**Saturday Spotlight on Epcot Future world**

[KayleeUK]

Saturday Spotlight is aimed at helping you get a little bit extra from your trips to Orlando. The tips mentioned here may already be known to you, but perhaps you can contribute a tip of your own which others might not know.

We’re not trying to rewrite the guide books and web pages dedicated to the nuts and bolts information, but hope we can add a little bit of our own icing on the cake.

Check out the Saturday Spotlight 'sticky' thread at the top of the board where we're collecting all the tips from each week's threads covering the different topics.

Here are this week's starter tips for Epcot – Future World, so please join in and add your own favourite(s)!


• The marker in EPCOT that represents the centre of WDW its just to the west of Innovention’s west (on that path that leads straight to the land)

• The sidewalks that twinkle at night in Epcot. Take the right hand path after the Spaceship Earth.

• The shooting water fountains (not the big one) that the kids play in just before you enter the world showcase. If you can time it just right you're unsuspecting buds will never forget their first encounter with these

• A lot of people don't know about the Ice Staion Cool. You go through an ice cave and at the end there are drinks from all over the world to sample for free especially the Beverley.

• Innoventions West, at the IBM exhibit, you can email pictures of yourself. Innoventions East the 10 second video clip you can email.


Here is a Link to the DIS Epcot Future World page

Don’t forget to join us in Chat on Sunday at 7pm we can share more Future World tips then.

 

[steve_rob]

A lot of people don't know about the Ice Staion Cool. You go through an ice cave and at the end there are drinks from all over the world to sample for free especially the Beverley.

Very cruel Kaylee (but with the potential to be VERY funny!)

Anyway, my tip would be that if you're want to ride the two "thrill" rides at Epcot - Mission:Space and Test Track, it's probably best to get Fastpasses for TT first and queue up for M:S while you wait. The lines for TT are typically longer and move a lot slower than M:S and you can often find the Fastpasses for TT run out long before the end of the day. We were there at midday once and they were already dispensing the 8pm ones, while M:S was still at 1:30pm!

 

[Miffy2003]

Innoventions is a great place to spend a few hours if you have (or have not) got kids. In our most recent trip, my DDs (ages 5 & 8) loved the following activities:

A Quiz show about conservation (promise it was more interesting than it sounds )

Toon Tag - a huge virtual tag with Donald, Goofy, Mickey & Minnie

Opportunity City - a game where you have to buy and sell things depending on what's happening around you - again this sounds very dull in description but great for kids in practice, very interactive

Robot Race - design a virtual robot and then run, jump etc to make your robot also do this - you get a plastic robot at the end (the one you designed) and best of all it's free!

Innoventions was very quiet when we went but the above took several hours (!) and the air con is great on a hot day

 

[Hilary]

Innoventions West, at the IBM exhibit, you can email pictures of yourself. Innoventions East the 10 second video clip you can email.

Make a note of family / work e-mail addresses to keep in your purse and have to hand when you want them

My absolute favourites are the talking drinking fountains There's one on the right hand side of the walkway from Future World to the lagoon, just before the sidewalk water spouts

 

[Miffy2003]

Something that is fun to do if you have children is the Nestle Junior Chef activity. It is situated in the Land pavilion and every hour (on the half hour), a group of volunteers get to make some chocolate chip cookies. Highly entertaining for those taking part and also those watching!

Here are my DDs enjoying this in December 04

Here is a review of the above from AllearsNet:

On our recent trip my two children (a girl 6 1/2 and boy almost 4) participated in one of the lesser-known but better-tasting offerings for children at WDW, the Nestle Junior Chef program at The Land pavilion in Epcot. The Junior Chefs (aka any child between about ages 3 and 10) help two grown-up chefs make a delicious and magical batch of chocolate chip cookies. The children also each get a personalized paper chef's hat and at the end, a little container of Nestle chips and two cookies.







There is no sign-up or prior registration. Just head downstairs to the Sunshine Season Food and look for the bright yellow bakery storefront to the far left (from the vantage point of the stairs) of the food offerings. At the time of our visit, Junior Chef was offered every hour on the half-hour.

We arrived about 5 minutes before the program was to begin, and they were already distributing the chef's hats, so I'd suggest arriving earlier at busy times. I have read they sometimes limit the number of children participating, on this day there were at least 15.

After donning their hats, the children wash their hands (with wipes) and line up around a work table. Each child is assigned a "job" - of pouring in the ingredients or stirring the dough - and each child got to place a cookie or two on the baking sheet.

The work table is inside a gated, picket fence area and the kids are always in full view of their parents. There are some seats around the outside of the fence and the photo opportunities are wonderful.

After the baking sheets are full, one grown-up baker whisks the sheets off to an out-of-view oven while the other helps the children invoke some Disney magic. In the blink of an eye - the cookies are ready!

Junior Chef requires just a small amount of time out of your touring day, in fact it is a great way to spend the time waiting for your Fast Pass window for Living With the Land. My daughter thoroughly enjoyed her baking experience. My son was less cooperative, but the Cast Members were very kind and patient with him. A four-star experience all around

 

[Verity Chambers]

A lot of people don't know about the Ice Staion Cool. You go through an ice cave and at the end there are drinks from all over the world to sample for free especially the Beverley.

You have a cruel steak Kaylee!

Verity.xxx

 

[Disney_Jedi_Jon]

Hi,


you can now meet Figment in the Imagination pavillion


Jon

 

[KayleeUK]

In Epcot at Sea Base Alfa, look at the beams inside. You will see a bunch of letters and number. On one of the tours we had taken it was explained that the people who worked on building that building wanted to leave something so the letters and numbers mean something special to each one who worked on the building.