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Meh it's a fireworks show. It's fine enough for now. The new show better be good. They shure hyped up those kites lol.
It was perfect! BOB CHAPEK SMACK. We will revoke your access if you diss our tracksJust saw the show finally. Had a great spot right by torch #1. I very much enjoyed the show and for an interim show, it more than fills the void. The kites were cool.
However, the “A Whole New World” segment, while shorter than I expected, was definitely out of place among this music selection.
Because they didn't want to go a year-plus with no nighttime show.Just saw it for the first time last night. It’s ok. Very disjointed. Didn’t tell a story like most Disney nighttime shows. I did enjoy hearing all the old songs of my childhood though. Hearing A Whole New World at the end didn’t bother me, it was like “hey, we are changing Epcot...a whole new world is coming”
but my question is why was this needed at all? Why not just go straight from Illuminations to the new show? Why this in-between show?
Because they didn't want to go a year-plus with no nighttime show.
Because this show uses a different infrastructure that allows them to dismantle the Illuminations equipment. Someone else here can say it smarter, but that just wasn't an option.but why not just keep playing Illuminations.
I also suspect they wanted a buffer between IllumiNations and HarmonioUS because jumping right from the former to the latter would not reflect favorably on HarmonioUS. I think they're hoping IllumiNations fades a bit from fans' memories, so that the reaction to HarmonioUS is "Well, that wasn't so bad," rather than the "IllumiNations was WAY better!" reaction many might have had if the switch happened quickly.
I still bet we'll hear a lot of that last reaction, anyway. It's almost certainly going to be mine!
Epcot Forever happened because HarmoniUS wasn't going to be ready when Illuminations was announced to end. The IllumiNations infrastructure was crumbling and pushing it another 6-8 months or so would've been very risky. They couldn't go so long without a fireworks show at Epcot though, so they came up with a quick show for the interim.I also suspect they wanted a buffer between IllumiNations and HarmonioUS because jumping right from the former to the latter would not reflect favorably on HarmonioUS. I think they're hoping IllumiNations fades a bit from fans' memories, so that the reaction to HarmonioUS is "Well, that wasn't so bad," rather than the "IllumiNations was WAY better!" reaction many might have had if the switch happened quickly.
I still bet we'll hear a lot of that last reaction, anyway. It's almost certainly going to be mine!
iThemePark has a high-quality video that cuts the BS (all of Epcot Forever) and goes straight to the tag: