Epcot news?

[lasttuesday]

Just wondering if anyone has heard any updates about Epcot lately? It seems I remember a while back there were several rumors about a refurb of the entrance area as well as JIYI and HISTA. I just haven't heard much about my favorite park since the wand came down!

[DizneyRox]

The entrance area isn't changing until at the very least, 2011, I've got a contract that says those "tomb stones" will be there for 10 years.

As far as JIYI and HISTA, I don't think we'll see anything unless Kodak steps p and forks over some cash, or they drop their sponsorship and someone else picks it up. I too wish something would be done with that area, I pass by it often going form Soarin' to World Showcase and used to think about stopping in, now it doesn't even cross my mind.

[big blue and hairy]

The entrance area isn't changing until at the very least, 2011, I've got a contract that says those "tomb stones" will be there for 10 years.
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I thought the contract said they could be moved but had to be accessable.

[Finiamh]

The entrance area isn't changing until at the very least, 2011, I've got a contract that says those "tomb stones" will be there for 10 years.

Really? I thought they would be there forever, this is good news. hehe

I thought the contract said they could be moved but had to be accessable.

Does that mean they can be moved to the bottom of the lagoon and accesible by SCUBA? I know people paid money to do it, heck I almost did it, but there could have been a better way to display them.

[WDWfanatic742]

So since the program in order to get a picture on one ended in June 2007, it should be somewhere, if moved, for a good 9 years at the very least.

I personally would like to see them work on DHS and AK before they work on JIYI. Sure the entire Imagination pavilion could use a very deep facelift, but even work in MK would work for me because their last "E" ticket was Splash Mountain and that was 16 years ago. Epcot has had 3 "E" tickets in the past 9 years.

[Crow]

the tombstones could go by the bricks around MK/resorts
maybe my trip after Sept in the future will allow me to see SE wo them
Id like a few updates to Epcot...new country etc

[DizneyRox]

I thought the contract said they could be moved but had to be accessable.

Yes, after 10 years... When purchased during the Millennium Celebration, the contract said they would be there for 10 years and then could be moved, but would be accessible. I suspect shortly after the celebration started they realized it wasn't going well and wasn't going to sell out, so the contract MAY have changed. But originally, and the one I signed when we got it, said it would be there (in it's current location) for 10 years, which means 2010 and not a day earlier.

[lasttuesday]

It just seems such a shame when you look at the older pictures with the acrylic sculpture, fountains, and palm trees compared to what we have today. Unfortunately, I was too young to remember the old look, but it seems that it was a much more fitting entrance to the park.

[bertasso59]

I hear that you cannot buy a name on the 'tombstones' anymore but I would love to buy one for a neice who died never fulfulling her wish to get to WDW.However I dont think the entrance is a good place for them.Perhaps an EPCOT garden just outside of the gates could be built and the stones placed there.