Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad <<<MARVEL RULEZ!!!! LET UNI KEEP POTTER. It's a flash in the pan ... two years from now no one will know who he is ... but Captain (or is it Mr.?) Strange will have a new attraction at MK!!!! YEAH!!!! IGER IS GOD!!!!!>>>> I think Spirit just filled his take a spirit to dinner calendar and now he has lost his mind. Maybe we should store his Iger comment for later use out of context.
Originally Posted By WDW Imagineer >>>I marvelled at Epcot every time I was there.<<< My favorite post in this entire thread
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>I think Spirit just filled his take a spirit to dinner calendar and now he has lost his mind. Maybe we should store his Iger comment for later use out of context.<<< I agree.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> So talking to a CM just the other day about the whole Marvel thing, I learned that there are plans to open a Marvel Pavillion in EPCOT in about 5 years. All I can say is, why? Why not DHS? I don't see how themeing comes into play at all. Sometimes, I wonder what goes inside the heads of Disney marketing. << >> I'm 10000% sure that CM was talking out of his butt. Disney cannot use Marvel in WDW. << And that's saying it politely. That is one of the most far fetched rumors I've ever heard about WDW.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> And Hokie, he said they're about to do a deal with Universal as far as marvel in the theme parks goes. << Whoever this CM is they lost total creditability with their first statement, and they seem to be going downhill from there.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> You misunderstand me. I'm not saying make the entire thing themed to that. Keep the exhibits as they are, just change Sum of All Thrills, which is a crappy exhibit to begin with. It basically says, "Hey check out this cool invention that our competitor right down the street uses in a much better way than we do." << But as reported by Em, it had a longer wait time than TT the other day. It couldn't be to crappy if it's drawing the folks in. I would bet money that the majority of folks at WDW don't have a clue about the technology involved in the 2 rides.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> somehow, I feel like this discussion is going to lead us right back to IJA... << It definetly fits better in the Studios!
Originally Posted By MPierce >> MARVEL RULEZ!!!! LET UNI KEEP POTTER. It's a flash in the pan ... two years from now no one will know who he is ... but Captain (or is it Mr.?) Strange will have a new attraction at MK!!!! YEAH!!!! IGER IS GOD!!!!! << I thought you said you were down to your last bottle of wine? You must have gone out, and resupplied.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> ^^^I can't tell spirit's sarcasm through a computer screen << If you're reading his post it's either sarcastic, satirical, skeptical or synical. Just pick one of those, and run with it!
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer Sardonic, sanctimonious... Are we considering things that start with S? Kudos to who gets the reference.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Are we considering things that start with S? << Possibly if we are considering what he's full of.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 ">>>I marvelled at Epcot every time I was there.<<< My favorite post in this entire thread" My first and thus far only visit to Orlando was in Sept/Oct 2001 so you can imagine a lot of Epcot's heyday was behind it. That is, judging the park for its immersive and long omnimover attractions, which is my thing. Still, just BEING at Epcot was.......how can I describe it......it was AWE INSPIRING. EC opened when I was 12 and a HUGE science fiction fan. I remember DEVOURING that three part opening day special that(IIRC)David Hutchison wrote for Starlog magazine. To say I was OBSESSED with the place was like saying Walt Disney was an innovator. In fact, when we landed in Orlando and got our car, we immediately drove to WDW(even though we were staying off property)and THE FIRST PLACE I drove to was Epcot. We hadn't bought our AP yet and we planned to go straight back to the hotel for a sleep(it was about 8:00am), but I just HAD to be near Epcot. Seeing SE in the distance and then(since it was so early and the lot was pretty much empty), being able to drive straight up to it.......WOW......the memories of how I felt that humid Florida morning are all coming back to me now. It was like a pilgrimmage for me......strike that, it WAS a pilgrimmage. To a part of my life way back in 1982, to a boy who marvelled at geodesic domes and glass pyramids and sleek monorails whooshing overhead. EC WAS that science fiction city where people flew overhead in cars and SCIENCE made ANYTHING possible. Epcot, even in its diminished 2001 state was one of my FAVOURITE parks in the whole world and I look forward to the day I will be able to return to it.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 " >> somehow, I feel like this discussion is going to lead us right back to IJA... << It definetly fits better in the Studios! " Than Epcot? I agree! : )
