Mouse Extra

Maya Bell from the Orlando Sentinel has a terrific story about a new attraction coming to Epcot’s Innoventions later this summer.  It is called “StormStruck: The Tale of Two Homes” and it is a look at what to do to be safer during a hurricane. 

StormStruck, an immersive digital surround-sound-theater experience, is based on what happened to these two houses — and is designed to show homeowners that they can make their own homes safer: not by teaching the nitty-gritty of safe construction, but with a little Disney drama.

…According to a Disney description, exhibit visitors will don 3-D glasses and watch as their “safe house” is lashed by a hurricane and begins to break up around them. As the eye of the storm hovers overhead, they’ll race against the clock to decide how to rebuild the home more safely.

I will be totally honest with you.  I am one of those people that walk past Innoventions and barely ever go in, no less walk through the exhibits.  But this looks intriguing enough to make me want to give it a try.  Perhaps coming in to see StormStruck may make me want to look around at the rest of what is offered in the old Communicore, another place a barely even went.

I do find it interesting that Disney has chosen a hurricane as the subject of the next addition to Innoventions.  It goes without saying that hurricanes have been one of Disney’s most difficult problems when it comes to getting people to central Florida during the offseason.  You would think they would want to stay clear of any talk of the destructive force of these storms.  But I applaud them for the effort.