Imagineering Insider: Navigator’s Wheel is coming to Epic Universe
Imagineering Insider: Navigator’s Wheel is coming to Epic Universe Today we’re going to be taking an inside look at the development of Epic Universe’s newest attraction, the Navigator’s Wheel, a 200 feet tall ferris wheel themed around Maya of the Skies and Captain Cacao. All the information we’ll be sharing with you came from an interview with the upcoming ride’s director Elizabeth M. The new attraction was conceptualized out of a desire to 1. Better fill out Celestial Park’s line up, making it feel as complete a land as all the main portals and 2. Give guests who aren’t staying at the Helios Grand Hotel a chance to get an overhead view of the park. Before the designers even settled on what type of ride they would build, they knew that they wanted to give a newfound importance to the characters featured at the Moonship Chocolates & Celestial Sweets store, with the titular Moonship being a major visual they wanted to play off. As the second goal of the attraction might imply,...