Originally Posted By irishfan I've definetly viewed artwork with a Crystal Palace type structure for the Uk pavilion, cant for the life of me remember which book it's in.
Originally Posted By irishfan There's an image half way down this jim hill article with the proposed Crystal Palace addition to the Uk pavillion. <a href="http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2006/06/01/2650.aspx" target="_blank">http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/ jim_hill/archive/2006/06/01/2650.aspx</a>
Originally Posted By brotherdave Thanks, Irishfan. I believe that was the picture I remember seeing many years ago! Jim Hill references that structure as such, "Or -- better yet -- get a sense of what the World Showcase's U.K. pavilion would have really been like if the Imagineers hadn't stinted on its construction. If WED had actually gone ahead with that "Crystal Palace" -themed extension that then was to have housed a full-scale replica of an authentic English music hall." Now, the question is, what actually would have gone into that music hall?!
Originally Posted By Labuda <a href="http://waltdatedworld.bravepages.com/id207.htm" target="_blank">http://waltdatedworld.bravepag es.com/id207.htm</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>Epcot center getting a roller coaster<< A roller coaster just for the sake of having a roller coaster? No! I can just picture it ... Some roller coaster hap-hazardly thrown somewhere in World Showcase .. lightly themed like the one in DLP's Frontierland or TDS's Raging Spirits. Such a sight would ruin the sophisticated atmosphere on World Showcase. However........... Now ... if the long discussed Mt. Fuji for the Japanese pavilion or Switzerland pavilion with an updated Matterhorn Mt. Bobsled Run ... then that would be cool.
Originally Posted By irishfan >>lightly themed like the one in DLP's Frontierland<< I'm guessing you mean in DLPs Adventureland. The only coaster in Frontierland in Paris is Big Thunder which is themed to the max.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Wasn't the Meet the World building in the Japan pavillion turned into the gallery there? I don't think the gallery is original, and I'm pretty sure that it was at least built in some of the queue space for the planned attraction. I could be way off on this, but I think I read it somewhere before.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Could very well be that's the queue area ... or even an entrance/preshow/waiting area. But that would still only be a tiny portion. I know most of Epcot backstage very well, but I've never been in Japan.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >I'm guessing you mean in DLPs Adventureland.< You know .. I almost wrote Adventureland, but I thought I was going to be wrong. Thanks for the correction. It seems to fit sort of "inbetween" both lands.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Backstage Japan is a huge showbuilding. About half of it is used for building materials storage, and the other half is a carpentry shop. Backstage Germany isn't all that large.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^Germany's felt large to me when I was in it. I wonder if Japan's has always been used for its current role.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy >> ^^Germany's felt large to me when I was in it. << I've never been inside. It's probably bigger than it looks. I've just seen the structure from the back and it looks large enough to house a restaurant and kitchen, but not much more? I think Japan's building is so large because it was fully meant to house the attraction that never happened. I think it's been a carpentry/machine shop for a long time. I've never officially been inside it either, but I've peeked in occasionally through the big open doors on the back.
Originally Posted By ssWEDguy Also, the Japanese building needs to be large to house the storage tanks for the soy sauce tanker truck delivery dock. . . . (ba-dump-bump!)
Originally Posted By CMDad If I remember correctly, backstage Italy is dressing rooms ... or was that Germany? When our marching band used to perform, that is where the kids used to change into their uniforms, and us adults had a smaller, private dressing room.
