Rumor: EPCOT wand removal!

[monorail_rider]

WEll. I know the "wand removal" topic has been goign around since day one. all I have to say is God willing it will be removed... Eaither by Disney...or God. Maybe a small tornado just big enough to tear that "thing" down and then vanish.

[figment1986]

hmm... if i remember correctly... this darned thing wistood hurricains... and wasn't lucky enough to have a tornado take it to open land and destroy it.... so it must be removed by hunans.. and make everything at WDW under 200 feet again and not have that darned blinking light...

[FrumiousBoojum]

Ok... this thread sparked me to finally watch the DVD.

The wand *is* seen several places, such as the Illuminations segment and in a graphic on the Vacation Planning video in the special features.

I see no evidence of them digitally removing it, as was mentioned on another board. The fly-over is merely archival footage.

So, does this prove the removal of the wand? Not quite yet... the tiny graphic in the map and the angle the one segment was shot has isn't enough proof when it's shown many other places. My guess on the map is that SSE was a lot easier to show without the wand on the map -- I'm sure the original was a lot larger, but the artist of it needed to keep everything as simple as possible, which meant a sphere for SSE and no wand.

[Glad Game Guy]

Me hate wand! Me hate wand! Make it go away.

[monorail_rider]

hmm... if i remember correctly... this darned thing wistood hurricains... and wasn't lucky enough to have a tornado take it to open land and destroy it.... so it must be removed by hunans.. and make everything at WDW under 200 feet again and not have that darned blinking light...

:confused: Ok. I thik I got what you were saying.


but see. it can be strong enough to withstand hurricane winds, even the strong ones that just went through. but a tornado is A LOT stronger and hopfuly would suck it up and take it to munchkin land where it could fall on the wicked worlock of the south (Eisner).

[Jspider]

if they don't take it down maybe we should look into enlisting people to go there and throw rocks at it

[BigDaddyKyle]

I don't think the thing would fall even if they wanted it to!!!!!!!!!! I wish it fall into a black hole!!!!!

[monorail_rider]

if they don't take it down maybe we should look into enlisting people to go there and throw rocks at it

*signs name in the #1 spot* *Goes out to collect BIG rocks*

[monorail_rider]

BTW. Anyone know what it's made of? Glass, wood, steal?

[angryrubberduck]

I'm wishing upon a star....... Please remove the wand from Epcot. I never liked it from the moment I saw it.

Now if they would return the acrylic sculpture to the fountainin front of Spaceship Earth, all would be good. The so-called fountain looks kind of bare there with nothing in the middle.

Actually, that is on sale on Ebay right now, the whole sculpture!

[angryrubberduck]

Rumor just in..

Good news, the wand will be going. The bad news... they are relocating it to spire of of Big Thunder Mountain. They are doing a Hasbro tie in promotion renaming the attraction "Magic Rocks". Wait till you see the day glo paint scheme on the stalagmites.

ROFL!
Thanks for a good laugh! :devil:

[Cousin Orville]

That depresses me in one way and makes me want to get a storage unit in another.

[Cousin Orville]

Just the heading "wand removal" is funny enough..

[RebuildtheKingdom]

BTW. Anyone know what it's made of? Glass, wood, steal?

...Evil..it's made of pure evil...

If they're gonna take it down I'll volunteer for the crew, I'll work for free 24/7 to help take that POS down! lol

[FrumiousBoojum]

Actually, that is on sale on Ebay right now, the whole sculpture!

Not exactly... look closely at the auction. It's only 1/3 of the sculpture for sale.