tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23143199.post114359695971607328..comments2023-11-05T00:52:41.562-07:00Comments on EPCOT Central: Energy boostEpcot82http://www.blogger.com/profile/14763893513279437902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23143199.post-90708282159661372132010-06-15T17:44:48.644-07:002010-06-15T17:44:48.644-07:00toronto payday loans This website is worthwhile I ...<a href="http://www.aaatorontopaydayloans.com" rel="nofollow">toronto payday loans</a> This website is worthwhile I loved it a whole lot<br />AAA Toronto Payday Loans 1172 Bay St #101, Toronto, ON M5S 2B4 (416) 477-2817Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23143199.post-47057402968870930472010-06-09T17:01:59.890-07:002010-06-09T17:01:59.890-07:00Hey! Willie Wilson . payday loansHey! Willie Wilson . <a href="http://www.yahwoof.com//forum/index.php//forum/index.php?action=profile;u=737" rel="nofollow">payday loans</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23143199.post-1143634197419266312006-03-29T04:09:00.000-08:002006-03-29T04:09:00.000-08:00"Replacing the Universe of Energy with a thrill-ba..."Replacing the Universe of Energy with a thrill-based attraction, no matter how elaborate, is further admitting defeat, acknowledging that Imagineers no longer can be visionary or bold with their ideas, accepting that MBAs and marketing analysts run Disney and from hereon out always will."<BR/><BR/>Perhaps some of the greatest words written about today's Epcot to be posted on the Internet. <BR/><BR/>You "get it," and I am absolutely thrilled. <BR/><BR/>Future World has two thrill rides on that side of the park. The energy crisis is one of the greatest, and it cannot be ignored by a thrill ride or a Monsters Inc. presentation. <BR/><BR/>We need something that will actually inspire children - unlike Mission Space or Test Track - to solve this energy problem we've gotten ourselves into. . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23143199.post-1143610072066965662006-03-28T21:27:00.000-08:002006-03-28T21:27:00.000-08:00I am in love with your blog. As a geeky kid of abo...I am in <B>love</B> with your blog. As a geeky kid of about the same vintage as EPCOT (b. 1983), I will always remember the extraordinary impression it made on me. It's indelible... myself at age 5 or so, standing under the original (unmolested) geosphere with a Figment hat on... the Florida sun having shrunk away into darkness, leaving only a dark, sticky Southern breeze... looking up at the kaleidoscopic play of light on those triangular forms... feeling that the world was a beautiful place, bursting with possibilities.<BR/><BR/>This was perhaps not the characteristic mood of the eighties for most people. But that's how I'll remember it, thanks to the reverberating genius of Walt, channeled by the talented and ambitious Imagineering team of the 1970's. Disney fans (at least the theme-park fans...) really ought to reevaluate the accomplishments of the Card Walker era.<BR/><BR/>Sure, it was never Walt's EPCOT, but at least it tried to stay true to his spirit. Just imagine for a moment if the project had been undertaken in the late Eisner period, with all the ambition and taste of DCA or Disney Studios Paris. <BR/><BR/>All that bombast said... I was never a fan of Universe of Energy, for a number of reasons. Dinosaurs are played-out in theme parks, Ellen and Nye did a good job but are ultimately pop-culture driftwood, and the corporate propaganda is more problematic than that of maybe any other attraction... so you're right, now's a better time than ever for a <I>proper</I> redo. Not holding my breath. <BR/><BR/>It will be hard to muster much outrage on its behalf, relative to the detruction of Horizons, Imagination, and World of Motion. Those rides were f**king great. It kills me that Future World opened with, what, 8 dark rides and now has like 2? <BR/><BR/>The best thing Iger and Lasseter could do to restore my faith overall would be to revitalize the tradition of high-throughput, AA-heavy attractions that made Disney parks what they are. Do they ever wonder why people still flock to Haunted Mansion and Pirates? Because I sure wonder why they haven't followed up with anything comparable in the 35-40 years since those opened.<BR/><BR/>OK, I'm really done now. Keep fighting the good fight!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com