The (probably) Official Walt Disney World overhaul thread: Open Brainstorming

[Twilight_Roxas]

I think Epcot should put in a video game pavilion since Disney's Wreck-It Ralph is on the way.

[Jaalin32]

I like it but I think that it should be in innovations (I don't really think characters should be in future world)

[Twilight_Roxas]

Mickey & his friends are in a meet & greet area in future world so why not the main characters of Wreck-It Ralph having a video game pavilion and meet & greet area?

[Jaalin32]

Tell you the truth if I had it my way there would be no characters at Epcot. Back in it's hayday Epcot didn't have characters, because they made there own. Dreamfinder and Figment, Gyro, SMRT-1, etc had there own meet and greet at there pavilions receptively

[PhineasTheGhost]

One of the reasons I don't like EPCOT is because it has a lack of characters.

[Jaalin32]

/But mind you Epcot doesn't "Need" characters, the only characters that should be there is over in world showcase. The seas with nemo is more or less a worse version of the original ride. Also Epcot isn't like a normal disney park. It doesn't have all the Magic and pixie dust that all the other parks are drowned in. Epcot is about human kinds progression using Motion, Imagination, Land, Sea, Energy, Space, and medicine and are Different cultures. "Not" characters.
Now don't get me wrong I like the characters, and the magic wonder of it all but it should be only used for a theme park like DL, MK, DHS, DCL, etc.

[PhineasTheGhost]

That's the other reason I don't like EPCOT, it doesn't have the Disney magic.

[Twilight_Roxas]

Plus Wreck-It Ralph can't fit in Tomorrowland.

[Jaalin32]

Well I think Disney knew what they were getting into when making a Park based on Science and History. Plus I lied(XD) they have Disney magic they just explain it. Most of the Disney magic is in the food, Cast Members and at world showcase. Over in future world they sorta spoil it by "explaining" the magic. Also do you think the Epcot woulda had the Disney Magic, no it woulda been pure science and history.

[PhineasTheGhost]

Are you referring to the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow or something else?

[Jaalin32]

Yes Progress City the original Epcot

[PhineasTheGhost]

I think the original EPCOT would've had the Disney magic. Even the small town of Celebration in Florida has Disney magic.

[Jaalin32]

I know of course celebration has some(the best small town in america if you ask me). Epcot was a city that was gonna be made up of scientist, engineers, theme park workers, etc. Ever body who lived there ether work at MK or at the work complex. So yes there'd be a little but not alot maybe 80% science 20% magic

---------- Post added 03-27-2012 at 09:01 PM ----------

But then again the magic would be the technology

[PhineasTheGhost]

We could debate about this all day and get nowhere so I say we nip it in the bud now.

[Big Disney Fan]

/But mind you Epcot doesn't "Need" characters, the only characters that should be there is over in world showcase. The seas with nemo is more or less a worse version of the original ride. Also Epcot isn't like a normal disney park. It doesn't have all the Magic and pixie dust that all the other parks are drowned in. Epcot is about human kinds progression using Motion, Imagination, Land, Sea, Energy, Space, and medicine and are Different cultures. "Not" characters.
Now don't get me wrong I like the characters, and the magic wonder of it all but it should be only used for a theme park like DL, MK, DHS, DCL, etc.

So you're saying that Disney characters have no place at all in Epcot? That was what they tried to do with Epcot early on, to keep established Disney characters out of the park, but guests protested this and within a few years, the bigwigs capitulated and Mickey and the gang were brought in.

As for World Showcase, I have an idea for that, too: to include character meet-n-greets into each of the pavilions depicted, depending on the country of origin (i.e., Snow White in the Germany pavilion, Pinocchio in the Italy pavilion, etc.). That's how I would have the characters in Epcot.