Originally Posted By DlandDug <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01aOWXtM_9E&NR=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =01aOWXtM_9E&NR=1</a> Enjoy!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Is it bad that I get some sort of sick joy out of seeing it in pieces scattered around in some post-apoyliptic fashion? And surprisingly, I really didn't hate the wand all together. It was very fitting with the 2000 sign, and it really made the millenium celebration something big and special. The numbers were also huge, and stretched almost half way across the sphere and reached as high as the 'pixie dust' that goes horizontally out from the star. The Epcot lettering, however, was too small for the size of the structure holding it up, and just made the whole thing look horribly out of balance. (I never really thought the 2000 threw the balance off that much, since it went pretty far over the top, instead of just to the side) Also, there was no reason for it to say Epcot, and the lettering looked like something that I could do in Word. The 2000 looked really neat, like it was done with a ribbon in the wind, and it was also a consistant height, making it much more difficult to see the back of the other side of the sign. The wand was great for its initial purpose, but it simply overstayed its welcome, slowly but surely ensuring that I would grow to be pretty sick of it.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I don't have to look at that pic. I truly don't care what happened to that demonic icon after it came down.
Originally Posted By nbodyhome I am glad to see it. The day I first watched this video, a CM on another site was insisting that the wand was going to be back up "for the 25th!" Denise
Originally Posted By brotherdave I'm guessing then, that Disney just dumps their unwanted trash right on property? I realize that they have a lot of land, but, somehow, that just seems so wrong for a company that claims that they're 'environmentally friendly'. Also, I noticed a Studio Tram from the tour sitting off in the distance. I guess it's no longer used anymore, either.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I haven't seen the Youtube pic but most parks have some type of "junkyard" in or around property where they can store stuff that isn't exactly ready for the garbage dump yet. Perhaps they can recycle parts for some other use. That said, Disney does have a "landfill" on property. If you drove past the Grand Floridian that road leads around to the back of the Magic Kingdom. The landfill entrance is down that way on the left. You can't really see anything from the road.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 maybe keeping so they can add small pieces into a pin ( like they did with some other attractions ) -
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA brotherdave, it seems like this might be a temporary holding area for the junk. That said, I'm amazed that the person with the camera could roam around the wreckage and take pictures Weird
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 They could just melt down all that metal and use it for something else.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros That's a lot of metal, and it's worth a lot. If they had any business sense (and they do, at least in this department), they would sell it back and have it be melted down and reused. Even if they wanted to put parts into pins, they could use a tiny section (like the one the guy was trying to pick up, or just the sparkles or or something like that) and still have enough for thousands of pins. With the size of the structure, there is no reason that they would keep all that steel just hanging around, especially when people will pay good money to get it from them.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<That said, I'm amazed that the person with the camera could roam around the wreckage and take pictures>> Yeah, who WAS that guy?! I could just hear him doing voiceovers during early-evening station identification: "Fresh how -- how it can KILL you! What you need to know to protect yourself from this deadly danger. Tonight at 11." Interesting video, though. Thanks for sharing, Dug!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >><<That said, I'm amazed that the person with the camera could roam around the wreckage and take pictures>> Well... it does help when the dumping site in question is right there in plain view of EPCOT Center guests parking in the very last (and least used) section of EPCOT's parking lot, and CMs can drive past it on the way from the EPCOT guest parking lot to the backstage CM parking lot. Everytime I park at EPCOT, I do so at the AAA diamond section and what's left of the wand, can be seen sitting there next to the parking lot, quite in full view of cars going into the lot that way. >>I'm guessing then, that Disney just dumps their unwanted trash right on property? I realize that they have a lot of land, but, somehow, that just seems so wrong for a company that claims that they're 'environmentally friendly'.<< Re-read above statement on that. "Show" be darned at WDW.
Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror >>>I'm guessing then, that Disney just dumps their unwanted trash right on property? I realize that they have a lot of land, but, somehow, that just seems so wrong for a company that claims that they're 'environmentally friendly'.<<< It looks like it's been organized into piles that can be picked up by people who reclaim that stuff - Steel, junk resellers, and those MouseSurplus people.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN BTW... look for the Lights of Winter to be placed in the vecinity of that spot in the coming weeks before installation begins at EPCOT for Xmas. Also, look for the Food and Wine kiosks to be placed there once they are removed from the park after the event finishes... They do that every year..year after year... till the cows come home, or Disney wakes up from his Michael Jackson-endorsed sleeping chamber.
Originally Posted By cassiedoodle it's strange to think that that stood tall for so many years and now it's just a pile of unwanted junk. oh well, it is what it is.
Originally Posted By MPierce From what I have read the Wand has already been sold as scrap. I don't know that for a fact, but it would be stupid to let it just lay there. I guess they figured that would be an easy site for a salvage crew to get to. However, there is no excuse for leaving it in plain sight of Guest.
