Epcot Shrinks AGAIN?! Another Disney World Downgrade as The Seas REMOVES Dolphins and Manatees!

[@GWM9930]

The LIST of what attractions are STAYING at Disney World is shorter than what attractions are LEAVING. It is very sad to see what is happening at WDW!!!!

[@animezilla4486]

What's wrong with the attractions

[@michaeljackson9125]

@@animezilla4486 a lot are old and outdated and constantly breaking.

[@jackshofner8733]

The EPCOT theme park was never Disney’s full vision. He wanted EPCOT to be a full functioning city. You can see part of the model of his vision on the WED way people mover in Tomorrow Land.

[@RobSojourn]

I am really glad i went to WDW in the early 90s, Epcot did not have any IPs involved, it was all about the Earth and the cultures all over

[@ZebraGamez19]

I wish but I wasn't even born yet

[@saralotti7174]

Classic Epcot. I watched an old man from China make beautiful hand blown glass one night in 90s Epcot-his skill was magical. And the jugglers and actors outside of Italy did the best shows back then.

[@sniperic1]

yes back then it was about different cultures of our planet, before they took out the Norway ride, and added frozen into place. I use to love to go watch the Chinese acrobats, and watch the Japan riders who rode those crazy birds and did the drums. I not been since like 2005 last time I went half the stuff was closed. Epcot was my favorite to do thing as an adult it was for me, while the rest of the other parks were for the kids, and all that has been ruined now.

[@aquahexlive]

No! I love the Seas pavilion! If they get rid of the aquarium, I am never going to Epcot again!

[@BowsettesFury]

Why are you still going???? 🙄

[@JessicaTheEngineer]

The seas is my FAVORITE place in my FAVORITE park!!!! I can’t imagine they would let it go!!!

[@214Jass]

The best place to go chill out in that hot Florida sun.

[@mperry4878]

I have spent so many hours in the Seas Pavillion, its a great place to hang with kids from the Florida Heat. This makes me so sad.

[@travisvanalst4698]

Next, Spaceship Earth and Cinderellas Castle will be axed because they cost too much to maintain.

[@disneyparksstarwarslover7638]

Stop giving them ideas!!!!

[@Anti_Woke]

Disney: offensive, expensive, shoddy, and broken.

[@animezilla4486]

What's offensive about that

[@RaymondSwanson-u9y]

Didn't they just build a buch of crap that doesn't work? That's the things they should remove.

[@jonathanshaw9248]

Because they are doing what you want building things that don’t work to discourage you from coming and eventually get the park shut down stop pretending you care you know you hate disney

[@ryanbarker5217]

WDW is going to look like my local mall sooner than later.

[@saralotti7174]

Our malls are empty echoing spaces with only cheap Temu kiosks inside imo

[@ryanbarker5217]

@@saralotti7174 ours still has a spencer's gifts, which has turned the back into a straight-up sex shop.

[@katburnham9361]

and this is how they want to "combat" epic universe that's coming out this year? Keep getting rid of such nice things to make it so that way the place is practically unrecognizable?! They're more cooked then LA

[@DAK59]

The Living Seas used to be my favorite. I was there last year after not going to Disney World for several years. I was extremely disappointed. It looked more like a B grade tourist trap than a Disney property. The rest of Epcot was equally disappointing.

[@pianobypc1031]

Universal. That's where we'll go if we ever get money to do it.

[@travisvanalst4698]

Well it’s about 40% the price of Disney. So if you want to go, I would go now. The next few years EU will create a large demand there and prices will go up a lot more.

[@CLIFFLIX]

I LOVE The Seas! On a hot summer day, it was always my favorite place to escape the heat. Burbank is just ruining Disney one decision at a time. It seems like every month, new comes out that sends the parks downward, one step at a time. Well? If 2025 and 2026 bring more attendance drops, we can certainly expect deeper and deeper daily operations cuts to every park. Animal Kingdom prolly will have very few animals in the next 5 years. The most expensive animals are tigers, Lions, elephants, giraffes gorillas and Hippos? Is it reasonable to expect that the entire Safari, which is VERY expensive and could be on the chopping block to save costs????

[@PatrickHolliday-z2o]

I don’t think Disney has the money to fund the seas. This pavilion will be gone by next year.

[@sky0kast0]

Seas are more zoo less Epcot but that's my opinion

[@travisvanalst4698]

@@sky0kast0I actually agree. I always thought this would be better at Animal Kingdom.

[@caryrae73]

Just keep getting rid of things or close a bunch of big attractions at once yet charge more and more to get in.

[@SpiritGuideWolf]

No more Dolphins? I had done the Dolphins in Depth program at the Living Seas twice, first back in 2007 and the experience includes a photo of you with one of the Dolphins. If I was going back to WDW, would surely have done this again...guess now one more reason not to go back for me.

[@Hippoopi]

I think they cancelled that program some time ago. It was a fun program.

[@PawanKumar-ib7dc]

i saw Queen Abundance Secrets by Alex Lane mentioned so many times in youtube comments, and at first, i was like, “here we go, another overhyped book.” but after a while, i couldn’t ignore how much people were saying it changed their lives, so i finally read it. it’s actually really solid. it made me realize how much i wasn’t fully tapping into my energy and how that’s been holding me back. didn’t expect it to hit like that, but it did.

[@OakForestBoys]

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[@2dollarbill650]

Animals are expensive to maintain and your not spending money looking at them. So yeah. Disney will definitely get rid of them.

[@greengiant5092]

It's obvious that they see animals as more of a liability and an expense than an asset. It's sad that they aren't adding south american animals to AK, but it's especially sad to see that they won't be caring for injured manatees anymore.

[@spectrumgamer21YT]

I’m hoping when Encanto and Indiana Jones comes around in 2027, they do that

[@torrey88]

They think guardians is worth admission by itself

[@Cozydrone]

Disney world 🌎 needs to shrink to zero and bring back the orange 🍊 groves once again.😁

[@sky0kast0]

If Disney did that for a while maybe

[@The_gaming_gazimon]

that land was never orange groves most of disney world was built on borderline useless undeveloped swamplands in the 60's how about instead of wishing for the destruction of american culture and symbols, you put that effort into wishing it would return to something to be proud of. something WALT would be proud of

[@PinkTigger33]

The Animal Kingdom animals are next. Just watch. I hope I'm wrong, but I've got a feeling...

[@MikeBodo]

If anything should go in The Seas pavilion it's the Nemo ride which is lame, outdated and breaks down far too often. Everything else there is or was great.

[@mjwellsmd]

Disney World is not worth it for a destination trip that costs thousands of dollars. It is turning into a glorified Six Flags.

[@A812380]

This is all about cutting costs and milking the brand.

[@ussstropicana]

The Living Seas (the original one) and the Mexico pavilion were my favourite places in the "around the world" presentations. I spent at least three hours of my valuable time in Florida in The Living Seas when it was science, science, science, not that crap with Nemo shite. The "underwater" restaurant really impressed me. I spent an hour in Mexico, loving the air condition atmosphere of a typical Mexican village square.

[@JoyleiaJo]

We wouldn't have seen a manatee ever, if it weren't for Little Jo being at EPCOT.

[@eddyheredia8194]

It is like the ones who are Currently running Disney are intentionally trying to destroy the Disney company with the stupid woke garbage they push in their movies and the changes in their parks. I used to love Disney. But now more and more they have only made me hate what they have become and I have no interest in ever going back. Disney is dead in my heart

[@amyk87]

Agree 100%. They’re the same mindset of people who ran our country into the ground the last four years. They literally have no idea how to preserve anything or to think a few years into the future. These are the same people who are behind things like clearing forests to put up solar farms or force electric vehicles that destroy roads and require slave labor to mine materials for batteries that sit in landfills leaching poison forever to “save the planet”. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@saralotti7174]

Sabotage from within works far better than from outside imo

[@doverndptc2839]

They lost me back when they got rid of Club Villain. Now it's as though they're trying to make absolutely CERTAIN I never go back.

[@naturalistwarrior]

Its not bad enough to drive Dinoland to extinction according to Disney... Next thing you know they will remove all the safari Animals at Animal Kingdom and replace them with furries and rename Kilimanjaro Safari to Furry Safari while playing "Furry Safari" (sung to Surfin' Safari by the The Beach Boys) in the safari truck

[@The_gaming_gazimon]

i love dinoland, but be honest with yourself for ten seconds it was NOT a great area of the park and was EXTREMELY dated replacing it is probably the ONE thing disney got right... now what they're replacing it WITH on the other hand is an entirely different problem

[@naturalistwarrior]

@ "it was NOT a great area of the park and was EXTREMELY dated" Instead of retheming the land what Disney SHOULD have done was IMPROVE Dinoland to make it better for example: 1. Replace Dino Rama (Except TriceraTop Spin) with a botanical garden complete with Ginkgos, Cycads, Magnolias, Wollemias, Sciadopitys and Horsetails with statues of dinosaurs and other ancient animals. just like the Crystal Palace Park 2. Add Med-Size Fossil Museum where you learn about earths history and check out fossil displays where Primeval Whirl used to be 3. Add a giant Ichthyosaur fountain with ammonites as smaller fountains 4. Add a ride base on the movie "Ice Age" Considering Disney now owns the rights to the films when brought out FOX 5. Add a fossil gift shop where you buy fossils from shark teeth trilobites to Dinosaur teeth to replicas of fossil skulls 6. give Restaurantosaurus a new refreshing look

[@MCat360]

Why why why???

[@214Jass]

I loved the dolphins!!! They were my favorite part besides the manatees. Glad I got my videos and pictures when I did.

[@heatherlarsen2355]

What’s great about the seas is if you have little kids it’s probably the best place to take a break. When my boys were little they spent a long time just watching the marine life in those tanks.Disney is on a course to destroy tradition and history. I wish they would stop.

[@Louismoxley]

What is with them having a DJ playing pop music in the middle of Future World???cheap

[@saralotti7174]

It’s expensive to maintain a large Aquarium. Apparently imo too expensive for Disney. Imo this shows that they are in financial trouble or they wouldn’t even think of cutting their Aquarium..imo.

[@lucashunter9434]

I think an important consideration/view was overlooked here. It would not surprise me if Disney believes “keeping creatures captive for human entertainment” as problematic. They seem to have this weird, warped sense of understanding why people go to the parks and what the everyday person/family likes. To me, removing this attraction is just Disney being Disney. It’s this weird, virtue signalling that makes no sense. Sure, closing this could be a cost savings exercise. But is Disney really saving money when more and more people decide not to visit? You attract more bees with honey, so they say. Where’s the honey, Disney?

[@ronswifee]

The story seems to just get sadder…they keep eliminating everything that makes them shine. It’s as if they want to be just another theme park instead of leaning in to all the things that bring the “magic.”

[@BowsettesFury]

Nothing is making them shine now.

[@ninjapat1514]

josh demario : by the power of igerskull you will be downgraded for something worse

[@LJ725dlr]

The Seas has not been there since the opening of the park. 1986

[@Darogasingh-iu1eg]

i kept seeing people in youtube comments talk about Queen Abundance Secrets by alex lane, and i didn’t think much of it at first. it felt like just another one of those manifestation books that people hype up. but eventually, i gave in and decided to check it out. honestly, it’s not what i expected. it talks about using your feminine energy in a way that actually makes sense, and i started seeing things differently. i didn’t think it would be worth it, but it really was.

[@spectrumgamer21YT]

At least I got to experience that on my birthday last month. I’m planning on going again this December, but after Epcot? I’m moving on to Universal Studios. I love Disney and I still do, but I could care less at this point

[@sheikhmuzaffer6919]

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[@quartytypo]

Epcot: Florida's Coney Island.

[@SteveDoors1313]

Please everyone Boycott Disney. O haven't gone in years. Stop the madness.

[@animezilla4486]

Boycotting wouldn't help why not sign petitions

[@SteveDoors1313]

@animezilla4486 signing petitions is good also but boycotting has already helped. Disney has had their lowest attendance in years and their is really bad

[@The_gaming_gazimon]

@@animezilla4486 signing petitions is about as useful as a sock full of dogshit the petition to SAVE splash mountain had triple the signatures as the petition to replace it, but we see exactly where that got us you have to hit them in the pocketbook, and make the shareholders feel it for any change to happen

[@rachelwatson5503]

Epcot my favourite park then Animal Kingdom, last eight years of holidays were spent on Disney property 6 Coronado Springs 2yr Port Orleans Riverside,would have been 3rd Port Orleans 2020,that didn't happen,now I don't even see Disney movies apart from getting rid of everything people go back for there's the policies they follow (voted Peltz,I have one share),planning to go back for first time since 2019 in 2026 and staying at Universal Royal Pacific

[@sniperic1]

Disney must be idiots, that is one of the things I loved about epcot!

[@clarabarton8350]

Disney erased Zip A Dee Doo Dah and is about to erase rivers of America, removing mammals from captivity is the least of my concerns

[@AshleyIllustrated-dz2hw]

Sea cows? No you can't.

[@HubardLake]

Stop pouting I'am sure once ticket prices have quadrupled and parking is $100 plus they will put some gold fish in there. Plastic ones I'am sure, just remember its the thought that makes Disney so magical.

[@mclark2288]

What's the beef between Pro and Tom Corliss? Besides the fact he went liberal? Years ago he said he leaned right and had a Reagan cutout in his studio. He used to be a great voice for the fan base to call out all the wrongs the Disney company was doing to the parks. I dont know what happened to him but I suspect it is one employee in particular who pushed him to the left. And now he's back on the media list and thinks the parks are great.

[@poisonedyoyo]

There is an Emperor's New School episode where Malina takes u the cause for saving the manatees but she thinks that by sending the Kuzcoins to that that someone else will care for the manatee in question but instead it is dropped on her doorstep.

[@AliciaPryce]

I swear if Bob Iger keeps destroying all of the attractions. Then people will not be going to Disney world anymore. It will become no Disney world. It will be dead and people will focus on going to epic universe. But, don’t worry the ghost of Walt Disney has something for Mr. Iger for ruining his theme park, and it wouldn’t be good for him.

[@animezilla4486]

Not everybody is going to epic universe

[@travisvanalst4698]

@@animezilla4486Most are though.

[@saralotti7174]

That the plan imo. They can’t sell off all that sweet sweet land the park sits upon unless they first destroy the park and it’s profitability-imo.

[@mitchellalexander9162]

Are you people TRYING to lose Crowds to Seaworld?

[@dershwans]

Inigo, outigo

[@lightningsrt4707]

NO animal should be in captivity. That’s is the best uneducated, So yea put animatronics or videos up.

[@chachifeere]

You guys Just don’t get it. Animals like this should not be kept in a tank. It’s torture . Yes they might say it’s conservation but it’s not. Just look at marine land in Canada. And other “marine places” around the world. In Canada we have laws now. This is not 1990 anymore times have changed. Wdw doesn’t want this bad press

[@OakForestBoys]

Many of those animals would die in the wild because they can't physically survive on their own anymore

[@chachifeere]

@ then they need to go to a real sanctuary.not an amusement park

[@kirkmilliren9218]

What does Walt Disney have against teaching people different things? Is there something about educating kids that they are against this? If I could I would want to go there just for that experience. But apparently Disney has lost touch with the visitors that go there to learn about different things. It's unfortunate. Sooner or later Disney isn't going to have anything worth going to see at all.

[@The_gaming_gazimon]

we'll be at that point later this year when they shut down half of two different parks to replace things with garbage NOBODY asked for and even fewer people WANT

[@spectrumgamer21YT]

I love you Disney, but do better. Please

[@hillelhalevi]

Dolphins? I've never seen Dolphins at LS or any other interesting fish/mammals. It's the worst aquarium. Make it better or close it.

[@The_gaming_gazimon]

i think you might be blind my man

[@hillelhalevi]

@The_gaming_gazimon Maybe. The Seas Pavillion is still lame.

[@travisvanalst4698]

@@hillelhalevi quite a subjective take, man.

[@hillelhalevi]

@travisvanalst4698 For an aquarium, it's very lame.

[@hillelhalevi]

@@The_gaming_gazimon I'm sure there are many people that like the LS and EPCOT needs the capacity. Or maybe not. On the other hand, for an aquarium, it is SO outdated. Look at the "aquarium" at Atlantis in the Bahamas. It blows LS away. It's not even close. Look at videos or photos online.

[@MithaRam-ry1ow]

people in youtube comments kept bringing up Queen Abundance Secrets by alex lane, and i just ignored it for weeks. i figured it was just another trendy self-help thing. but the more i saw people saying how much it helped them, the more i got curious. when i finally gave it a shot, i could see why. it’s simple but real, and it made me rethink how i go after the things i want. i’m not saying it’ll work for everyone, but it made a difference for me.

[@sxyblnd2002]

disney is killing itself. i would spend hours watching the dolphins manatees turtles sharks tuna

[@kiranthakordenhoja]

not gonna lie, i thought i was over all the manifestation talk, but youtube comments kept bringing up Queen Abundance Secrets by alex lane, so i finally gave it a read. it’s not like some magical fix or anything, but it breaks down stuff about feminine energy and abundance in a way that just clicks. it’s one of those books that sneaks up on you, and you’re like, “okay, this actually makes sense.” i’m glad i gave it a chance.

[@oryanstar1010]

F-COT. 😢 AS IN FAILURE

[@2dollarbill650]

Animals are expensive to maintain and your not spending money looking at them. So yeah. Disney will definitely get rid of them.