What would you do with The Odyssey Restaurant?

kcookiebaker · Post by **kcookiebaker** » Sep Fri 11, 2009 9:03 am

Wouldn't that be a lovely location for a small school prom or Christmas Dance?

Future Guy · Post by **Future Guy** » Sep Fri 11, 2009 1:19 pm

cousininmiami wrote:The Odyssey is truely in future world. And is very futuristic looking. So, that being said I would turn it into a restaurant of the future.

Call it the New Horizons... have it like the old Horizon's pavillion, there would be different rooms, with different themes. The future from the fifties, the sixties, and a current view of the future, what ever that may be. Make the servers wear outfits kind of like The Jetson's!

Make the menu all American fare, with theming names from the future for the food choices. And the music playing would be from the original Horizon's ride.

Genius idea!

Fantastory · Post by **Fantastory** » Sep Fri 11, 2009 1:34 pm

Maybe it's because I worked around it so much, but I like the fact that it's not an open restaurant or something like that anymore. It's like a mystery building...there but you can't quite figure out the purpose. I see an odd sort of charm there. Strangely, I find it a refreshing break to walk by a structure so stately and have it not filled with people rushing in and out all day. The lone word "Odyssey" on the wall helps that image too, I think.

The building isn't completely disused, either. Aside from Baby Care, First Aid, and bathrooms stuck into the side, the open space in the middle is used for banquets and special gatherings for people who want to pay for it. (I worked a big family reunion once.) They get a great spread of food from the different countries, a little show with a performer or storyteller or something, and then everybody gets to go see IllumiNations on one of the fancy viewing decks. And a few other surprises as well... You can still see the panels where they had the restaurant menus above the old ordering stations. Actually, the Odyssey building is probably used more than Millennium Village - it's just not as visible to the average guest. I think it's fine as it is.

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » Sep Wed 16, 2009 10:20 am

If you're wanting a TGIF in EPCOT, maybe you can decorate the Odyssey like a TGIF. My local TGIF has all that outdated junk all over walls, why not decorate the Odyssey with items from outdated extinct EPCOT attractions? Things from bygone rides like Horizons, Wonders of Life, World of Motion and the original Journey Into Imagination? The music loop in there would be assortment of music/audio bits from all of those attractions.

Mr.ToadWildRider · Post by **Mr.ToadWildRider** » Sep Thu 17, 2009 3:26 pm

I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but as much as I'd love to ride Horizons again I think bringing it back, even as a restaurant, is going contrary to What Would Walt Do thinking and also contrary to the ideals of Future World.

Granted, those ideals have been trampled in the past, but I won't be a hypocrite and say you can't put Nemo in Future World and then say bring back an incarnation of an attraction from almost two decades ago into Future World and it's okay.