All Florida parks built on second floor?

[Prock]

You and I may not agree on much, but I was about to point the same thing out

Epcot's tunnel starts right beside Energy, links to the Innoventions/Communicore building where Guest Relations is located currently (that's an important distinction, since Guest Relations wasn't always there but the tunnel was) and then goes under the plaza and over to roughly the same spot over on the other Innoventions/Communicore building.

It really only exists to let the "central" buildings be accessed without having to go through the park. The east buildings come from the perimeter and the west buidlings come from that side's perimeter.

And operationally, Epcot is lopsided. All the Cast flows in/out from the East behind Test Track/Mexico.

Edit: I feel like I didn't explain that very well.. As far as costume rules and theme are concerned - Epcot is treated a bit different than the other parks. Epcot Future World CMs can go anywhere in a Future World "common area" - essentially outside of a building. They aren't "land locked" like other costumed cast are in other parks, who technically aren't supposed to be cutting through other themed lands. They are technically all the same land. In World Showcase it's the same idea with the Promenade - it's open to all the World Showcase CMs to go to/from but they don't go into the wrong pavilion.

There's actually a group of costumes that's considered "Epcot neutral" that can go between Future World and World Showcase. Otherwise the two groups almost never mingle.

The only park that's 100% "land locked" for costumes is MK. HS, AK, and EPCOT all share the common area as you mentioned. At AK you'll regularly see CMs go through the main gates in costume with all the guests.

 

[WDSearcher]

Interesting but I have to ask...how did Walt think anything about it since he was dead a full 17 years before it was built. Not saying he wouldn't think that way, but his concept of Epcot and the finished product were vastly different in design and purpose.

Sorry ... when I said "Walt" I meant the "royal Walt" as in "Walt and Roy and the discussions they had about Epcot prior to Walt's death as well as the WDI guys who were charged with trying to realize Walt's initial vision once he was gone".

If you watch the original Wonderful World of Disney pieces about Epcot or read the various descriptions about how Epcot was built, Walt does talk about how Epcot would operate and the interaction between the people who lived there and the people who visit, etc. and that it would be a very real world kind of place.

 

[the_princess]

Does anyone know if DLP is build on 2nd floor???

 

[Gorechick]

The way they built MK was a response to what they encountered after DL opened. There's a History Channel Modern Marvels WDW episode that explains it all. You can now get it from Netflix.

 

[cjlvsccm]

The way they built MK was a response to what they encountered after DL opened. There's a History Channel Modern Marvels WDW episode that explains it all. You can now get it from Netflix.

And also because the level of the water table in the particular FL swamp they decided to build on. They raised the ground level for MK partially with what was dredged out to create Bay Lake.

 

[bleeps]

Does anyone know if DLP is build on 2nd floor???

Are you asking about DL Paris?

 

[WilsonFlyer]

OK. Let's get it right if we're going to expose it.

MK was built with the dirt from the man-made Seven Seas Lagoon, not the dredging of Bay Lake. Bay Lake has been dredged but it is natural and has always been there. Seven Seas Lagoon is man-made and was created for the sole purpose of getting the dirt to build the second story of the MK.

 

[the_princess]

Are you asking about DL Paris?

Yes