Walt Disney Imagineer shares a ground-level look at Journey of Water Inspired by Moana

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Journey of Water Inspired by Moana update from Walt Disney Imagineering - August 19 2022

Posted: Friday August 19, 2022 1:37pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Walt Disney Imagineer Zach Riddley has shared a new ground-level look at EPCOT's latest project - Journey of Water Inspired by Moana.

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana update from Walt Disney Imagineering - August 19 2022

Zach said on Instagram, "It was great to spend the day on our project site for Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana – the new attraction coming to the World Nature neighborhood of EPCOT. Many years go into designing these experiences and nothing beats seeing the real thing in its own “state of becoming.” Our guests are following along on this work from the monorail above our site, so I thought it would be fun to share a few views with you from on the ground, right in the middle of the process."

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana update from Walt Disney Imagineering - August 19 2022

"The craft of creating rockwork is a blend of art and science, and seeing this carving and sculpting progress live is one of the things I love most about my role as an Imagineer. I joined the project team for a walk of the site alongside Imagineers Scott and Robert, two of our leaders overseeing the project. The range of textures are inspired by real world formations – all the way down to the tiniest details and variation that, when finished, should be impossible to distinguish from the real thing."

Journey of Water Inspired by Moana update from Walt Disney Imagineering - August 19 2022

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monothingie7 minutes ago

eddie10421 minutes ago

Why do guys always want to fault Disney for doing their jobs? They are working on it and here you are complaining that the issue is being addressed.

tparris29 minutes ago

Especially because many new things at EPCOT are breaking and have been broken for some time now, with absolutely no clear intention to fix

monothingie44 minutes ago

The problem is Disney has a HORRIBLE track record on this. If they didn't no one would really care that it was down for maintenance.

mysto44 minutes ago

Private parts.

Cmdr_Crimson49 minutes ago

We can call it a FAILnale!

lightningtap34751 minutes ago

It was working yesterday 😕

Disstevefan11 hour ago

Let's look on the bright side, its job security for the maintenance workers......... Until Disney decides its costing too much to keep going ;)

MisterPenguin1 hour ago

Indeed. Other things which stopped working are already fixed. It's easy to hear about things when they break, but getting fixed rarely gets the same attention. Then people think everything about it is broken.

eddie1041 hour ago

They are fixing it and that is all that matters. 🙄

monothingie1 hour ago

I don't think this should distract from the fact that it is broken...already. I believe there are other parts that are also already broken and disabled. It's not the first thing in the new Epcot that has quickly broken. But why would it be ok for complexity and reliability to mutually exclusive? Has WDI gotten so bad that they can't produce anything complicated that won't fail after only a couple of months of routine use?

Incomudro1 hour ago

:confused:

Disstevefan12 hours ago

OK. We knew the complex show elements in this children's water walk through attraction would have failures intermittently.

lazyboy97o2 hours ago

No, your weird obsession with a standard sanitary requirement of any water recreation facility says nothing about the complexity or reliability of the interactive show elements.