Originally Posted By sjhym333 Went to the D23 EPCOT 30th Celebration yesterday. It was a nice event with some interesting speakers. I thought they might have some sort of exhibit space with EPCOT historical pieces but it was only presentations. They were selling some D23 exclusive 30th merchandise including some pins and tshirts. I ordered a Kitchen Kabaret tshirt. EPCOT was busy with the first weekend of Food and Wine and a night run at the studios. There is new 30th merchandise that was flying off the shelves including tshirts for every World Showcase country. Some of it is limited editions and some items were already sold out. Some very nice 30th iPhone covers but nothing for us android users It is nice to see Disney embracing the 30th. At least for a couple of days
Originally Posted By sjhym333 Went to the D23 EPCOT 30th Celebration yesterday. It was a nice event with some interesting speakers. I thought they might have some sort of exhibit space with EPCOT historical pieces but it was only presentations. They were selling some D23 exclusive 30th merchandise including some pins and tshirts. I ordered a Kitchen Kabaret tshirt. EPCOT was busy with the first weekend of Food and Wine and a night run at the studios. There is new 30th merchandise that was flying off the shelves including tshirts for every World Showcase country. Some of it is limited editions and some items were already sold out. Some very nice 30th iPhone covers but nothing for us android users It is nice to see Disney embracing the 30th. At least for a couple of days
Originally Posted By DlandDug I would love to see that Kitchen Kabaret shirt. Could you put up a photo on LP Live???
Originally Posted By sjhym333 I cant. They took orders only that will ship in two weeks. The one picture I had was on the order form that they took with the order.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper So today, for the general public, they had a presentation by Marty Sklar...where he basically proceeded to rip on the current EPCOT. Said they needed to do more to inspire, needed to focus on the future more, needed a new version of Wonders of Life, and he hated on the loss of the logos. Surprising they ran that.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 Marty has recorded a segment for the D23 event. He had to be at home on Saturday and was flying yesterday. He pretty well towed the party line on the video, relating the usual stuff that most of us have heard before. I guess retirement and getting older allows people to speak their minds more readily. I will say that after watching yesterdays speakers, I was left kind of sad that the vision that these people had in building EPCOT is no longer the norm at Disney. Even the current crop of Imagineers who spoke yesterday talked about designing the art exhibits, banners, general areas of the parks. They really didn't have many of the war stories that the originators of EPCOT had. I believe that I will never see a new Disney park with the vision and beauty of such parks as EPCOT and Disney Seas. Makes me sad, but I dont think the Disney company has the stomach to be that visionary anymore.
Originally Posted By Donny I gave the D23 Event a 7 out of 10 but I had a blast. I would have liked to hear some about the future of Epcot and it would have been nice to see some classic animatronics but I learned alot of great story's and behind the scenes history I look for. another plus was sitting next to Jim Korkus made the Event for me.
