Epcot Wand removal?

[daannzzz]

Epcot Wand removal?Rumor at Laughingplace.com

http://www.laughingplace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=1475

 

[tmt martins]

Maybe the Hat will be next

 

[Tink's Tormentor]

I don't hold much in this news. I will wait until there is actual progress in removing the wand....

 

[rocketriter]

Wow, let's hope it's true -- for the wand and the hat, both! It's hard to say which is more execreble.

 

[2Xited4Disney]

Hat on top of spaceship earth

 

[dbm20th]

How about we take the wand down and put 2 giant mouse ears instead?

Or how about a Jack Sparrow hat?

 

[rantnnravin]

STITCH ears... duuuuuh!

 

[mitros]

The Wand, the Hat, scrap metal, perfect together!

 

[beck0321]

Too bad it won't be down this year when we go...I don't really like it very much.
Also the hat in MGM seems out of place.

 

[raidermatt]

As long as they don't take down the Epcot sign. Sometimes I'm walking around that park and I can't tell what park I'm in. It helps to have that big sign there to remind me. Magic!

Hopefully, they put tall signs up in the other three parks as well. How else can we know where we are? Like the one with that castle. It would be so much easier if there was a big sign on it that said "DisneyWorld". And the "hat" park. Universal Studios, I think its called? Then the tree one. Some kind of zoo thing. They should definitely put a sign on that tree.

 

[MJMcBride]

How about we take the wand down and put 2 giant mouse ears instead?

Or how about a Jack Sparrow hat?

I'm think the word "Pixar"

 

[I'mNoPrince]

I'm think the word "Pixar"

Thats one saved for the former MGM studios

 

[magicforever]

STITCH ears... duuuuuh!

 

[ChrisFL]

We've heard that engineers have been assigned to the Spaceship Earth wand at Epcot to assess what is the most practical way of removing the icon in 2007

So either they never considered taking the wand down in the first place or never planned HOW they were going to do it?

 

[manning]

Unless there is a fastener problem, don't you do it in reverse ?????

 

[courderoy]

why would they want to anyway??

 

[TheDogbots]

There is internal fighting about the wand because it makes spaceship earth the tallest icon of all the parks.

The hat will not come down until the great movie ride facade is changed because Disney doesnt have rights to the theatre's likeness any more.

I didn't make any of that up... I got it from a decent source of cast members. then again after hearing some of the stuff I have heard cast members say, i don't believe much of it! but this is what cast members working in those two parks think (at least some of them)

-toodles

 

[Disneybag]

STITCH ears... duuuuuh!

I'm still waiting for the Stitch dressed as Sparrow character to become a meet and greet over by Pirates. It WILL happen.

 

[DancingBear]

The hat will not come down until the great movie ride facade is changed because Disney doesnt have rights to the theatre's likeness any more.

That one makes absolutely no sense. I'm not even sure that any sort of license was required from Grumman's/Mann's Chinese Theater, but certainly if Disney got such a license it would have been for a lengthy term, if not perpetual.

 

[ryley26]

I don't mind either but the wand could go like the hat