A Bedknobs ride would be great. Imagine going to the island of Naboombu on bed shaped ride vehicles. We get involved in a game of soccer and go under the sea. We could even make suits of armor come alive to battle nazis at the end.
I strongly disagree. Edutainment is the best thing about Epcot. Future World started going downhill when they replaced edutainment offering with rides. I know I am probably in the minority on this, but I think the last thing the Showcase needs is more rides.
The reason they put in the rides in because the edutainment got boring to the average guest. There is a reason why Epcot Center was known as the Most Boring Place on Earth.
That's more of a personal preference. And I tend to agree. But it pretty clearly didn't work for the general public, otherwise they wouldn't be replacing the edutainment in Epcot.
To me a couple of Epcot's greatest attractions were replaced... Horizons and World of Motion. I wonder if it is a generational thing... most people I know feel the same way about those attractions.
Back to the thread question.....I've avoided all the round rides,spinners. In A.K. Tric. Spin and MK- Aladdin,Dumbo and Astro Orbitor. But top of my list to do this Aug. is Astro orbitor at night. I know its a lame ride but its the view I'm going for.
I don't think I've ever experienced applause during the show, other than at the end (same as all the other WS pavilions). I'm pretty sure I would also find it strange during individual scenes; I even think the montage finale is a little over the top, especially the music, but overall I think the attraction does a decent job of presenting key bits of history in an entertaining-enough way I'm not a huge fan of putting characters into World Showcase, but Mary Poppins works better than most. The stories are by a British author, set in the UK, and are a celebrated part of British culture. Alice, Mr. Toad, and Winnie the Pooh also fit this mold. That's a lot more than can be said about films like Frozen or even Ratatouille, which are largely modern American creations that don't have much cultural significance in the countries that they supposedly represent
It wasn't bad, just weired. Some people are just more proud about their country than others. Or maybe they just were impressed by the show.
Technically speaking PL Travers was Australian, but she did obtain British citizenship so we'll let that pass!!!
Back on topic I've never ridden the boat ride in the land pavilion at Epcot. Not on purpose, it's just never happened.
Even in 2002 when I went to WDW, the Land pavilion boat ride seemed dated. Look we can grow plants without soil. No kidding. My kids have been doing that in school for years.
I am the type of person that likes to try everything in the parks at least once. I have ridden every ride, seen every permanent show or attraction, tried to see most small scale entertainment from the very old school JP and the Silver Stars to current offerings like the Fantasyland Merry makers, as well as having pictures taken with over 300 unique characters. That being said there are attractions that I tend to skip such as the Swiss Family Treehouse, Tom Sawyer's Island, the Liberty Belle, Stitch's Great Escape, Monsters Inc Laugh Floor, Mission Space, Playhouse Disney, and Its Tough to Be a Bug.
Given that DLR is practically in my back yard, I've rarely bothered with anything in WDW that's a duplicate or near-duplicate of something I'd experienced in DLR. While HoP is an elaboration on Lincoln, it's still a "do at least twice" attraction for me, precisely because it's an elaboration, rather than just a duplicate. Likewise, CoP is also a "do at least twice" attraction for me, because we lost it at DL, years before I was old enough to appreciate it. I've done the original "Studios" version of ToT exactly once, and I've done the DCA version exactly once. I've never had the inclination to do either one of them a second time. I've done Test Track exactly once, and given that we now have RSR at DCA, I am in no hurry to do it again, given that RSR is essentially the same experience, albeit themed differently. And why should I bother with the WDW Space Mountain, when I've got both the DL Space Mountain (same theme, different track plan) and the Matterhorn Bobsleds (different theme, but at least originally substantially the same track plan) back home. I would like to have had time to do the Liberty Belle, even though we have both the Twain and the Columbia back home, because it's a different vessel, and a different interpretation of ROA. And I did Bears precisely because we lost it twice at DL: first we lost it to Vacation Hoedown, and then we lost Vacation Hoedown to Pooh (not that I don't regard Vacation Hoedown as simply a more malodorous kind of "pooh"). On the other hand, GMR and Ellen are both "do at least three times" attractions for me. And I have precisely zero interest in ever doing Autopia, whether at DL or at WDW-MK. The closest I came was getting about halfway through the queue with my dad, when I was much younger, only to change my mind (much to his consternation at having wasted his time in the queue), and then, many years later (either just before or just after I'd learned to drive) doing "Gasoline Alley" at Knotts, once or twice. (Then again, when I finally bothered to take drivers' ed in high school, I was the only senior in a classroom full of sophomores.)
That's an interesting approach, but I fear that you're missing out on a lot of unique characteristics. Some things like POTC aren't as good in WDW, while some things like Tower of Terror are better there, and others like Space Mountain are completely different. If you're really pressed for time, I can see skipping some of them, but given that you have enough time for 3 trips through the Universe of Energy on each trip, I suspect you could squeeze some of these in every so often Did you do TestTrack before or after the "sim car" redo a few years ago? I personally liked the old version (crash test dummies) better, but the differences between the two versions are pretty remarkable considering that they kept the exact same track layout, speed controls, and general concept
As I said, I've done both the East Coast and West Coast versions of ToT. And I did do the WDW Space Mountain. Once. (Back home, I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've done Matterhorn.) I'm simply not particularly into thrill rides (and especially not unthemed ones, so the closest thing to a "naked" roller coaster I've ridden would have to be Gadget's Go Coaster, in DL Toontown. I haven't a clue whether my one ride on Test Track was before or after the "sim car redo." I will definitely say that "Gran Festival Tour" is a tremendous improvement over "El Desperdicio del Tiempo." Now, that's not to say that simultaneous root canal work and hemorrhoid surgery, without benefit of anesthetics, wouldn't be an improvement over "El Desperdicio del Tiempo," but "Gran Festival Tour" is actually mildly enjoyable (as opposed to being so hokey and stereotype-bound that I'm surprised the Mexican Government didn't consider it -- along with the peep shows in DCA's defunct Mission Tortilla Factory, and the one-time presence in DL of a Mexican-themed eatery called "Casa de Fritos" -- to be an act of war).
I've never done Autopia at WDW (although I've done it in DL). I'm a tall guy and it was very uncomfortable in DL and I don't want to repeat that experience. We avoid the spinners because if you've done one you've done them all. I did the Swiss Family Treehouse once but now we call it "Stairs: The Attraction" and avoid it. I hadn't ridden Pooh in WDW thinking it was the same as the one in DL but was pleasantly surprised to find that it was different and I liked it better on my most recent trip.
