Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Tapestry cut the UK-Canada section because bridge from France to the UK lost a Sprite in the Lagoon during high winds during one parade. So they did go over the bridges and the floats were small enough. <<< How accurate is that? If you saw it with your own eyes, is the only way I'm going be believe that. All those CM "flying" stories have always been considered bunk. And yeah, it wasn't the first. World Fest in 1982-3 has that title with "No Place Like World Showcase" ...With Polka. *shudder*
Originally Posted By MPierce >> I like how people can just be as brain dead as they want on discussion board and just venture into whatever brain dead topic they realy want to discuss instead of the topic at hand... << Yes Merf I am pretty much brain dead. However Ferret is a youthful intelligent young man that just made his first drinking around the world trip not to long ago. He was merely helping an old man out in recalling something from his past. Now I would like to publicly apologize for using up your valueable space on Dobbie's web site. While I may be brain dead, THANK GOD, I am not an obnious twit that gets banned from Disney Forumns.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<While I may be brain dead, THANK GOD, I am not an obnious twit that gets banned from Disney Forumns.>> Hey now, some of my friends have been banned from a Disney fan site! Anyway. If they ever do another parade at EPCOT, they need to alleviate the crowding issue. WS's walkways are not big enough to support a parade, and Tapestry was a nightmare for people who didn't want to watch it. It was a great parade, but issues would need to be corrected before I'd say, "Bring it back."
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Hey now, some of my friends have been banned from a Disney fan site! << Were they banned for being an obnoxious twit?
Originally Posted By MPierce >> It was a great parade, but issues would need to be corrected before I'd say, "Bring it back." << Examples please. How about if they only ran it halfway around the WS like they started doing with ToD? I have to admit it was miserable over there by the UK, and Canada, until they eliminated that side of the parade. I loved ToN, and I would like to see it again, but I really didn't mean to bring the original production back. Just have something on the scale, and magnitude of ToN. I don't watch parades, but I watched that almost every night we were there for as long as it ran.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^World Showcase, and Epcot in general, was not designed for a parade. Tapestry produced incredibly bad gridlock and traffic jams all over WS, to the point that you couldn't get anywhere during the parade. It's a big deal in my opinion, because WS is a thing that most of the Epcot visitors do at night, so the massive blockade that is Tapestry is just a bad idea. Again, I loved the parade, but logistically it was a nightmare.
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 <<Tapestry was a nightmare for people who didn't want to watch it.>> I say shame on any one who didn't want to watch it. just my humble opinion.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Anyway. If they ever do another parade at EPCOT, they need to alleviate the crowding issue. WS's walkways are not big enough to support a parade, and Tapestry was a nightmare for people who didn't want to watch it.<<< Agreed. they could do without some of the recent additions. (Like carts for FaW.
Originally Posted By ImTempest Okay, I'm going to go with Greece. It would be so cool to have a Pegasus ride that takes you on a tour of Mt. Olympus! Maybe winged horses pulling a golden chariot over the Parthenon? We could be threatened by some Furies or Harpies (although that wouldn't scare my husband - that happens to him almost every day ;-)
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer ^Use REAL Greek mythology, not Hercules, and you are golden. Of course, this being Disney, I would expect SOME Herc related stuff. (Plush. Duh.)
Originally Posted By LoyalOrderWaterBuffa I want to see India. they could have a swammy loooking dude with his flute thing surrounded with plexiglass charming a cobra out of a basket. i hate the plexiglass because little brats will put their hands all over it leaving smuges but there are too many dumb visitors that might want to get close. the restaurant in the pavillion could be called Tangiers and they could have a server named Rafi There should be a mini replica of Taj Mohol
Originally Posted By LoyalOrderWaterBuffa ~~~Why would they have a restaurant named Tangiers in an Idian pavilion?~~~ is that the nile place. MY BAD>>>> woohoo I laugh now but at least it sounds like indian and I want those cobras, dont you want them as bad?
Originally Posted By MPierce >> and I want those cobras, dont you want them as bad? << The only Cobra I want is a 1967 Shelby.
Originally Posted By LoyalOrderWaterBuffa I want the swammy dude with a long white beard with that stupid looking towel hat to get a cobra to come out of a straw basket. listen to his flute. ahhhhh it just gets me so in the mood to enjoy my epcot instead of snapping at the non English speaking torurists. We want India, We want India, We want India.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>"Why would they have a restaurant named Tangiers in an Idian pavilion?" is that the nile place.<< First off, the Nile is in Egypt, which is part of Africa. India is in southern Asia, about 3,000 miles away. Secondly, Tangiers is a city in Morocco. Morocco is already represented in the World Showcase, and even has a restuarant called Tangiers Cafe. I do like the idea for the snake charmer, but I wonder how easy it will be to have on a daily basis, and how PC it will be (both for the animal rights folks and the stereotypes folks).
Originally Posted By leobloom >> I do like the idea for the snake charmer, but I wonder how easy it will be to have on a daily basis, and how PC it will be (both for the animal rights folks and the stereotypes folks). << Well, describing the guy as "swarmy" isn't a good start. But, besides that, folks who distrust cultural stereotypes, already don't think highly of World Showcase.
Originally Posted By LoyalOrderWaterBuffa ~~~the Nile is in Egypt, which is part of Africa~~~~ Hey Jack I know that. In fact everybody knows that don't they. I only messed up the Tangiers thing because it sounds like Burma, Nile talk, India, Saudi Arabia or Moraccan. It sounds like many places. But I got "Rafi" right. I once knew an Indian boy named Rafi and he worked at Hotdog on a Stick.
