New exhibits coming to Innoventions
The Orlando Sentinel has a short blurb this morning about a couple of new exhibits coming to Innoventions at Epcot. While the report is somewhat short on details, there is one new exhibit that looks to be pretty exciting…
The weather-technology area, to be called “StormStruck: The Tale of Two Homes,” will be developed by Disney and the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, or FLASH, a nonprofit group formed by several for-profit companies including State Farm insurance. The exhibit, scheduled to open late this summer, will give visitors a feel for severe weather such as a hurricane. After they experience “the storm,” they’ll have an opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research related to weather and the latest recommendation for protecting homes.
I’ll admit that I do not pay Innoventions the attention that I should. I normally walk right past it without ever going in and exploring what it has to offer. To me, most of what is there is what I call a “one timer”, something I only need to see once. Perhaps this new exhibit will break that trend.
I know there are some Innoventions fans out there. And there are certainly those who cry to have Communicore back. Even though I tend to ignore this area, even when it was Communicore, I do appreciate that Disney has held on to the concept. After all, at the very root of the Epcot idea is to have new technologies and discoveries on display for all to see. Don’t give it up Disney, not everyone’s as short sighted as I am.