, I would have been mad if I'd been a first-time visitor and saw that instead of the actual castle.

arm & wand -- I think for what it is it looks great, but I'm all for tearing it down because I don't like what the Disney people intended to accomplish by leaving it there. Epcot has always had problems with attendance, in part due to difficulties with how to market a "permanent world's fair" that to the public seems to have little to do with Disney. By building the arm for the millenium and modifying it later, they were trying to help build the image that Epcot is clearly a Disney park -- as fun a place to be as the Magic Kingdom.

There's nothing wrong with trying to market the park as being more Disney-like, but Disney-ifying the actual icon itself? All this does is take away from the grandeur of the original structure as well as degrade its original vision for the park. Spaceship Earth -- the name says it all. The arm is way too cartoony to be put next to something so stately.

What could be next? Are they going to add a neon sign to the castle to help us remember it's the Magic Kingdom we're in? Will they carve Mickey & Minnie's images into the front of the Tree of Life? Will Miss Tilly at Typhoon Lagoon be transformed into Steamboat Willie? Sound stupid? So does the arm.

 

[mkepcotmgmak]

dinorama.. :lookaroun

 

[TheDisneyBoy]

EPCOT Hand

Seeing as how the stupid Mickey hand has been around longer, I must say the hand. EPCOT Center has always been near and dear to my heart. A true tragidy to see the sleek Spaceship Earth burdened with that hand. I hope Disney calls me the day they take that thing down. I will fly down and help them personally!

 

[Dizknee_Phreek]

:lol: yeah, i agree with mkepcotmgmak! dinorama is pretty horrible!

but seriously...i really did like the cake! i mean, that was really the first time, that i know of, that Disney had done a drastic change to one of their icons, so it was really new, and really cool. and, thank God, it was really temporary! i would have been outraged if they had left it like that! but i think it was a great way to celebrate their 25th! now, i don't know if *I* would have picked pink for the color...but i think pink served it well.

as for the stinking wand jutting out of the ground...well, that's a different story. it was fine for 2000. i didn't mind it when i thought it was temporary. but now that it seems to be staying for a while, i hate it. i think it totally ruins the magnificent architecture of SSE! and i've said this before, and i'll say it again...do we really have to be reminded of where we are? i mean, if someone needs that gigantic "Epcot" to remind them where they are, then maybe they shouldn't be there. That may sound harsh, but i really believe that.

btw, what happened to the tacky hat? that one should be on here too! i think i can handle the wand much better than i can handle that friggin hat! that thing completely ruins the whole feel of Hollywood Blvd.! :hurl: :brick:

 

[Michael72688]

I think Disney may leave so it gives the kids something to look at and something they can recognize. Since they care less about a stupid white ball

 

[General Grizz]

Originally posted by mkepcotmgmak
dinorama.. :lookaroun

AMEN!!!!

 

[BigNorm]

Spaceship Earth is Epcot

Originally posted by Michael72688
I think Disney may leave so it gives the kids something to look at and something they can recognize. Since they care less about a stupid white ball

As a "Disney Child," someone who virtually grew up in the Disney theme parks in FL, I have to say that I was always fascinated by SSE when I was little. I think of Epcot and instantly the Spaceship Earth geosphere comes to mind. No question, the arm is a detraction from the simple beauty that is Spaceship Earth.

 

[General Grizz]

I agree with Norm. White stupid ball? I assure you that's not what's in the eyes of children. It's natural EPCOT, and it's been accepted by kids for 21 years.

And unless the parents dub it "stupid" will the kids determine it so. It's truly a marvel.

In fact, if Disney removed the wand, I'm sure the children would find no major difference.

 

[bigbadwolf]

Re: Spaceship Earth is Epcot

Originally posted by BigNorm
As a "Disney Child," someone who virtually grew up in the Disney theme parks in FL, I have to say that I was always fascinated by SSE when I was little. I think of Epcot and instantly the Spaceship Earth geosphere comes to mind. No question, the arm is a detraction from the simple beauty that is Spaceship Earth.

I felt the same way when i first saw it. Even when I saw the Chinese Therater. I think its just plane stupid for the hat to be there. They actually have changed the posters from thier original Icons. The Epcot hand es me off the most, It has no meaning anymore.

 

[disnyfan89]

the cake

 

[BwanaBob]

Originally posted by grizzlyhall

In fact, if Disney removed the wand, I'm sure the children would find no major difference.

If I'm not mistaken, there's not much at the gift shops with a hideous arm plastered on the side of SSE!

I would think a marketing genius would have sealed that fate a while ago...

As opposed to the hat, however... there's plenty that suggests that monstrosity will be around for a while!

 

[General Grizz]

NEW REPORT IN:

THE OSBOURNE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO DECORATE THE TREE OF LIFE.

 

[BwanaBob]

Theres more lights than the entire tree and queue combined!

not to mention.. the park still closes early!

Is this a sign of later hours coming soon?

 

[Just A Big Kid]

Big White Ball

Ummmm... Michael..... umm.... THE BALL IS SILVER!!!!!! I don't know what is worse, your crappy opinion of a park you've obviously been to too many times or your color-blindness. :lol: :hammer:

 

[Just A Big Kid]

:lol: Sorry if that last one sounded bitter... it's been a long day