Originally Posted By Admin This topic is for Discussion of: <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Blogs/FanBoy/View-ID67.asp" target="_blank">7/5/07 So Long Wand</a>
Originally Posted By Indigo Good News. Even better news would be that Jim McPhee got funding to throw a big 25th Anniversary Celebration... Your post makes it sound like that might be the case... any truth to that rumor?
Originally Posted By irishfan Excellent news, I'm guessing moving the hat would be too much to ask for?
Originally Posted By twirlnhurl I think I will have to buy Sylvania light bulbs and spend extra money at Epcot this summer. This is fantastic. Maybe I should get Disney to take my picture in front of Spaceship Earth a couple of times and buy it too.
Originally Posted By Elderp I know if I don't ask it someone else will? How much you think it will go for on Ebay? I am bidding .50cents. You think I will win?
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>I think I will have to buy Sylvania light bulbs<<< You lost me there...what does that mean?
Originally Posted By BeautysBeast The wand is gone..whats next..the Alien scene from the Great Movie ride???
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<There is no truth to the Epcot 25th celebration rumor>> At least Epcot finally has a leader who understands why this is a huge mistake. It's a shame the marketing department wouldn't give him a nickel to try and throw something together on the smaller scale that would have at least acknowledged it.
Originally Posted By magnet The MGM hat always reminds me of Ebeneezer Scrooge extinguishing the light carried by the Ghost of Christmas Past. I see the hat coming down to extiguish the creativity that gave birth to the studio and the revival of animation during the early nineties. OK, that was weird -- but it's really what I get from it.
Originally Posted By pheneix >>>It's a shame the marketing department wouldn't give him a nickel to try and throw something together on the smaller scale that would have at least acknowledged it.<<< The good news is that he's doing what he can to acknowledge the 25th birthday of Epcot Center anyway. Something WILL be happening on that fateful day.
Originally Posted By BeautysBeast Since when has the wand stopped any of you from paying to visit the epcot..
Originally Posted By BeautysBeast You heard it hear first..Alien from the great movie ride is being replaced by the lord of the rings movie..
Originally Posted By Skellington88 >>You heard it hear first..Alien from the great movie ride is being replaced by the lord of the rings movie..<< um actually that guy on WDWMagic is the one that said that first a month ago
Originally Posted By vbdad55 With all the rights issues ( and $$ issues ) between Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema , I am surprised that this could go on...although I would surely welcome it.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn <<Since when has the wand stopped any of you from paying to visit the epcot..>> Since January 2, 2000
Originally Posted By imtigger2 mrk... ha! Good one. As for myself, I truly hated the fact that they kept the wand and "EPCOT" there.... but, got used to it and now I'm actually bummed it's going. Did I just say that!!?? I AM a traditionalist, believe me. Bring back Horizons NOW! However, the wand adds a little excitement to the 'ol golfball. What they truly need to get rid of is the monoliths in the front. Even if I DO have my photo on one of them. It's time for them to GO. Get them out of there and bring back a beautiful fountain or the colored, lighted plexi-glass to the front. Please. Then of course... bring back Horizons and get rid of any Pixar or Disney Character references. Cause like, you dudes and dudettes ROCK... dude (ugh) Dan B Carlsbad, CA
Originally Posted By twirlnhurl ">>>I think I will have to buy Sylvania light bulbs<<< You lost me there...what does that mean?" Sylvania is a Siemens company, and rumor has it that the wand was removed in part because Siemens doesn't care for it.
Originally Posted By mousermerf For yuor viewing pleasure... Just how unboring the sphere can be without the wand: <a href="http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-5/1179349/lightinsse.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.villagephotos.com/p /2006-5/1179349/lightinsse.jpg</a> That's one of the big things I missed after the wand came.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I can't find any pictures of it, but I'm really looking foreward to the spinning globe done with lasers at the end of Illuminations coming back. That just sort of brought the whole show to a grand conclusion, and pulled you to that side of the park to exit at the same time. When they added the stars on top, there were fears that the lasers would bounce off them and do strange things, so it was stopped. Lasers and other projections have been used since then, but none that went near the top creating anything near the same scale.
