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Onward to the rest of Epcot. The sculptural forms you can see in the foreground are covered with metal plates with etched versions of photographs of park visitors. You can go to a booth and have your photo permanently inscribed into the structure of the park.
Here we are discovering that I'm the only one of the party who can read German.
A bus full of characters showed up just before they dropped the ropes to let the crowd forward into the main part of the park.
The characters were found a little further onward, available for a little Noun Photography.
In keeping with the general futuristic theme of the park, they had cast members going about on Segway gyro-scooters. We headed off to the newest ride, in the building that used to be Horizons, called "Mission: Space". This is another motion-sim, and it's the most aggressive and nearly-vomit-inducing motion-sim of them all. You strap in and they actually centrifuge you to simulate blastoff.
Here at the UNIVERSE OF ENRON, Ellen DeGeneres has a dream where she's on Jeopardy and has to answer questions about corporate accounting standards and financial frauds.
I admit that neither of these photos advances the story. But the monorail photo has a nice composition, plus it has a monorail in it and monorails are just cool. The other photo is of this mirrored wall and you can have fun trying to pick out the people. Click on that one for a much larger version. Just left of center, you can see my own reflection, instantly converted by the mirrored wall into neo-Cubist form.
In the Imagination pavilion, they totally revamped the ride with the little purple dragon, and the photography exhibit has more digital stuff in it than it did before. Kodak is really in bad trouble; their only real revenue stream besides billions of feet of consumer C-41 film, is chemicals and paper to process those billions of feet of C-41 film. When consumers switch to digital, that revenue stream dries up, and whatever printmaking they do will be going into the pockets of HP, Epson, and Canon. It's not a good time to live in Rochester NY.
Here's the backwards waterfall, also known as a "fountain". And here are some people with funny hats.
Outside The Living Seas, we found this coral reef thing that we thought was just a conversation piece, until it moved and turned out to be a character.
Not everybody was interested in the moving coral reef, though.
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