Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Lotion-View-1066.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Lotion: Captain EO First Show at Epcot</b></a> Coverage of the June 30th first show of Captain EO at Epcot. Media were invited as Cast Members had the opportunity to view the first show. Also included are interviews with Epcot VP Dan Cockerell and Imagineers Joe Tankersley and Debbie Petterson.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Someone wake me up and let it be 1986 again. Is the NSA reading this? You ever get the feeling your key strokes are being recorded and read elsewhere? I do ... right now as my cursor is throbbing like (OK, let's see if I can use this analogy ... nope, no way ... but it involved a young man discovering his first stash of naughty magazines!)]
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Quite happy to see it back. Makes me miss times when Disney continued to put out original shows.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Someone wake me up and let it be 1986 again. << That was a pretty good year, but I miss the Disco era. >> Is the NSA reading this? You ever get the feeling your key strokes are being recorded and read elsewhere? << I know for a fact the Bush, and Cheney have a wire tap on your phone, and a tracking device attached to your cars. >> I do ... right now as my cursor is throbbing like (OK, let's see if I can use this analogy ... nope, no way ... but it involved a young man discovering his first stash of naughty magazines!)] << What's the throbbing part in relationship to?
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Quite happy to see it back. Makes me miss times when Disney continued to put out original shows. << They stop being original after 25 years. Especially when the feature player met his demise over a year ago.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> They brought back the wrong part of the pavilion. << It was the cheapest one to do.
Originally Posted By xrayvision Are they using HISTA's moving floor for EO, similar to the way the floor movement was incorporated into DLR's EO presentation?
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>Are they using HISTA's moving floor for EO, similar to the way the floor movement was incorporated into DLR's EO presentation?<<< I honestly do not remember the moving floor thing with the original EO but from what I have read here, I would say that HISTA used EO's moving floor and now EO has it back.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>They stop being original after 25 years. Especially when the feature player met his demise over a year ago.<<< I agree. 1996 was a loooooooooong time ago.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I agree. 1996 was a loooooooooong time ago. << >> >>>1996 was a loooooooooong time ago. <<< Ouch! << However to some of us it just seems like yeterday. Time is only relative to the persons age. It goes by slowly in your youth, and seems to start speeding up along the way.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Regardless, it's been a loooooooooong time since WDW did something that in touch with what they used to do.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Regardless, it's been a loooooooooong time since WDW did something that in touch with what they used to do. << I think Expedition Everest was close to the original intent of Mr Disney. It certainly has the attention to detail that He so much cared about. I really don't think they have failed in their offerings of late at all. I just think they are trying to adjust to the changing market out there. They are trying to make WDW a 21st century entertainment venue. I just hope they don't get so wrapped up in the present that they overlook what made Disney so attractive to so many people. Sometimes you really do try to hard to be too many things to too many people. Rather than concentrating on the things that got you to this point to begin with.
Originally Posted By Hista98 I honestly do not remember the moving floor thing with the original EO but from what I have read here, I would say that HISTA used EO's moving floor and now EO has it back. Actually the moving floor was not incorpurateed til hisa came around.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>I think Expedition Everest was close to the original intent of Mr Disney. It certainly has the attention to detail that He so much cared about.<<< I would think that it's pretty darn close...It's just doesn't have that *umph* or charm that so many other attractions have. Maybe it's not supposed to. But I do think that EE is a great ride, and addition to WDW. Would like to see more like it.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I would think that it's pretty darn close...It's just doesn't have that *umph* or charm that so many other attractions have. << You can leave the charm to the classic attractions. Take Kilimanjaro Safari for instance. You can't say it has charm, but it is one of the best done, well thought out attractions for it's setting in WDW. There was definetly a lot of vision, and scope involved with the design (if they would quit tweaking it, trying to make it PC), but it certainly has a different feel than say IASW. Two totally different attractions with a totally different feel about them, but both distinctly Disney.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer ^ Agreed. That's one of the rides that's forgotten by a lot of people.
