Originally Posted By oc_dean >>I also just heard WALL-E May be a part of this makeover both in ca and Tokyo<< Lets put our noggins together .... We know - Buzz, Star Tours, Space Mountain are going no where .. and I doubt Showbase 2000 is going. TDL is big on live entertainment .. so I think that theater venue AINT goin' nowhere! Now .. when you say ... >>both in ca and Tokyo<< The Kodak "Magic Eye" Theater which resides in both parks is the logical answer. Oh .. forgive me ... I believe the 3D house is sponsored by someone else in the TDL counterpart. But here in California ... The 3D movie house is referred to as: The "Magic Eye" theater sponsored by Kodak. Or .. I guess I should just say: Micro Adventure/"Honey, I shrunk the audience". So .. the next question .. is "Wall-E" being developed as the third 3-D film installment ... or a gut both theaters for a different attraction format??????? Curious, curious!!
Originally Posted By oc_dean Wow ... if they do that ... then it safe to say ... Good bye Tomorrowland! Hello Pixar Cartoon land! You figure ... Buzz Monsters Inc. Wall-E even Star Tours is Character-based with it's fantasy/science-fiction list of characters. That leaves ... Space Mountain and the... Star Jets the only attractions with any sort of a "Tomorrowland" feel. Well ... it seems the OLC is throwing in the towel on the "Tomorrowland" concept. Pixar cartoons rule! Sad. Really sad.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris ocDean - you are about four keystrokes behind what Clive James referred to with complete disdain "the one word paragraph".
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara Wall-e hasn't even opened in Japan yet. Not until December. I haven't heard a peep about any Wall-e projects here in the states, though robots hold an entirely different place in Japanese society than they do here (one that will increase in coming decades). If the movie does gangbusters business there, a Wall-e attraction is more likely. The spot where Microadventure (Honey I Shrunk the Entertainment)is will probably be the only available place.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Well, it seems like OLC and WDI didn't care about keeping the Tomorrowland theme anyway, what with "Sci-Fi City". That concept pretty much gives up on anything that showcases what future for mankind could be like, and goes with a science fiction/character based concept. So, I'm not really all that surprised by the addition of all the Pixar characters, even if they add Wall-E. It just seems inevitable to me. I don't think Disney has the will to create a true Walt-era vision of the future, like Tomorrowland '67 was.
Originally Posted By Mr F Walt's Vision of the future is outdated, which is why EPCOT's Future World is so ugly, and needs an Extreme Makeover. I would much rather visit a Sci-Fi fantasy city of the future then a 1950's version of 1984.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris "Walt's Vision of the future is outdated, which is why EPCOT's Future World is so ugly." Yes, damn that Walt Disney for designing all those Future World pavillions. I blame him for the views of the Swan and Dolphin from World Showcase, too! Silly old Jew hater.
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara I don't believe Walt had anything to do with the eventual design of Future World--as it was actually built--in Epcot.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "I don't believe Walt had anything to do with the eventual design of Future World--as it was actually built--in Epcot." You're right, he didn't. And, if EPCOT the city had been built as he wanted, I'm sure he would have kept it current too. He was not one to let thing get stale.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris "I don't believe Walt had anything to do with the eventual design of Future World--as it was actually built--in Epcot." And I believe somebody needs to look up "sarcasm" in the dictionary.
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara Bob, I did get the sarcasm in your "Jew hater" remark, though others might not.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris I guess that is a sore point with me. I was speaking to some younger people at work yesterday and they talked about a Halloween party they attended Friday night. Now, a lot of these kids I work with are what we would call here "smart arse university students". You know they type - they have been in some kind of educational experience since they were four, never been in the real world, still studying at nineteen but think they know everything about the world. Anyway one of them said their friend turned up in a suit, padded with a pillow and had a small moustache on with slicked back grey hair. When people asked him who he was meant to be, he replied, "The neo-nazi facist Jew hater Walt Disney". Of course, this got great laughs at work and they all patted themselves on the back for knowing SO MUCH about Walt Disney and how his company had become a modern day Third Reich of the entertainment world(I told you these kids were annoying). I had smart arse university students.
Originally Posted By Citizen of Maihama A few tidbits about Sci-Fi City - A full scale working prototype Rocket Bike was built and tested. (I've seen it.) It was capable of "wheelies." (For the record, this predated Rocket Rods.) Two bikes would have departed side-by-side and "raced" (Eddie Sotto - It was the high tech son of Soapbox Racers) through a surprisingly extensive course throughout Tomorrowland (Sci-Fi City). Most of of the land's slurry was to be replaced with a textured moonscape. A test area was created on stage in Tomorrowland and, last that I noticed, was still there, around and under the Solar Ray's Light Supply cart, located in front of Grand Circuit Raceway. Another major attraction which I didn't see mentioned here or in the referenced blog posting was planned for Sci-Fi City; Another indoor coaster, housed within a black pyramid. Intended to be a massive and mysterious alien device, riders would have found themselves careening through the interior of an alien supercomputer, only to be perceived as a virus by the device, requiring a hasty escape. The R&D work on the attraction was later morphed into Rock 'n' Roller Coaster.
