Originally Posted By trekkeruss The Carousel building isn't all that large; they'd have a tough time fitting a ride in there, unless it was a small dark ride like Buzz, Peter Pan, etc. Can a modern day E-ticket be anything but a large thrill ride? I have my doubts.
Originally Posted By pwrof3 Speaking of Innoventions, why does the building spin, anyway? There is no reason for the spinning. We all know the building was made to spin, but not for a walking attraction.
Originally Posted By jonvn Because the people who designed the area were more interested in the history of the place and spending money on celebrating that instead of making something that was actually going to be entertaining to the public.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If they wanted to make something that honored the history of the area, don't you think they would have made something that was actually entertaining?
Originally Posted By pwrof3 This still doesn't explain why the building spins. Even if they wanted to honor the area, they already did that by having Innoventions in the building. It's an attraction that celebrates the future of technology, much like Carousel of Progress. No need for spinning!
Originally Posted By spacejockey I wish they would implode inoventions Las Vegas style. I'd rather see an empty crater in the ground than that hideous wanabe attraction.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I assume it was probably something to do with the structure itself. They probably wanted to preserve the spinning portion in case they ever needed it for a future attraction (at least to me Innoventions seems like a temporary exhibit). In order to do that, they really couldn't modify it too much, since there were ceilings that needed support from certain walls. While they could have left it in place, and have every body enter through the same door, this would lead to a very strange layout for the first floor that would be somewhat difficult to navigate without a ton of sinage. Making the building rotate just makes it more interesting (which I think we all agree that Innoventions needs more interesting things), and also gives it a bit of a repeatability with the different areas that you enter.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Very good ferret! My exact same sentiment, word for word. By preserving the spinning portion .. it made for an interesting take on this EPCOT original. Even though the final outcome was one big sleeper. I have to say though ... either imagineering has some creative forces who are thinking of ingenious methods to preserve the format for the next attraction ... Or this unique rotating facility is only ever going to be best served as a "theatre" format as in once was for CoP, and America Sings. I'd like to think there is something ingenious cooking up in their minds to utilize the rotating format for something cool. But if they come up with nothing ... then it's time to bulldoze this 1966 building altogether ... and use the space for anything they want. The carousel theater is 83,000 square feet of space. If they leveled it .. squared off the corners with a new structure .. on all four ends ........ The that 83 thousand square feet would increase .. giving WDI more room to do something that would DEFINATELY be of an "E" caliber attraction. Plus ... if this rumor of extending Tomorrowland all the way as far back as the edge of Harbor Blvd. then perhaps we are looking at bulldozers whiping out everything just immediately south of the DLRR Tomorrowland station .. all the way to the east edge of Space Mountain. oc_dean canst waits for the precious DCA Preveiw Center!!! It will be a site like Ralphy starring in at the RedRider bee-bee gun in the store window!!
Originally Posted By jonvn "This still doesn't explain why the building spins." It spins because it used to spin. If they were to come up with something in the future that needed spinning, they could have made it spin then, there was no reason to make it spin now other than they wanted it to spin now. Innoventions in Florida is in a regular old building. It works ok. You don't need a spinning building to showcase windows 95 applications.
Originally Posted By StClairC The 2nd floor of Innoventions is really what the arcade in Tomorrowland should be comprised of. Next Gen video game systems, "futuristic" aging/body simulation stuff - and all of it for free. If they're going to want to keep alot of the Innoventions things just move them over to the arcade and get rid of all those crappy, outdated games. Then tomorrowland would have all that room for a new E-ticket and an even more horribly clogged TL corridor between Star Tours and Buzz.
Originally Posted By SafariRob I've never taken the time to see Innoventions. Is is worth checking out at least once before it goes away?
Originally Posted By oc_dean Anything in Disneyland is worth atleast one "whirl". And you can litterally .. 'whirl' in Innoventions.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer FYI, cureenlty the spinning section is broken, and you just walk in and check out the exhibits. The 5 zone shows are not being offered, and the Tom Morrow area is blocked off. Also, the Pioneer area upstairs has been removed, and now is just a big blank area when you get to the top of the staircase. <a href="http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/gallery/3649550/7/208349429/Large" target="_blank">http://darkbeer.smugmug.com/ga llery/3649550/7/208349429/Large</a>
Originally Posted By spacejockey <<FYI, cureenlty the spinning section is broken, and you just walk in and check out the exhibits. The 5 zone shows are not being offered, and the Tom Morrow area is blocked off. Also, the Pioneer area upstairs has been removed, and now is just a big blank area when you get to the top of the staircase.>> How pathetic! I had no idea innoventions was in such bad shape because I have not been inside in years. Hopfully an implosion will be in the near future.
Originally Posted By 2001DLFan <<Skellington88: Imagineering is working on a Wall-E attraction to replace Innoventions. Personally I was hoping for a noncartoon tie-in. They should go into the imagineering vault and look up the plans for "Plectu's Intergalactic review" that would have been a cool show.>> From what I understand, Plectu’s was the main reason that the Tomorrowland 2055 was shelved. Eisner kept telling them to change the concept until it just became useless.
