Originally Posted By HauntedMansionFan Are there things that have been altered/removed from the parks that you're still bitter about? If so, post them here. Here's my list: 1. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea -- Outdated, yes, but a classic. The lagoon added some atmosphere to that area of the park and it had THE coolest ride vehicle ever made. I'll NEVER forgive them for removing this. Ever. 2. Alien Encounter -- original was awesome. The Stitch version sucks. enough said. 3. Skyway 4. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride -- I hated Winnie the Pooh even before an attraction dedicated to him existed. Needless to say, I hate him even more now. 5. Enchanted Tiki Room/Tropical Serenade -- it literally turns my stomach to think what they've done to the show. Turns my stomach. 6. Adventureland in general -- the addition of the Aladdin ride was wrong. So, so, so wrong.
Originally Posted By SSE Unique merchandise - buying Hannah Montana or Jonas Brothers music in the Emporium does not make me feel I have left the real world behind.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss The BAH. Nothing wrong with it in and of itself, but they put it in a stupid location.
Originally Posted By Manfried I miss Toad. I miss If You Had Wings. I miss American Journeys. I miss the original version of Wonders of China with the Tibet sequence in it.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 I agree with your six, HMF. (There was a Tibet sequence in the original China film?) I can't imagine an Epcot without Horizons.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer The constant use of synergy and not having creative, new stories made by WDI be used in the parks. The loss of Journey into Imagination The utter disrespect for EPCOT's theme when they ushered in Nemo to The Living Seas. Removing "Glitter City" from the SSE descent for a whole portion of the ride dedicated to screens. KIlling EPCOT Center's looks with tarps, whirlygigs, and the use of arid, hot colors in a environment that was once lush, serene, and beautiful Getting rid of the Adventurer's Club before I could get in there (Planned to visit at midnight on my 21st and get my first drink...yeah, no. :-( ) And yet...I still love the place. I don't get it, either.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Wait, one more... Lack of Maint! The parks used to be spotless! Now we all mention that we are happy and surprised with Maint in our Trip Notes. We shouldn't have to do that...it should always be great.
Originally Posted By DlandDug In no particulare order: Horizons Imagination Kitchen Kabaret AND... The utter destruction of the original Disney-MGM with haphazard additions and neglect.
Originally Posted By dshyates Replacing the art of entertaining people with the science of taking peoples money.
Originally Posted By Hista98 you can't really blame them for taking out horizons it was in serious danger of falling down. It was for saftey.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>you can't really blame them for taking out horizons it was in serious danger of falling down. It was for saftey.<<< Don't buy into that, it's a load of bunk. GE pulled sponsorship, Compact wanted to build a Space pavilion, why run a costly outdated pavilion when you could demo it and have a new building built for you? Just sad. There was never a sinkhole. There is, however, one under UoE that is under control, and the small lake next to WoM is one.
Originally Posted By Hista98 how do you know there wasn't a sink hole or it was in danger of colapsing??
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer I talk to people who would know. The sinkhole myth is just something everyone cooked up in the internet. Blame GE, and Eisner, who denied plans to refurb Horizons in 1994.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer *on the internet... ...Unless they are doing wonderful things with VR these days and I'm really in the Laughing Place!
Originally Posted By Hista98 I will never forgive them for killing Epcot and overloading Tomorrowland with Pixar and things that have nothing to do wth the future.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>Wait, one more... Lack of Maint! The parks used to be spotless! Now we all mention that we are happy and surprised with Maint in our Trip Notes. We shouldn't have to do that...it should always be great.<<< Here's a different thought. You can blame designated smoking for the fact that it isn't as spotless as it once was. Why? Well, I remember when you could smoke anywhere. When you dropped a cigarette on the ground within seconds and like magic someone would scurry out and sweep it up. They had a whole crew that was set up to just do that. When they weren't sweeping up cigarettes they were picking up trash, emptying trash bins and generally keeping it clean. Without the need they cut back on people that were out there (to almost nothing) and voila...a messier park. I'm not saying that this is anything other than theory, nor am I saying designated smoking areas should be abolished, I'm just thinking that without those people out there cleaning up it is inevitable that the place will be messier.
Originally Posted By u k fan On the cigarette thing, Goofyernmost might have a point. I have heard that air quality on aircraft was better when people could smoke as they had to make more effort to clean it up, now they don't have to bother!!!
