Originally Posted By jmuboy I see the Character Connection is now housed where Segway used to live. Which leads me to my question - exactly what's left in Innoventions nowadays?
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Character Connection is there temporarily as they redress the area where Character Connection was.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I hate to admit it because I really like Epcot but Innoventions never did much for me at any time but it does seem like it has less and less in it. Or is that just my imagination, or lack of it?
Originally Posted By MPierce I love Epcot, but I can find very little to hold my interest in Innoventions. What wasn't working with the general layout of the Character Connection?
Originally Posted By DramaMama07 I, also an avid Epcot fan, found myself dissapointed by innoventions. I thought "neat we'll get to see cutting edge tech. and get to play with some fun gadgets". I was wrong. There is a semi-entertaining (but always crowded) video game type thing, but mostly I just duck in there to send my friends a photo email. This really bothered me because I love to play with gadgets and gizmos, but there really isn't any and what is there is hardly ever changed.
Originally Posted By willthisbetheone Oh, good. The photo e-mail thing is still there. That's my second favorite thing after the 4-person game of tag video game with the Disney characters. It seems a little sad about that place that those are my 2 favorite things there, considering there's so many possible things they could do there. Sincerely, John Kilduff
Originally Posted By Rwethereyet Just got back from Epcot two days ago, and I must say I couldn't get my kids to leave Innoventions. They are boys ages 10 and 12 and very interested in science and technology, nature and video games. It seems they knew about many of the exhibit topics, like nanotechnology and robotics, from subjects they have at school. I have always felt that Innoventions is Disney's answer to a children's science museum, and that it's there so that all us terrible parents who pull our kids out of school to take them to WDW will feel good about our decision because we can always take them to Innoventions and get them some "school time". I think the stuff there is not cutting edge technology because it is a reflection of what the schools are teaching ( i.e. fire safety to younger kids and ecology to older kids) and the schools are not teaching the cutting edge stuff. I don't have as much interest in science and technology as my kids, and I've never played a video game in my life, so while my kids spend two hours in Innoventions, my husband and I just find a comfortable place to sit and people watch.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> What wasn't working with the general layout of the Character Connection? << The Character Connection are is being redressed and refurbed to improve the experience. I've seen some drawings of the plans, but I haven't been back there is a while so I can't tell yet if what they planned is actually what they're doing. It was supposed to take a month or so to do.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn The design of Communicore (Innoventions) is very similar to the original design of the World Showcase.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins Has anyone been to both the Innoventions at Disneyland as well as EPCOT? The one at Disneyland is mostly just a variety of computer applications. Is EPCOT's a little more varied?
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy I've been to both. Disneyland less frequently than WDW. They're very similar in what they do and present, as you'd probably expect. Disneyland is more interesting with the 2-level building and the rotating wall thing going. (Former Carousel of Progress) Also, Disneyland lets people enter the show batches at a time, when the wall stops. Then they do a presentation from one of the exhibits for the batch of people that just came in. After that, you're let go into the rest of the exhibits. At WDW you just walk in from any of several doorways, and you're in the exhibits.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I have been to the one at Disneyland and must say I couldn't get over the sadness I felt when I saw the floor (you know the one that Disney said is high maintanence and therefore the reason for moving CoP) continuously moving round and round and round. Guess they underestimated it's ability to keep working. Other than that I was not impressed.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins Oh yeah. COP way beats Innoventions. I read that no one goes to COP at WDW. It's time to move it back.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Nemo...I picked up two different messages in your post unless you are from the West Coast. Then I understand. You want it back...Can't have it...naner, naner!
Originally Posted By Labuda Last time I did CoP (in the fall), the theatre I was in was about 3/4 full. Yeah, it's not packing them in like sardines, but I think our beloved CoP has a pretty decent audience, especially soncidering how much in need of an update it is!
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 So often CoP has been closed when I was there..."seasonally" But it was open May/June of 2003, and June/July 2006. In 2006, we were told they were replacing the seats in one of the sections. I took that as a sign it was going to stay.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost CoP has been open continuously since they started the Stitch Rehab. I'm guessing that's about 3 years now. New "Q" TV monitors and the word that new seats were being installed bring hope that it will stay for awhile. It does need some work. I think it can go for awhile more with the same program but eventually will need the final scene updated. Or drop the 20's section and move the 50's to that spot then the 80's then the future/present. I won't hold my breath for that one. The mechanics need work. Last time I saw it the father in the 20's section spoke without moving his lips. A good thing if your a ventriloquist but not so much if you're trying to speak. That scene also had the "daughter" brushing her hair and her arm and hand became separate objects and her hand with the brush just flopped around. Kind of spooky!
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 I always see Cop on my visits. They have put some work into the facility, but not the actual show. As to crowds, considering how they try and make the attraction invisible and considering that it is badly in need of updating, I am amazed that it usually (when I am there) plays to at least 3/4ers full theaters. This attraction COULD be as relevant today as any IF WDW/WDI updated it and brought it into the 21st century. But no one seems to be pushing that ...
