Wonders of Life

And instead, it just...

As other things we talk about here, whether we're talking about Wonders of Life, we talked about Dead Space sometimes.

We were talking about CommuniCore Hall and what happens inside there.

We're talking about Universal Spaces sometimes.

Living Seas, '86.

Wonders of Life is 1989, hence the-

What? [laughs]

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dare you? No, how dare you do that? Literally, how dare you? One of his most iconic ones, if you want to watch someone...

dive embarrassment you should watch this because he tried to talk his way out of it he's stuck in the wonders of life that was one thing but he's stuck into in cranium command but then he went into the met life lounge wonders of life is like a abandoned pavilion about the body and epcot's in the gold dome you probably know it we did a deep dive on it at some point and it was my first youtube video i ever posted that was a deep dive anyway they had a corporate lounge and disney was still using it for like event space training type things there were cast members bopping around and He goes up into it.

He walks into a room, runs to cast members, turns around, and they go, hi, are you supposed to be here? And he was like, oh my gosh, I got totally lost.

I went to the bathroom.

You know, when he took his hands off it, maybe it took a wrong turn.

I know there are people listening who will desperately wish to speak to him about wonders of life.

He's been one of the elusive wonders of life people that no one's quizzed on that.

So there's just there's a whole bunch.

He he he had a brilliant career with with Walt Disney Imagineering.

I totally agree.

This is like one of my complaints about kind of the current state of Epcot, especially Food and Wine Festival, is that they should I wish it would open up more of the spaces like the Wonders of Life Pavilion.

Honestly, when they had that is like a festival area where they would do like demonstrations and there was food in there.

They should have just kept it.

But it definitely is time to update this thing, and I'm glad they mentioned that they were going to do it.

They didn't mention what they were going to do with Wonders of Life Pavilion.

They didn't mention that.

So, I mean, they could have said nothing.

That's what

they're doing, Rob.

What is the Wonders of Life Pavilion?

It doesn't exist.

So in this, we don't have as many announcements or as detailed of materials for those announcements as we do for other parks, but the ones we have are kind of interesting.

let's begin with this even though epcot has the most finished projects from the last five years it still has some noticeable design gaps in its presentation for example in 2019 disney announced that they would transform the old wonders of life pavilion into the play pavilion Though plans were never fully revealed, that transformation would include some video play areas, with a Edna mode design experience, a water balloon battle with Huey, Louie, and Dewey, a Wreck-It Ralph area, and an interactive game with characters from Zootopia.

But then in 2023, Disney announced that it was reconsidering plans for that old Wonders of Life pavilion.

In fairness to Disney, this project was announced just before the pandemic, which devastated revenue levels at the Florida resort.

So that whole pavilion structure remains unused in terms of park visitors.