Thank you so much for this article. It brought back so many memories of my first visit to EPCOT. I was barely 5 when I was there for the millennium celebration. I went to Youtube to look up the Millennium Village and from there to look up the Tapestry of Nations parade, which brought back a very strong memory of those giant puppets bending down and scaring the daylights out of me. I remember Spaceship Earth being different too. Anybody remember who narrated Space Earth in 2000?

In more recent years, I did the College Program in 2014 and I worked in EPCOT. During one of my closing assignments (or a few of them) my fellow co-workers and I would wander into several buildings and explore and on of them was Imagination. We went up to where the ImageWorks was at and while it was a neat experience, I now looks like something out of Five Nights at Freddy's. They go up there for maintenance work so it always looked a little different every time. I hope they do something with it cause that whole paint area and rainbow tunnel is still up.

Am I the only one that misses World of Motion. Sure, Test Track is a great replacement, but World of Motion was like Spaceship Earth but with cars. It was awesome! :)

I really miss Body Wars & Cranium Command
The new figment is OK......but I miss the Original

Really miss The Adventurer's Club.....will never be the same

I was very sad when I saw the changes made to Figment. And very sad when they closed Maelstrom but I did see here that the article states Frozen was not set in Norway but the movie was set in Norway.

There are definitely some of these attractions I miss more than others. The top of my list for most missed is Journey To Imagination with Figment, ImageWorks, The Wonders of Life Pavilion, Food Rocks and Kitchen Kaberet. I remember reading all of the information on Maelstrom when it first opened and remembered being really excited to ride it. It looked like it would be really thrilling, with the backwards drop, and I had in my mind an attraction on the scale of Splash Mountain. We rode it within the 1st year it was open, and I was SO disappointed. I am hoping that having the "Frozen" theme will add to the attraction. To answer a previously asked question about the Odyssey Building (the one that sits at the beginning of the World Showcase between Test Track and Mexico... it was never an attraction... it was a cafeteria style restaurant. For years it was used to train Food Service workers and for conventions. Over the past year, they have been incorporating it into the Festivals. It is serving as the Craft Beer pavilion this year at the Food and Wine Festival. It was really nice to go in and have a a beer or 2 and relax in the air condition.

There are definitely some of these attractions I miss more than others. The top of my list for most missed is Journey To Imagination with Figment, ImageWorks, The Wonders of Life Pavilion, Food Rocks and Kitchen Kaberet. I remember reading all of the information on Maelstrom when it first opened and remembered being really excited to ride it. It looked like it would be really thrilling, with the backwards drop, and I had in my mind an attraction on the scale of Splash Mountain. We rode it within the 1st year it was open, and I was SO disappointed. I am hoping that having the "Frozen" theme will add to the attraction. To answer a previously asked question about the Odyssey Building (the one that sits at the beginning of the World Showcase between Test Track and Mexico... it was never an attraction... it was a cafeteria style restaurant. For years it was used to train Food Service workers and for conventions. Over the past year, they have been incorporating it into the Festivals. It is serving as the Craft Beer pavilion this year at the Food and Wine Festival. It was really nice to go in and have a a beer or 2 and relax in the air condition.

I've been not only disappointed but outraged by attractions which have replaced classic ones in EPCOT over the years that are moving the park in a direction that could not be more inaccurate! It made no sense whatsoever first of all to replace El Rio del Tiempo: The River of Time with the Three Caballeros when that ride could have been built separately in the Magic Kingdom when the entire complex already has more than enough room to double in size. El Rio del Tiempo was one of my earliest lessons on what Mexico consists of (now and in the past) and Mexican citizens base their heritage on their country itself, not on a US children's movie from the 1940's even though it's set in Mexico. The Living Seas replacement was even more appalling! That attraction was beyond extraordinary with a recreated ocean complete with aquatic life, plants, coral reefs, rocks, sand, sea shells and everything else the world under the ocean consists of (with even the chance for certified guests to scuba dive!). There was even an elevator ride down through the water and a moving vehicle ride (similar to what you ride in through Spaceship Earth) at the lowest point which was designed to be reminiscent of the ocean floor through the underwater scenes. Other than that it featured a museum with ocean-related exhibits and a seafood restaurant called the Coral Reef Restaurant which included thick-glassed windows looking out into the underwater realm that was the centerpiece of The Living Seas as seen better from down below the building (which I mentioned before). I can't imagine why they'd replace this with some weak ride based on Finding Nemo! Believe it or not I liked that movie as did so many children who saw it however the ride inspired by it belongs in Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom as does the Gran Fiesta Tour, not EPCOT Center! The ride Finding Nemo being established at all is one thing but as far as it replacing The Living Seas is unimaginable and I just felt like fainting upon learning this for the first time years ago! I've never been able to fully determine why the entire WDW complex has taken such a turn for the worst in the last decade but now is the time to put an end to this and replace attractions that are now out of place! It's important to stimulate small children but the exact same goes for everyone above that age range as Walt himself strongly believed. Attractions which are meant to appeal to either everyone or higher generations only must not be neglected and not be done away with to make way for kiddie ones and I don't know how or why Disney World continuously does this and gets away with it. So stop disrespecting Walt Disney, stop disrespecting the Disney legacy/empire, stop disrespecting the diversity of life, stop disrespecting the real world and start doing all this by getting Gran Fiesta Tour and Finding Nemo out of EPCOT (and putting what was originally there and rightfully still should be there back in those same places) and into their more appropriate settings NOW!

I miss all the stuff from the 80s! And maybe Journey Into Inagination would be more popular if they brought back the original version.

Figment is my favorite. Absolutely. I have a Figment collection, and I had him on my 30th birthday cake; I used to literally dream about that ride several times a month when I was young.

I also have all of the Epcot original theme music memorized.

What about that building that is between Epcot and the World Showcase? I think the only part that is regularly used there are the restrooms. Will that space ever be turned into anything?