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Austin
08-24-2010, 08:15 PM
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Day 3 we spent at Epcot. Started off with Soarin and Captain EO. Captain EO really surprised me. The digitization of the film was really nice, the pre-show was pretty cool, and they used most of the original shows effects, and used them a lot better than Honey I shrunk the Audience used them (thank god that shows gone). After that we rode the other major rides and walked the park.

As for progress on projects going on (one is finished now) Via Napoli (Opened on the 5th of August) was looking really great. The exterior was being detailed, and Hacienda de San Angel was getting closer and closer to being ready. Enough with the words and onto the pictures!


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The park entrance on Day 3

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We headed here for fastpasses since the line on Soarin can get ridiculously long

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If you didn't know, Soarin' is located within the Land pavilion

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After getting our fastpasses we headed over to the Imagination Pavilion to check out...

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Captain EO!

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The actual entrance to the ride

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The rides tag line

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After riding it (EO is awesome!) we headed to ride Figment.

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You see this sign as you enter

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The ride vehicles and station

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Figment early in the ride

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Innoventions East

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My sister and her fiancee was on this show in the Innoventions East pavilion

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Waiting in line to make my own video game so I took a picture of the area

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My mom let me walk around the area on my own so I got some pictures out of the way. Heres the new (for me) Nemo and Friends area

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Oh and to all you Disneyland people.. We still have our Seagulls! :p

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They have this display set up by the pavilion

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Saw the new Tron-O-Rail as I was walking

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And this is what they SHOULD look like

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Another shot of the Imagination pavilion

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Part of Soarin's queue. Sorry for the blur, couldn't stop to get the camera to adjust

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Over to Test Track! I love Test Track

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More pictures of the queue area later

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Went to go ride this to kill some time

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Best place to eat in Epcot ever!

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This place is pretty nice on hot days

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It mists water down on you like your car is in a car wash

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Headed over to World Showcase. Thats the American Adventure pavilion and a sailing ship in the lagoon

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The work scrim for Hacienda de San Angel

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Mexico's pavilion. Its right in front of the Hacienda

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Inside it is like your in Mexico at night. Pretty cool

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Last time I was at the park it was El Rip del Tiempo. The Three Caballeros are now in the ride

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The queue

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The station

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A shot of the work going on with Hacienda

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Some of the themeing on the Temple

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Donalds new meet and greet area

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Heading into Norway

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A Viking!

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Norway's pavilion

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Those familiar with the park and area know that the Viking boats pop up in that hole as they progress through the ride

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The queue for Maelstrom

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The station area

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The exit

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This thing awaits you in the gift shop

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Headed into China

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The level of detail here is amazing to be honest

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Looking out from the fence towards the rest of the western half of World Showcase

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Approaching Germany

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Germany is pretty cool

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Looking towards the front of the park

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Heading into Italy

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Via Napoli construction area

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Pretty tall if you ask me lol

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As we was headed into American Adventure the band came out

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And I found this retro piece of artwork :D

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American Adventure pavilion

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Heading to Japan

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Pretty great landscaping which is very accurate to Japan

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This large building was supposed to house a coaster or a dark ride for Japan but now its a storage building for Epcot. The coaster might be coming back soon though

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Some more shots of Japan

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Moroccan pavilion

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The courtyard

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CAMEL IN A FEZ HAT!

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The beginning of France

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Looking back into France

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Part of France

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Looking back as we headed to United Kingdom

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The first buildings you see in UK

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Some of the back streets area

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The facades were pretty nice here also

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Fish N Chips!

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Canada

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They even had a waterfall!

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Looking back into Canada as we left to head into Future World

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The Brazil tour group(left hand side) ruined this perfect shot

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I love this shop

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Some of the details inside

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Mission Space entrance

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I smell something thats dead

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Nah we're just kidding thats really Mission Space

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Finishing up Day 3 we checked out Sum of All Thrills

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Its basically a coaster simulator that has multiple axes of motion

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Line was short so we rode again

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The queue looks like a testing lab

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The pre-ride video

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A ride vehicle

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After the ride you enter this preview area for GM

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Time for our fastpasses for Mission Space so we headed there

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I have more pictures from Day 4

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I have more pictures from Day 4

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As your leaving

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Spaceship Earth

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The queue

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Headed over to ride Nemo and then eat at the Corral Reef

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The queue

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Your ride vehicle

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Not enough time to do this :(

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They was working on this

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Leaving the pavilion

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The restaurant we ate dinner at

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Our table had a great view of the aquarium

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My desert

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Innoventions at night

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The ball at night as we was leaving

And thats Day 3 at Epcot! Check back later for part four: Disney's Epcot part 2 (much shorter PTR)

Thanks to our friends over at Orlando Theme Park News (http://orlandoparksnews.blogspot.com) for the fantastic graphic at the top!

nitrofan
08-24-2010, 11:39 PM
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Pretty tall if you ask me lol

You should see the real one! It's enormous, and the views of Venice from the top are absolutely incredible.

Great TR, as always!

Jp
08-25-2010, 09:37 PM
Great pictures. I love Epcot when I went in 2001 and Test Track was my favorite.