The new Land Pavilion looks real good

[mitros]

Just back from the Flower and garden show at Epcot, and took a look at the new Land Pavilion. It looks REALLY good! We were worried, based on what we had been hearing, that they were going to make a mess of the place. In our opinion, no such thing has happened. Everything was up and running on Monday, including Soarin', but with a 65 minute wait, we decided to wait until our next couple of trips later this month, {to see other groups at the Flower Power concerts} to see that. The food court was done done really well, even though they took the fountain out, The new design on the baloons were good, the overall coloring and layout was done quite tastefully. I don't see where that "travel" theme that folks had been talking about came in to play at all. Now, if they can just figure out how to get the Living with the Land boat ride to load a little quicker.......

 

[rocketriter]

How's the Living with the Land ride? For years it was excellent--full of content about all sorts of experimental plant science. But when we rode on it a year ago it was dumbed down to the point of, "There are some pumpkins. Here are some tomatoes." So what's it like after the rehab?

 

[mitros]

Actually, we did not do any of the shows at the Land. We were pressed for time, and just wanted to see what the rehab was like. We will be doing the full pavilion later this month. We did the Living with the Land boat ride just before the rehab, and about 6 other times during 2004. I would have to say the ride was somewhere between scientific and dumb. Not quite as informative as it was when it was" Listen to the Land "when Kraft ran the pavilion, but not quite "here are the beans" and, "here are the watermelons". We are kind of curious ourselves as to what they may have done to it.

 

[peter11435]

Actually, we did not do any of the shows at the Land. We were pressed for time, and just wanted to see what the rehab was like. We will be doing the full pavilion later this month. We did the Living with the Land boat ride just before the rehab, and about 6 other times during 2004. I would have to say the ride was somewhere between scientific and dumb. Not quite as informative as it was when it was" Listen to the Land "when Kraft ran the pavilion, but not quite "here are the beans" and, "here are the watermelons". We are kind of curious ourselves as to what they may have done to it.

Just to clarify Fraft never "ran" the pavilion. They only paid sponsorship money. Attractions have no more connections to their sponsor then a company who pays for commercial time during the super bowl has to the game.

 

[mitros]

I was refering to the former sponsor of the pavilion, that was Kraft. As far as "running" it, that was not the point of my post, just that when their name was on it, things were different regardless of if Disney OR Kraft actually "ran" it.