With it being Mother’s Day and the Flower Show going on at Epcot, we expected some crowds. Just as was the case at Magic Kingdom, we headed to the park to be there at opening and got in nice and early. And as was the case at Magic Kingdom, we went with touring plans – Fastpass at Soarin’, then off to Test Track and Mission Space.
My mom hadn’t been to Epcot since 1996; that meant that virtually everything in Future World had changed since then. Horizons and World Of Motion were gone, Universe of Energy, Journey Into Imagination, Spaceship Earth, and Living Seas all got heavy rethemings, Wonders of Life closed, the Land lost Kitchen Kabaret/Food Rocks and got Soarin’ – man, that’s a lot of change to take in. And for the most part, I think she was more than OK with the changes. She really enjoyed Test Track, had fun on Mission Space in spite of her fear of being ill from the spinning, got a kick out of Spaceship Earth’s new ending, and proclaimed that we could have left her on Soarin’ for a couple hours and she would have been OK with that (minus the need for a smoke break). The only thing that was largely unchanged was Living with the Land, which my mom said was still her favorite attraction there. And yes, I know that there’s an auto-spiel now instead of a live person. The rest really isn’t much different.
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