Time marched on as I moved quickly thru the UK and to Canada, which is the only place I’ve actually been too (Besides "America") that is in the pavilions. Just a beautiful area and I went to see the circle-vision 360 "O’ Canada" and to get my book stamped. The show was pretty funny if you can stand Martin Short. He’s funny, but can cross that annoying line quite a bit. It was so wonderful to see circle-vison again. If I can say I was disappointed in anything was there should be more of the area I’ve been too before, Calgary, Alberta and the Banf National Forest - which saw little in the movie. So more of that - less Martin Short.
Canada!
I had time now to explore more of Future World in the Imagination area. I skipped HISTA for all the obvious reasons and went on the Figment ride. I need to find a YouTube of the previous version because this was just annoying. Yes Figment is a cute character but this was just a bit too much. Sadly, the walk around wasn’t around because I really wanted my picture with Figment.
The Land is next, having skipped over the area with Body Wars and the such which was being used for the Food and Wine Festival. I skipped Sorin’ for the obvious reasons, but when/ if I go back I would like to see the que at least - from what I hear. I too the trip on the boat "Living with the Land" which was really informative/ boring but was a bit disappointed when there were no singing vegetables. Yes, I had seen pictures and I guess they were taken out for the Sorrin’ entrance. I wanted to see the singing Fruit’s and Vegetables. Oh well.
The whole make up of the Land was interesting and different. It was like a giant food court with a few rides off to the side. It was just a bit bizarre.
Imagination!
Test Track - Love the walkways over the water.!!
The Sea’s with Nemo was the next place I went and I wish I had taken more time to explore the tanks and such but I took the Nemo Clam ride which is pretty much everything that’s in The Subs here in California. There are some differences but basically the same. Naturally the clams are less problematic than the subs - one is not cramped into a sub, nor do they have to wait 2 hours.
Having some more time to kill, I swung back over to Mexico and took the Grand Fiesta Tour. It was a cute little boat ride, very much It’s a Small World but with all Mexico. I always like the Three Caballeros and I was hoping the walk arounds would be there, but nope. It was a nice integration of the film and the sets. ‘
I then skipped over to China and caught the other Circle-Vison Reflections of China, which, again, was such a thrill to see Circle-vision again and such beauty all around the theater. Just spectacular.
My time at EPCOT was coming to an end since I had tickets for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween that evening, so I slowly exited but not before taking some time to admire Spaceship Earth. and the fountains.
Me!
On the way out I found the dedication plaque which was dated October 24, 1982 - which was cool since the day I was there was October 23, 2007 - almost 25 years to the date.
Next - An evening at Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party!!