Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Lotion-View-1011.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Lotion: Epcot Flower and Garden Entrance Topiary</b></a> Our first pictorial from Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival features pictures and video from the entrance topiary.
Originally Posted By mousermerf What is up with the twig trees that never sprout any leaves year after year?
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I would love to go when the flower and garden fes. is going on, it just doesn't fit into my busy plans. So for now I will just enjoy the videos and pictures that are sharred. thank you.
Originally Posted By jkayjs F&W used to be my fave festival @ EPCOT Center but with increasing prices coupled with decreasing quality I haven't gone in sev yrs. Of course the real blame goes to the F&G festival, it has stolen my heart in the festival catagory. I love the outdoors & they do the outdoors very well. I'm not sure I can make it this yr but I'm seriously going to try. Thx for the pics.
Originally Posted By mousermerf I feel this year is better then the past few years but I do also feel it has been recycling things far too often instead of innovating from year to year. This year is mostly a rehash of things they've had in storage for a few years - which merely seem shiny and new since they've been kept away from guests for long enough to really grow back to full health. Not to mention the major components of the festival centers and major show elements are mix and match prints/cuts from a kit at this point. Might as well come from a catalog like high schools pick from for a "theme." Yes, there is variation in a sense, but no true innovation. They found things that work for the planters and have stuck with them since like 2004 and done very little differently. Compare it to the variety seen between shows before that and even the later shows that becomes less and less in recent years - like how the art/sculpture aspect has been played significantly. Probably doesn't help that because the festival has become "established" the department has undergone some serious cutting and there's no one to really set it up.
Originally Posted By mousermerf And just in case my point wasn't clear.. Add a blue tracksuit, short blond hair, megaphone, stopwatch, and.. "That's sloppy! You're sloppy babies! That's just disgraceful! And I want the agony out of your eyes!" -- Sue Sylvester
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<F&W used to be my fave festival @ EPCOT Center but with increasing prices coupled with decreasing quality I haven't gone in sev yrs.>> Mine as well. I don't think I ever missed a year before 2009 ...but the prices of the samples (and sizes) were absurd (thank DDP and TDO greed) and it was obvious that more got taken away annually than added. Charging for the 'free' tastings was just the final straw. <<Of course the real blame goes to the F&G festival, it has stolen my heart in the festival catagory. I love the outdoors & they do the outdoors very well. I'm not sure I can make it this yr but I'm seriously going to try.>> That they do ... I am planning on getting up there myself at some point (likely late April or May). Of course, I do wonder why EPCOT can't look more like that year round ... not all the special exhibits, but the general quality of horticulture upkeep.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<I feel this year is better then the past few years but I do also feel it has been recycling things far too often instead of innovating from year to year.>> Well, you know how important recycling (the magic) is to TWDC! But isn't that the core issue with Disney/WDI these days anyway? Instead of real innovation, you get recycling. You get the same old thing, perhaps presented slightly differently. Now ... it's going to be about RFID chips and better themed meet-greet-and-gropes because the iPhone/X-Box/Text constantly generation apparently thinks immersive attractions with giant set pieces and special effects are passe. They all want to be in Avatar (proper very long pause for the right dose of my sarcasm to filter through ... especially since I didn't bother with Avatar and may never) ... but the point is Disney says it needs to reinvent the theme park going experience (yet again ... as this seems to have been a common theme going back 20 years now) when they really just take the LCD elements from the past and build on them with the latest cell phone/credit card tech. But you were talking about the purrrty flowers, right? ;-) <<This year is mostly a rehash of things they've had in storage for a few years - which merely seem shiny and new since they've been kept away from guests for long enough to really grow back to full health. Not to mention the major components of the festival centers and major show elements are mix and match prints/cuts from a kit at this point. Might as well come from a catalog like high schools pick from for a "theme.">> Never heard it put that way, Merfie ... but great analogy. I do feel like they basically have a list of 'themes' and just go with them based on what they want to sell/push at the given time. <<Yes, there is variation in a sense, but no true innovation. They found things that work for the planters and have stuck with them since like 2004 and done very little differently. Compare it to the variety seen between shows before that and even the later shows that becomes less and less in recent years - like how the art/sculpture aspect has been played significantly. >> Sure seems like every year you can count on being at least 80% the same as the years before, just perhaps moved around/relocated ... and then some of the older stuff brought back out ... and then a little new (for instance adding Princess and the Frog this year to advance sales of DVDs and other merchnadise). <<Probably doesn't help that because the festival has become "established" the department has undergone some serious cutting and there's no one to really set it up. >> I'm more concerned with the general downward spiral of horticulture across property, something that has been going on for a good decade now. Saplings and wood chips now count as landscaping. In subtropical Florida, that's just unforgiveable.
Originally Posted By jkayjs Spirit dear maybe we should try another meet & greet. Only successful this time!
