Originally Posted By wahooskipper I'm not an unhealthy person but my legs and my arms (my 4 year old couldn't walk that entire way) tell me something is needed.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom In terms of "walking". I just completed a Walt Disney World survey that was sitting in my email. And I grilled the meal plan. This past week the restaurants were PACKED. With vertially no availablity for sit down meals. Especially at the Magic Kingdom. On Tuesday I was at Downtown Disney at noon. And had to get to my 1 pm lunch resevations in France. I drove to EPCOT and had to rush to accross EPCOT to get to France. I made it in time. But having t resort to making resevations for a sit down meal really sucks. On Monday I was at the MK.... had made dinner arrangement in Germany for 5:30pm as nothing was available for sit down in the MK. At 4:30pm I left the MK... had to take two monorails to EPCOT. Then had to hoof it too Germany. I had dinner. They had to get back to the MK for MVMCP at 7 pm. Seems to me that if Disney wanted to cut down on "shuttling" guests around they should be offering more sitdown restaurants in the MK. This is ridicilious having to rush around "hopping" from park to park just to get a sit down meal.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I couldn't agree more Tom. Last Saturday morning at 10:00 or so I stopped by Guest Services at Downtown Disney to try and make reservations for ANY MK restaurant. We could only get one restaurant...and that was for a 3:45 dinner. Who wants to eat dinner at 3:45? So we resorted to counter service at Pecos Bill which wasn't bad...but certainly wasn't what we had in mind. The Tomorrowland Terrace is closed. Maybe they could convert that to a sitdown restaurant.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<There is no place more miserable than the Atlanta airport>>> Sure, I agree, however living in Atlanta I get some really great prices on air flying in and out of here. And honestly, since it was the first airport I ever flew out of all those years ago, I don't really mind it. In fact I remember how shocked I was when we landed in Bangor, Maine for our honeymoon back in 1991, and there were like 2 gates and one "landing strip." At that point I had only flown into other large airports like Logan, LAX, O'Hare, K.C., LaGuardia, BWI, and Washington National (Regan), John Wayne...and that sort of thing. Atlanta airport, if you can avoid getting beaten by the police, isn't that bad. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ykrgea" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ykrgea</a>
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Not true. You should have tried landing at the old Hong Kong airport. The ceilings and floors were black. The walls were yellow and the lights were coming from the walls. Armed guards were up against each wall as you passed through. It was like being in the Death Star.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Ever been to the old Pittsburgh airport? It looked more like a run-down bus terminal than an airport. And then there is Chicago Midway... 'Nuff said.
Originally Posted By disneydad109 they have people movers which every guest can use right now. They are called your feet and looking at the crowds,some folks could really try using them more often.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom LOL, I was just at WDW saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday and wednesday or this week. The problem wasn't people walking. The problem was the stroller birgade. For the record I saw more flat bellys than I saw overweight people. If anything the geritol crowd outnumbered the younger set.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey Motorized walkways are so outdated. I can't see WDW adding such a thing to Epcot. If they did, it would completely detract from the atmosphere. I've hoofed it around World Showcase many a time. It's tiring, but it's not THAT bad.
Originally Posted By mstaft Wonder if the proposed Westcot park had a transportation system built in? An underground metro system with occassional above ground spots could be a great way to incorporate the World Showcase pavillions with those of Future World. And it could be quite fun as well as saving tired feet.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Yes it would. But since ground water is about 1 ft bellow the surface of the dirt in FL building bellow ground is out of the question. Thats the reason why the MK is built up on the 2nd floor. With the Utiladors being the first floor.
Originally Posted By avromark <<Yes it would. But since ground water is about 1 ft bellow the surface of the dirt in FL building bellow ground is out of the question.>> Therefore, since Magic Kingdom lost 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, it's only appropriate for an expanded sub to be built in EPCOT CENTRE (Please bring back the old name and spell it in proper standard English ) They could bill it as Walt Disney's finest and first submarine subway! A revolutionary new transportation system that will change the face of swamps forever.
Originally Posted By mickey_ring Just assign everyone an electric cart when they go in to Epcot. Then have electric cart lanes and Epcot cart traffic reports. A little redesign of SpaceShip Earth, Imagination, Test Track and those attractions can be drive-thru. Whoa, I've had too many cups of coffee this morning.
Originally Posted By Nobody From post # 31: "Wonder if the proposed Westcot park had a transportation system built in?" As I recall, there was supposed to be a boat ride that would circle the park. This was a "Pirates" type flat-bottom boat attraction that would take guests around the perimeter of the park. it would go through several show scenes, with opportunities to get on and off at (I think four) different areas around the park. Much like the DLRR, I don't think it would speed you to the back of the park any faster than walking, but would be a relaxing, entertaining option.
Originally Posted By mstaft Oh yeah, didnt it have something to do with stringing together all the historical scenes from EPCOT Center?
Originally Posted By Nobody I did a little more searching. "At an early 1994 NFFC convention Tony Baxter described the plans for WestCOT. Here are some excerpts:..." "[Slide #6] Now the promo film for WestCOT talked about World Cruise. It's the longest ride we've ever done: it's 45 minutes long, it has 5 stops and in between that there's like 9 minute stretches of ride. So that's about as long the Jungle Cruise curently is. You'll be touring all the outdoor sites of the Four Corners of the World as well as going into show boxes where we'll tell the stories about the different areas youre coming to or leaving. For instance, if you were leaving Asia and going into Europe, you would go into a space and--very much like Spaceship Earth--you would see the forming of ancient Greece and Rome and the burning of Rome and then the resurgence and the rennaissance. After Michaelangelo paints the Sisteine Chappel as he does in Spaceship Earth, we would emerge out of that building and be in Rennaissance Italy and you're invited to step out in that experience: amid all the entertainment, shops and restaurants. One of the things that we found out when we analyzed EPCOT is that many elements are out of context. For instance, the Sisteine Chappel is in Spaceship Earth, the Mona Lisa is being painted in the World of Motion but the Italian and German pavilions are way out on the other side of park. So we've tried to index all of that so on the World Cruise you'll get all of those story points that encompass the dawn of the earth's history up through modern times and then at 5 key points you'll be invited to step out if you wish or continue on with the story. They all had to be designed as 9 minute shows because we have no guarantee where you're going to get on. So each story is complete and sets up the next stage." <a href="http://members.tripod.com/~savehorizons/westcot1.htm" target="_blank">http://members.tripod.com/~sav ehorizons/westcot1.htm</a>
