r/Epcot

This is the latest in the summer we've gone with no news on a Food & Wine fest menu in at least 10 years. Has anyone heard anything about this or we're just all in the dark here?

I can only do one and would love feedback on, which would be better? Not much of a drinker and I love trying new and delicious foods. 😋 I went to the Food and Wine Fest at Disney, California Adventure and that was fun, but the lines and the crowds were a Lot in that heat to access the prepaid tasting menu option — prefer not a ton of crowds (will be using DAS & a scooter since I hear that Epcot is a much bigger park) so if there’s a better day or time to go, that would be really helpful.

This is for the week of November 15 (Food & Wine) or the week of November 29 (Holidays Fest).

Thanks so much for any tips and advice you have! 😇

I was a bit weary of them changing the theme of spaceship earth at first.

But if they shift the theme from the development of communication technology to the gradual loss of connection because of communication technology it would allow them to keep the first half of the ride as is.

As the ride is right now, the first half features much more human connection, but as it goes on there is less and less connection between the characters. If they changed some of the latter scenes and added scenes back to the descent it would give plenty of time to tell explore that theme.

If they chose to go this direction, it would make Spaceship earth SO much more relevant and meaningful to the world. It would also serve as a kind of pivot against the classic theme since it would warn of communications technology rather than celebrating it.

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DREAMFINDER IS COMING HOME TO FIGMENT AFTER NEARLY 30 YEARS!!!!

It's really really obvious that planning for a Journey Into Imagination refurb probably hasn't even really gotten started, but it is SO amazing to have them acknowledge Figment and Dreamfinder after all these years of ignoring the ride and squeezing them for money.

It could be 5 or 10 years away, but the fact they at least let us know is HUGE.

But if they end up cancelling it, I think people will riot

It took me on and off 8 months to finish this thing. Had to model and animated everything. I was going for the feeling of the show, not necessarily an exact duplicate of the attraction.

I hope whomever took my bag from the sushi bar last Friday enjoys the free gifts. I hope the red maple bonsai does not grow, and you drop the ramen bowl on your little toe. 🤙

Citizens of EPCOT, I could use some help with something silly, but for the life of me I can’t recall where a particular tune played at EPCOT is from. It seems to play in the UK Pavillion; I hear it in the shops and along the trail leading to France. It’s a slow and winding tune, pretty and smooth, and it sounds like it’s played on the oboe. I frustratingly can’t place this familiar tune, and my phone can’t identify it through Shazam or similar apps. What do y’all think, what am I hearing?

Edit! User FancyEuphonium found it for me, it’s “Stranger on the Shore”. I’m so happy, cheers everyone!

I've always been an Epcot fanboy, and I've always believed that Disney diluting Epcot was a big mistake. But as I look back on its history I am beginning to think that Disney was WAY too ambitious with creating Epcot.

The main problems I see are that:

-Disney relied way too heavily on sponsors. I understand that it was based on the World's Fair model of sponsor-pavilions, but there's a big difference in sponsoring for a year vs sponsoring for decades. The most clear example of this is Journey into Imagination, where a sponsor cutting the budget caused the ride to be closed down and replaced with a very lackluster cheap ride. Another example is Horizons, which ultimately fell into disrepair and shut down because it didn't have a sponsor.

but it's even worse when you consider

-Disney went all out on almost every attraction, leading to the park having hundreds of animatronics and hundreds of moving parts. This is okay if you have a someone else footing the bill (this worked for Walt in the 64 world's fair) but if that sponsor decides to step away then you've got to either foot the bill or get rid of it- and if all of the sponsors drop out you've suddenly got to pay to operate the entire park and pay for its maintenance.

Don't get me wrong, I think classic Epcot was a masterpiece, but I think the writing was on the wall from the beginning.